My girlfriend says, "Are you coming with?"
My husband says, "Shut the light."
I say "egg-zit" and my husband says "ek-sit".
My kids at school say, "I got fifty cent", and "I brung my book back."
One of the teachers says, "I said to my husband, I said the car won't
start."
Another teacher in my building says, "He don't have his books today."
And we all go "down the shore."
My parents families had German backgrounds but have lived here for 150
years. My husband of seven years grew up about 15 miles from me. His parents
who were first generation Italians.He went to college in Boston, moved to
Georgia, lived in Florida, and came back to southern New Jersey. His long
time girlfriend was black, and his first wife was from the Philippines. He
has heard just about everything!!
We have lots of funny phrases and sayings that were definately regional.
We've made a game of "collecting" these.
By the way, I hesitate to send this, since I can NEVER remember where the
punctuation mark goes when quotation marks are involved...hope I did it
correctly.
Karen DeFrank, LMS
Bullock School
Glassboro, NJ 08028
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