WOW.
I'm totally stealing 'scunnered' ... LOL LOVE THAT ONE !!!!
Up here in Butte -
we've got TONS of 'em
bnut you have to be in butte to get it.
Being a mining town ,
it's sister city is Belfast.
Literally.
But there's parts of the whole world here
that came to work in the mines.
For example:
we say 'see yas' ... which is only elsewhere found in Cornwall, England.
'above ground' ... means every day is a good day when you're above ground.
so if somebody says something and you're 'all over it'... as in every CELL in your body agrees, you say 'above ground, man'.
'tap 'er light' .... which is guaranteed to make everyone in the bar laugh (and probably buy you a round if you have good timing) because it's the guy who is loading the powder into the drillhole who is always admonished to 'tap 'er light' , when putting the cap onto the blast hole.....or he'll blow everyone there to kingdom come. Literally.
And has. In history here.
coyote - is NEVER pronounced Kie- yotie. EVER. it's "KYE-yote". no 'e'.
they'll peg you for a flatlander in a second if you slip up and say 'kie-yotie".
CRICK - is a small running stream of water. Never CREEK. Never EVER "CREEK".
Barrow ditch - the ditch that is dug by the govt alongside every public road in the country.
borrow me, borrowed me : loaned money. 'she borrowed me a twenty'. (I have NO idea how THAT grammatical nightmare got started.)