I find it funny.....

[deuxlatch]

I live in Houston now but got to talking with someone new here at work who was also from La. and right off the bat I could tell what part of the state she was from when she referred to a water hose as a "hose pipe." Baton Rouge. Aint it funny? She also referred to grocery shopping as "making groceries" so that was also a dead givaway. I've been all over this country and around the world and I've come to realize I can usually pinpoint where someone is from just by the terms they use.

Yous guys = Ohio area
Ca's, patties and bee (cars, parties and beer) = Boston area
Yont to? Aight. = Mississippi GC area
Fittin' ta = Arkansas area
Visqueen = South La.
Dowg = Tx.
Ay? = Canada
clip = politician

Does anyone else have this amazing gift? Post 'em up!

 

[doc ace]

You guys gettin down?

(Inviting your buddies inside your house, not onto the dance floor) - Louisiana

Instead of 2 miles away, we say it is about 5 mins down the road.

Savin the dishes - putting them in the cabinets after washing - S LA too

 

[deuxlatch]

Yeah Doc ace, you got the gift. Here's a couple more

fish-n-chips = Brittish
Mate = Aussie

 

[highstandard40]

What's wrong with Visqueen. It is a correct term. In the past I have sold many hundreds of rolls of visqueen. It's a brand name for polyethylene sheeting.

The term that always irks me is "crack barrel". Why would anyone want a gun with a cracked barrel? Or the use of the word "rims" to describe "wheels". Both are south Louisiana favorites.

 

[swampjockey]

Where Yat ? - Metairie, LA USA

 

[Neil09]

What else is Visqueen called?

 

[deuxlatch]

What's wrong with Visqueen. It is a correct term. In the past I have sold many hundreds of rolls of visqueen. It's a brand name for polyethylene sheeting.

Nuttin wrong with visqueen, I've just never heard anyone outside of La. use it. My Pawpaw used to tell me there was a produce called Viscreen (visible screen) and that was where the term came from, but I never confirmed that.

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Where Yat ? - Metairie, LA USA

I think the term "Ya mom an dem" came from there too.

 

[tallwalker]

"Crack the glass" for roll down the car window a little.

 

[Gator 45/70]

We have many expression's down here for many thing's.

I'm not holding my breath for the rest of the 49.5 state's to catch up !

 

[JWG223]

I can't tell if it's ignorance, or vernacular, most of the time.

 

[highstandard40]

Nuttin wrong with visqueen, I've just never heard anyone outside of La. use it. My Pawpaw used to tell me there was a produce called Viscreen (visible screen) and that was where the term came from, but I never confirmed that.

As I said, Visqueen is one of the original brand names for polyethylene sheeting. Years ago I worked at an industrial supply and we stocked the "Visqueen" brand. I sold a ton of it back then.

From Wikipedia:

Visqueen (often misspelled visquine) is a brand of polyethylene plastic sheeting produced by British Polythene Industries Limited, and has become a generic description for any plastic sheeting. Visqueen was first produced circa 1950 by the Visking Corporation, a company founded in the 1920s by Erwin O. Freund for the purpose of making casings for meat products. Visking investigated the post-World War II emerging technology of polyethylene, and developed manufacturing techniques to make pure virgin polyethylene film. Originally spelled VisQueen, the film was an excellent moisture barrier and was marketed to many industrial, architectural, and consumer applications, such as moisture barriers, plant seedbed protection films, building fumigation barriers, drop cloths, case liners, and tarpaulins.

 

[tallwalker]

"Tarpaulins" is another one! How many people do you hear pronouncing it "Tar-pole-ee-uns"! Lots of "isms" in this part of the world.

 

[deuxlatch]

Here's one:

"Git over here fo I buss yass"

 

[mr.z28]

"whoaaa" = hello in New Orleans and some of BR

 

[Aussiecajun]

Yeah Doc ace, you got the gift. Here's a couple more

fish-n-chips = Brittish
Mate = Aussie

Fish n chips is also Australian.

 

[john17427]

So where did "momenem" come from? As in your momenem.

 

[Crippler7815]

So where did "momenem" come from? As in your momenem.

Mais, dey came from Jennings cher!

 

[cajunranger]

You can keep your health plan....Kenya

 

[oleheat]

"going get a coke": This applies to any and all types of soft drinks here in the South.


"going get a soda (or pop)": YANKEES!!!

 

[Metryshooter]

Where y'at from one of the wards in New Orleans along with:
Zinc- as in wash your hands in the zinc
Terlit- as in flush the toilet
Earl- as in change the oil.