We use Wicked in Boston to accentuate. Wicked cool, wicked fun, wicked strange. Generally taken to be a stand in for ‘really’. A pisser (pissah in our accent) is used nowadays for awesome, but comes from an event or experience that was exciting enough to make you want to piss….or a pisser. Damn, that game was a pisser! 🤙🏻
Yes Stovebolt LVR, I noticed that as well. I wanted to hear what my state had for a slang word, and had to rewind to get “tennis shoes instead of sneakers” (but I still say the latter!).
It sounds like your birthday was a wicked... (Think of it as a great night, with the consequence the next day of needing to take an extended visit to the loo when you wake up.)
NorCal girl here, born and raised and we claim “Hella” as ours. There was a time when you’d say it and someone would say “you’re from Northern California”. I know it’s used everywhere now, but we’ve had it from the very very early 90’s.
I'm from Chicago and yeah, that word is definitely from Cali. What I think is happening is that social media has connected so many people from so many states that slang is being picked up and used in other parts by some folks who have no idea of where it originated. I hear a lot of Chicago slang everywhere, just as I hear Cali and NY slang everywhere. It's mostly from the youth taking it and trying to add it to their suburbs, cities and states.
Slang is the main thing that makes the American English language so difficult for people to learn. It is in a CONSTANT state of change, so anyone who leaves the US for 4-5 years would not understand a lot of casual conversations when they come back. Social media has helped to keep people in touch now though.
“Fixin’ ta,” means “getting ready to.” “Holler” is a hollow, as in, an area between the hills or mountains. “Poke,” is a bag or sack. “Toboggan” is a knit winter hat. -West Virginia
A great deal of Southern (Southeastern US) "slang" comes from the time of English colonization. Words like "reckon," "yonder," Y'all" (you all, as in plural), "a ways," and many others are from the English farmers who colonized the region in the 17th and 18th century. A common statement of "surprise" in the southern part of North Carolina and South Carolina, and a particular favorite of my late aunt, is "Well, I declare!" Of course there is the double-edged comment, "Well, bless your heart!" Other than what is now the Southeast US most of the country was settled by other ethnicities. Today of course our country is much more homogenized. Still, the influence of the original settlers is apparent.
A British friend here in the Boston area, got really upset when hearing the term “Packy” for liquor store. He thought it was a racist term. It’s not, it’s a hold over from the old laws requiring liquor to be covered up in public. So the liquor stores would package your purchase for you; that packing service was then shortened to “Packy”.
@@brentsealy9623 “Packy” is slang for Pakistani in G. Britain. Odd how that’s racist but calling an American a “yank” isn’t. It’s all about skin color…
@@1BobsYourUncle what I don't get is; 'Paki' is somehow racist. But, 'Swede' is fine. 'Finn', 'Nord', 'Turk', the aforementioned 'Yank', 'Buck', 'Beaver', 'Franc', ''Stoney', 'Khazik' and 'Ruski' are all fine.
That is the nature of language and the way that it evolve. If the term has been used often enough to invoke the idea of a negative stereotype, then it can become insulting. Also for a time Ruski was used as a derogatory term.
LOL ! Every time Millie yelled at Alexa to stop, my tablet turned off and I had to keep tapping it back on to play! 😂 Good thing I was watching the video on my phone!
@@TheBeesleys99 I didn't either until the 2nd time it happened and the tablet turned off the news I had playing. It made a few other times this has happened make more sense, so I guess I should be thanking you ! 🤷🏼♀️
Yeah...depending on the subject, "Bless Your Heart" can be an insult meaning they don't use the brains they were born with. But we do say it in sympathy, too.
The ATL slang phrase actually comes from KATL , which is the FAA identifier for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and employees there always used to save when I worked there from 1994 to 1997 as a contract security officer don't forget your ATL badge , because without it you can't go to work., and when you consider it's the largest employer in the state forgetting your badge was a big deal. Back when I was working it was 55,000 people now it's over 63 thousand. The phrase ATL just became part of the local lexicon, over the years
Yeah, my experience in Virginia was that it was almost always said in sympathy, but it can toe the line of pitying which can be offensive. Sometimes it's sort of said in a, "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all" kinda way. So if someone is being judgey, they might just settle with "bless their heart"
Pissah has several meanings. "Ain't you a pissah?" (clever or witty) Then there is, like mother to her child, "Don't be such a pissah"...means "Don't be such a smart Alec".
@@malcolmdrake6137 no, she's right. Wicked means cool because people used to say "wicked cool" and then just left the word "cool" off because they wanted to sound...cool. I know this because I'm old.
Oh wow, I started laughing halfway through your video when I noticed the Minnesota license plate on the wall behind you. That type of plate, speaking of slang terms, is what we call "whiskey plates" because you get that type of plate after getting caught driving drunk (or on drugs I suppose too).
Lol I hope they tell how they got it some day. In ohio we will have the regular plate but the plastic covering it is purposefully dirty to let everyone know their a "dirty" driver (alcohol or drugs)
@@seanraines5871 That must be a recent change. The only Ohio DUI plates I've seen are solid yellow with orange numbers so they are instantly recognizable.
In Michigan they just take your driver's license. Then, you have to drive around without a driver's license. [There was a survey a few years ago that showed that up to 20% of all cars on Michigan roads were illegal in some way; license, registration, insurance, etc.]
Oh!! They do have a Whiskey Plate behind them!! Ah!! I always try to avoid those cars. Threw me for a loop that other states sometimes just start their plates with Ws. 🤣🤣
8:29 she says what it means LOL. Wicked pissa means really cool. As for Alaska slang we have them they just are not used much. 1. Outsider (used more) or cheechako (not used at all) - This is a term for a newcomer to Alaska. Wanna bet the highway hold up is caused by some outsider/cheechako not used to driving in the snow?! 2. Sourdough - A long-time Alaskan. 3. Snowbird - A snowbird is an individual who spends summers in Alaska and migrates south for winter. 4. Termination Dust - The first snowfall in the mountains each year. 5. Ditch Diver - Someone who owns a 4-wheel-drive vehicle and learns the hard way by driving too fast on ice and snow.
I was living in Washington State for a while and I met many native Alaskans there... white and "Native". I remember them having a term for the people of the lower 48. It isnt in these comments yet. But it always struck me funny because I never heard it before then, nor since.
As a Bostonian born and bred. Pissah is slang for “cool”. “Wicked” is a modifier meaning “extremely”. We use it on a lot more than just pissah. Wicked cool! Wicked good! Wicked hot! Etc. Packie is short for package store, local slang for a liquor store.
He's got Smaht Pahk! th-cam.com/video/WBvkmWDjsYc/w-d-xo.html Lots of Boston accent and use of "Wicked". Also, another Boston slang, everyone is "Kid" no matter who or how old.
When much of the West was settled, water rights were separated from land rights. One could buy, sell, and own land with water running through it, but without water rights to shares of the river, the landowner could not use the water. Without proper regulation way more shares were conveyed than water existed. In Utah we use the term "wet-water" to describe ownership of actual water.
black slang from the south is different from the slang white people say as is the way poor people from the south slang is different from rich people in the south
I was raised in Alaska and one of the slang words was cheechako - A newcomer to Alaska or the Yukon. The term originally referred to Gold Rush newcomers; also used to refer to someone who has never spent a winter in Alaska.
@@seanraines5871 It really depends on what part of the state you live in where I went to school in Fairbanks during the winter the sun came up around 10 am and set around 2pm.
@@georgebennett8159 It bums me out when the sun sets over here even though it's out until 8PM this time of year. Not sure if I could handle Alaska but I wouldn't mind visiting.
Surfers first started using gnarly to describe a dangerous wave, and it crept into wider usage from there. I always thought of gnarly as meaning sort of ugly-difficult, not awesome.
In Alaska we refer to new arrivals to AK as Cheechako's. New Arrivals from the South as a You-all. Many people rent Youhaul Vans to move their stuff from the lower 48 states and if they're from the South we might call them a You-all in a Youhaul. A warm wind that melts the snow is a Chinook wind. It's also the same AK Native word for a species of Salmon. Sitka Slippers are tall rubber boots. Cottage Cheese,....... or road Cheddar describes wet crumbled snow on the road in certain conditions. A Sourdough is a person who has lived in Alaska many decades. It's said, they are Sour on Alaska but don't have the Dough to leave.
I grew up in a Southern California beach town. All surfing talk. I married a girl from Maine and laughed at her talk all the time. It's like we come from different countries. Funny stuff you guys. Thanks for that.
Massachusetts here...you missed her explanation of "wicked pissah" - It's "really awesome". Grew up elsewhere, and had to "learn" this, but "wicked" is an all-purpose modifier meaning "very" - "that's wicked expensive", or "I'm wicked tired". There's a lot of great regional slang from this area.
Arizona has a slang word that nobody else in the country uses. Although it has fallen favor since a lot of people have moved to Arizona in the past 20 years. The slang phrase is “cheese crisp”. Essentially it’s an open faced tortilla with melted shredded cheese. It was a complete shock moving to California and nobody had a clue what I was referring to.
New England Slang- Carriage - Shopping Cart Jimmies - Sprinkles for ice cream Pocket Book - Purse Cellar - Basement Pissah - good Wicked - extremely Tit - good Townie - a local person Bubbler- a water drinking fountain
Few to add on: Hard tellin’ not knowin - I don’t know Flatlander - someone from away non local Ayuh - yes/yep Dooryard - yard just outside your entrance door BUB - dude
tonic- soda pop frappe- milk shake wiffle- very short hair cut blinkah- car turning signal triple decka- three story apt. building, all with back porches
May I go further into some of these... Jimmies - Usually means the brown sprinkles. The rainbow sprinkles are still sprinkles. Frappe - Actually, there is some debate on this. We have a Soda Float, a Frappe, and a Milkshake where I am at (Boston area). Soda Floats and Frappe could be confused for each other as they are both Ice Cream and Soda in most cases. To add to the confusion though is that other places would confuse Frappes and Milkshakes. General rule though are that Soda Floats are Ice Cream on top of a carbonated drink (unmixed), Frappes are Ice Cream and some kind of liquid drink (thickly mixed), and Milkshakes are Ice Cream and some kind of liquid drink (thinly mixed).
Oregon here. As a kid I always called soda "pop". It wasn't until I joined the Navy that I had to change. Every time I asked for a pop I got weird looks. Since then I've always called it soda, though my mom still calls ALL of them Coca-Cola.
Yonder technically isn’t slang. It’s an older form of English so I’m surprised you guys aren’t familiar with it. “Hark, what light through yonder window breaks?” is Shakespeare. In the USA the word is more popular in the South. As is the word reckon which I noticed you guys use.
@@anndeecosita3586 I'll have to go to church and ask the minister about that unless I just google. I'm not joking but I might burst into flames. It's been a bit since I been
PA calls them State Stores, because state run are the only place liquor can be bought...no sales on Sundays...many times drive to MD for a Sunday keg or liquor
Michigan calls them party stores , because that’s where you get what you really need for a party. We also have party supply stores but that’s just where you get balloons and streamers and stuff like that .
I’ve lived all over the US and some of the accents can be very thick, especially in the south, and some of the slang can be kinda confusing, but 90% of it is understandable. Depending on where in the country you live, you may drink Pop, Soda, Soda Pop, Coke, or Seltzer water. They all basically are used to refer to the same thing, a carbonated beverage. My mother is a Hoosier (person from Indiana) and their accent can be almost southern even tho they are in the Mid-west, pronouncing words like wash as worsh, squash as squorsh, yesterday as y’ersday, and instead of eating mashed potatoes, they eat Smaished Taters. When I was going to school in New York we had a guy who worked there from Maine, who always wore very loud clothes. One day as he was leaving, dressed in some very loud golfing shorts he began asking people if they had seen his “kah-kees” we all assumed he meant his shorts that some refer to as Khakis, but no, he was looking for his car keys. I’ve lived all over in the south and down here we often say we’re “fixin’ to” go do this or that meaning we are “getting ready to.” In the mountainous areas where you got hillbillies you will hear lots of slang that may be only heard of in that area. Often they talk about the “hills & hollars” (hills and valleys), people “chawin’ yer ear off” (talking a lot), “if’n yer a mite faimished” (if you are quite hungry) they might say “squeet” (let’s go eat). In Minnesota & Wisconsin, I had friends that when they were going somewhere and wanted to see if you wanted to accompany them they would simply ask, “you want to go with?” At first I would always ask, “go with what?” Not realizing the “us” was assumed. Probably my hardest language barrier was when I lived in Hawaii, though, because “da kine talk one pigeon bra!” (The people speak in Pigeon, a Hawaiian&English mash up). At the end of the day you were “a pau hana” (all done working). You would go to your “hale” (house), go in “ka puka” (the door, although puka actually just means hole) and eat some opakapaka (red snapper) & poi, as you talk to your “wahine & keiki” (wife & kids). As a kamaaina (local) you quickly learned when asking for directions, there was no left or right, it was either mauka (toward the mountain, inland) or makai (towards the sea). Everyone there is Ohana (family) and you call them Bradah or Bra (brother) if they are men; Sistah (sister) if they are women, and uncle or auntie if they are older. At Christmas, you wish people a Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) and a Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year), and tell people Mahalo (thank you) when you receive something. But one of the first things you learn is that the state fish is called a humuhumunukunukuapua’a.
Hella is from NorCal. Kids there who aren't allowed to say "Hell" will say "hecka" instead. I feel like hella has been spread around thanks to South Park. Also from the region is the strong association between marijuana and 420/4:20pm/April 20. I say "for cute" thanks to a comedy series called Mystery Science Theater 3000 which was originally made in Minnesota.
From New England, wicked is used as an intensifier so if something is really cool you would say "wicked cool" or "wicked awesome" or if you are watching sports you could see a "wicked throw." Wicked pissah is just something that is really awesome.
There was no representation from Illinois in this video except the word "hella" which is from California. Nobody says that here unless you're trying to talk like a Californian. Illinois is a "pop" state as well. :-)
They missed out on the Midwestern “ope” the WI “bubbler” and “cheeseheads.” I can’t remember if other areas say “cornhole” for the game played at parties either.
Missouri wasn't really represented either. Hoosier isn't Missouri slang, it's just a term for someone from Indiana. For Missouri I'd say twister (tornado), holler (hollow/valley), hit the hay (go to bed), bounce (leave), three sheets to the wind (drunk)...
There is y’all, y’all’s (possessive) and the y’all’d’ve which is you all would have or could have. Cattywampus is a southern favorite which can mean in a diagonal direction (The new store is cattywampus from the movie theater.) Or can mean messed up (We tried to set up the tent, but it ended up all cattywampus).
@@billbrasky1288 “a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.” Its still slang.
“Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder” is the hymn of the United States Air Force. That’s the only song I know of that you might have been thinking of, Millie. Anybody else know one?
I noticed the Minnesota "whiskey" plate on the wall. That is a plate someone who was convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol had to have on their car. The "whiskey" comes from the phonetic alphabet for W.
In Maine... I'd say our most famous slang term is Ayuh! Which simply is a term of agreement... pronounced like it's spelled A- yuh... Or as most Americans would just say yeah...
MN slang: “pop” not soda. Far North MN: “Ya betcha” another way of saying for sure. Most Norwegians in the Northern part of the state say “Warsh” instead of wash and “wrasling” for wrestling. We also put the word “for” on front of everything. “for funny” “for cute” “for stupid” you get the idea.
okay, one of the BEST videos ever and I'm so so glad you left the Alexa thing in there.... I was dying!!! 😂🤣😁 part of the reason I love your channels so much, you are real people who act/react like real people and it's just wondrous!! LOL
I spent my life in Ohio from kindergarten to the fifth grade and then we moved back to New England, to Maine. I was so perplexed to hear kids saying "jesum crow" (sometimes "jesum cripps"). I had no idea what this was and finally asked and it was explained to me that it was a replacement for saying "Jesus Christ" so that you wouldn't be taking his name in vain. That was a new one to me.
Maine reporting in (I'm also a little bit of an accent/dialect nerd): She's saying "wicked pisser". Both the words "wicked" and "pisser" have their own meanings depending on the context, but that phrase is usually used when describing something something really cool /good. You had a little trouble with the accent, which is completely understandable. The New England accent throws a lot of Americans off. I wasn't raised here, but have spent 20+ years of my adult life here. One base thing about the New England accent is that they often soften the R's that are in words... which is a "leftover" from all of the British English that settled the area. They say "pissah" instead of "pisser" or "cah" instead of "car". Another base feature to the accent is that while their R pronunciation is more in line with British English (soft R), their pronunciation of A is very flat, like found in most American English accents. Let me try and explain it better through examples: If you, James or Millie, say the word "car", you are going to say "cah", but the A in your word will be sharp, so it will sound like the word "car", just kind of lacking the R. Your "ka" sound would be in line with words like "cottage", "carpet", "caulk" A person from New England would say "cah" too, but their "ka" sound is more in line with words like "cat", "flat", "scratch", "at". I hope this was helpful.
In the Boston area "Wicked" is basically an intensifier for other words (in this case "pisser"), whereas just saying something like "that's wicked, man" smacks of a lot of different parts of the US (although it's antiquated). Although they both wind up basically meaning "awesome". Wicker pisser/pissah is probably a stronger form of awesome though. More like " excellent", maybe.
In Iowa a girlfriend's grandparents called a phone call a "phone visit". This was in the pre cellphone era. Dial phone with cords. In dealing with ebay customers before paypal i had some rural midwest customers call in their credit card information. So the email from them said planning a phone visit Tuesday at 2pm with you. Saw that term in Iowa and Missouri and Kansas from old folks in rural towns. So i think phone visit is an ancient phrase in the Midwest.
Wicked has been Boston area slang (I think south Boston as those saying it have southie accents, if you’ve seen the film Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, the characters they play have southie accents) meaning “very” since at least the 1970s. Pissah crude as it sounds refers to something being awesome.. so wicked pissah means something really awesome. Other Massachusetts slang include bubbla which refers to a water fountain, go to dunks, refers to going to Dunkin’ Donuts, bang a u-ey to make a u-turn while driving which is in many cases illegal, yes way, which is a way of indicating extreme agreement, for a long time soda was called tonic in Massachusetts
I laugh every time I hear anyone use lit meaning so cool/awesome. When I was growing up we used to "get lit" meaning getting messed up usually drinking 🍸 or got or getting shwilly.
Massachusetts resident checking in: "packy" is NOT a racial slur in Massachusetts. It means "package store", which is an old euphemism for a liquor store. It IS an older piece of slang, though. I haven't met many young folks that use it, probably because whenever anyone elsewhere in the world hears it they are generally HORRIFIED.
Yeah, in england Paki (is the term) is a slur, and the massive youtuber KSI just got in so much trouble for saying it (he is also english) on a sidemen video. You could see both of them going bright red at the casual-ness of the american "packy" because it's phonetically identical. Another example of this I saw in the last month or so, was Linus Tech Tips, talking about how casually he would say the "hard r" in the 00s his entire team was SWEATING BULLETS, before his co-host luke was like uhhhh excuse me? He had no idea that the word referred to the N-word, he was saying it in the context of the word "Retard" and from the comments a lot of people outside of the US did not realize that was what that term meant.
In Arkansas you pretty much have to know the history of landmarks in the area, because most directions include something like, "Turn right just past the old Kroger store, then left where Barbara's Hair Salon used to be." Also, we might give you distances in time, instead of miles: "It's about 45 minutes outside of Little Rock" or "He picked a college three hours from home."
From Massachusetts: wicked pissah means really good. And packie store is short for package store. It’s a liquor store, from a time when getting liquor was looked down upon, so you’d just say you got a “package”. Nothing to do with Pakistani people
Wicked pissah just means "really awesome". You can add wicked as an adjective to something to emphasize it more. Like instead of saying its really hot outside, you'd say its wicked hot outside. No clue where pissah came from tho hahaha
I can understand your confusion with "wicked pissah". The "pissah" sounded like she was saying a vulgar term for a body part. I had to laugh at your reactions. I have never used that slang term, but know other parts of the country do. ✝
While it seemed like the extreme reaction was the "wicked pissah" I suspect that it was mostly about what came immediately after which was "packy" a racial slur sometimes used in England towards east Asian minorities (esp. Pakistanis). My understanding is that is the British equivalent of the American n-word.
@@JGW845 I agree with you. The point I was making is that in addition to "wicked-pissah" the same woman in the slang video said "packy" as a slang term for packaged liquor store immediately after "wicked-pissah." My impression is that the animated reaction of the Beesleys was to the word "packy" and not to the word "pissah." That's all.
Philadelphia region: jawn. It's a noun that means whatever you want it to mean. "Did you see my hoodie jawn?" "He went to the Wawa to get a meatball jawn" "When she got to school she remembered that she left her writing jawn on that jawn next to her bed."
Beesleys: You guys seem to like stuff about natural beauty in the US. The northern end of the Appalachian Trail is Maine's Mt. Katahdin which is home to a trail called the Knife's Edge. Check out this video about it, it'd probably make for a decent reaction video. th-cam.com/video/7JG8GLr4zIQ/w-d-xo.html
“Paki“ / “Packy” is/are slang for package store, another word for liquor store. Used quite often here in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Also, there are places in Massachusetts where a convenience store is slanged “spa.“
@@trevorstone9879 It's a slur for a person of Pakistani/Indian sub-continent origin. The same insult is levied in Canada against persons from that region.
"Wicked" is used as an adverb to modify adjectives; it's equivalent to "very"..."Pissa" is used as an adjective; it's used as a way of expressing one's feelings about something they hold in high regard...For instance: "I thought that band was pissa"..."Wicked" and "Pissa" are also sometimes used together as a way of proclaiming one's feelings about something one holds in the utmost high regard...I came of age in Boston in the 1970s when these expressions were very popular and used quite a bit...but sadly they have faded over the years and used less frequently...In fact I'm feeling sad writing this; I miss the old Boston...thanks for the vid
it's not just minnesota , lots of older people fro their 60's on up no matter where they're from say "pop" my grandma says pop and she's been in california almost her whole life
@@bartbodeen8457 Only parts of Wisconsin though. I saw a YT WI map once and parts of the state call it pop and some parts of it say soda. I'm from SE Wisconsin and I've always said soda. Pretty sure that map was from a Lost in the Pond video.
New York here: remember that these slang terms are regional. I've never said rad, pop, or wicked pisser although I have heard all of them. I have said y'all, but almost in parody (I've also used the cousin to y'all: "yinz" after spending a week in western Pennsylvania. That one is not much known outside that area). It's a big country, but we all manage to communicate. LMAO
I laughed at an episode of Law & Order : Criminal Intent when the detective realized the main suspects knew each other and grew up north of Pittsburgh by the use of 'red up' in reference to cleaning up the apartments.
Some Alaska slang cheechako is someone new to Alaska, ditch diver is a person that is bad at driving on icy roads, snowbird is a person that migrates south for the winter, outside is anywhere that isn’t in Alaska.
I have heard talking about drinking from a bubbler. Which is a water fountain. Snow machine instead of snow mobile or sled. Cut the lights off or on. People drive a rig instead of car or truck. It's a coke down south, a pop in the mid west and soda everywhere else. Fry sauce is a north west thing.
I recommend you react to two funny and weird movies from the early 1980s. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (starring Sean Penn) and Valley Girl (starring Nicholas Cage).
Wow, what did we ever do to Missouri?? "Hoosier" is what people from Indiana have called themselves since at least the early 1800s but the origin of the term is unknown and has no defined meaning other than "people who live in Indiana." I mean I would understand if one of our neighboring states had said this the same way people here make Kentucky or even Ohio jokes, but Missouri? What did we ever do to you?? 😂😭
I am from Missouri and I grew up with it being used that way. It also it means someone from Indiana. Just the same word used in more than one way. We never meant that as an insult to Indiana. My apologies.
Probably it means people from Indiana and some people who don’t like people from Indiana associate it with negative attributes. Kind of like how Southerners use the word Yankee. It’s not in itself a negative because it means a Northerner but I’ve often heard it used negatively. I can’t stand when non-Americans call Americans yank.
Car Tag versus License Plate. Car Tag is term used more in the deep south. The word Tag is sometimes on the yearly paperwork. Never heard the term Car Tag when living in southern California unless by southerners who moved to LA.
I’ve lived different places but mostly the south. I don’t think car tag is really Southern slang because now I live in the Midwest and the wording on the website and paperwork says tag. at least for me when I say car tag I don’t necessarily mean the license plate. I might be talking about the tax sticker I’m paying for because we don’t get new plates every year. Like I might say like “I have to pay $400 for my car tag this year.” Or “My tag expired last month.” I would say someone stole my plate off my car not that they stole my tag.
@@anndeecosita3586 Hello Ann. An old friend from Alabama always said "car tag" to mean the entire metal plate and the yearly renewal sticker. In Southern California when I lived there the phrase "car tag" was mostly used by Southerners there I worked with. When I was in Michigan and Indiana I sure remember "license plate" being the term. In California in 1979 with the gas crisis they had similar to this : " Drivers with license plates ending with an odd digit would be permitted to buy gasoline on odd-numbered days of the month". The state government in Mississippi under Motor vehicles has a "Tags and Titles" section; then one of the links is "license plates" . Another link is for " One line tag renewal". As a kid I use to think that "tag" was the yearly renewal sticker you put on a license plate and not the license plate. So I guess "car tag" is used outside the deep south too, but not as much? regards
@@anndeecosita3586 In World War 2 to to conserve metal some state governments use a "small metal tag" that updated each year. So I think this is where the "tag" phase came from. The "metal tag" went into one of the license plate holes. ie pre sticky sticker era!
Although this seems to be a YT standard most if the people giving these examples aren't from the regions they are talking about and aren't the best samples.
Here in Alaska We say Snow Machine, in place of Snow Mobile, some also say Sled instead of either of the first two names. Another Term here is Snowbird, that is someone who spends Summers in Alaska and head south for the winters. Sourdough is someone who has been in Alaska for a long time. To me I think of sourdough's as someone who lives alone out in the wilderness and hunts and fish their own food.
Originally from Washington State but I've lived in Nevada for 15 years. When the dude from Washington said "Hella nar-nar n da pow-pow" I got a huge flashback. I haven't heard that since I lived in the 253.
they chose the wrong person to represent California lol. Cali has sooooo many better/unique slang terms and Northern Californian birthed "Hella" !! Love the reaction tho! :)
Really, the girl representing Texas is wearing Beto shirt. LOL. So far from what TX is all about. I couldn't take the video seriously after that point.
I didn't know political views determined how well you know slang terms. Also, Beto is only slightly less "what Texas is all about" than Cruz or Abbott.
@@hammerpocket Beto seems much more Californian than Texan; at least culturally. Of course, El Paso (where he's from) is closer to California than it is to most of the rest of Texas.
I grew up in Mass. but have been in Maine for 25 years. “Wicked” is common for both Mass and Maine but I’ve only heard “packie” in Mass, never in Maine. Also, if you were not born in Maine you’re “from away”.
Great reaction. "Y'all" is actually proper English. It is just antiquated. Most people in the English speaking world no longer use "Ye all" in ordinary conversation. The contraction into "y'all" is grammatically correct.
Ye is a misunderstanding of the letter thorn in Olde English and represents the sound of th, so ye olde is The old and was pronounced as th even then so your analysis is false. You all meaning a group was shortened to y'all. So normal conversation was never "The All".
@@jehuross8943 Well, actually you are incorrect in regards to middle and early modern English. "Ye" is a plural formal and informal word for "You." "Thou" is the singular form. The term "Hear ye, hear ye" is still used at the commencement of court proceedings here in the US. Are you suggesting they are saying "hear the, hear the?!!" 😆!!!! Here is a little definition to help you out: Ye (/jiː/) is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". In Middle English and early Early Modern English, it was used as a both informal second-person plural and formal honorific, to address a group of equals or superiors or a single superior
@@robertsterner2145 LOL!!!!! Let's assume that what you've written is accurate, the point of the original statement is that "y'all" is grammatically correct. When the word came into usage has no bearing on this argument. Unless you're suggesting that words like "automobile", "the internet" and "television" aren't proper English because they are relatively new?!!! Also, as noted above, there are still some instances where the word "ye" is used by modern English speakers. Another example is in Brittish Parliament. (And I won't even mention Christmas carols! Lol!!!) So " long after" is an inaccurate descriptor as well. So, yep!
All right. Let's get this straight. Y'all is not slang. It's a contraction. Just like we're, I'm, isn't, can't, etc. You want a southern slang you need to go deep south like youns, (you people there), or yeattahere, (leave immediately or else get your butt kicked).
I hear it's common in the Midwest, but most people I know here in Indiana say "Ope". Used for surprise or forgivness. Like, if you bump into a stranger..."Ope, sorry." Another is "Pertnear" which means pretty near..."Hey, are we there yet? Pertnear."
Wicked pisser = really awesome. She said it, but you guys were talking over her
They missed Ohio as well.
We use Wicked in Boston to accentuate. Wicked cool, wicked fun, wicked strange. Generally taken to be a stand in for ‘really’. A pisser (pissah in our accent) is used nowadays for awesome, but comes from an event or experience that was exciting enough to make you want to piss….or a pisser. Damn, that game was a pisser! 🤙🏻
Yes Stovebolt LVR, I noticed that as well. I wanted to hear what my state had for a slang word, and had to rewind to get “tennis shoes instead of sneakers” (but I still say the latter!).
It sounds like your birthday was a wicked...
(Think of it as a great night, with the consequence the next day of needing to take an extended visit to the loo when you wake up.)
@@stoveboltlvr3798 I'm circleville ohio. What's our slang?
Millie says "I like her style" and suddenly Alexa is playing "Gangnam Style". Hilarious!
Haha
i'm not sure what the people in illinois were talking about ,but ,the word "Hella" ,came from Northern California.
live in Chicago and I've never heard it used here my life. kid must have been from the burbs or some random ass city.
From CT, I have heard people here use it but it's not super common. But no one would look at a person funny if they said it
NorCal girl here, born and raised and we claim “Hella” as ours. There was a time when you’d say it and someone would say “you’re from Northern California”. I know it’s used everywhere now, but we’ve had it from the very very early 90’s.
I'm from Chicago and yeah, that word is definitely from Cali. What I think is happening is that social media has connected so many people from so many states that slang is being picked up and used in other parts by some folks who have no idea of where it originated. I hear a lot of Chicago slang everywhere, just as I hear Cali and NY slang everywhere. It's mostly from the youth taking it and trying to add it to their suburbs, cities and states.
Grew up in NorCal, can confirm
Slang is the main thing that makes the American English language so difficult for people to learn. It is in a CONSTANT state of change, so anyone who leaves the US for 4-5 years would not understand a lot of casual conversations when they come back. Social media has helped to keep people in touch now though.
I'm 32 and have no idea what any of the slang is lol
Noel McGinnis, that only applies if your circle of friends consists entirely of people who can't form a sentence without half the words being slang.
The same can be said for any English speaking country. Australia comes to mind.
@@jimgreen5788 Conversely, I have encontered many who are seemingly unable to understand standard North American English.
All language changes and have their own slang.
“Fixin’ ta,” means “getting ready to.” “Holler” is a hollow, as in, an area between the hills or mountains. “Poke,” is a bag or sack. “Toboggan” is a knit winter hat. -West Virginia
I was like why do i know all these?? … Oh WV! Haha. 🤦🏼♀️
A great deal of Southern (Southeastern US) "slang" comes from the time of English colonization. Words like "reckon," "yonder," Y'all" (you all, as in plural), "a ways," and many others are from the English farmers who colonized the region in the 17th and 18th century. A common statement of "surprise" in the southern part of North Carolina and South Carolina, and a particular favorite of my late aunt, is "Well, I declare!" Of course there is the double-edged comment, "Well, bless your heart!" Other than what is now the Southeast US most of the country was settled by other ethnicities. Today of course our country is much more homogenized. Still, the influence of the original settlers is apparent.
Absolutely!!!!!!
Yes, 'I declare' is common in part of my family and it sounds so natural.
I find this all interesting. My ancestry is a mixed bag. Ireland. England. And Hungary. I'm in ohio all my life
Here recently southerners were declared its own ethnicity.
Y’all is actually old English meaning ye all.
A British friend here in the Boston area, got really upset when hearing the term “Packy” for liquor store. He thought it was a racist term. It’s not, it’s a hold over from the old laws requiring liquor to be covered up in public. So the liquor stores would package your purchase for you; that packing service was then shortened to “Packy”.
I've never heard the racist definition of it and have absolutely no idea what they're referring to.
@@brentsealy9623 “Packy” is slang for Pakistani in G. Britain. Odd how that’s racist but calling an American a “yank” isn’t. It’s all about skin color…
It's true. If you buy liquor in some places, it needs to stay in a bag in public. Hence package store
@@1BobsYourUncle what I don't get is;
'Paki' is somehow racist.
But, 'Swede' is fine.
'Finn', 'Nord', 'Turk', the aforementioned 'Yank', 'Buck', 'Beaver', 'Franc', ''Stoney', 'Khazik' and 'Ruski' are all fine.
That is the nature of language and the way that it evolve. If the term has been used often enough to invoke the idea of a negative stereotype, then it can become insulting. Also for a time Ruski was used as a derogatory term.
LOL ! Every time Millie yelled at Alexa to stop, my tablet turned off and I had to keep tapping it back on to play! 😂
Good thing I was watching the video on my phone!
Didn't think about that lol!
@@TheBeesleys99 I didn't either until the 2nd time it happened and the tablet turned off the news I had playing. It made a few other times this has happened make more sense, so I guess I should be thanking you ! 🤷🏼♀️
Yeah...depending on the subject, "Bless Your Heart" can be an insult meaning they don't use the brains they were born with. But we do say it in sympathy, too.
It's all about the tone and inflection as to whether or not it's sincere or used as a put down!
@@scottjohnson5415 💯‼️💁🏻♀️
my favorite southern slang term of all time
The ATL slang phrase actually comes from KATL , which is the FAA identifier for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and employees there always used to save when I worked there from 1994 to 1997 as a contract security officer don't forget your ATL badge , because without it you can't go to work., and when you consider it's the largest employer in the state forgetting your badge was a big deal. Back when I was working it was 55,000 people now it's over 63 thousand. The phrase ATL just became part of the local lexicon, over the years
Yeah, my experience in Virginia was that it was almost always said in sympathy, but it can toe the line of pitying which can be offensive. Sometimes it's sort of said in a, "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all" kinda way. So if someone is being judgey, they might just settle with "bless their heart"
In Texas all soda’s are called a coke. “Want a coke? What kind, Sprite, Dr.Pepper, Pepsi? All are referred to as a coke(soda)
“Wicked” is a modifier meaning “extremely". Pissah is slang for “cool”. I went to school with someone from Boston.
Pissah has several meanings. "Ain't you a pissah?" (clever or witty) Then there is, like mother to her child, "Don't be such a pissah"...means "Don't be such a smart Alec".
Thats what I thought it was.
Wicked doesn't mean "extremely", it references something _amazing,_ ...go back to school. lol
@@malcolmdrake6137 no, she's right. Wicked means cool because people used to say "wicked cool" and then just left the word "cool" off because they wanted to sound...cool.
I know this because I'm old.
Wicked awesome
6:30 When Millie said "I like her style," it probably sounded like "Alexa, style." Don't know where the "Gangnam" part came from lol
Oh wow, I started laughing halfway through your video when I noticed the Minnesota license plate on the wall behind you. That type of plate, speaking of slang terms, is what we call "whiskey plates" because you get that type of plate after getting caught driving drunk (or on drugs I suppose too).
Lol I hope they tell how they got it some day. In ohio we will have the regular plate but the plastic covering it is purposefully dirty to let everyone know their a "dirty" driver (alcohol or drugs)
@@seanraines5871 That must be a recent change. The only Ohio DUI plates I've seen are solid yellow with orange numbers so they are instantly recognizable.
Never knew that aha! It was sent in a P.O Box to us!
In Michigan they just take your driver's license.
Then, you have to drive around without a driver's license.
[There was a survey a few years ago that showed that up to 20% of all cars on Michigan roads were illegal in some way; license, registration, insurance, etc.]
Oh!! They do have a Whiskey Plate behind them!! Ah!! I always try to avoid those cars. Threw me for a loop that other states sometimes just start their plates with Ws. 🤣🤣
Louisiana: cut up means laugh and joke around. “We were cuttin’ up”.
8:29 she says what it means LOL. Wicked pissa means really cool.
As for Alaska slang we have them they just are not used much.
1. Outsider (used more) or cheechako (not used at all) - This is a term for a newcomer to Alaska. Wanna bet the highway hold up is caused by some outsider/cheechako not used to driving in the snow?!
2. Sourdough - A long-time Alaskan.
3. Snowbird - A snowbird is an individual who spends summers in Alaska and migrates south for winter.
4. Termination Dust - The first snowfall in the mountains each year.
5. Ditch Diver - Someone who owns a 4-wheel-drive vehicle and learns the hard way by driving too fast on ice and snow.
Also "Lower 48" for referring to the rest of America.
Florida uses Snowbird too.
Break-up, Los Anchorage, land yachts, valley trash, the lights are out,
I was living in Washington State for a while and I met many native Alaskans there... white and "Native". I remember them having a term for the people of the lower 48. It isnt in these comments yet. But it always struck me funny because I never heard it before then, nor since.
@@armelind why is it called the lower 48 and not the lower 49?
It's very common here in Texas to refer to any soda/cola as Coke. "What kind'a Coke do you want?" "I'll take a 7-Up."
As a Bostonian born and bred. Pissah is slang for “cool”. “Wicked” is a modifier meaning “extremely”. We use it on a lot more than just pissah. Wicked cool! Wicked good! Wicked hot! Etc.
Packie is short for package store, local slang for a liquor store.
Being from Portland Maine, U.S.A. Geeking out . I Would say wicked pissah of an explanation ayah mister ......
@@KevinPresents1 Pepperidge farm remembers… ayah.
@@GeekingOutWithPete Pepperidge Fahm Remembahs..... lol
@@GeekingOutWithPete Pepperidge fahm.
He's got Smaht Pahk! th-cam.com/video/WBvkmWDjsYc/w-d-xo.html Lots of Boston accent and use of "Wicked". Also, another Boston slang, everyone is "Kid" no matter who or how old.
Michigan... "Ope, Lemme Squeeze right past You"
Down South everything soda is a coke. As in "What type of Coke do you want? Sprite, Pepsi Coke?"
Its funny has you go from Northern Illinois where I am, down south, it changes from pop up here, to soda down a bit, to coke :)
Or cola
That’s definitely just where you live. I live in the south and everyone says Soda. It’s not a south thing that’s a “country” thing
My husband does this, and I will never not find it confusing, haha. He's from the Houston, TX area
'yonder' is not slang though - it's in Shakespeare: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Yonder = "Over there".
@@randlebrowne2048 as an adverb, yes. in the shakespeare quote above, it is an adjective.
When much of the West was settled, water rights were separated from land rights. One could buy, sell, and own land with water running through it, but without water rights to shares of the river, the landowner could not use the water. Without proper regulation way more shares were conveyed than water existed. In Utah we use the term "wet-water" to describe ownership of actual water.
"Alexa STOP" - The Beesleys 2022
🙋♂🙋♂ waving hello from Florida
Y'all should check out It's a Southern Thing channel 🤣. Glad you had a Happy Birthday! 🥂❤️❤️
black slang from the south is different from the slang white people say as is the way poor people from the south slang is different from rich people in the south
I really like It’s a Southern Thing
@Antoine Porche-Rideaux this is so true. Our slang is a lot of AAVE
I love that channel.
I was raised in Alaska and one of the slang words was cheechako - A newcomer to Alaska or the Yukon. The term originally referred to Gold Rush newcomers; also used to refer to someone who has never spent a winter in Alaska.
Ohio here. Is it really dark over there for 3 months?
@@seanraines5871 It really depends on what part of the state you live in where I went to school in Fairbanks during the winter the sun came up around 10 am and set around 2pm.
@@seanraines5871 Barrow, Alaska is dark all the time for about 67 days in winter.
@@georgebennett8159 It bums me out when the sun sets over here even though it's out until 8PM this time of year. Not sure if I could handle Alaska but I wouldn't mind visiting.
@@georgebennett8159 4 hours. Need more sun then that.
When Millie said that she never heard the word "Gnarley" it's just another way of saying the word "awesome". We have a lot of slang here in the US.
Surfers first started using gnarly to describe a dangerous wave, and it crept into wider usage from there. I always thought of gnarly as meaning sort of ugly-difficult, not awesome.
@@Pistakeerick as an American I never knew that. I guess everyone learns something new everyday. I was always taught that Gnarly meant awesome.
In Alaska we refer to new arrivals to AK as Cheechako's. New Arrivals from the South as a You-all.
Many people rent Youhaul Vans to move their stuff from the lower 48 states and if they're from the South we might call them a You-all in a Youhaul. A warm wind that melts the snow is a Chinook wind. It's also the same AK Native word for a species of Salmon.
Sitka Slippers are tall rubber boots. Cottage Cheese,.......
or road Cheddar describes wet crumbled snow on the road in certain conditions. A Sourdough is a person who has lived in Alaska many decades.
It's said, they are Sour on Alaska but don't have the Dough to leave.
I busted out laughing when Alexa played Gangnam Style
I would've pissed myself laughing if they got up and started doing the dance
In Colorado when you make a U-turn, we call it “flipping a bitch”
I grew up in a Southern California beach town. All surfing talk. I married a girl from Maine and laughed at her talk all the time. It's like we come from different countries. Funny stuff you guys. Thanks for that.
Massachusetts here...you missed her explanation of "wicked pissah" - It's "really awesome". Grew up elsewhere, and had to "learn" this, but "wicked" is an all-purpose modifier meaning "very" - "that's wicked expensive", or "I'm wicked tired". There's a lot of great regional slang from this area.
Its the second video were I noticed they seem to have a bad reaction to New England and now Massachusetts.
You guys need to watch the Tim Conway "elephant sketch" on the Carol Burnett Show.
Arizona has a slang word that nobody else in the country uses.
Although it has fallen favor since a lot of people have moved to Arizona in the past 20 years.
The slang phrase is “cheese crisp”. Essentially it’s an open faced tortilla with melted shredded cheese. It was a complete shock moving to California and nobody had a clue what I was referring to.
That sounds amazing 😍
I think all slang is more regional than statewide, or even local…
I love how they’re sharing the earbuds. So relatable 🤣
New England Slang-
Carriage - Shopping Cart
Jimmies - Sprinkles for ice cream
Pocket Book - Purse
Cellar - Basement
Pissah - good
Wicked - extremely
Tit - good
Townie - a local person
Bubbler- a water drinking fountain
Few to add on:
Hard tellin’ not knowin - I don’t know
Flatlander - someone from away non local
Ayuh - yes/yep
Dooryard - yard just outside your entrance door
BUB - dude
Wisconsin has bubbler too. At least my area SE WI does.
I called sprinkles jimmies as a kid too.
tonic- soda pop
frappe- milk shake
wiffle- very short hair cut
blinkah- car turning signal
triple decka- three story apt. building, all with back porches
May I go further into some of these...
Jimmies - Usually means the brown sprinkles. The rainbow sprinkles are still sprinkles.
Frappe - Actually, there is some debate on this. We have a Soda Float, a Frappe, and a Milkshake where I am at (Boston area). Soda Floats and Frappe could be confused for each other as they are both Ice Cream and Soda in most cases. To add to the confusion though is that other places would confuse Frappes and Milkshakes. General rule though are that Soda Floats are Ice Cream on top of a carbonated drink (unmixed), Frappes are Ice Cream and some kind of liquid drink (thickly mixed), and Milkshakes are Ice Cream and some kind of liquid drink (thinly mixed).
@@Anon21486 you're making me crave a Fribble or a lime rickey from Friendly's
Wicked, as used in Massachusetts, is an intensifier. "Wicked pisser" os an expression of extreme approval.
Oregon here. As a kid I always called soda "pop". It wasn't until I joined the Navy that I had to change. Every time I asked for a pop I got weird looks. Since then I've always called it soda, though my mom still calls ALL of them Coca-Cola.
It's just drink for me.
Yonder technically isn’t slang. It’s an older form of English so I’m surprised you guys aren’t familiar with it. “Hark, what light through yonder window breaks?” is Shakespeare. In the USA the word is more popular in the South. As is the word reckon which I noticed you guys use.
I know over yonder
We use Yonder & Reckon often in Appalachia.
@@seanraines5871 Up yonder and down yonder are said too. There is a gospel song called Going Up Yonder.
@@jerrywinters6914 They’re popular in Alabama too. My friend works for a media group out of Birmingham called Reckon.
@@anndeecosita3586 I'll have to go to church and ask the minister about that unless I just google. I'm not joking but I might burst into flames. It's been a bit since I been
Some places refer to their liquor stores as "package stores", hence the term "packie".
PA calls them State Stores, because state run are the only place liquor can be bought...no sales on Sundays...many times drive to MD for a Sunday keg or liquor
Michigan calls them party stores , because that’s where you get what you really need for a party. We also have party supply stores but that’s just where you get balloons and streamers and stuff like that .
I’m on my way to Virginia where they are known as “The ABC store” another state run liquor business.
I’ve lived all over the US and some of the accents can be very thick, especially in the south, and some of the slang can be kinda confusing, but 90% of it is understandable.
Depending on where in the country you live, you may drink Pop, Soda, Soda Pop, Coke, or Seltzer water. They all basically are used to refer to the same thing, a carbonated beverage.
My mother is a Hoosier (person from Indiana) and their accent can be almost southern even tho they are in the Mid-west, pronouncing words like wash as worsh, squash as squorsh, yesterday as y’ersday, and instead of eating mashed potatoes, they eat Smaished Taters.
When I was going to school in New York we had a guy who worked there from Maine, who always wore very loud clothes. One day as he was leaving, dressed in some very loud golfing shorts he began asking people if they had seen his “kah-kees” we all assumed he meant his shorts that some refer to as Khakis, but no, he was looking for his car keys.
I’ve lived all over in the south and down here we often say we’re “fixin’ to” go do this or that meaning we are “getting ready to.” In the mountainous areas where you got hillbillies you will hear lots of slang that may be only heard of in that area. Often they talk about the “hills & hollars” (hills and valleys), people “chawin’ yer ear off” (talking a lot), “if’n yer a mite faimished” (if you are quite hungry) they might say “squeet” (let’s go eat).
In Minnesota & Wisconsin, I had friends that when they were going somewhere and wanted to see if you wanted to accompany them they would simply ask, “you want to go with?” At first I would always ask, “go with what?” Not realizing the “us” was assumed.
Probably my hardest language barrier was when I lived in Hawaii, though, because “da kine talk one pigeon bra!” (The people speak in Pigeon, a Hawaiian&English mash up). At the end of the day you were “a pau hana” (all done working). You would go to your “hale” (house), go in “ka puka” (the door, although puka actually just means hole) and eat some opakapaka (red snapper) & poi, as you talk to your “wahine & keiki” (wife & kids). As a kamaaina (local) you quickly learned when asking for directions, there was no left or right, it was either mauka (toward the mountain, inland) or makai (towards the sea). Everyone there is Ohana (family) and you call them Bradah or Bra (brother) if they are men; Sistah (sister) if they are women, and uncle or auntie if they are older. At Christmas, you wish people a Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) and a Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year), and tell people Mahalo (thank you) when you receive something. But one of the first things you learn is that the state fish is called a humuhumunukunukuapua’a.
Hella is from NorCal. Kids there who aren't allowed to say "Hell" will say "hecka" instead. I feel like hella has been spread around thanks to South Park. Also from the region is the strong association between marijuana and 420/4:20pm/April 20.
I say "for cute" thanks to a comedy series called Mystery Science Theater 3000 which was originally made in Minnesota.
Hella was said in WA state before South Park ever aired.
@@jessescales4982 Ah, TIL!
From New England, wicked is used as an intensifier so if something is really cool you would say "wicked cool" or "wicked awesome" or if you are watching sports you could see a "wicked throw." Wicked pissah is just something that is really awesome.
There was no representation from Illinois in this video except the word "hella" which is from California. Nobody says that here unless you're trying to talk like a Californian. Illinois is a "pop" state as well. :-)
Same as how Iowa was "shucking" that's not a slang word, that's a verb. 🤣
@@StefSquiggles Yes, also an Illinois activity. 😆🌽
They missed out on the Midwestern “ope” the WI “bubbler” and “cheeseheads.” I can’t remember if other areas say “cornhole” for the game played at parties either.
Since most of it wasn't slang, they could have added in "yeah, no" and "no, yeah" cuz we Midwesterners love to confuse everyone else.
Missouri wasn't really represented either. Hoosier isn't Missouri slang, it's just a term for someone from Indiana. For Missouri I'd say twister (tornado), holler (hollow/valley), hit the hay (go to bed), bounce (leave), three sheets to the wind (drunk)...
There is y’all, y’all’s (possessive) and the y’all’d’ve which is you all would have or could have.
Cattywampus is a southern favorite which can mean in a diagonal direction (The new store is cattywampus from the movie theater.) Or can mean messed up (We tried to set up the tent, but it ended up all cattywampus).
In the South ya'll isn't slang but a commonly accepted word. It's part of our normal language. lol
It’s y’all, not ya’ll.
🌸 Just another pronoun, y'all 🙂
I don’t think you understand the definition of slang lol. Those are slang words.
@@marenclyde2855 it’s not slang. It’s a regional dialect.
@@billbrasky1288 “a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.” Its still slang.
Lived in Massachusetts my whole life "Wicked"= Really/Very and "Pissah" = Good/Great. Another common one here is "Wicked good kid"
“Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder” is the hymn of the United States Air Force.
That’s the only song I know of that you might have been thinking of, Millie.
Anybody else know one?
If she's into country music there are probably dozens.
'I'm on my way' by The Proclaimers has it a couple times I believe.
Goin’ Up Yonder is a gospel hymn we sing in church
I noticed the Minnesota "whiskey" plate on the wall. That is a plate someone who was convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol had to have on their car. The "whiskey" comes from the phonetic alphabet for W.
In Maine... I'd say our most famous slang term is Ayuh! Which simply is a term of agreement... pronounced like it's spelled A- yuh... Or as most Americans would just say yeah...
MN slang: “pop” not soda. Far North MN: “Ya betcha” another way of saying for sure. Most Norwegians in the Northern part of the state say “Warsh” instead of wash and “wrasling” for wrestling. We also put the word “for” on front of everything. “for funny” “for cute” “for stupid” you get the idea.
I also cannot get calling a "creek" a "crick" here. 🤣
And my mother-in-law calls baking soda = soda. She also calls bread made stuffing = dressing.
okay, one of the BEST videos ever and I'm so so glad you left the Alexa thing in there.... I was dying!!! 😂🤣😁 part of the reason I love your channels so much, you are real people who act/react like real people and it's just wondrous!! LOL
I spent my life in Ohio from kindergarten to the fifth grade and then we moved back to New England, to Maine. I was so perplexed to hear kids saying "jesum crow" (sometimes "jesum cripps"). I had no idea what this was and finally asked and it was explained to me that it was a replacement for saying "Jesus Christ" so that you wouldn't be taking his name in vain. That was a new one to me.
Maine reporting in (I'm also a little bit of an accent/dialect nerd): She's saying "wicked pisser". Both the words "wicked" and "pisser" have their own meanings depending on the context, but that phrase is usually used when describing something something really cool /good.
You had a little trouble with the accent, which is completely understandable. The New England accent throws a lot of Americans off. I wasn't raised here, but have spent 20+ years of my adult life here. One base thing about the New England accent is that they often soften the R's that are in words... which is a "leftover" from all of the British English that settled the area. They say "pissah" instead of "pisser" or "cah" instead of "car". Another base feature to the accent is that while their R pronunciation is more in line with British English (soft R), their pronunciation of A is very flat, like found in most American English accents.
Let me try and explain it better through examples: If you, James or Millie, say the word "car", you are going to say "cah", but the A in your word will be sharp, so it will sound like the word "car", just kind of lacking the R. Your "ka" sound would be in line with words like "cottage", "carpet", "caulk" A person from New England would say "cah" too, but their "ka" sound is more in line with words like "cat", "flat", "scratch", "at".
I hope this was helpful.
a person from Boston would pronounce that way, western mass here, we don't have the same accent. just FYI
In the Boston area "Wicked" is basically an intensifier for other words (in this case "pisser"), whereas just saying something like "that's wicked, man" smacks of a lot of different parts of the US (although it's antiquated). Although they both wind up basically meaning "awesome". Wicker pisser/pissah is probably a stronger form of awesome though. More like " excellent", maybe.
In Iowa a girlfriend's grandparents called a phone call a "phone visit". This was in the pre cellphone era. Dial phone with cords. In dealing with ebay customers before paypal i had some rural midwest customers call in their credit card information. So the email from them said planning a phone visit Tuesday at 2pm with you. Saw that term in Iowa and Missouri and Kansas from old folks in rural towns. So i think phone visit is an ancient phrase in the Midwest.
Texas. If someone here asks if we want a coke because they're going to the store I know they'll bring me a Dr. Pepper and mom an A&W Rootbeer.
Could also be a soft drink.
Try "witcha ditcha" ( with you did you). In Alabama, we use that in a sentence like this, "You didn't take it witcha ditcha?"
Oklahoma too🤠
Wicked has been Boston area slang (I think south Boston as those saying it have southie accents, if you’ve seen the film Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, the characters they play have southie accents) meaning “very” since at least the 1970s. Pissah crude as it sounds refers to something being awesome.. so wicked pissah means something really awesome. Other Massachusetts slang include bubbla which refers to a water fountain, go to dunks, refers to going to Dunkin’ Donuts, bang a u-ey to make a u-turn while driving which is in many cases illegal, yes way, which is a way of indicating extreme agreement, for a long time soda was called tonic in Massachusetts
I laugh every time I hear anyone use lit meaning so cool/awesome. When I was growing up we used to "get lit" meaning getting messed up usually drinking 🍸 or got or getting shwilly.
we still use get lit for that 😂
I’ve heard both. 😂
You have a rebel Alexa! STOP doesn't sound like GANGNAM STYLE!
Massachusetts resident checking in: "packy" is NOT a racial slur in Massachusetts. It means "package store", which is an old euphemism for a liquor store. It IS an older piece of slang, though. I haven't met many young folks that use it, probably because whenever anyone elsewhere in the world hears it they are generally HORRIFIED.
Connecticut born and raised, and we have the packy as well. It has nothing to do with race, it's simply a lazy way of a saying package store. :)
It can be a racial slur. It depends on the context.
Yeah, in england Paki (is the term) is a slur, and the massive youtuber KSI just got in so much trouble for saying it (he is also english) on a sidemen video. You could see both of them going bright red at the casual-ness of the american "packy" because it's phonetically identical.
Another example of this I saw in the last month or so, was Linus Tech Tips, talking about how casually he would say the "hard r" in the 00s his entire team was SWEATING BULLETS, before his co-host luke was like uhhhh excuse me? He had no idea that the word referred to the N-word, he was saying it in the context of the word "Retard" and from the comments a lot of people outside of the US did not realize that was what that term meant.
In Arkansas you pretty much have to know the history of landmarks in the area, because most directions include something like, "Turn right just past the old Kroger store, then left where Barbara's Hair Salon used to be." Also, we might give you distances in time, instead of miles: "It's about 45 minutes outside of Little Rock" or "He picked a college three hours from home."
I do that as well, confused people in GA when came from PA
That's how we give directions in Alabama too.
Y’all should react to the video: Yankee Guess Southern Slang. We have a LOT of slang phrases and expressions in the south.
From Massachusetts: wicked pissah means really good. And packie store is short for package store. It’s a liquor store, from a time when getting liquor was looked down upon, so you’d just say you got a “package”. Nothing to do with Pakistani people
Wicked pissah just means "really awesome". You can add wicked as an adjective to something to emphasize it more. Like instead of saying its really hot outside, you'd say its wicked hot outside. No clue where pissah came from tho hahaha
I have 2 Alexa's, and they seriously, occasionally, no lie, have conversations.
I can understand your confusion with "wicked pissah". The "pissah" sounded like she was saying a vulgar term for a body part. I had to laugh at your reactions. I have never used that slang term, but know other parts of the country do. ✝
While it seemed like the extreme reaction was the "wicked pissah" I suspect that it was mostly about what came immediately after which was "packy" a racial slur sometimes used in England towards east Asian minorities (esp. Pakistanis). My understanding is that is the British equivalent of the American n-word.
@@joeblow8940 "Wicked Pissah" in fact means "awesome' or so I'm informed.
@@JGW845 I agree with you. The point I was making is that in addition to "wicked-pissah" the same woman in the slang video said "packy" as a slang term for packaged liquor store immediately after "wicked-pissah." My impression is that the animated reaction of the Beesleys was to the word "packy" and not to the word "pissah." That's all.
Philadelphia region: jawn. It's a noun that means whatever you want it to mean. "Did you see my hoodie jawn?" "He went to the Wawa to get a meatball jawn" "When she got to school she remembered that she left her writing jawn on that jawn next to her bed."
So it kind of means "thingy"?
Beesleys: You guys seem to like stuff about natural beauty in the US. The northern end of the Appalachian Trail is Maine's Mt. Katahdin which is home to a trail called the Knife's Edge. Check out this video about it, it'd probably make for a decent reaction video.
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Awesome Thanks!
I think it's funny that of all the things you have heard "bless your heart" is one that stuck with you.
“Paki“ / “Packy” is/are slang for package store, another word for liquor store. Used quite often here in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Also, there are places in Massachusetts where a convenience store is slanged “spa.“
Paki means something completely different over there
@@trevorstone9879 It's a slur for a person of Pakistani/Indian sub-continent origin. The same insult is levied in Canada against persons from that region.
@@jamesmatthewneeland5707 I knew it meant that in the Isles. Didn't know it made to Canada. That's sad.
"Wicked" is used as an adverb to modify adjectives; it's equivalent to "very"..."Pissa" is used as an adjective; it's used as a way of expressing one's feelings about something they hold in high regard...For instance: "I thought that band was pissa"..."Wicked" and "Pissa" are also sometimes used together as a way of proclaiming one's feelings about something one holds in the utmost high regard...I came of age in Boston in the 1970s when these expressions were very popular and used quite a bit...but sadly they have faded over the years and used less frequently...In fact I'm feeling sad writing this; I miss the old Boston...thanks for the vid
We use “ pop” in Minnesota also.
I’m from Minnesota and moved to Tennessee
Wisconsin also.
it's not just minnesota , lots of older people fro their 60's on up no matter where they're from say "pop" my grandma says pop and she's been in california almost her whole life
@@bartbodeen8457 Only parts of Wisconsin though. I saw a YT WI map once and parts
of the state call it pop and some parts of it say soda. I'm from SE Wisconsin and
I've always said soda. Pretty sure that map was from a Lost in the Pond video.
@@annahorecka6128 I'm from Tennessee and moved to Minnesota.
I’m from Texas and I’ve “heard hold your horses”
We've also got "All hat and no cattle!"
New York here: remember that these slang terms are regional. I've never said rad, pop, or wicked pisser although I have heard all of them. I have said y'all, but almost in parody (I've also used the cousin to y'all: "yinz" after spending a week in western Pennsylvania. That one is not much known outside that area). It's a big country, but we all manage to communicate. LMAO
I laughed at an episode of Law & Order : Criminal Intent when the detective realized the main suspects knew each other and grew up north of Pittsburgh by the use of 'red up' in reference to cleaning up the apartments.
Red up is used in PA , NE of harrisburg where I grew up...
@@CaptainFrost32 That same cop also figured out a suspect was British because she said Happy Christmas.
Out of pocket and Jawn are two in PA
@@anndeecosita3586 There was no challenge in that one. :)
A lot of cities and towns don't allow public displays of alcohol or alcohol advertisements.. so, they're called package stores.
A lot of these aren't slang. They're just not as common words or synonyms.
Some Alaska slang cheechako is someone new to Alaska, ditch diver is a person that is bad at driving on icy roads, snowbird is a person that migrates south for the winter, outside is anywhere that isn’t in Alaska.
She explains wickapissa right after she said it. Also I watched the whole video just for you to pause on Ohio and then skip it all together lol
I have heard talking about drinking from a bubbler. Which is a water fountain. Snow machine instead of snow mobile or sled. Cut the lights off or on. People drive a rig instead of car or truck. It's a coke down south, a pop in the mid west and soda everywhere else. Fry sauce is a north west thing.
I recommend you react to two funny and weird movies from the early 1980s. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (starring Sean Penn) and Valley Girl (starring Nicholas Cage).
I thought the same thing, was on IFC last weekend.. def made surfer slang more natl slang for a while.
Thanks for that! Lol my Echo stopped playing my music when you were yelling “Alexa” 😂
Wow, what did we ever do to Missouri?? "Hoosier" is what people from Indiana have called themselves since at least the early 1800s but the origin of the term is unknown and has no defined meaning other than "people who live in Indiana." I mean I would understand if one of our neighboring states had said this the same way people here make Kentucky or even Ohio jokes, but Missouri? What did we ever do to you?? 😂😭
Sorry! I’m in Missouri and I’ve never heard it used that way! Just means someone from Indiana to me!
I am from Missouri and I grew up with it being used that way. It also it means someone from Indiana. Just the same word used in more than one way. We never meant that as an insult to Indiana. My apologies.
Probably it means people from Indiana and some people who don’t like people from Indiana associate it with negative attributes. Kind of like how Southerners use the word Yankee. It’s not in itself a negative because it means a Northerner but I’ve often heard it used negatively. I can’t stand when non-Americans call Americans yank.
Massachusetts was “wicked pissah”. Wicked is used for “really” or “extremely” and pissah is like saying “awesome”
Pro Tip: If Amelia doesn't like chewing gum being called "chewy", then you don't either.
Car Tag versus License Plate. Car Tag is term used more in the deep south. The word Tag is sometimes on the yearly paperwork. Never heard the term Car Tag when living in southern California unless by southerners who moved to LA.
I’ve lived different places but mostly the south. I don’t think car tag is really Southern slang because now I live in the Midwest and the wording on the website and paperwork says tag. at least for me when I say car tag I don’t necessarily mean the license plate. I might be talking about the tax sticker I’m paying for because we don’t get new plates every year. Like I might say like “I have to pay $400 for my car tag this year.” Or “My tag expired last month.” I would say someone stole my plate off my car not that they stole my tag.
@@anndeecosita3586 Hello Ann. An old friend from Alabama always said "car tag" to mean the entire metal plate and the yearly renewal sticker.
In Southern California when I lived there the phrase "car tag" was mostly used by Southerners there I worked with.
When I was in Michigan and Indiana I sure remember "license plate" being the term.
In California in 1979 with the gas crisis they had similar to this : " Drivers with license plates ending with an odd digit would be permitted to buy gasoline on odd-numbered days of the month".
The state government in Mississippi under Motor vehicles has a "Tags and Titles" section; then one of the links is "license plates" . Another link is for " One line tag renewal". As a kid I use to think that "tag" was the yearly renewal sticker you put on a license plate and not the license plate.
So I guess "car tag" is used outside the deep south too, but not as much? regards
@@anndeecosita3586 In World War 2 to to conserve metal some state governments use a "small metal tag" that updated each year. So I think this is where the "tag" phase came from. The "metal tag" went into one of the license plate holes. ie pre sticky sticker era!
Although this seems to be a YT standard most if the people giving these examples aren't from the regions they are talking about and aren't the best samples.
Traveler obviously did this video at the same time, and with as little effort, as their Fifty state accents one. Same people in the same outfits.
Here in Alaska We say Snow Machine, in place of Snow Mobile, some also say Sled instead of either of the first two names. Another Term here is Snowbird, that is someone who spends Summers in Alaska and head south for the winters. Sourdough is someone who has been in Alaska for a long time. To me I think of sourdough's as someone who lives alone out in the wilderness and hunts and fish their own food.
This with the upmost respect, I love what you guys do! Thumbs up from New Mexico when you two clean up! 😂😂😂😂
Originally from Washington State but I've lived in Nevada for 15 years. When the dude from Washington said "Hella nar-nar n da pow-pow" I got a huge flashback. I haven't heard that since I lived in the 253.
they chose the wrong person to represent California lol. Cali has sooooo many better/unique slang terms and Northern Californian birthed "Hella" !! Love the reaction tho! :)
My guy it must be a Lopez thing because ,i literally just commented the same thing lol.
exactly , every race in California has a different type of slang from white people to Hispanic people to black people
I love that kids who aren't allowed to say "Hell" will say "hecka".
Yeah, I can't believe the guy that attributed "hella" to Illinois! LOL
The lady from MA., after she said "wicked pisser" she then said "really awesome", right after.
Really, the girl representing Texas is wearing Beto shirt. LOL. So far from what TX is all about. I couldn't take the video seriously after that point.
I didn't know political views determined how well you know slang terms. Also, Beto is only slightly less "what Texas is all about" than Cruz or Abbott.
@@hammerpocket Beto seems much more Californian than Texan; at least culturally. Of course, El Paso (where he's from) is closer to California than it is to most of the rest of Texas.
@@hammerpocket You must live in Austin or downtown Dallas. I'm guessing you're not a native Texan.
Your Alexa is like mine, possessed 😂
It's soda not pop.
It’s *Pop* in Michigan.
All the advertising, price tags, product labels, billboards, marketing, bottle, and cans are *Pop.*
I agree. Definitely soda. I'm also okay with coke
or fizzy drink but I never call it that.
I grew up in Mass. but have been in Maine for 25 years. “Wicked” is common for both Mass and Maine but I’ve only heard “packie” in Mass, never in Maine. Also, if you were not born in Maine you’re “from away”.
Great reaction. "Y'all" is actually proper English. It is just antiquated. Most people in the English speaking world no longer use "Ye all" in ordinary conversation. The contraction into "y'all" is grammatically correct.
Ye is a misunderstanding of the letter thorn in Olde English and represents the sound of th, so ye olde is The old and was pronounced as th even then so your analysis is false. You all meaning a group was shortened to y'all. So normal conversation was never "The All".
Nope. In fact, the OED, the bible of the English language, documents the earliest recorded use of it was 1856, long after people stopped saying "ye."
@@jehuross8943 Well, actually you are incorrect in regards to middle and early modern English. "Ye" is a plural formal and informal word for "You." "Thou" is the singular form. The term "Hear ye, hear ye" is still used at the commencement of court proceedings here in the US. Are you suggesting they are saying "hear the, hear the?!!" 😆!!!! Here is a little definition to help you out: Ye (/jiː/) is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". In Middle English and early Early Modern English, it was used as a both informal second-person plural and formal honorific, to address a group of equals or superiors or a single superior
@@jehuross8943 You are correct about 'ye' when it is used in place of 'the,' but not in its use as an archaic form of 'you.'
@@robertsterner2145 LOL!!!!! Let's assume that what you've written is accurate, the point of the original statement is that "y'all" is grammatically correct. When the word came into usage has no bearing on this argument. Unless you're suggesting that words like "automobile", "the internet" and "television" aren't proper English because they are relatively new?!!! Also, as noted above, there are still some instances where the word "ye" is used by modern English speakers. Another example is in Brittish Parliament. (And I won't even mention Christmas carols! Lol!!!) So " long after" is an inaccurate descriptor as well. So, yep!
Yes, my mama (paternal grandmother) ALWAYS said "in a reckly" in South Carolina... Meaning "directly".... As the gentleman in Mississippi explained.
Where directly means shortly or in due time.
@@JustMe-dc6ks yes. Just saying when my mama would say "in a reckly," she meant directly. As in she's fixing to do it now. Lol 😂
All right. Let's get this straight. Y'all is not slang. It's a contraction. Just like we're, I'm, isn't, can't, etc. You want a southern slang you need to go deep south like youns, (you people there), or yeattahere, (leave immediately or else get your butt kicked).
I hear it's common in the Midwest, but most people I know here in Indiana say "Ope". Used for surprise or forgivness. Like, if you bump into a stranger..."Ope, sorry." Another is "Pertnear" which means pretty near..."Hey, are we there yet? Pertnear."