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Regional Slang Showdown: When Southern Kids Meet Minnesota Words
All right, we are here. This is Newsmakers Podcast. I'm Mike Ennis, I'm your host and I've got a couple of visitors with me today and I'll get to them in just a minute. So tonight is the first home game for the Mavericks football. They had their opener last week but it was away. Unfortunately, they lost that one. But they're home tonight.
Speaker 1:That always makes a big difference, so hopefully you can get out and see them. Otherwise, hope you're having a beautiful day today. Almost cold out Felt, very fall-ish, I think. The high was like 59 degrees. Some places. You're probably saying, oh, that sounds perfect and it was so.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I have a couple of visitors with me today. Our grandkids stopped in from Atlanta area. They live in Stockbridge, but it's Atlanta area and they're here for a couple of days and we've been having lots of fun and so I invited them to be on the podcast with me and I thought we'd do something kind of fun. So first of all, let me introduce them to you. This is Ellie Mae. Ellie say hi, hi, okay, and this is Max, max, hi. There we go. And then we're going to play a little game. They've got buzzers, so Ellie hit your buzzer. All right, max, there we go, all right. So I'm going to ask a question Then, whoever rings in, okay, first, then you get to answer the question, okay, so what we're going to do is them being from the South.
Speaker 1:You know, we all have different words for the same thing a lot of times, right? So I thought we'd play a game. I'll ask you what this means and this is like a Minnesota type of word and then, if you figure it out, fine. If not, then we'll talk about it and see what word you would use in the South. Okay, now these are both millennials. No wait, you're Gen Z's, right, yes? Or Gen H or something, something like that, I don't know. They run out of Gens. Now they're making stuff up Gen Alpha, you know it's like oh, for heaven's sakes, come on.
Speaker 1:Anyway, let's go to the first one. This is one we use called Ufda. Should have seen their faces, folks. What do you think it means? You want some context? Yes, all right, let me think you sing.
Speaker 1:Somebody walks in to the house and you jump up Happy birthday, and they go Ufda, okay, congratulations. It's an expression of surprise. You know. It can be A wide range of emotions, like surprise and exhaustion, to relief or astonishment. You know, I hear you're pregnant. Oof-da, you know.
Speaker 1:So what words would you use? In the South? We would just say congratulations. See, ours is shorter. Yeah, it's Ufda. All right, here's one.
Speaker 1:Skål, yeah, ellie. Skål, huh, skål, no, no, no, this is a Norwegian term and what it means is a chair, and they do this at all the Minnesota Viking football games. They have a big guy that stands there and he goes this and they all go school, you know, and they do that Because up here, you know, a lot of the people are Norwegian. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting, yeah, yeah. So what do you all do down? Nothing, nothing, okay, here's one uh, this is a filler phrase, it's tacked on to the end of a sentence and it's a don't you know. We say don't you know. You know like, um, hey, there's a football game tonight, don't you know? And you're like well, yeah, I know, you know, here's a really good one, borrow me. Borrow me, like to lend something. Yeah, yeah that you're asking for a loan. Hey, could you loan me your wrench? Can you borrow me a wrench? That makes more sense, that makes sense to you. Yeah, all right, you would just say can you loan it to me, right, yeah, I kind of like that. You would just say, can you loan it to me, right, yeah, I kind of like that, borrow me. Oh, here's one you're going to like.
Speaker 1:You go to church, right, and somebody sings a song. At the end they get done, they walk up. So what did you think of my song? And you say, well, I didn't hate it. It's almost kind of a slap in the face, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it's kind of sarcastic. You know, it wasn't terrible. You know, oh, I didn't hate it. And you're like, oh, gee, wasn't that very good, was it All right, borrow me, don't?
Speaker 1:You know? Hold on, oh, food thing, you guys go to a potluck at church. I've never been to one, you, I've never been to one. You've never been to a potluck at church? No, in your whole life, never. Your churches don't have a potluck. Mm-mm, we do cake walks, okay, well, I'm just okay.
Speaker 1:We go to a church and we have what they call a pot. You know what a potluck is? Yes, you do. It's like you bring a dish, yeah, yeah, you bring a dish and you share it, and it's potluck. Everybody just. Oh, I came to one here last time. Oh, okay, see, it's a potluck. Yeah, up here you would take it down. In the south you would take a casserole dish, correct, up here it's called a hot dish. A hot dish, a hot dish Took us a while to always thinking well, yeah, it's going to be hot.
Speaker 1:Probably one day it'll hit us. Oh, you mean a casserole? Okay, bars, you know what that is Like? Chocolate bars. Yeah, you're good at this game. Yeah, it's like brownies. We need you to make some bars. Then they're saying make some brownies or make some fudge, or something like that. Right, those are bars. Something you cut into bars. Yeah, yeah, exactly, boy, you're good. I didn't know what that was for a long time I couldn't figure it out. So, can a pie be a bar? No, no, no, I tried, I tried. I guess that could be more like a frisbee, more like a what? More like a frisbee? Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:Okay, what do you guys call a soft drink? Soda, you call it soda. We always grew up calling it a Coke, no matter what the drink was. We'd say, hey, I want a Coke. And then they'd say, okay, well, I don't really want a Coke, but that's what I want is a soda Up here, yeah, yeah, my little sister always said that too. She said I want pop. I'd say what kind of pop do you want, you know? So, okay, that's good, and let me see any others. That's pretty good, that's pretty close.
Speaker 1:So you guys live in the Atlanta area. Is it hot there? Always, it's always hot, almost always, almost always. But winter times are really cold. It's either too hot or it's too cold Otherwise. Otherwise it's perfect, otherwise perfect, doesn't usually.
Speaker 1:So what did you say, ellie, about winters? They're really cold, really cold, like what's really cold 20. 20. What do you get? Huh, what do you get? We get minus 20 sometimes. Oh, how much snow do you get? Huh, what do you get? We get minus 20 sometimes. Oh, how much snow do you guys get? Normally None, none, yeah, None. Yeah, we did get some last year. Yeah, you did.
Speaker 1:We didn't get much up here last year, to be honest with you, but we always get, I mean, anywhere from 12 to 40 inches of snow in a year, maybe more. That would be your dream. This year we got a half inch. Yeah, we got like a half inch earlier this year. Yeah, oh, you mean back in like January. Yeah, okay, all right, it's about what we got. I mean, we really didn't have much this past year, but we know it's going to hit us this year because we've had two really nice winters. Yeah, you guys know you ever seen a guy with a blade, a snow blade, on the front of his truck and he pushes snow? Mm-hmm, you have Okay, yeah, okay, down here, every truck's got one on the front of their truck. Yeah, they all drive with them on the front of their trucks because you know you get lots of snow. You get lots of snow.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, what are you going to do after you graduate, ellie? Any clues? I want to be an entrepreneur. Oh, you do. Yeah, you and Kennedy, her cousin, kennedy, my other granddaughter they want to. Huh, she quit on me, she quit. Huh, she quit on me, she quit on you, she quit on me. Are you on your own now? Yes, so, ellie, and Kennedy is just now.
Speaker 1:Ellie, yes, what are you going to be an entrepreneur? Doing you still doing the fro-yo shop? I really like ice cream. I have an addiction to ice cream. Yeah, probably something like that. Out of all of us, she has the worst addiction to ice cream. She has the worst addiction to ice cream. Yeah, okay, but Froyo isn't that frozen yogurt, it is. It's basically ice cream. Yeah, basically, it's just smoother. Yeah, it is. You ever had custard? Yeah, that's good too. Yeah, I think it's even smoother. Okay, max, what are you going to do? Just bother, ellie, I have no clue. I'll go to my basement. Well, you think so.
Speaker 1:Now, to be fair, though, folks, ellie is 14, right, yes, and she's in. I think we said 9th grade, 9th or 10th, 9th or 10th grade. They're homeschooled, and so sometimes the grading gets a little bit muddled, because in some areas you're in 9th grade, some areas you're in 10th grade, you know, and so they get a little confused. But their grandmother down there is their teacher, and she's done an amazing, amazing job for the last. However many years you guys have been doing this. 14, well, yeah, and she does a great job. She's a wonderful person, I love her and, you guys, I'll match their education up against anybody. Anybody. Max is in. What do you think? Sixth grade, max. Sixth or seventh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so when I ask them what they're going to do, it's you know, golly, I'm not sure what I want to be yet when I grow up. That's fair, right.
Speaker 1:So what do you think about Minnesota? You've been here several times. It's quite fun and cool. Small town, small town, I like that size of shorts. They're using shorts this morning. Yeah, yeah, I was close to that. I was going to say that woke you up, didn't it? Yeah, what do you think about a small town? I like small towns. Yeah, I really like small towns. Now, to be fair, once again, they live outside of Atlanta, in a town called Stockbridge, which here is like maybe 75,000 people. Yeah, so here we call that a big city, but based on Atlanta, it's a small town, but they have a castle as their home. Their dad and mom, before they were ever born, went to Europe on vacation and your mom, our daughter, fell in love with castles and so when they got home, daniel, our son-in-law, he built her a castle.
Speaker 1:How many bedrooms do you guys have? Four, is there six, seven, three, four? It's four, four. Okay, it's three stories. Three stories. Yeah, you have a, that's not. I guess it's four stories, ellie, that's not quite true, because technically there are four rooms that are upstairs and then downstairs. You got, there's also one downstairs, yeah, yeah, the one we stay in normally. We have a library room. Yes, which room? Which is also where they do their homeschooling, and it's two floors tall. Yeah, it's great. I love that. That's one of my favorite rooms.
Speaker 1:They have a movie room downstairs with big screen TV, movie chairs, indoor pool, which is broken, but it's still indoors. They have an elevator. Not a lot of houses have elevators, but it's actually indoors. They have an elevator Not a lot of houses have elevators but it's actually built like a castle. It looked like a castle. I love it when you come up at night and your lights are on At Christmas. Yeah, it looks amazing. It does. You're right, it's got the lights on. It looks like a giant face. It does, it does. It's really cool. It's really cool. It's kind of a one-of-a-kind type of thing, and so they're really lucky.
Speaker 1:They grew up in this amazing home and then they come and visit their papa and their meepa and we normally are always doing something. We're remodeling something. This time we're remodeling this place and all day today they helped by. They pulled weeds oh my gosh, candy and I are getting too old for that and they did it and they did such a great job.
Speaker 1:I would put an ad out for you, but you know you're leaving. We're going to renaissance festival tomorrow, gonna have fun. I've never actually been to one, so I'm looking for. Yeah, I've never been to one, they're, I'm looking forward. How have you not been to one? I've never been to one. They're expensive, I've just never been there. Everything's a money charm? Oh, of course it is, but we have free tickets. Yes, yay, for us, right. And so, anyway, we're going to go tomorrow to the Renaissance Festival and have a lot of fun. Then they're leaving from here and going to Chicago, where they're flying to Seattle to visit their other grandparents.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we've been having lots of fun and I thought I'd let you guys get to know our grandkids a little bit. This is Ellie Mae and Max, and I tell you what these are two of the hardest working kids you'll ever want to meet in your life, and we love them. So you can't have them, we're going to keep them All right. So, love them. So you can't have them, we're going to keep them Alright. So, yeah, that does it for us today. Folks, I will talk to you probably next week. Until then, adios, say goodbye guys, bye, bye. Oh yeah, we kind of forgot about it.
