In my area, the new word for that is “no problem”......I HATE it!You're welcome. Apparently the new word for that is "yup".
In my area, the new word for that is “no problem”......I HATE it!You're welcome. Apparently the new word for that is "yup".
We use it too but we don’t put in that extra “r”.... we say foy (rhymes with boy)-yer.......foy-yer. Sometimes to be pretentious I’ll pronounce it like the French...fwah-YAY.foyer, we pronounced it four-yer
It was what my parents called the inside hall of their apartment. I’ve never heard anyone else use that word.
We use it still very often.
Well, since it is a French word, that would be the proper pronunciation. Sort of like not calling cologne co-log-knee or depot dee-pot.We use it too but we don’t put in that extra “r”.... we say foy (rhymes with boy)-yer.......foy-yer. Sometimes to be pretentious I’ll pronounce it like the French...fwah-YAY.
I know this is an old thread, but folks seems to be making a comeback. I hadn't hear that word in decades, but I've seen it several times on the DIS lately. Maybe, it's another one of the "regional" things.
My town is hundreds of years old, the word grammar school is used just as often as elementary. We have 5 grammar schools in my town.Slacks
Grammar School (which I still say whenever I talk about school when I was a kid)
We have always said that (deep south).
Gallery (porch)
Fair to midlin' - always the reply from an elderly lady friend that has now passed on, when asked how she was feeling!! Loved it!
"Highball" is name of a variety of cocktails that include a shot of a spirit spirit (usually, but not always, whiskey) and large amount of a non-alcoholic mix and served over ice a tall glass. Scotch and soda, rum and coke, seven-and-seven.High Ball
That is another word that you don't hear often. I never understood how it got that name and as a kid it always sounded vaguely "dirty".
They aren't the same thing.sasparilla - aka root beer
tonic as in Pepsi, Coke, orange, gingerale etc.
Growing up here in Mass, we called it tonic.
It's a good way to specify more than one person without getting gender specific, like "y'all".I know this is an old thread, but folks seems to be making a comeback.
sublunary
shenanigans
hankering
druthers
flummoxed
lolly-gag
floozy
harlot
my grandma used to say, "stop being a pill"
I'll think of more love those that are already posted!