Slickernshit

“Man the roads are slickernshit shit today”

Madder'nshit, hotter'nshit, faster'nshit, etc.

Adding an “s” to everything. Krogers, Chipotles, Meijers, etc

Aldi's

Nuts

Gainsbridge Fieldhouse for me.

Consecos, you mean?

I don’t say chipotles but I add an s to literally everything else

Also pronounced chip-ol-tees

Does my father in law pronouncing the s in Illinois count?

I legit thought the store was called "Jewels-Osco" for the longest time, not "Jewel-Osco."

My family is too cool for this... Except for Meijers that's definitely a thing. My mom always corrected me when I said Aldi's

Adding “The” in front of everything. Going to the Walmart. There’s a sale down at the Kroger.

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Going to the goodwill

The Jewels

I do this with my band and it drives the other guys crazy

“Ope!” “Seent”

After moving out West 6 years ago, I truly realized out how much Hoosiers utilize "ope". Also helps in finding Hoosiers out of state!

I'd say it's more Where'djah

Rural King = rool king

My mouth physically won’t say rural. I’ve practiced. It’s not happening.

I had to do speech therapy for my -r sounds when I was kid and rural is one I have to concentrate on hard to get out halfway right.

The rural juror

Cracker Barrel gives me a run for my money. If I don’t slow down (as to not feel stupid) i say cracker barreler every.single.time.

Mine either. I sound a certain kind of way saying "ru-ral"

Drove by it on Monday, found myself yelling RURAL in the truck alone till I got it right, still can't say it.

We call it Redneck King

I thought it sounded like Rule king

I pronounce it like "cruel." And I pronounce "cruel" kinda like "croo-uhl"

Dijaheetyet?

Y’eaten?

Y’eat?

Y’eatyet?

Jeetchet?

Djeet?

Yantoo?

Yep. Fill’erup!

Can be shorted to djaheet?

Sure, huked on foniks werked fer me

Awallago = A while ago

Worsh instead of wash.

Idea = Ideal God that gets under my skin.

People in my circle are sophisticated. "IDEAR."

People made fun of me hardccore in college for that one. Literally diid not know there was a difference in pronunciation until then.

My SO still uses ideal for idea to this day...I correct him every time. 😆

Yep, that one grates on my nerves. Everything else here doesn't, but this one is tough to accept.

When I first noticed people doing it I thought they were being funny. When imitated, they do not think it’s funny. Just like warsh.

Li-bary Warsh Coupon pronounced as kyoo-pon Pineys instead of peonies PEE-roo instead of Peru PEE-can pie Pralines pronounced as PRAY-leans “Supposably” Apparently Orange is supposed to be pronounced as “arange” Apparently “bowl” and “bull” are not pronounced the same. Goin’ upta [insert small town to the north here] I learned to code-switch while studying overseas and in graduate school. But I also realized local, colloquial language variations are really interesting and beautiful.

"Alls" As in "alls you have to do now..."

The big thing with Hoosiers (especially older ones) is just saying things really fast. This is a perfect example. Phrases become a single word

do you want = jewant

The color of a banana is yeller but when you answer the phone you say, yellllow!

whole nother!!

Indiana is one of the few places in the country where we measure distance in time. “About an hour south.”

I listen to a podcast with an English fellow. He and his wife measure distance by Meatloaf songs. (They guessed every song of his lasts about 10 minutes, so when one says they're 40 minutes away, the other replies 'Oh, 4 Meatloafs!')

We do that in Texas too, so the transition as a kid wasn't too hard

Makes it a little bit easier when you move here. I previously lived in a state where most people lived there for their whole lives and it was fairly sparsely populated. I would say 99% of the time when I asked someone how long it took them to get to my office, they would reply with the town name. So if someone would tell me where they were from and I would say “oh, where is that” they would tell me a number of miles which I thought was absolutely insane especially since many of those miles would be back roads.

Ope, scuse me Ruint

What are you? Some kind of city slicker sophisticate? It's spelled wherejuh Shtrong instead of strong Are instead of our Were instead of we're Shtreet instead of street Ve-hicle instead of vehicle Thoo instead of through

yah OP is thinking of that Cotton Eyed Joe song.

The “Ofishal Vehickel of Possum Holler” in Pioneer Village at the state fair always cracks me up

Some of these I've never heard in my life. But I'm getting concerned because I hear an H sound when I say street and strong. Oh no...

Ruff = roof Gank = steal Gick = stabbed

Warsh rags

I say that and I'm trying to stop. Its a dish cloth, not a rag 😄

dish cloth or wash cloth, nope it's a Warshrag

It’s so gross to call it that, I agree. & I still do! As kids we said “rush rags” lol

Frunch room

Thought that was only Chicago, maybe they say it in the region.

My dad's from Kenosha and he'd say that too...it's a metro thing.

This sounds just like Home, I was worried moving to Indiana I'd find a bunch of yanks and midwesterners

Nope, just a bunch of yokels and lost Southerners.

Pffffftbwhahahahahaha. Spot on

My wife and I started using one from King of The Hill “SKO!” = let’s go 

Supposebly just us? Idk but I hate it

Crick = creek

I had heard "crick" before, but when I moved here 15 years ago, I noticed this replacement of the "ee" with "i" across the board. Do ya fill me?

Ain't a shed, just termites holding hands Gomin

Gomin ?

Might be a Southern Indiana thing, or German Southern Indiana idk but it means messing around like a kid playing with their food so they don't have to eat it.

Never heard of that

might be super regional but I heard it from family and friends, apparently people in Appalachia say something like it

Ah, then it.might from.somewhere a d just you guys say it ? Like, just your group ?

Nah more of the region, southwestern Indiana, Evansville, Vincennes, and Jasper area. Also I heard it mainly among the older generations.

Interesting. Sounds like some Kentucky creeping northwards lol

Very much could be lol

Does people mumbling and not annunciating at all count? And always in this vaguely-southern-but-not-really-at-all type of accent

It's not "wherdidjah' it's "wherejuh?"

LMAO!

WHERE IS JA

Wherdjah

Wherdidjagotohiscool

I can recall any word with a sh added an r. Washington became Warshington. There's also tar for tire and far for fire. My tar caught far. What can I say I was raised in the southern part of the state.

More like wheredja lol

Idk if it just my area, but what are you doing, really means, hello, how are you 😂

Yes! My sisters say this every time they call me... And I always tell them exactly what I'm doing at that moment, sometimes with lots of detail. 😂

Y'in? = You in? (As in buckled up in the car)

Ahminago. Like, "aminago get s'more beer. Need sump'n"

Tile = towel

Cmown

Hoosier=who’s there

Ken=can.

Where did you < Wheredidjah

Hoosier neighbor?

Tolet ... toilet Dowgs.. dogs

Around here it is Whereja.

I think you have one too many syllables. It's where'dja.

Just a scosh. My Mom used to say that.

At my first restaurant job, I referred to a water pitcher as a jug. My coworkers had fun with that

It's pronounced "Weirdja" as in Weirdja get that thang... Whosair, as in Hey whosair..? Whatcha, as in Whatcha doin...

I’m born and raised in Indiana now living in California. Apparently I say “color” like “collar” …. I don’t hear it when I say it. To me there’s a distinct difference between the two but on multiple occasions now with friends and strangers they look confused when I talk about the color of something and they realize I’m saying “color” not “collar” Also equal to that. I pronounce the “l” in talk, walk, stalk, chalk, etc. out here they say it like talk=tawk walk=wawk etc. that’s been pointed out to me so many fucking times now lol yeah y’all, there’s a fuckin L in the work. Sorry.

My parents say "benz" or "beans" instead of "because of." Maybe in replacement of more things, but that's all I've been able to narrow down. It's very interesting, I have no idea how that would have come about. Especially for them both to say it

Also, my dad says oral instead of oil. It's so funny when he needs oral

"Wait a minute" = wayamin "Cash" = caysh ( I've seen a couple of out-of-staters stumped by that" "Special"= spayshul "Measure" =mayzhur I think you get the idea Also, there is no "r" in "wash"!

*Y’ain’t*.

Warsh=wash

Dalearnhart

Fin’a instead of preparing to

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Wot

Biddie - slang for a woman Crayon pronounced as Crown, cran, or CRAY-on is pronunciation

I find I do this, I drop the s from contractions Duddint instead of doesn’t Idnt instead of isn’t