Is the phrase "...and whatnot" a regionalism?

I say it & I grew up in Idaho. But who knows if I got it from my peers or reading or TV.

People say it in Britain.

I say it and I come from hardcore Yankee stock.

I say it, mainly because I find it sort of hilarious!

i kind of hate it when people say this.

I don't say it or hear it often, but I wouldn't be puzzled if I heard it. (I've lived in southern Minnesota for most of my life).

i'll tell you what's really a southern thing: "fixin' to" instead of "getting ready to" - or "about to" - i used to work with a load of people from texas and it always sort of bugged me that they were always fixin' to go to lunch or fixin' to have a cigarette and whatnot

I say it but it's certainly not part of my family's lexicon and I'm not sure where I picked it up.

I am from Texas and also hate it when people are "fixin to" do things. xpost

Nothing against any of you, but I fucking hate "...and whatnot" so much that typing about it makes me angry.

That being said, I hear it every so often in MN.

is using fix as in "fix a meal" a regionalism?

But "Fixin' to" begat "F'nna" as in "I f'nna go out tonight," so it must be classic.

I grew up in St. Paul and never heard "and whatnot" till moving to other climes. I mostly only like to use it as a noun-- "your whatnots are kind of discernible through that Rayon."

Most of my irritability can be traced to an independent contractor we use that says it like a stutter, closing off every other sentence with it.

Aggravating.

xpost don't leave out "finsta" and "fissin' to", as in 'I'm fissin to go out'.
seriously, I have peoples from Mississippi and Arkansas; 'whatnot' is like the king's english to me.

"fissin' to"?! That's new to me! I like it!

But "Fixin' to" begat "F'nna" as in "I f'nna go out tonight," so it must be classic.

tru dat

I remember being yelled at for saying "fixin'" when I was 7 or 8. My mother said we would move out of the South if she heard me say it again. I gave it my all for the next few weeks but to no avail. Just another in a long series of empty promises.

tremenoid OTM about 'whatnot' being king's english. Even that word is too much for many in the south, as far as colloquialisms go. Felt like word that required a special effort.

doin 'thangs' c/d

is using fix as in "fix a meal" a regionalism?

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, July 13, 2007 12:12 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

my brother hung out with a lot of swedes in collge and they would use "fix" like the word "plan" of "prepare" a lot. like: "i haven't seen you in a while, we should fix a visit." (pronounced "fix a wizz-it")

oh yeah, "fixin' to" is big where I'm from. And I've caught unmitigated hell for using it.

Cuet swedes!

finna gets said in chicago regularly

just the whole gab gab gab sensibility behind "and whatnot" seems more yankee than southern. n.b. i never have and never will say this.

ok deej pop quiz

"Youknowhamsayin, and we gonna ah, real, we for real finna come up
We finna come up. We finna...
You hear that? Finna. Hella. We hella raw
We hella raw. Country accents, hillbillies and all that (all that)
From the backroads nigga..."

but finna isn't said in chicago by whites who aren't southern.

yes it is.

where do you think they got it from?

i don't care.

I think hella is a socalism.

Hella is a capitalism

Thinking about it, I don't say this word at all & I don't use it in typing. I just mostly say "or something" and shrug. SHRUG TO THE HEAVENS! I am very expressive at shrugging.

I think hella is a socalism.

-- libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 23:53

wut

hella is a (urban)nocalism i believe. saafir was mistaken in conflating it with finna, which is hella country.

i had a boyfriend from BC who said 'and whatnot' all the time
annoying

Sometimes I say "An'stuff an'stuff" when I'm really trailing off.

that's some crazy shit.

I say this very occasionally, but I'm hardly the poster boy for knowing if something is a regionalism or not. I also say I'm "well tired" and the other day I called the place where you buy popcorn at the movies a "confectionary." I seriously don't know where this shit comes from but boy do I get maked fun of.

my GF's mother calls a dumpster a "dipsey".

Britishes definitely say "and whatnot". I don't though, I'd probably "or whatever" which is probably just as annoying really

All of these phrases >> "ad nauseum" or even "ad infinitum"

wait i'm confusing the meaning

with what?

"and whatnot" is closer to "et cetera" than those I mentioned

yeah that's what I've always understand it to mean.

My friend shortened the already shortened "whatevs" to "evs" recently. That cracked me the fuck up. Has anyone else heard this?

hella is other people

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I wrote that in an email less than 5 minutes ago. Spooky.

Not sure about regionalism, I'm from Scotland - I thought it was a British thing (think home counties accent I suppose!)

It's a totally British thing! Very Jeeves and Wooster. Whatho!

This word always reminds me of Grease.

Danny: That's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and whatnot.
Sandy: Danny?
Danny: That's my name, don't wear it out.
Sandy: What's the matter with you?
Danny: What's the matter with me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Sandy: What happened to the Danny Zuko I met at the beach?
Danny: Well I do not know. Maybe there's two of us. Why don't you take out a missing person's ad? Or try the yellow pages, I don't know.

"Well I do not know."

This often seems to be used often alongside "and what have you." For some reason, I usually imagine "and whatnot" used as part of some form of Bostonian dialect.. I'm pretty sure Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg use it often in many of their films. I really hate "and whatnot."

That is to say, Matt Damon & Mark Wahlberg seem to be used often in films where the script calls for them to use this phrase within a Boston-dialect.

yeah I like "and what have you" because it's kind of an olde constructionm whereas "and whatnot" seems mainly to be used ironically.

A classmate used this like 30 times today and I will never use it again.

xpost ironically? really?

ts:
and whatnot
and what have you
and madness
and nonsense
and junk
and crap
and stuff
and shit
?