Did you smoke Chesterfields, or recline on one? A Chesterfield is a couch.

Chesterfield was Coach Bryant's preferred brand of cigarette.

I ran into a few people when I was in the AF, don't know where they were from, but to them all crackers are saltines, no mater what brand they are. I guess kinda like the pop-coke-soda thing.
Dennis

Sort of like all facial tissues are Kleenex

Old timers around here always called crappies "calico bass"

I guided some guys from the UP of Michigan once that didn’t know what biscuits and gravy was. They just sat there and looked at it! Crazy

Employee of 40 years from Texas still tells me to “cut the lights on or cut the lights off”

Macthediver- Your grandmother was correct!! I used that term a lot when I was younger. A guy at work, who grew up in Vermont, was surprised when his daughter, who went to jumior and senior high school around here, used the term "owly". This guy had never heard that term so was asking a bunch of people at work. A lot of them came here from someplace else and didn't know what it meant. The usage seemed pretty regional for upper Midwest.

Sac Creek and Danny C., a lot of those cattle terms I hadn't heard before but some of them are pretty commonly used when I occasionally listen to the local cattle markets such as "open" and "grass cattle".

slydog-x: I like your "double, double". Might try that next time I'm at a place that serves coffee drinks and see wait kind of reaction I get. I also like your "skid" for a ner'-do-well. I'd like to know more of the story with that one.

Fisheman- "smearcase". That sounds just yuk! I'll stay with cottage cheese. My home town used to have a best cottage chesse called "Nordica" even though it was started by 2 hard core German brothers. They sold their recipe to a bigger operation and I think it got deep-sixed. Haven't tasted as good of cottage cheese since then.

CaptGus- I only got through about 12 minutes of your video but I like "si-gogglin" and "boomer". I sort of wish we had "boomers" around here...

Maybe not relevent to this thread?

Buy how can a “fat chance” and a “slim chance”, mean the same thing?

I just thought that was a.mistyped word in the trap shed when you had stuff to sell.😀

Because "fat chance" is sarcasm.

A guy i know has a bug control business... a old german lady called him with a bad accent She had bucks in the crotch...

I bet he was smiling to himself when he heard her say it

Out west a ways they say "squares" and "quarters", Here we say "forties" and "sections".

Some places have Parishes, Here we have Townships.

My dad grew up on the Columbia river during the teens and twenties and chinook jargon was still being used a little by both whites and Indians. Words he sometimes used included siwash (sigh-wash) is bastardization of the french "sauvage". And "muck-a-muck" for food. I still call the dog to eat by yelling muck-a-muck!

And I will never forget my getting balled out by my Tennessean room-mate when I he was talking about hush puppies at a fish fry. What do shoes and fish fries have in common?

Spanish has a lot of these regional differences as well. Actually quite bit more than we have in english, which is natural since the Spanish language is spoken over such a much larger area. "Guagua" is a bus in Puerto Rico, a duck in Colombia, and a baby in Ecuador.

Many many more examples especially with names for animals, fruits and vegetables. Which makes sense since Nahuatl (Aztec), and Quichua (Inca) have large linguistic contributions in regional spoken Spanish.

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Growing up we had a few Cubans in the community (post Castro refugees) and they would quickly inform you that they and Mexicans spoke differently.

I remember seeing a news story back maybe pushing 20 years ago that showed 4 different Budwesier tv comercials pitching to different Hispanic groups in the U.S. The was the western Mexican, eastern Mexican, Cuban and PR . Each ad had different flair and usually music. The bottom line, however, was that brand beer.

I now see that Walmart has posters as you walk into the store about applying for jobs in Spanish. I wonder how much Spanish is taught to the Chinese or do they still figure that knowing English is all they'll need to eventually dominate the U.S. on the world stage...?