Does your family use different words for things?

[Debbru]

Not sure why, but we've always referred to the TTA (Wedway People Mover) as the Wayward People Mover.

 

[LiteBrite]

In our part of the country, when you see a car with a headlight out, most people say "padiddle" and hit the ceiling of the car you're in for luck. Our family says "shapoopie" for that.

 

[holden]

We have a local chain of grocery stores called ACME. If you are from Philly, you pronounce it ACK-A-ME. When DD13 was younger she called it the AY-SEE-ME store and it stuck.

We also have a room under the stairs that we call "Harry Potter's room." As in, "Can you grab some paper towels from Harry Potter's room?"

 

[disneychrista]

We have a local chain of grocery stores called ACME. If you are from Philly, you pronounce it ACK-A-ME. When DD13 was younger she called it the AY-SEE-ME store and it stuck.

I would pronounce that Ack-Me.

 

[Erica Ladd]

My family used at least one of those Yiddish words and we called underwear gachi (not sure about spelling but that’s how you say it)

mans a pacifier will forever be a lulu to all of us. You can bet my grandkids (if they use them) will also call them lulus

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We call a sofa a couch, and the living room is the parlor, pronounced "Paller.". My grandfather called his glasses "cockies." I have no idea why, but now that's what we call them, too. I speak South Philly as well as English, and the word for step is "tret," as in, "Don't tret on that." Sprinkles are "jimmies."

 

[Breezy_Carol]

We called the Cozy Coupe (that orange and yellow Little Tikes toddler car) a Beep Beep. DS, now an adult, called it that at his in-laws because he had no idea that wasn't the real name.

 

[dotty7200]

From the south, so for a large part of my life, all sodas were called cokes lol “Want a coke? Sure, get me a Dr. Pepper please”

 

[holden]

I would pronounce that Ack-Me.

I'm sure that's the correct pronunciation, but people from Philly add the extra "A."

 

[prairie_girl]

My family used at least one of those Yiddish words and we called underwear gachi (not sure about spelling but that’s how you say it)

mans a pacifier will forever be a lulu to all of us. You can bet my grandkids (if they use them) will also call them lulus

I definitely have heard gitch or gotch for underwear.

 

[JoanneAZ]

My family had a dinner casserole dish we called China, the name came from my father’s side of the family. It wasn’t until I grew up and moved out that I learned the rest of the world called it Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage Pie. There are varying reasons for the origin of the name but it originated in Quebec, as did my father’s family.

As far as the house coat/duster, my grandmother wore one and called it her house dress and it was not a bathrobe. She would wash and put on all of her underthings and then the house dress on top. It was what she wore at home. If she had to go out or had company coming, she would take off the house dress and put on a “regular dress”.

 

[MomOfDisneyPrincess]

When I was little, my brother and I referred to the boy part as a "bodee". Imagine my horror as an adult when I discovered people named their children that!
When DD was very small she called chicken noodle soup "Shicka Noo Noo". We still call it that today!
I think I picked up "B O Defender" for deodorant when I was in college and now I've passed that on to my DD.

 

[elphaba91]

We call Fibre One bars "squirrel bars". A few years ago while on a trip to New York my Mum and I were in Washington Square Park and were desperately searching for somewhere to eat. We saw a cute squirrel (we're Australian, so all squirrels are cute to us!) and Mum said, "oh, I wish I had some food to give you" when suddenly she remembered that she'd packed a couple of the Fibre One lemon drizzle bars in her bag.

The Special K Biscuit Moments (I think called Pastry Crisps in the States) are called "Mrs Goding biscuits" after the 105 year old woman who recommended them to us.

A large mouthful is called a "gump". When my sister was little she would ask "how many more gumps" of her dinner she had to eat. I'm not sure where it came from...maybe gulps?

Biscuits (which is the general Australian word for cookies. "Cookies" is really only used for round baked biscuits with chocolate chips of some sort in them. All cookies are biscuits but not all biscuits are cookies. Something like a Tim Tam or an Oreo would be a biscuit) are referred to as "bikkits" after my aunt when she was little put a note in the biscuit jar on April 1st saying, "Don't eat the bikkits you big April fool!".

 

[mi*vida*loca]

We have a local chain of grocery stores called ACME. If you are from Philly, you pronounce it ACK-A-ME. When DD13 was younger she called it the AY-SEE-ME store and it stuck.

We also have a room under the stairs that we call "Harry Potter's room." As in, "Can you grab some paper towels from Harry Potter's room?"

Im literally right over the bridge in NJ and we say acme. But my XH is from Philly and still lives there and him and his whole family add the A.

 

[porschegrl]

We call Cheetos "cheese worms." I seriously had to think a minute before posting, to remember the actual name.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

My kids call breaded chicken furry chicken. They got that from my grandma. At 20 and 14 they still call it that.

 

[FQLover]

When my grandma would change my poopy diaper, she would act all surprised and exclaim, "Oh, my, my, my, my my!" when she opened it up." I thought that she was identifying what was in there, so I thought that the name for poop was "my-my." That became a keeper and all five of my younger siblings called it that, too. Probably for about 20 years!

Another keeper was cob-on-the-corn instead of corn-on the cob. Just a little kid mix-up. Stayed in our family for about 20 years, too.

 

[MomOfDisneyPrincess]

Another keeper was cob-on-the-corn instead of corn-on the cob. Just a little kid mix-up. Stayed in our family for about 20 years, too.

My daughter became a backseat driver around two years of age. If I ever took one hand off the wheel, she would exclaim, "Wheels on the driver!" Instead of hands on the wheel. It always made me laugh!

 

[marthachick]

My brother said corn on the nob instead of corn on the cob.

Nephew called Chick-Fil-A Chick-O-Fway. We still call it that.

Many more but that’s 2 off the top of my head

 

[Shelley Chiarats]

I call coffee my "Emotional Support Beverage". My kids all call it now.

My mom is a devoted Diet Coke drinker and she called it the "Nectar of the Gods".