I haven’t lived anywhere near as many different places as some of the Novelty Girls — like, I bet Lori, who used to be in the military, has some great stories. *grins* I’ve lived a total of three places in my admittedly short-in-comparison life: Olympia, Washington (my hometown); Lewisville, Texas; and Sharon, MA.
There’s been very odd regional differences everywhere I’ve lived. Add to that, my mother is from the New Hampshire area, my father from northern California, and I was homeschooled with very little thought and effort given to outside socialization past the point I was nine. I think I may actually know less of the local WA phrases than either NH or CA of their area and generation — oh, outside of the jokes about the “365 Days A Year Rain Festival”, of course. 
I became very confused when I moved and nobody knew what a “church key” was (it’s a bottle/can opener), nor did they have any idea what the hell I meant when I said it was a “gosling drownder” outside (a storm heavy enough to drown a flock of goslings).
Then, when I moved to TX, I was extremely confused by the tendency to refer to any carbonated beverage as a “coke”. My ex-gf would ask the kids if they wanted a coke and upon assent, give them cans of store-brand blue raspberry soda. Me: 
Unfortunately, after two years, that one kind of…. um… stuck. Now I get to confuse all the befuddled New Englanders. *whistles*
Weird place names? I think the street I grew up on is pretty bad, because it’s a very long, hard-to-pronounce Native American word with a lot of dashes. I think the people who named that street were intentionally sadistic. (I’d print it here, but my folks still live there, and my dad is paranoid that if the street name gets out on the ‘net, there will be Stalkers and Harassment and Death Threats, oh my. Dear gods, I hope he never reads this. >_<)
About an hour where I live now, there’s a city named Worchester. You’d think it would be pronounced “wohr-chester”, but nooooo… it’s locally pronounced “wooster.” If said with a heavy accent, then “wuhstah.” I’m kind of glad I’ve never heard anybody from here try to say “Worchestershire Sauce” before……
June 18th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
OK…Now I’m dying to know what the title of that street is.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Heh…my family is English and I grew up calling it “Wuhstah-sheer Sauce”
I’d like to say that’s the worst they did to warp me, but I’d be lying. 
June 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Worse-ti-shire sauce over here lol