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I thought this might be an interesting thread.

I had a conversation with another Forum member not too long ago and I used the expression..."in my wheelhouse".

It is a sports phrase...typically a baseball phrase meaning a pitch that a hitter really likes.  The phrase has gravitated into every day lingo to mean something someone really likes.

But that got me thinking about other phrases or idioms.  How did they start?  Do they mean now what they used to mean?

Different regions have different colloquialisms as well.  For example, here in Wisconsin...a water fountain is a bubbler.

Lets share our language and the different colorful phrases.  Or just those phrases or words that strike us funny or ones we would like to "why did they name it that?

Words have power.

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this it total 'sconsin:

a friend of mine a few years ago, when asked how his dog was doing said "oh he died last year and we buried him up in the back yard."

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Speaking of 'sconsin...

Lets not forget to mention "stop and go" lights.  (traffic lights). smile



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Where does "warsh" as in George "Warshington" come from? My husband says it like that, because his mom says it like that, and so do my grandparents.

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Regional dialects interest me too.

I know Web teases JR for saying "a-boot" (about).

We dont even notice these things in our everyday language because we are immersed in it.

Those accents, dialects and colloquialisms are interesting.

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Hmm, I'm trying to think of some.



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Dylan wrote:

Regional dialects interest me too.

I know Web teases JR for saying "a-boot" (about).

That is because you are so close to those Candians.

 



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Somewhere along the way sodapop became either soda or pop.

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I can't really think of any for around here other that we generally say "pop" instead of "soda". No clue why.

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I don't know how widespread it is, but a lot of bass players use the term "wood shedding". It means locking yourself into the wood shed out back, by yourself, and you don't come out until you perfect whatever it is you are trying to master.




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Wood shedding is an old jazz term to mean exactly what you said it does Web.

We use it here too.  Basically locking yourself in the woodshed to practice your craft and get in touch with your instrument.

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There is that whole "lunch" vs "dinner" vs "supper" thing.

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That is why I've gone to purposely using "lunch" and "supper". That way there is no confusion.



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I guess here we more typically refer to the evening meal as dinner.

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Yeah, we do lunch and supper in our house too.

To me, the only time we had "dinner" was over at grandma's house. Basically, "dinner" was a fully cooked big lunch, like having supper for lunch as opposed to soup and sandwiches. Makes sense in my head anyway.

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I'll have to sit and think on this a while.  I'm sure we have some that are unique to MI.  Hmmmm.......

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Hey Ghost... is Detroit correctly pronounced 'de-troy-t' or 'de-troy-it'.

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ghostdancer wrote:

I'll have to sit and think on this a while.  I'm sure we have some that are unique to MI.  Hmmmm.......


I know from my Michigan State/law school days that you call beer depot's party stores.  wink

 



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Marky had this cool book that he brought into work. We used to read it on lunchbreaks. It had "old sayings" and gave the origin of them. Very cool. Too bad he took the book back home, or I would look up the wheelhouse one.

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Well like that forum member told me, there is no wheel or house involved.  biggrin

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Some people use blinker instead of turn signal.

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Haha, that's a good one.

I say de troyt.

Others say DE troyt....emphasis on the DE

Never heard anyone say de troy it.

Oh, this one was for Mema.  Forgot to hit quote. hmm



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Dylan wrote:

 


I know from my Michigan State/law school days that you call beer depot's party stores.  wink

 

 


What the heck is a beer depot???  It's a Party Store!!  laughing.gif

 



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confuzzed wrote:

Some people use blinker instead of turn signal.



And some people don't use them at all.



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ghostdancer wrote:

Haha, that's a good one.

I say de troyt.

Others say DE troyt....emphasis on the DE

Never heard anyone say de troy it.


That is how my mom says it. She is a native of Brown City, MI.

 



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ghostdancer wrote:

Dylan wrote:

 


I know from my Michigan State/law school days that you call beer depot's party stores.  wink

 

 


What the heck is a beer depot???  It's a Party Store!!  laughing.gif

 


We have party stores, but they are generally different from liquor stores... some of which around here have drive thru windows.

 



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Mad Mema wrote:

 

ghostdancer wrote:

Haha, that's a good one.

I say de troyt.

Others say DE troyt....emphasis on the DE

Never heard anyone say de troy it.


That is how my mom says it. She is a native of Brown City, MI.

 

 



She says de troy it ?  Hmm, I just learned a new way to pronounce it. biggrin

 



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We have liquor stores (state run). Then we have what we generallt call the beer store or distributor. That guy has all the beer, soda and snacks.

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Yeah, I don't know why. That only started in the last few years.

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Mad Mema wrote:


We have party stores, but they are generally different from liquor stores... some of which around here have drive thru windows.

 

 


Yeah we have liquor stores too, but there's not much difference between a party store and a liquor store.  They both sell beer, wine, and the harder spirits.  We also have a few with drive thru windows, not many though. 

 



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