We say some very unique things around here! Thanks to everyone who called and texted us at 870870 with their observations of the sayings and words that make New Orleans and South Louisiana so unusual.
It was inspired by a story I told about when I first moved to New Orleans. I was covering an industrial accident on the Westbank where a worker was injured in an explosion. When I arrived on the scene, workers told me that "the berler blew up." I was preparing my script for the next newscast on WWL Radio and was going over what I was planning to say.
Someone passing by overheard me saying that plant workers had told me that the "berler" exploded. He looked at me kind of funny, prompting me to ask what I had said that made him react that way. He explained that some people around here say "berl" when most people say "boil." He prevented me from calling it a "berler" on the radio.
That prompted David Blake and myself to start talking about the unique words and phrases here. Below is a list that listeners texted to 870870:
Neutral ground
Zinc and Terlet (sink and toilet)
Makin groceries
Pass by instead of go visit
Ax instead of ask ; Breffex instead of breakfast
Dat
I sleep in my bedrum
Hows ya mom n nem?
If you know where The Parish is
How ur mom n dem
Save cloths instead of put away
Da instead of the
A pump sprayer a potato pump
Hose pipe
I said to stay on the pouch. Instead of porch.
Dave even more funny is our mispronunciation of words here... running on the "Threadmill"
Instead of "where do you live?" ......"Where do you stay?"
Make groceries then save them. Tree(3). How's ya mom n dem? Where yat? Gotta change da earl in my car.
Instead of saying Dressed I say with drawers. LOL
Save the dishes=wash dishes get down=get out of the car
Shrimpin boots
Yeah you right!
Zinc instead of sink or hose pipe instead of water hose
Scweggmans bag bankette
(Gettin down) when u get somewhere
Speed. The Radio
Take the light off.
Locker instead of closet.
Pass by your mamas house
Take off the light! speed up the tv(volume)
When you pull up somewhere.......we ask the people in the car: you getting down?
Ersta loaf
Drag it through the garden my poor boy sandwich that is
Brung instead of brought
Y'all
Some of those sayings...i thought everybody said that!!!
Embankment instead of sidewalk
Come see !
"Well, what had happened was..."
Im gonna holler at ya instead of goodbye
How about the Bat Room (Bathroom)
Making Groceries
Huck a buck
Zink, turlet
Ya feel me?
Feel me?
Cooking earl almost sounds like a case for CSI LOL
My grandmother used to say Neutral ground = median Banket = sidewalk
Banket is a sidewalk
BurGUNdy
WalMARK, and debIC card
Dont call me, holla at me
This away r that away
Zinc instead of sink
Ya heard me,see what I'm saying,ya dig??
Zink instead of sink Yeah you right Kennah brah!
Red drink
Do u want to get down. Another words to u want to get out of the car.
Do you have a solid quarter
Spicket
My yard is full of ant piles, im goibg to put some medicine in the potato pump and kill them so I dont run them over with. The lawn motor
who-DAT
I see you still have that blue "big screen" on your roof from the storm.
Call oil Earl
cold drink instead of soda
Sandrich - Sandwich
Hand truck instead of doily. Try that one out of state and you'll see.
The past tense of "look" is lookted. She lookted good.
Caught a flat
Asking for a sandwich dressed
I'd like that poboy 'dressed'.
"Fitna" ........instead of fixing to! I.e. I'm fitna go to the store! Wantsumpin?
Go ahead come back.
Ice chest instead of cooler
Blinker instead is turn signal
Dawling
I'm fixin to do that
Errange for orange
How about the word "chea" instead of here. Like, its gettin chilly out chea. Lol
Iyiat for alright
I want my burger dressed
Take a baf in the tub.
Shrimps
What's up dog !!!
Hose pipe
MAKING GROCERIES
Hose pipe Neutral ground Ice box Brake tag
Hose pipe = water hose in lafitte
Hope pipe. and hot water heater, its just a water heater
How about hit me up
BERL SHWIMP for BOILED SHRIMP
The kess of the Truck instead of the bed of the Truck
Brake tag. Wife calls closet locker.
Y'all
Ersters___oysters
Brake tags are inspection stickers to rest of country.
Hose pipe
Skrimp
When peaple say im going to make groceries
Pronouncing mayonnaise as my-nez
Hose pipe instead of garden hose. Gep instead of wasp.
zink sink.....hose pipe water hose......car porch car port
Maken groceries
My mother cannot say Thunder she says ton-de
My wife says on the Cornder instead of Corner.
How about the kitchen "zinc".
Tree (3)
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