Any examples of regional dialect?

Would this even qualify as “dialect,” or would it just be differences in labels¿?

I always grew up calling the “glove compartment/Glove box” the “Jockey box”. (I grew up in a really small town) Also my mother always called picks (those hair combs) a fro comb! I got reamed for that one once I moved away.

I say hilljack. Others say redneck.

I have noticed all the same things you have. I don’t think I will ever get used to a freeway called an interstate – ever. In addition, I have noticed people willing to get “upset behind” things rather than “upset about” things, I have also noticed people saying that they stand “on line” rather than in line.*

For petethepothead, here are a couple of other things I’ve heard since arriving here, big old joints being called “hogs legs” and really bad pot called “ditch weed.”

There are also some sayings that I brought from California that folks aren’t familiar with, for instance once I referred to Maggie the Cat from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick’s “beard” and no one knew what I meant.

I once worked for a boss from the east coast who called her purse a pocketbook.

*You knew I’d work it in didn’t you!”

Yes, yes. Thanks.

How about those Southerners who put the pronoun before the verb? Things like, “Why she didn’t turn off the light?”

Or the East coasters who refer to the dresser as the bureau?

I still like the picture in my head when thinking of one getting “upset behind” something rather than getting “upset about” something.

Ditch weed is skunk weed wheres I be from.

@Gimme, from what I’ve heard, skunk is what the call the really good stuff here. That blows my mind.

What about that cozy thing families sit on as they enjoy television? That thing has many different names based on geography: couch, sofa, davenport, chesterfield, chaise, divan, lounge…

Milkshake, frappe, cabinet:
Hogie, sub, po’boy;

These are not examples of dialect but regional usage.
Here’s one artlcle about dialects in the US.

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialMap.html

And another that is linguistically technical: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html

I moved to Eastern North Carolina from California and hear different phrases a lot. If someone wants a ride they ask can you carry me to the store, if someone is mad they say “I m so I’ll right now”, a purse is a pocketbook and a backpack a bookbag. As for dialect, it is much different also, obviously, and so difficult to understand sometimes I just nod my head.

edit: iPhone changed my spelling of ill to I’ll. I get so “ill” with the iPhone spell check sometimes.

When I went to see Fargo in the theater, I noticed that within 30 seconds of the movie starting, it seemed like every single person in the place was guffawing except me. I had no idea what they found so funny, it’s William H., Macy in a car dealership talking. I asked a friend later about it and she said, “Hello! You’re in New York! With that accent!”

I’m from the Upper Midwest, so the accent in Fargo was normal to me, but apparently everyone else thinks it’s pretty damn hilarious. I still have it to some extent, and sometimes I’ll slip up and say “bubbler” when I mean “water fountain.”

Is that hizzin?
translation-Is that his?
from east tennessee.
When i asked, “hey Jimmy,
if he is a hizzin, what’s
a she”? His reply, “I don’t
know, ther’s not supposed to
be any women up here.”
No wonder there’s the
beverly hillbillys on t.v.

From Tennesse for crazy and angry. “She’s crazier than a sack of skint cats.”

New Orleans Greeting: “Where y’at!”

South: “Evening” for “afternoon”