When the recent Bachelorette was grilling the guy she was accusing of cheating on her about a weekend away with another woman, she (with tears) asked him “Just all ya’ll two?”
It took me a while to figure out she was asking “Just the two of you?”
Another Philadelphian (now suburbs) here. Hoagie, jimmies, water (sounds more like wooder) fountain, soda, shopping cart. Water ice rather than Italian ice, and custard rather than soft ice cream (oh, and most people here say va-nell-a rather than va-nill-a). Down the shore means the Jersey shore whereas going to the beach means the Delaware beaches.
A major highway in the area is referred to as the “ Blue Route” rather than whatever it’s number is (I-676 I think). I think the term came from the color it was on a map during the interminable planning stage. Also Route 1 or the Roosevelt Boulevard is just called “the Boulevard” and I 76 is called the Schuylkill (runs along the river of the same name). I-95 is just 95. The Walt Whitman and Betsy Ross Bridges are often abbreviated, even on road signs, as just the Walt or the Betsy. I always wonder how travelers just passing through South Jersey are supposed to understand that as their GPS probably says I 76 or Route 42 or Route 73 (I don’t actually know the route numbers).
One I haven’t seen here is pavement (pronounced more like payment) instead of sidewalk, as in, “Mom said we have to stay on the pavement,” which does not mean the paved street surface where cars drive but the sidewalk.
I use Jersey barrier and the lanes that result I call “cattle chutes.”
My parents call it supper but I switched to “dinner” a long time ago.
Uffda! Used kinda of like Jeez or Wow.
Uffda! That’s a fat pony.
Uffda! I ate too much.
I don’t know if it is used state wide or just in our region which had a large number of Norwegian immigrants. We are just south of Lake Wobegon.
The sidewalk comment reminds me that in NYC the front steps to your home are a stoop. I spent many hours of my childhood sitting on the stoop.
I grew up in NJ. Central Jersey - Monmouth County. And it’s pork roll, sneakers, sprinkles, mischief night, you guys. It’s the beach, not the shore. And people who invade the beach all pale with black socks, sandals and white goo on the nose are called bennies.
I’ve lived in Maryland longer than NJ but my jersey-isms have stuck.
“Uffda! Used kinda of like Jeez or Wow.”
I don’t use “uffda” myself, but based on the way friends from Minnesota use it I always took it to also have an element of dismay to it.
I grew up and lived in the midwest (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri) before moving to MA, where I have lived for the last 36 years. I used to say pop—now, that just sounds wrong to me—I say soda. I have lots of family in Chicago; none of them use numbers to refer to the local highways—it’s always the Stevenson or the Eisenhower or the Dan Ryan.
My MA friends who grew up here seem to call all bodies of water (other than the Atlantic Ocean) “ponds”. That always confused me when I first moved here. My town has a “pond”—it’s 300-some acres and has two small islands (one with homes). I would call that a lake!” A friend, who had never been to the Michigan once asked me about that big pond in the Upper Peninsula. Turns out she wanted to know about Lake Superior!!
I’m a linguistic mutt. I was raised on the west coast by southern parents, went to college and grad school in New England, and except for a few years in Texas, have lived here for over 30 years.
When I got to Mount Holyoke years ago, I heard the term “packie” for the first time and mistakenly thought it was a quaint name for the post office. Also learned that “blow it off” meant forget it (in Northern CA, we said “shine it”). And I learned the term “J_p” was a somewhat derogatory term for a Jewish daddy’s girl. When I first heard someone say it, I thought they were being incredibly racist about Japanese people.
I don’t use any of the above terms, but I have picked up a few over the years that I still use: sneakers for every type of athletic shoe, carriage for shopping cart (or buggy, as my southern mom says), and roundabout for traffic circle (makes them sound way less harrowing than they actually are!)
@doschicos , I can’t believe I forgot wicked! That is one I use all the time as a generic intensifier.
I am a Airforce brat but have live in Ma for over 40 years. As previously mentioned we use Packie, wicked, jimmies, frappe, carriage. We also call a traffic circle a rotary. We call soda tonic.
For those that call soda, tonic, what do you call tonic water?
Similar question for folks who call all soda coke, how do you order lets say Sprite?
Boston suburbs-
The Dunks or just Dunks = Dunkin Donuts
Bang, as in “bang a left” or “band a U-ey” (take a turn/Uturn). For instance-“We just passed the spot. Bang one up here.”
Frappe (milk, Ice cream, flavor, whipped in a blender). For New England purists a milkshake doesn’t have ice cream.
Grinder, a hot toasted sub. Most commonly bought at a pizza parlor.
Triple decker- three story wood framed apartment building, 1 apartment per floor, usually each with a porch.
No one uses “wicked pissa” anymore except ironically, but it’s definitely original Boston slang.
As for the others, rubbernecking, soda, jimmies for the brown ones but rainbow sprinkles for the latter-day imposters, Jersey barrier, rotary, sneakers, in line, a sloppy Joe= ground beef and tomato sauce in a burger bun (very sloppy), packie (as in “I’m making a packie run. whadda ya want?”)
My husband grew up in Boston and his grandparents and other assorted relatives lived in these houses. They always referred to them as Irish battleships.
@Mansfield, I haven’t heard that one!
I was amused when my husband, who isn’t originally from an English speaking country, started work for a Boston-based building supply company. Within weeks he had picked up the New England, largely blue collar custom of referring to grown men as “kid”. “The kid at the cash register…” who turned out to be a middle aged man.
My husband and I totally use “kid” but I didn’t realize that was a Boston thing (he grew up there).
All New England (Masshole actually) here and the most important thing is to add an “r when it’s not there and drop it when it’s there.
Soder for soda (never tonic like the north shore of Bawston)
Blinka for blinker or directional signal
Bubbla for the water fountain
Grinda for a sub
Cah you know the think you drive
Forget our towns where you have Quinze (Quincy) or Woosta (Worcester).
It’s really just awful but I can’t help it!
I play tennis with a gal from New Zealand. They call flip-flops “Jandals” and a cooler a “chilly box”. It sounds so cute!
“Grinder, a hot toasted sub. Most commonly bought at a pizza parlor.”
Really, any sub/hoagie sandwich.
Speaking of Boston accents, love this Seth Meyers video if you haven’t seen it before. There is more than one accent in Boston and even more in other parts of New England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwbzGyC6t4
OK, I keep seeing one that I’ve only seen written and not heard… is ‘frappe’ one syllable (frap) or two (frap-pay)?
Frap. One syllable. Rhymes with crap but tastes much better. 
Not like the McDonald’s Frap-pay.
And if you want to be a real New Englander, you get the coffee or mocha frappe. Coffee ice cream and syrup is very popular here.