What is your favorite word or phrase quirk? Something not in the general population lexicon?
For example, I like using the word human as a pronoun. I use people as a verb. I've been known to use food as 'man i'm hungry, i should food'.
I enjoy the phrase raging brain bunnies to describe that feeling of way to many fast moving competing thoughts all at once.
I love language and the expressive evolving nature of it. What are some favorites unique to you?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button."Sucking hind teat" - means you're the runt and getting crowded out from the more fulsome front teats. We all have occasions in life when we find ourselves sucking hind teat. C'est la vie, c'est la guerre, c'est les pommes du terre!
Gmak
Level 7
Mar 8, 2019
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Actually (my nod to dandywine) the hind teats are usually the most plentiful of producers! The front teats are generally smaller and produce less milk..
(from my experience as a dog breeder of 40+ years!)
“Wonderful”. Used sarcastically. I may have picked it up from a local radio host. This is my go to for the last five years at least.
Unimatrix907
Level 6
Mar 8, 2019
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Huzzah!
I say old chum.
Is growing on me
I like to replace the word shit with shinola. This reminds my fellow old-timers of the ancient saying, "He don't know shit from shinola." 
BestWithoutGods
Level 8
Mar 8, 2019
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I go with shiitake mushrooms.
I'm a regular user of the Jeff Foxworthy phrase "yont to?" It's a southern expression meaning "do you want to?" spoken quickly, that sounds like "yont to?" The "o" in "yont" is long. He has several expressions like that, but that one has stuck with me.
I used to work with a guy from Cincinnati. He had several words that I thought he mispronounced. Like "egg". With him, it sounded like "agg". Used in a sentence; "What's the matter with you, you got an agg up your ass?" Pretty much any "e" sound sounded, inappropriately, like an "a" sound. "Peg-leg" sounded like "pag-lag" when he was referring to the guy who walked with a limp. His girlfriend "Penny" was "Panny". When he described his trip to the doctor for a colonoscopy he said, "it felt like they put a chair lag up my ass." Find myself using those words and laughing to myself. Haven't worked with him in over 20 years.
david75090
Level 7
Mar 8, 2019
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Sounds like he was from South of the river. Says the girl with her own speech affectation.
@Minta79 I think he's from Georgia. He has a whole list. Some of them are pretty good, and I probably use similar expressions, but that one stuck. If used properly, it can be off putting. If someone asks you a serious question about going somewhere or doing something, you can look them in the eye and ask, "yont to?" It's enhanced if you use it in conjunction with your question-face, where you do your eyebrows in a questioning manner. Some people will say, "Yes, I yont to." Let's you know that you've infected them. I don't know, it may be troll behavior on my part.
Provide an example of people as a verb.
Sgt_Spanky
Level 8
Mar 7, 2019
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If i go to that party they're all going to people. I don't people. I won't be going to the party.
@CommonHuman I see what you're going for but it sounds confusing. That's why I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for clearing that up.
The USA was peopled by immigrtants from all over Europe.?
The education department was peopled with uncooperative bureacrats.?
A bit contrived but it does work.
@CommonHuman That’s a bit like “I went out today, it was too peopley”
I called in to work. I tried, but I just can't people today. it's just too much.
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