Trajan12
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Don't "newfies" pronounce it like "Noowfunlund"? Sounds pretty strange.
Give me some local slang!
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Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
I read that the Newfoundland dialect is based on the West Country dialect.
Most Canadians that I've heard say "NOO-fund-lund;" Newfoundlanders themselves say "NOO-fund-LAND." The "d" in "fund" is very weak, barely noticeable.
JonnyB
Workaholic
Pretty much what Taliesin said, They also call it "The Rock"
I think so, but it's evolved from that, I found a list of words and expressions
Hmm. I'm American and I pronouce it that way.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
No rude words ?Enough with the religious jibber-jabber!
I have a mood to hear some good slang words from around the world, and from local areas and towns!
No rude words (well, PG-rated is allowed) but funny insults/put-downs, delivered in your own tongue!
So, feel free to post up some global slang words, and their meaning!
Fire away!
Most of the slang in romanian is dirty and sexually oriented so i've no idea what to post. 
(Or at least the ones i use are like that.
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Xanikk999
History junkie
We call police officers "pigs" around here. I dont know if thats slang though...
CurtSibling
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That's a global!
But then how do you let some know if you really are going to the Waffle House? There is one about 4 miles from my home.
Some Bay Slang:
Yay Area - Bay area.
Hyphy - getting stupid, dumb, ********.
Yadida - Whatever
Yadameen - You know what I mean?
Thizz - E
Yellow Bus - E
Ride the Yellow Bus - To be high on E
Sydeshow - Sideshow, when a bunch of people stand around a car doing doughnuts
Beezy - Female dog
Skeet Skeet Skeet - inappropriate for forums
Whadiddadiz - what is it?
Ghost ride the whip - when you get out of the car and put it in neutral, get out, and dance to the beat of the music while the car rolls down the street.
Yay Area - Bay area.
Hyphy - getting stupid, dumb, ********.
Yadida - Whatever
Yadameen - You know what I mean?
Thizz - E
Yellow Bus - E
Ride the Yellow Bus - To be high on E
Sydeshow - Sideshow, when a bunch of people stand around a car doing doughnuts
Beezy - Female dog
Skeet Skeet Skeet - inappropriate for forums
Whadiddadiz - what is it?
Ghost ride the whip - when you get out of the car and put it in neutral, get out, and dance to the beat of the music while the car rolls down the street.
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We don't have any unique slang words in Toronto, but we do have a specific way of pronouncing the name of the city. If someone pronouces it as spelled, they are automatically deemed an oustsider. The proper local way is to lose the first 'o' and second 't' to yield "Tronno".
There's also an interprovincial discrepency on what consititutes a "case" of beer. In most provinces a case has 12 beer (in Canada the plural of "beer" is "beer"), in Ontario a case has 24 beer. In some other provinces, 24 beer is known as a "flat". Everyone in Canada will also refer to 24 beer as a "two-four" (real creative).
There's also an interprovincial discrepency on what consititutes a "case" of beer. In most provinces a case has 12 beer (in Canada the plural of "beer" is "beer"), in Ontario a case has 24 beer. In some other provinces, 24 beer is known as a "flat". Everyone in Canada will also refer to 24 beer as a "two-four" (real creative).
Mathilda
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A case with 12 bottles of beer in Finnish is mäyräkoira meaning a sausage dog.
A case is 24 in the States as well.
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This thread is very useful in picking up tons of quotable speech!
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
When heading oot to the offie to scadge a few tinnies, you'll have to bodyswerve the many fleetoes of neds that are hinging aroon the toon!
Brilliant. Tinnies is actually relatively new to me. At my last work a guy would always ask if I wanted a 'tin', though it didn't take long to work out what he meant.Take-away for grabbing a few beers at an off-licence rather than a pub, is about all I can think of right now.
Eukaryote
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I made up a variation of that, I call em "Mounters." I can just imagine being pulled over and yelling "Oh sh*t it's the mounters!"
When heading oot to the offie to scadge a few tinnies, you'll have to
bodyswerve the many fleetoes of neds that are hinging aroon the toon!
Is that even English, or is that another language that happens to use words that are also used in English?
