Pocketbook (MD) and purse in the west, also wallet and billfold, toMAYto and toMAHto, eXcetera (CA) and etcetera, re-lah-ter for realtor, "he goes" (CA) rather than "he says", going "down the ocean" (Baltimore, MD) and "going to the beach" (CA), "red or green" meaning which color of chili do you want on your dinner in NM (green is more popular and usually hotter), freeways - usually identified as "the 5" or "the 405", never I-5 or I-405, and "surface streets" (CA) and expressways and roads or streets on the east coast
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