Do you have any words, phrases, or slang in your family or in your work that are unusual or unique? Or maybe something used in your area of the country/world that is not universal.

I find that my workplace has a unique vocabulary based on the sort of work we do....and it spills over sometimes into my normal life. Probably the most unusual one is my use of "pipeline" as a verb. People always look at me odd...


How about you?

cj/

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

Since I come from a bilingual Italian family we always used a lot of "hybrid" word basically American words ending with an Italian ending like the fenca, il carro, peanut butter sanwicha, not quite that silly but along those lines.
I use my own language like brooming the floor and closing the lights.
That's all I can think of right now.

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annadrose has such a colorful collection of words for a woman's chest - they made me laugh! I still can't forget!


We use "Here's your sign" on each other a lot around here.

And we have some terms from when our kids were super little that we won't let die.. If someone here wants a cup of cocoa with marshmallows, they ask for 'cocoa and milli-ma-mo"

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"The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief." - Thomas Russell

we use a lot of abbrevations, that people outside the insurance industry might not get--TTD, IME, LT claims, MO claims, MMI, FCE, ERD, etc.
We also use a lot of medical terminology and "slang" that we picked up in ERs and working as EMTs.

I, occasionally, find myself speaking in 10 codes from my days dispatching--that always brings strange looks when I tell someone "10-9"? (which is the local 10 code for "could you repeat please) or "10-22" which is "cancel" or "stop".

When oldest DS was about 5 y/o, DH and I were teasing each other about something and I said "you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?"--oldest DS, without missing a beat, looked up and said "that makes him a spoon!". So, sometimes we refer to other people as being a "spoon"....

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Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

At our office we always talk about ordering a BLT, **** aka....bacon, lettuce and tomato, cut up not toasted.

I know several that my grandparents used to say, that I now use. Most of them are very colorful
When angry my grandpa used to say $hit fire and save matches.
Two of my grandmas favorites were "higher than a cat's back" when something was too expensive and "colder than a witches tit" when it was cold outside.

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I never thought it was weird until this weekend. My DH was playfully *picking* on our son at the store. The clerk was smiling at them and my DH said "I'm just feeling onry today". Clerk STARED...obviously didn't know the word. I use it as well and both of our families do even though I am from CA and DH is from CO. I know I don't hear it often and when I do, it's usually some grandma type talking about her husband LOL

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Our lazy susan cupboard is a "round and round" thanks to our son, who is now in his forties!

An umbrella is a "brunella" thanks to our daughter, also now in her forties.
We also sit on a davencouch, thanks to her.

Our whole family has gotten weird looks (and sometimes remarks) when we ask, "Would you like to go with?" I guess thay want us to add "us" to that.

I still say, "Goodbye and stay out of trees" when someone leaves, a phrase left over from my teen years.

My daughter calls everyone by names she has made up for them, usually from using only the first letter of their name. She calls me Moose because moose and mother both start with M. I have never been able to figure out why she does this! She is odd, but I love her!!!!!

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My daughter started calling croutons salad crackers, I find myself saying it in public. Like when she reaches across the table to take them out of my salad, I say, "Use your manners! Don't just take my salad crackers!" My son is 3 and has no clue that they are actually called croutons. I can see him on his first date, and he orders his salad without crackers!

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funny my grandpa used to always say oh shes on the can or I gotta go to the can he meant restroom of course

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mom of 3 greats girls

We sit on a chowch thanks to my 3 year old. That's what she calls it.

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Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking

"Field day" means to super clean..from Navy life
"Unsat" also navy, means unsatisfactory

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When my kids are sick, i feel their "one head" to see if they have a fever....it's from a kids book, Morris and Boris, where Morris the Moose can't understand how someone could have 4 heads (forehead!).

We in Minnesota have many regionalisms, but they are all so 'natural' to me I cannot list them! Think of the Fargo movie.......really, we do talk that way!

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Living here in Cajun country we're told by outsiders that we are very difficult to understand. Alot of our words are half English/half Cajun French. My friend in Arkansas can't understand a word my brother says LOL! The Dr's at NIH often wander into my son's room and start up conversations just hear our unusual dialect.
Selena

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