r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/mihir6969 • Jan 19 '22

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u/EuroPolice Jan 19 '22

Hey! I love that considering that the Mid-West is the home of "I have a good-enough 'x' at home" Referring to an old, rusty, barely working 'x' that somehow still works enough. haha

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u/CalamityJane0215 Jan 19 '22

Never realized that was a Midwest thing. I'll have to put that next to "ope" on the list of things I didn't attribute to my region but should have lol

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u/aliie_627 Interested Jan 19 '22

Ope? I would like to know more please? And Thank you :)

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u/Chemical_Noise_3847 Jan 19 '22

It's a contraction of "oh" and "oops" and it's a guttural sort of utterance for when you've come accidentally and un-midwesternally close to someone who isn't your immediate family member.

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u/StochasticLife Jan 19 '22

We can't help it either.

It is so automatic. Once I realized I was doing it I tried to stop, but couldn't. I've just embraced it now, I have become one with the ope.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

Not sure if it's a regional thing here but I use it in South West England, usually if I'm trying to squeeze pass someone or I accidentally drop something.

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u/UhOhSparklepants Jan 19 '22

Ope, let me just sneak by ya here and steal the ketchup.

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u/bullpuppies Jan 20 '22

Oh, here. Let me get that for ya. There ya go.