Hey, I just found this old thread and decided to revive it because it's fascinating. I live in Minnesota, so I'll tell you the Minnesotanisms I know: "Aunt" is pronounced "awnt" although most of the US pronounces it "ant." (My father, from Kentucky, pronounced it "aint".) Some old-timers call traffic lights "semaphores" and rubber bands "rubber binders." Minnesotans will say "come with" for "come with me" as in "I'm going to the park. You wanta come with?" A very short haircut (crew cut) is called a "Heine" and pronounced "hiney". I'm told it comes from a German name (I don't know why) and is unrelated to the southern term for buttocks. A polite but childish term for buttocks is "hinder" pronounced with a long "I" as in "hind." Sweet carbonated drinks are called "pop." Liquor can be either "on-sale" or "off-sale"; a bar has an "on-sale license", which is short for "a license to sell liquor for consumption ON the premises", while liquor stores are off-sale. (I believe Brits say "off-license" for the same reason.) We use the term DWI for "driving while intoxicated" while in some other parts of the US they say DUI, for "driving under the influence." "Ish" is an expression of disgust, like "yuck" elsewhere. "Uff-da" (with a vowel sound like the one in "book") comes from either Swedish or Norwegian (I forget which - maybe both) and is an expression of dismay, like "Ohmigosh!" or "Oy!" Here in the home of Target stores, a lot of people call it "Tar-Zhay" as if it were French, but that's a deliberate in-joke.