What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 2

No one has ever made fun of my accent saying: love your accent, where are you from? :-)

I enjoy accents too.

I wouldn't know - I don't have one. ^_^

Soda.

When we moved to MA(inside 128) I had to learn to say tonic. I was 11 and we moved fromCT where it was soda. Now in OH it's pop. I still say soda!

Never seemed quite right to me that the word verb is a noun.

Maria , no one in the south that says they love your accent and asks where you are from , is making fun . Down here , it is a friendly conversation starter , and to be asked , is a way of saying "Gosh , I'm interested in you and would love to know more , maybe I've been there" That leaves a whole common ground for conversation .Please don't take offense , I promise it isn't meant that way . digger

digger, I have never been offended except I am always surprised I still have on after all these years, lol. the funny part of it is when I go home to Austria and am in a store or post office, people start talking to me in English right away, have to smile.

Austria? I just had a friend move away that was from Austria .That's where all the beautiful music and art work is from . Of all the foreign countries I would like to visit , it's in the top four . D

When we moved to MA from CA, people referred to soda as a "cabinet beverage." It was months before I finally realized they were referring to something "carbonated."

ROFL @ cabinet beverage!
That was FUNNY!

In NY.... Soda.

I like cabinet beverages especially cabinet sauvignon (hic) . Chaulk-o-lut, pop.

Around here it is Soda, first time I heard called Pop was in WA.

A frappe is called a cabinet, especially in Rhode Island

Digger, yes, Austria is a beautiful country not to mention its Capital where I was born. Very glad I was educated there, with all the boundless culture that was and still is available.

Reminds me of a funny time when my ex-husband, who was born and lived his whole life inside 128, asked for "a tonic" on a flight once. They brought him a cup on tonic water, the tonic half of a gin & tonic! The look on his face . . .

Many non-NYers don't know what an eggcream is.

I do! Yummy, and no eggs!!!

In central PA where hubby's family is from it was pop, here it's soda.

We were in Bristol, TN/VA(it's a spilt city) and I asked for a seltzer at a restaurant, they had no idea what I was talking about, so I asked for club soda, still no idea, so to describe it I said "water with bubbles in it" " Ooooh" she said "we clean the tables with that, I can't wait to tell everyone people actually drink that"

LOL

OK, what IS an egg-cream?

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/NYEggCreamHistory.htm

Fascinating! Is the drink as good as it sounds? Because I want one, right now!
But I wondered why it is called "egg cream" when it doesn't have either--so I went to Wikipedia. They don't know, either!
I think I may have had a deprived childhood growing up in So. Cal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_cream

It's great! My dad would make them at home.

I came to egg creams by getting ice cream sodas and not wanting the ice cream. It was a long time before i realized I was drinking egg creams. Sometimes i make it with half&half - if you're going to bother with all the rest of it, may as well. We never have full-fat milk around.

In Texas in the 30's an40's that was and still is a chocolate soda . Add vanilla ice cream and spritz the ingredients a little to make them foam b4 adding the rest of the soda water . Chocolate ice cream soda ! After I became a teenager and a soda jerk , I still had to have at least one a day .I still have one once in awhile at home . Can't get the mellorene ,( to those of you not old enough to remember , that is imitation ice cream ) have to use real ice cream and it melts and foams up so fast , it spoils the drink .OH, for the olden days Digger

Well, if you go into an ice cream store most places and ask for either an egg cream or a chocolate soda, these days, nobody will know what you're talking about. I usually say "an ice cream soda with no ice cream!"

This is one of the funniest threads, I've read every post and chuckled! Not sure if I can "hold my own" here
but here goes. I hate it when people refer to the restroom as the John!

Jon

I call it the Jon. ^_^

I was always surprised at that too - i wonder where it originates? It doesn't bother me, I am more bemused.

BTW, "restroom" always bugs me a little, only because after I learned to read they installed all these places at the highway exits with nice beds where a tired person could "rest." Boy was I surprised when it dawned on me, after imagining these plush, elegant beds, that the "rest room" was actually a cruddy smelly toilet! My parents NEVER used euphemisms at my house when I was growing up!

Forgot to say, Welcome, Jon! Wow - from Japan. How long have you been there?

I've been here 3 years and thanks for the welcom victorgardener.
carrielamont origin, http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question26702.html

Jon

Here's a reaction to a phrase that drives me nuts. When I go into a store (especially electronics stores) and a salesperson asks, 'Can I help you?'. I say, 'No thanks', but they continue to follow me. I will often ask them if they lost something. If they persist, I will ask if they mind if I follow THEM around.

When my DH and I were in Ireland, we were at a restaurant and my husband had to use the bathroom. He got up to go find it, and midway across the room ran into a waitress. I heard him whisper something to her, and she replied, VERY loudly, "The restroom? Now sonny, do you want to be taking a nap now?" My poor DH was mortified, especially when the waitress realized what he meant and (again very loudly) pointed the way to the "turlet"!

By the way, here's one, especially for the NY area folks. Does anyone know what a scamozz is?

Chawk-lit or if you're my grandkids it's chlock-it. They ask for it hot

Soda.

Potty. What can I say? I have grandkids.

Hi, Jon!

Hi Jan!

You are up awfully early, Jon.

Never heard of it, Dee.

Another overused recent one is, 'My bad.'

Oh, my bad, that is sooo cool!

That one is probably the worst!

Really cracks me up when older people use these 'hip' expressions.

what is the femenine of dude? I want to be an equal opportunity overuser.