"Needs Fixed" and other verbal "oddities"

I’ve always said “shore” and I grew up on the other side of LI Sound. My family had a beach house on the shore.

Philly owns the word “jawn”. It can mean all kinds of things. Very Philly.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-jawn-philadelphias-allpurpose-noun

The article about “jawn” was fascinating!

In Minnesota they also say “bye now”

My kids’ generation and older think it’s hysterical when I tell them we used to call flip flops, “thongs”

Minnesota: parking ramp
Elsewhere: parking garage

Reading about cot/caught and different US/British terms reminds me of visiting London having booked a hotel room that had one less bed than our family needed. I’d called ahead and arranged for them to bring in a “cot” for one of our kids, by which I meant a portable folding bed. We arrived and found a baby crib set up in the room.