Badger say some weird clobber … at least to the ears of outsiders . Everything makes sodding sentience to us though , so we ’re not modify . If you find yourself new to the nation or just wonder why your friend from New York asks for clearing when you say you ’re going " up north , " this list is for you .
P.S. Do n’t post to FIBs .
“Congrats on the new baby! Did you put her on the Packers season ticket list yet or no?”
" Or no ? " is the nonremittal cease to just about every doubt Wisconsinites ask . Maybe we think it take in us sound more colloquial or approachable … or perchance we just like to make things needlessly confusing . Does that make horse sense or no ?
“I have to stop by the nearest TYME machine and get some cash.”
Around here , standard pressure had a stain name : TYME – pronounced " clock time " – which was an acronym for " take your money everywhere , " and popped up all over the country and UP in the seventies . Though few , if any , of our local ATMs are still emblazoned with that primitive " TYME is money " motto , the byname is n’t going aside … which always shit for an awkward moment when we go anywhere out of state .
“I hate it when the Cubs come to town and FIBs take over Miller Park.”
Fucking . Illinois . Bastards . Sorry flatlanders , but your sports lover are putz , you labor like idiots , and no spot in Wisconsin is a Chicago suburb . Pro tip : come after an FIB on the expressway because they are definitely last to get draw out over for speed up alternatively of you .
“Are all of yous good with tailgating opening day even though it’s gonna be 35 degrees?”
Generally heard in the more rural sphere , yous is slang for the collective you , i.e. , when someone is referring to more than one person . It kind of makes sentience … since there are multiple ' you ’s , why not pluralize you ? ' Scansin system of logic at its okay .
“Can yous drive by my house soon so we can go by grandma once?”
No , we ’re not require you get push near us , we ’re asking you add up over , and if you ’re golden , that will include beer and brats . This can lead to some sticky moments . When we say something like , " Want to drive by dad ’s later ? " we ’re really not talking about shooting at dad from a gondola .
“I need a drink. Where’s the bubbler?”
This is perhaps the most well cognize Wisconsinism , though its source are murky . The prevailing myth is that a forerunner to the Kohler Co. patented the innovation and trademarked the name " water fountain , " but according to the company , that ’s just not true . Kohler did apply the terminal figure to bring up to piece of their drinking fountains , though . It may also have been popularized in school around the crook of the 20th one C , thanks to standard stoneware jug that held drinking water . When you used the spigot at the base , air bubbled up , just like those pee coolers in an office . Sounds like a plausible enough explanation to us , yah know ?
“Can you pick up dat dere beer I like at Woodman’s?”
A pot of Wisconsinites have a disposition to sour a TH sound into a 500 sound . It ’s specially big in older folks , and it ’s what turns up northward into the ubiquitous " up nort ' . " This may stem from the with child German language influence on the state , particularly around Milwaukee .
“I’m at home yet so I’m gonna be late.”
Around here , yet often means " still . " One of the expert sentences to a Wisconsinite ’s pinna is , " We ’ve come some spotty Cow yet , yous want to come by or no ? "
“We’re going to my uncle’s cabin up north for Fourth of July, want to come with?”
Up northerly is an universally - tell apart place of relaxation behavior in these part . Generally , the position is a cabin or cottage , usually on a lake with a pontoon sauceboat , firing pit , minimum creature comforts , and lots ( and lot ) of beer . admirer and family of the cabin owner converge on most summer and fall vacation or mayhap even every weekend . Typical activities let in balefire , sportfishing , booze heavily , and trying to remember your earphone does n’t get signal up here . notice to FIBs : Lake Geneva is not up northwards .
“Lemme see that once.”
This one can plausibly be chalked up to Midwestern nice . add " once " to the end of a command make it seem less demanding and lasting . It can also involve immediacy without making you sound like a full jolt . " follow here once " in general means you well move your stern .
“I’m going to Piggly Wiggly to get brats, yous wanna come with?”
For some reason , Wisconsinites like to abbreviate the oh - so - long question , " Do you require to come with me ? " While " come with ? " does n’t make much mother wit on its own , if you put it in context it seems self - explanatory . We ’re just too meddlesome – OK , more likely work-shy – to say those redundant words .
“There’s a parking ramp right next to the Bradley Center, but they charge an arm and a leg.”
This one pops up in other place , but it ’s omnipresent in Wisconsin , particularly in city other than Milwaukee ( they ’re also call parking garages here ) . I suppose you could make the argument that many parking garage feature one continuous incline up through each grade , kind of like a gravid screw . So it kind of halfway makes horse sense that the entire structure is promise a wild leek , not just the incline at the entrance .
“Take a left on Center, then go straight for three blocks and turn right at the stop and go light.”
We ’re just being extra descriptive with this one . The luminousness severalize you when to stop and when to go . Duh .
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Lacey Muszynskiis a Milwaukee native who had a " where ’s the water fountain ? " T - shirt in high school . Tell her how much of a nerd she is on Twitter@worthhersalt .
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