Phrases Midwesterns say that drive you nuts

[mocat]

Pop

no offense but if that drives you nuts you can eff right off

no slight against michigan will be tolerated

[mocat]

think similar has been done before, but peacemill

it's mindblowing how you can set something on a windowseal but if the window is leaky you might say it doesn't have a very good sill

[420seriouscat69]

Ope

[yoga-like_abana]

Ope

I'm just gonna sneak right by this post you bad person

[chum1]

Let's go to the hop

[Brock Landers]

Somehow I went most of my life without saying Ope but within the last 10 years or so it just started happening.

[yoga-like_abana]

Let's go to the hop

you hanging out with boomers? boomer

[michigancat]

Ope

I do this all the time and I understand/commiserate with people who are driven nuts by it

(unlike pop)

[chum1]

I'm knackered

[mocat]

I'm knackered

seems more midlands than midwest

[mocat]

Ope

I do this all the time and I understand/commiserate with people who are driven nuts by it

yeah i don't know how to not do it, it just comes out 

[michigancat]

Also kind of endearing is ending days with "ee" as in "Tues-dee"

[mocat]

mich, do people on the coasts regularly use "bucks" to describe US currency? how tf did that cornball word come to be the default?

[star seed 7]

Ope

I do this all the time and I understand/commiserate with people who are driven nuts by it

yeah i don't know how to not do it, it just comes out 

Big time ope'r here

[michigancat]

mich, do people on the coasts regularly use "bucks" to describe US currency? how tf did that cornball word come to be the default?

I have never noticed this as unique to anywhere I've lived but it's an interesting question so I googled its origin


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-do-we-call-dollars-bucks_n_5b32b4e0e4b0b745f178a273/amp

[Phil Titola]

Ope

I do this all the time and I understand/commiserate with people who are driven nuts by it

(unlike pop)

I don't think we can stop saying this.  What do people not from the Midwest say?  That seems more weird.

[mocat]

mich, do people on the coasts regularly use "bucks" to describe US currency? how tf did that cornball word come to be the default?

I have never noticed this as unique to anywhere I've lived but it's an interesting question so I googled its origin


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-do-we-call-dollars-bucks_n_5b32b4e0e4b0b745f178a273/amp

hmm wow i guess the trap game used to have a stranglehold on american culture just like it does today. time is a flat circle.

[michigancat]

Ope

I do this all the time and I understand/commiserate with people who are driven nuts by it

(unlike pop)

I don't think we can stop saying this.  What do people not from the Midwest say?  That seems more weird.

Nothing or "excuse me"?

[420seriouscat69]

Sometimes I use a good "pardon me".

[Rage Against the McKee]

Sometimes I use a good "pardon me".

"Do you have any grey poupon?"

[Institutional Control]

WalMarts

[CHONGS]

I'll bite, what is "ope?" Oh Pee?  When is it said?

[star seed 7]

Hope without the h

[420seriouscat69]

Sometimes I use a good "pardon me".

"Do you have any grey poupon?"

"Pardon me, let me squeeze right through here. Thank you!" I'm very polite, but ope is less wordy and useful and explains the situation perfectly.

[nicname]

crick instead of creek
warsh instead of wash
also phil.. with all due respect, what the eff

Crick is not Midwest/plains, it’s southern/hill-country.

Creek is. Similar to See-ment for cement.