Regional Phrases

Isn't the hoagie traditionally from Philadelphia, though?

There's not a whole lot of sayings I'm familiar with from my area, though I have become painfully aware of my tendency to prefix any highway with either I-whatever if it's an interstate or Route if it's a state road. People out here in California seem to love pointing that out (as well as my use of highway instead of freeway).

I also say water as wuter, but that's more accent than anything else.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I was told by a friend that it's a South/midwest thing to say "Went and did/got" or the like, such as: " I went and got a burger." It doesn't sound too strange to me, but apparently it's a double-something-or-other, because I could have simply said, "I got a burger."

Heh, my mom was forever frustrated by the fact that Pennsylvania license plates had the lyric, "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania"." If you expand the contraction out you get, "You have got a friend in Pennsylvania" which isn't quite proper English. I've noticed since she started pointing that out to me the term "You've got" has slipped regularly into my speech.

I'm curious, anyone not from the mid-Atlantic states know what a Jersey Jughandle is?

There's nowhere I can't reach.