[Patty55]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Mine is actually more British -- they don't got to the hospital, they go to hospital. If on the freeways (yup, I'm from California), you don't travel in a direction it seems (that is, you don't go north or south), the freeway signs say The North, The South (guess hospitals don't need articles but directions do?).

The Villages truly confused me -- I was always under the impression that an avenue was a minimum of 10 blocks. Not here, I've seen 2-block avenues.

I always loved that folks from Jersey don't live in a town, they live off an exit. More than once I've heard take "Exit 135 [fill in appropriate number] and that's where we are."

First time I heard a soda called a pop, I literally looked around for my classmate's father.

Now, can someone please explain to me why island is pronounced "aye land" and not "is land" and Arkansas is "ar can saw" and not "ar can sass"? Didn't understand that when I first heard those words (and understood to what they were referring) and still don't understand the logic behind those pronunciations.

On Long Island if you ask where people live they tell you the name of the developement. They'll say "House Beautiful" or "Colonial Oaks". We didn't live in a developement, I always felt left out.

Maybe the worst pronunciation of island is good old Lawn Guyland-lol.