West Orange Residents: Tips On Speaking ‘New Jersey-ese’

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Garden State can have a lingo – and a zeitgeist – all its own. And there are some things only a fellow New Jersey resident will get, it seems.

We recently asked our readers in West Orange: “What’s something you say that only someone from New Jersey would understand?” They weren’t shy about offering their own examples. Here are some of the best.

Read more replies at the Patch West Orange Facebook page.

• Going down the shore in the summer
• Jersey devil
• *When ordering a breakfast sandwich* “saltpepperketchup” all one word
• Let me have a slice
• At the "circle" take the 2nd exit
• Taylor Ham
• Disco Fries
• "Fill it. Regular."
• Make me a sub sandwich
• Watching The Sopranos: oh, I know where that is
• Which diner?
• Exit 145

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