If you hear someone use the word jumbo for “bologna,” it’s a good bet they’re from Pittsburgh or somewhere nearby in southwestern Pennsylvania. A regional company, Isaly’s, sold a brand of lunchmeat with that name. This...
You’uns is a dialectal second-person plural meaning roughly “you and yours,” including family, household, or close companions. Angelina in western Montana heard it from longtime neighbors in northwest Arkansas after growing up with y’all in Dallas...
Julia in central Indiana grew up hearing nibby for someone who snoops or gets into other people’s business. The more common spelling is nebby, a Western Pennsylvania term that fits her family’s earlier move from Pennsylvania into Ohio and Indiana...