Yours up there...?

i'm workin' on this paper about dialect due later on tonight for my speech phonetics 4 non-majors class....& i ran up on this site... http://www.slanguage.com/ lol see if ya city's up there....& if u can relate to any of the words or phrases they have up there (& if u don't c ya city, u can maybe look up the next big city near tha one u live or go 2 school in).... i only picked up on a few of tha phrases for Los Angeles...none of which I've eva used....guess I've been in Raleigh long enough 'cuz i caught onto a lot of those....again, tho, none of which i use...LOL @ "Yenny Kinta" lol - that iz kun-tree fo REAL & "Beltline"...yea that one's always gotten me too since i came out here...in Cali, it was just "Freeway"...in Raleigh, it's "the Beltline" :roll:

LOL, I checked Houston and New Orleans. A lot of the N.O. slang is correct especially "Da Caught A" for The French Quarter and Make Groceries...but we do that in TX too..lol. The Houston (Bayou City) list was a bit extreme, but Washateria, Do What, and H Town were appropriate.

Interesting I am a speech major.

I've lived in this area for all but three years of my life (Durham, Raleigh, Fayetteville) and I have NEVER heard some of that slang. Yenny Kinta? Naw, I've heard "who yo people?" Beltline? Yeah that's a Raleigh thing. Everyone else calls it 440 . . :lol: Tobacco Road? Basically all of I-40 Some other slang: Gone Now - Go One Now (as in leave me alone, quit playin) People - can be used interchangably for family or friends Folk - refers either to family or people you don't know at all (strange huh?) Ex: My folk back home (family) or Dem folks out there, crazy (usually when folk shootin at the club) Random -means when someone does something that defies common sense or stupid Durhmites - people who grew up in Durham The Hill - Chidley Hall at NCCU slouch - a state of being sorry

More DC ****I relate to The Fruit Loop -Interesting nickname for DuPont Circle

:arrow: Ball Mer How to truly pronounce our city :arrow: Merlin Our state :arrow: Dug It bit the cat :arrow: Pockeybook Purse to most I use these sometimes

:arrow: Ball Mer How to truly pronounce our city :arrow: Merlin Our state :arrow: Dug It bit the cat :arrow: Pockeybook Purse to most I use these sometimes

They had to talk to the white folks in the suburbs because all that was right about Dallas was Big Tuna (Bill Parcells) & Big D(what we call Dallas)