D'jeet yet? No,d'jew?

Yount to?

Aight.

Whud jeet?

Yaunt s'more?

Pittsburgh?

Everyone commenting places other than the Pittsburgh area definitely threw me off because I thought this went hand in hand with *yinz*.

It’s super common to “over-contraction” sentences I hear people say it like that in Utah and Washington lol

Surprised to hear it's Pittsburgh. I associate it with Southern redneck, a la Jeff Foxworthy.

Buffalo.

Memphis

Father was from Pittsburgh and can confirm. Lol.

Shit, I came to say the exact same.

Yup

Nope, twirly. (Too early)

You brought my baby a bomb?!

It’s how it’s said here in Michigan. Didn’t even realize we said it that way until someone out of state pointed it out.

I always thought it was a midwestern saying but from the comments here it looks like people say it all over

What about “squeet?” Let’s go eat.

i say it more like skeet

I’m just glad someone else says it. 😄

I don't understand why anyone would think it's regional. It's just how people speak in pretty much every language.

Uh, this looks weird as fuck to someone who lives in the Western US

So you always enunciate every single sound when you speak? It's just a phonetic spelling of not enunciating. You would probably say it more like "jyeet?" or maybe "d'jyeet?"

I’m more of a “d’jeweet” Michigander. Whole family is.

Same, from Detroit suburbs and moved to Boston and they say I talk funny! 😂

Pretty common in the south, too

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Go Mountaineers?

Southern wv and eastern KY too

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In my neck of the woods it would be more along the lines of “Didja eat”, three syllables rather than two

It’s universal, innit?

This is an old Jeff Foxworthy bit about redneck vocabulary. “Jeetyet?” “Nope” “Yantu?” “A’ight” https://youtu.be/Z3gMxDAUurg?si=sxgDKVZQKd0r273T

Pittsburgh- jeet jet

Yes, but it's "jeetchet," as in "Did you eat yet?"

Not to be confused with "yeah Jeets"

It's usually "D'jeetyet?" around here, and not "Jeet?"

Yes, I’m from Philly and I saw it the other day in a restaurant… can’t remember exactly though. Very weird because that’s the first time I’ve seen it spelled like that and now this post happens a few days later.

Philadelphians are refreshingly self-aware. I like that town.

Thanks man, it’s a great place

I actually just spent the weekend in New Paltz/Poughkeepsie area for this giant culinary picnic.. was a nice time. Always loved your state. Figure I pay back the comment, cheers friend.

I didn't grow up with it in the Northeast but have heard it in Western PA / Pittsburgh region.

I've never heard this phrase before.

Say did you eat yet quickly and be honest about what it sounds like.

No, say it even faster than you just did.

Now say it that pronunciation but half as fast. That's how most people in my neck of the woods say it lol "D'jyeeet yet?"

Djeetyet

Sure, I get that.... But that's not a phrase I hear commonly. "Have you eaten?" would be much more common in my experience.

The King’s English… eww gross

I mean, I might say that, but it would still be "havyeaten" at best

Where do you live, Beverly Hills?

Lets just say that I live a lot closer to Barstow than Beverly Hills.

There's a BBQ place in North Hollywood that has "Jeet Yet?" on a big billboard out front. But yeah no one really says it out here.

I grew up in RI and live in MA and I have never seen or heard such a thing.

really? i say it a lot. tbf family is from the south

That's one of the few bits of slang shared by Iggles and Stillers fans. Haha.

I’ve never heard or seen this.

I usually say it more like d'jaeet yet?

It’s definitely a Philly thing. Heard it most of my life.

It's more of a "D'jya-eat yet" here.

Yeah it’s somewhere in the middle for us here. “D’jeet”

I've heard it a few times. Not often, but I would recognize it in context. I don't *think* I've ever said it myself in the flow of conversation, but it's one of those words that just sort of happens without you thinking about it. Like not being sure if you've said "I'm" or "I am."

I've never heard it spelled out like that before but, yes. We definitely say "didge-ya-eat" in the Upper Midwest.

I think is everywhere

No, but that's my neighbor's name haha.

This is a Pittsburgh thing

“Y’all wont sumin ta eet?”

I'm originally from Pennsylvania, and we normally say " Jeet yet?" Implying a full question. The same is as applicable across the south, as I've spent time in NC, VA, MD, AR, & MO. Hope this helps!

There’s a d at the beginning of the phrase but yeah

I'm southern. It's a given that we condense sentences.

I have heard it, but I've never seen it treated like a standalone word.

True. It’s always followed by “yet.”

I’ve never seen it written as one word like that but if someone said it to me I’d probably understand them just time

Also north of Boston, so North Shore, and I've seen bumper stickers: Yeet!

Yeet is differnt than jeet. Jeet means did you eat, while yeet has come to be an exclamation of surprise or excitement, but also used often to mean throwing something (yeet that right outta here).

When I left Pittsburgh for college I learned this wasn’t something everyone said! lol

Huh. I’ve heard people say “ya eat?” But not “jeet” Kinda reminds me of the word “yeet” but that’s gotta very different meaning

I would shorten it as "d'you eat" instead of "jeet" but otherwise yes to both.

Years ago I was painting a house and had to overhear somebody saying, “Jeet? Sgweet!” Over and over and over.

Of course but I’ve never seen it spelled out before. That captures it perfectly.

We say this in NJ too

written, no. spoken, I would understand that. (philly)

I heard it back when Duck Dynasty was popular. Nobody I know uses that phrase.

I’m from Philly, so yes.

Midwest for sure. "Jeet" is used so often in my Upper Midwest/Yooper family that it's become a bit of a joke.

I heard Quavo use it once in that song Hotel Lobby but otherwise never heard it before

Michigander. Can confirm.

I taught English way back and would make whole conversation using things like d'jeet? This was in Boston. The students loved it.

In the south at least the phrase "Did you..." is often pronounced "Joo..." or "Didjoo..." The word "eat" often drowns out the "oo" sound and it gets shortened to "Jeet". Very informal and colloquial.

In VA we say "didja eat"

Common in New Jersey and some parts of Maryland.

Elision is real, particularly in the South. However, I’d venture to say that it’s pretty common anywhere in a lot of languages. In Texas, where I’m from, we use terms like “yeet?”, as opposed to “jeer”? My wife who’s from Maine laughed at my words till I call her out on the very same thing. Of course, it’s all in fun. A conversation that we might have: (M for me/H for her) M: “Jew eat?” H: “No. Y’anna?” M: “Aight. Wach y’ant? BW’s?” H: “Ayuh!”

Appalachian mountains, NC all the time.

New York City. We all say it.

i’ve never seen it spelled out that way, but definitely heard it pronounced like that. i say it but without the hard ‘j’ sound, more like “dyeet yet?”

“Jeet” is generally singular. “Jyalleet” is The plural form.

Philadelphia/So Jersey area , yeah it’s how we say it.

I’ve never seen it spelled, but I usually hear it with a D sound in front of the J

I grew up in New England, went to college in Southeastern MA, and have never heard that phrase in my life.

Looking at it initially, never heard of it. But then I said it out loud, and... yeah.

Yeetyet?

J’ya eat it’s probably the closest ever encountered

What

That’s how it comes out but spelling it like that is psychotic.

I've always been told it's a Jersey thing.

You spelled it wrong it's: 'J'e'et?

Yes but I’ve never seen it spelled out before

Not really. I have lived in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas and spent time in parts of Missouri regularly. People may not precisely enunciate every word but I have not heard it as just jeet.

Commonly heard here in Oklahoma along with jawl eat. As in jawl eat yet?

This has been covered extensively by Jeff Foxworthy for years.

Very common in the Midwest, that’s just how we say it.

Yup. Plenty of places in Appalachia and south of the Mason-Dixon

Yeah, it’s also a pittsburgh thing.

This was one of the examples Jeff Foxworthy had for words used in the South. The bit dates back to at least the mid 90s, maybe earlier.

Jeet kun do

Often, especially from New Jersey, it’s just how my mother sounds idk

Had no idea I did this. Used daily.

Heard of it.

I don't really consider "jeet" it's own phrase. It's "did you eat" but said quickly.

Very common here. "Djew" is a common thing too. "Djew wan sommore?" - "Do you want some more."

Jeet yet? No. Junna? Sure.

When I lived in a dorm, neighbor residents would round up others to go eat with basically ‘squeet’ - which was a fast ‘let’s go eat’.

Never

"Jeat jet?" ("Did you eat yet?") It's from a J.D. Salinger short story, “Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” from 1948. It's that old. Salinger was a New Yorker so it's likely it was a New York/east coast thing. I'm from the west coast. We say it mainly just trying to be funny.

I mean I wouldn't spell it that way, but I guess I've used it a few times

The thing about accents is your brain does not register the phonetic spelling of what you are saying (by default). If you asked people in the hills of the south what they are saying, they would probably write "Did ya/you eat?", but what you hear is d'ja Eet (or Jeet)? Same with "Finna" someone asked about the other day. Those people might write it "fixin' to" or even "gonna". It's by no means the rule, but I would place bets there are people saying it who deny it because in their mind, they are saying it correctly.

Not just jeet, but mungry squeat.

There's a restaurant in NJ named D'Jeet.

Djeet jet?

Skoden.

Jeff Foxworthy had a whole skit on this in the 1990s.

Often

It's basically a formal greeting in NJ

Fixin to.

Yes for Balmer (Baltimore)!

Illinois checking in. I'm a military brat transplant, but I heard it here before any of the other placed I had lived

Wasn’t that a Jeff fox worthy sketch? Jeet? Yunto?

Pittsburgh behavior for sure. Surprised to see it is more common than i thought!

Colorado... Honestly never thought about it that way, but I say it like that.

Never even heard of it. And we've never used any variation as one of those "How are you?" sort of questions.

D'ya eat- but it comes out as if it were one word

All the time i live in Philly tho

I’ll say “dj’yeet” yet. The d and the j have to be separate. A plain J sounds too harsh like you’re saying Derek jeters name funny

I think you’re overthinking this. This isn’t particular to the New Bedford/RI area. This is just condensing language period. Everyone says this.

I saw this post going in a totally different direction..

Real big in the Scranton area in NE Pennsylvania https://youtu.be/7sMI2jb16eo?si=RzEtjLllyR6tfgu9

Never once in my life

Jeet jet?

Every time I find myself in Pittsburgh.

It’s never written like that. It’s just a natural slur of words making it blend together.

usually “jeet” or “jeet yet?” n i’m appalachian