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COMMON WORD
MASHUGANAH
Submitter comment: IT IS A YIDDISH TERM FOR A CRAZY PERSON
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
COMMON WORD
SCHVARTZAH
Submitter comment: IT IS A YIDDISH TERM USED TO DESCRIBE NEGROES
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
COMMON WORD
TITS
Submitter comment: IT MEANS SOMETHING IS GOOD- TITS ALRIGHT
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 07-00-1978
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COMMON WORD
THANKS BOB
Submitter comment: A REMARK FOR WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING OF THE OBVIOUS
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OAK PARK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
COMMON WORD
YOU'RE OUT
Submitter comment: A REMARK MADE AFTER SOMEONE SAYS OR DOES SOMETHING DUMB
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OAK PARK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
COMMON WORD
CRIB
Submitter comment: ANOTHER NAME FOR A HOUSE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
COMMON WORD
ZOOMERS
Submitter comment: ANOTHER NAME FOR AMPHETAMINES
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
COMMON WORD
ZIPPIDY DO DAHS
Submitter comment: ANOTHER NAME FOR AMPHETAMINES
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 02-20-1979
COMMON WORD
ON THE RAG
Submitter comment:
IT MEANS TO ACT BITCHY-LIKE WHEN WOMEN ARE HAVING THEIR PERIOD,
THEY ARE ALWAYS COMPLAINING
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
James Callow Keyword(s): MENSTRUATION
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
REGIONAL FOOD NAME
IN THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN AREA, A HOT DOG COVERED WITH A BEANLESS
CHILI PLUS CHOPPED ONIONS AND MUSTARD IS CALLED A "CONEY ISLAND."
IN OTHER STATES, INCLUDING NEW YORK, HOME OF THE REAL CONEY ISLAND,
THIS CONCOCTION, IF AVAILABLE, IS CALLED A "MICHIGAN HOT DOG."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word SPEECH -- Place |
Date learned: 00-00-1978
REGIONAL FOOD NAME
IN THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN AREA, A SODA-LIKE MIXTURE OF VANILLA ICE
CREAM AND VERNOR'S GINGERALE IS CALLED A BOSTON COOLER.
Submitter comment:
AS FAR AS I KNOW, VERNOR'S IS NOT AVAILABLE IN BOSTON. THUS IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE A BOSTON COOLER IN BOSTON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MASSACHUSETTS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: UNKNOWN
SYNTAX CHANGE
THE YARD SURROUNDING THE HOME WAS CALLED A DOOR-YARD RATHER THAN A
FRONT OR BACK YARD.
Submitter comment: ITEM WAS LEARNED IN NOVA SCOTIA ALTHOUGH COLLECTED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BOTSFORD GRADE SCHOOL ; CLARENCEVILLE DISTRICT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 11-00-1982
TO MY SURPRISE THE SUBURBS OF SAN DIEGO
DO NOT HAVE ANY CURBS. WHEN
I ASKED MY AUNT WHY THEY DIDN'T SHE
REPLIED LAUGHINGLY, "THOSE ARE GUTTERS."
Submitter comment:
IN SAN DIEGO THEIR CURBS ARE FLAT
TO ALLOW PROPER DRAINAGE WHEN IT RAINS.
THUS THE REASON FOR CALLING THEM GUTTERS.
Where learned: CALIFORNIA ; SAN DIEGO
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 12-00-1979
IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN THE TOURISTS ARE REFERRED TO AS "FUDGIES"
BECAUSE THEY BUY SO MUCH FUDGE AND THERE ARE SO MANY FUDGE
SHOPS TO ACCOMMODATE THEM. LATELY THE TOURISTS HAVE ALSO
BEEN CALLED "WAFFLIES" BECAUSE THEY'RE STARTING TO BUY MORE
WAFFLE CONES THAN FUDGE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CHARLEVOIX
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 00-00-1976
Put the first money you receive each day into an
empty pocket; it will attract more coins.
Submitter comment:
In English market places this custom is still very
popular; that original coin is called handsel.
Where learned: ENGLAND ; LONDON
James Callow Keyword(s): Pilot
Date learned: 00-00-1989
Did I tell you about the time I embarrassed my uncle? We were
on a train in England and I asked the waiter for a napkin. He and
my uncle began laughing and asked why I would want a napkin. It
turns out that "napkin," the way the British use it, means "diaper"
for a baby. The correct way to ask for an "American napkin" if you
are in England, is to ask for a "serviette."
Submitter comment:
Lillian is 86 years old; she was a woman before her time as she
was growing up. I would have liked to know her when she still
remembered everything she had done in her life; now her memory has
faded badly. She only has 3 stories which she tells you over and
over again, and 4 or 5 phrases which she constantly says. This
story is one of the stories.
Where learned: ENGLAND
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being SPEECH -- Common Word |
NAME TABU
DON'T CALL A BABY'S TEETH "TEETH," BECAUSE IF YOU DO,
THE BABY MIGHT NOT GET ANY MORE TEETH. CALL THEM
RICE GRAINS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TABU
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IN PARIS, TENNESSEE, WHEN ONE IS OVERLY INTOXICATED, ONE IS
SAID TO BE "DRUNKER THAN COOTIE BROWN."
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 00-00-1973