The use of language in today's world.

[graciegirl]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

[Gpsma]

Is it Halal or Kosher?

[retiredguy123]

When I first went to work in Savannah, Georgia, I was introduced to the secretary, who said her name was pie-it. I said pie-it? She said, yes, pie-it, "P A T".

Maybe off topic, but I also made the mistake of offering a woman a piece of chewing gum. She made it very clear to me that southern ladies DO NOT CHEW GUM!!!

[Stu from NYC]

Is it Halal or Kosher?

Kosher for us

[Stu from NYC]

From our ruff I can see the crick while I set down eating my hot dog which will have only mustard and sauerkraut.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Cabinets? If you mean Cabernet, it's just a Rhode Island accent. They're saying cabernet. It just sounds like cabinet to you. If you're from New England it'd be 100% clear what she was saying AND you would recognize the accent (though I often confuse RI accent with a South Boston accent - they've very similar).

In college I took two courses: Voice and Articulation, and English Dialects. I learned that my accent didn't -quite- match my upbringing, but was fairly close. It turns out even the little state of Connecticut has several dialects. Mine was more of a West Hartford dialect, even though I grew up closer to the south-central shoreline area in central New Haven County.

We ALL called it soda though. In Boston it was called tonic. In Connecticut, tonic referred exclusively to tonic water, and in Boston, soda referred exclusively to soda water. In Boston outside the tourist areas, a milk shake was milk poured into a glass with chocolate syrup and shaken up. In the tourist areas, they all knew that us outsiders meant a frappe - ice cream, milk, syrup, all blended together in a blender.

We had hotodgs. But if we were in certain seafood and fried food joints, we'd have to be more specific. You'd order either a regular dog, a footlong, or a red-hot.

In certain parts of Connecticut, a lobster roll is hot lobster meat that's been simmering in a crock-pot of melted butter, dumped onto a grilled top-slit side-slanted hot-dog bun, and served with a wooden fork on the side for when the lobster falls out of the bun as you tip it to take a bite out of it.

In other parts of the state it's just cold lobster salad in a hotdog roll.

I call it a pocketbook. Some people call it a purse. For me, a purse is what you put the credit cards, bills, change, and drivers' license in, if you're a woman. If you're man it's called a wallet, not a billfold. A billfold holds ONLY bills, nothing else.

I call it a shopping cart and a shopping carriage alternately. I switch it out depending on which one spits out of my mouth at the moment. Down here apparently it's called a buggy. For me, a buggy is a basinette on wheels. Aka - a baby buggy.

Grace when you say you hear caw-fee vs your own cough-ee - the two sound exactly the same to me. However they are different from the pronunciation of crawfish or craw-dad, which is more of an "ahh" (open-mouthed) than an "ough" (less open mouthed).

Lastly - boomer is what the millennials call anyone over 50. If it makes you feel any better, when I was their age - I called your generation "fossils."

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Is it Halal or Kosher?

Kosher hotdog - with bacon and cheese. And no - I am not allowed to be buried in the same cemetery as my grandparents. I also have a tattoo, and that is equally as verbotten as mixing beef with dairy, or eating pork.

[CFrance]

Where I come from, we call it pop. However, we have always drunk pop, we have not always drank pop. Same with sink, sank, sunk. I guess it depends on whoever taught you junior high grammar. Edit: that should be whomever??

Soda to us was seltzer water and syrup mixed together, with a scoop of ice cream added at the end. If everything was blended together, it was a milkshake.

A rubber band was a gumband, people who stuck their noses in other people's business were nebby, and we tended to redd up if the house was untidy. I'm not sure how to spell redd up. Some people warshed their clothes, but we washed ours. If you enjoyed a beer with someone, you "pumped an arn--Iron City Beer."

I have been as far as Puerto Rico and picked out a person from Pittsburgh. Such a crazy accent, that I don't have because my parents were from elsewhere.

When we lived in New Jersey, our neighbor had to go to the dawktuh when she got sick.

When I went to school in Georgia, we "cracked the window" and "pulled the door to." My friend the elementary school teacher there would threaten to "pull a knot in y'all's tail" if they didn't stop misbehaving.

Fun stuff, Gracie. And I'm pretty sure you knew what cabinets are.

[tophcfa]

I love to eat a good grinder, while others call them subs, or hogies, or heros? Go figure, I always thought superman was a hero, but I guess a grinder can also be a hero?

[graciegirl]

Cabinets? If you mean Cabernet, it's just a Rhode Island accent. They're saying cabernet. It just sounds like cabinet to you. If you're from New England it'd be 100% clear what she was saying AND you would recognize the accent (though I often confuse RI accent with a South Boston accent - they've very similar).

In college I took two courses: Voice and Articulation, and English Dialects. I learned that my accent didn't -quite- match my upbringing, but was fairly close. It turns out even the little state of Connecticut has several dialects. Mine was more of a West Hartford dialect, even though I grew up closer to the south-central shoreline area in central New Haven County.

We ALL called it soda though. In Boston it was called tonic. In Connecticut, tonic referred exclusively to tonic water, and in Boston, soda referred exclusively to soda water. In Boston outside the tourist areas, a milk shake was milk poured into a glass with chocolate syrup and shaken up. In the tourist areas, they all knew that us outsiders meant a frappe - ice cream, milk, syrup, all blended together in a blender.

We had hotodgs. But if we were in certain seafood and fried food joints, we'd have to be more specific. You'd order either a regular dog, a footlong, or a red-hot.

In certain parts of Connecticut, a lobster roll is hot lobster meat that's been simmering in a crock-pot of melted butter, dumped onto a grilled top-slit side-slanted hot-dog bun, and served with a wooden fork on the side for when the lobster falls out of the bun as you tip it to take a bite out of it.

In other parts of the state it's just cold lobster salad in a hotdog roll.

I call it a pocketbook. Some people call it a purse. For me, a purse is what you put the credit cards, bills, change, and drivers' license in, if you're a woman. If you're man it's called a wallet, not a billfold. A billfold holds ONLY bills, nothing else.

I call it a shopping cart and a shopping carriage alternately. I switch it out depending on which one spits out of my mouth at the moment. Down here apparently it's called a buggy. For me, a buggy is a basinette on wheels. Aka - a baby buggy.

Grace when you say you hear caw-fee vs your own cough-ee - the two sound exactly the same to me. However they are different from the pronunciation of crawfish or craw-dad, which is more of an "ahh" (open-mouthed) than an "ough" (less open mouthed).

Lastly - boomer is what the millennials call anyone over 50. If it makes you feel any better, when I was their age - I called your generation "fossils."

Oh yeah. That makes me feel a LOT better. Not.

And it is cabinet. You are from Connecticut. In Rhode island a creamy coffee drink is a cabinet. Cabernet. C'est une vin. Mon cher.


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[Stu from NYC]

Kosher hotdog - with bacon and cheese. And no - I am not allowed to be buried in the same cemetery as my grandparents. I also have a tattoo, and that is equally as verbotten as mixing beef with dairy, or eating pork.

Bacon and cheese on a kosher hotdog? Really?

Anyone know what an egg cream is?

[davem4616]

I came from a place where we parked our car at Harvard Yard...growing up what some call 'pop' we called tonic

when someone says 'ya'll' to me, I still look around to see if my whole family followed me into the store

I have aunts....never had a 'ant'

and the liquor stores were all referred to as 'packies'....we never made a U-Turn...we "banged a youee"

and roundabout were called rotaries

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Bacon and cheese on a kosher hotdog? Really?

Anyone know what an egg cream is?

Yup. Hebrew National. When we weren't eating those, it was Hummel's hotdogs. No casing, skinless, all beef. Hummel invented the skinless dog. Those aren't kosher though. The best hotdogs I've ever eaten, anywhere, ever (I've had at least one dog in every state in this country except for Alaska and Hawaii, only because they're the only 2 states I've never been to). Made in New Haven, CT.

My dad used to drink egg creams when he was in college. But that was before I was conceived :)

On the other hand, we used to go to the 5 and dime for sundries.. and the corner soda fountain at Silver's Pharmacy for ice cream sodas. They had balloons and you would pay 50 cents to pop one. Inside was a slip of paper, and whatever was written on it is what you got for your 50 cents. Sometimes it was just a double-scoop cone. Sometimes it was a banana split. It was always worth at least 50 cents though!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I came from a place where we parked our car at Harvard Yard...growing up what some call 'pop' we called tonic

when someone says 'ya'll' to me, I still look around to see if my whole family followed me into the store

I have aunts....never had a 'ant'

and the liquor stores were all referred to as 'packies'....we never made a U-Turn...we "banged a youee"

and roundabout were called rotaries

As they used to say in M'head: that's wicket p*i*s*s*ah!

:)

You were over in the Woosta eh-reeyur.

Connecticut by upbringing - but became a full-fledged independent adult in Boston.

[tophcfa]

I came from a place where we parked our car at Harvard Yard...growing up what some call 'pop' we called tonic

when someone says 'ya'll' to me, I still look around to see if my whole family followed me into the store

I have aunts....never had a 'ant'

and the liquor stores were all referred to as 'packies'....we never made a U-Turn...we "banged a youee"

and roundabout were called rotaries

You are definitely from my neck of the woods.

[mamamia54]

Bacon and cheese on a kosher hotdog? Really?

Anyone know what an egg cream is?

Egg creams were the best. Of course, with Fox’s U-Bet!

[Joeyb]

Hot Dog and Fries, onion, relish, mustard, peppers and celery salt. NO KETCHUP on a Chic-ah - go style dog. Not ever. Yous guys in the East talk funny.😜

[JudyLife]

Hah! Having been born & brought up in New Jersey I then married a Brit years ago & have made my life in London. When I’m in the USA folks say I’ve got a British accent & in the UK they tell me I have a strong American accent. I’m aware that I pronounce certain words differently. Particularly “cawfee” “dawg” and at times I confuse myself as to where I actually am!

[GOLFER54]

Gravy or Sauce ? In my Sicilian home, from Long Island, we said that sauce was put on pasta and gravy was put on mash potatoes, in pot roast, on turkey and used in many other recipes. But I have heard that gravy was referred to sauce on pasta also.

[Cheapbas]

Every day my wife and I usually get paired with another couple on the golf course. I love hearing the different dialects and from around the country and I think it’s part of what makes The Villages great.

[Annie66]

A little story ..... my son spent his first few years of schooling in the the British school system. We then moved to Hawaii. One afternoon, my wife was confronted by the teacher who said our 9-year old had asked for a rubber. My bride had to explain that he was asking for an eraser. Funny ..... 2 countries separated by a common language.

[PugMom]

Cabinets? If you mean Cabernet, it's just a Rhode Island accent. They're saying cabernet. It just sounds like cabinet to you. If you're from New England it'd be 100% clear what she was saying AND you would recognize the accent (though I often confuse RI accent with a South Boston accent - they've very similar).

In college I took two courses: Voice and Articulation, and English Dialects. I learned that my accent didn't -quite- match my upbringing, but was fairly close. It turns out even the little state of Connecticut has several dialects. Mine was more of a West Hartford dialect, even though I grew up closer to the south-central shoreline area in central New Haven County.

We ALL called it soda though. In Boston it was called tonic. In Connecticut, tonic referred exclusively to tonic water, and in Boston, soda referred exclusively to soda water. In Boston outside the tourist areas, a milk shake was milk poured into a glass with chocolate syrup and shaken up. In the tourist areas, they all knew that us outsiders meant a frappe - ice cream, milk, syrup, all blended together in a blender.

We had hotodgs. But if we were in certain seafood and fried food joints, we'd have to be more specific. You'd order either a regular dog, a footlong, or a red-hot.

In certain parts of Connecticut, a lobster roll is hot lobster meat that's been simmering in a crock-pot of melted butter, dumped onto a grilled top-slit side-slanted hot-dog bun, and served with a wooden fork on the side for when the lobster falls out of the bun as you tip it to take a bite out of it.

In other parts of the state it's just cold lobster salad in a hotdog roll.

I call it a pocketbook. Some people call it a purse. For me, a purse is what you put the credit cards, bills, change, and drivers' license in, if you're a woman. If you're man it's called a wallet, not a billfold. A billfold holds ONLY bills, nothing else.

I call it a shopping cart and a shopping carriage alternately. I switch it out depending on which one spits out of my mouth at the moment. Down here apparently it's called a buggy. For me, a buggy is a basinette on wheels. Aka - a baby buggy.

Grace when you say you hear caw-fee vs your own cough-ee - the two sound exactly the same to me. However they are different from the pronunciation of crawfish or craw-dad, which is more of an "ahh" (open-mouthed) than an "ough" (less open mouthed).

Lastly - boomer is what the millennials call anyone over 50. If it makes you feel any better, when I was their age - I called your generation "fossils."

we lived in west hart almost 18years! howdy, neighbor. btw, our sandwiches are grinders. & we say New BRIT-enn :coolsmiley:

[mamamia54]

Gravy or Sauce ? In my Sicilian home, from Long Island, we said that sauce was put on pasta and gravy was put on mash potatoes, in pot roast, on turkey and used in many other recipes. But I have heard that gravy was referred to sauce on pasta also.

In our house it was gravy, in my husband house it was sauce.

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Oh yeah. That makes me feel a LOT better. Not.

And it is cabinet. You are from Connecticut. In Rhode island a creamy coffee drink is a cabinet. Cabernet. C'est une vin. Mon cher.


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I like coffee cabinets.....here’s one for ya. Go to Newport Creamery and order an “Awful Awful.” Bet you can’t’ drink 3 of them to get the 4th one as a freebie. Maybe you’d prefer a “Del’s Frozen Lemonade?”

Sign Of Summer: Awful Awful Mondays Returning To Newport Creamery | Newport, RI Patch (https://patch.com/rhode-island/newport/sign-summer-awful-awful-mondays-returning-newport-creamery)

[Chloe Girl]

My friend went to a new beautician and was called Peenee. After that we all referred to my friend, Penny, as Peenee!

[Llaperle]

In South Jersey Water was “wooder”
I also said Ornch for Orange.
Others said Pusgetti for spaghetti.

[mike1921]

I always thought they were pee-cans until I moved to tennesse and found out they were pi-caans. I was told a pee-can was something you pee'd in.

[Kahiland]

We lived in Rincon and worked in SC...that was a fun duty station. Savannah was only 15 minutes from us. LOVED it Sorry! Sorry, off topic!

[Waddling Eagle]

We drank Coke. I grew up wearing cowboy boots and a hat. We went to the rodeo — with the accent on the first syllable. We wore corduroys. We rode bikes. We camped around bonfires, slept in bedrolls, and fished in cricks. A hike was at least five miles. Anything less was a walk. We learned square dancing and polka in school.

Later we moved to Seattle. We wore cut-offs, zorries, and parkas. We drank pop. We ate hotdogs and knew five different kinds of salmon: Chinook, Coho, Sockeye, Pink, and Chum. We went downtown. We went to ski school whether we liked it or not, were on the swim team, and lettered in golf. We lifted our feet whenever the ski bus crossed railroad tracks. We didn’t have Sadie Hawkins dances; we went to Tolo.

[Aqtlow]

Born in Bridgeport Ct. and spent 1/2 my life there then the other 1/2 in Clayton NC. I learned that a drank, meant a Mountain Dew, not a Scotch and water, you carried your kids to the doctor not drove or had to take, u was fixin to do things, not I’m going to do. you were about hungry, not I’m getting hungry. The most confusing one was I’m fixin To go up under the house. With that being said after a year I knew exactly what everyone was saying, I knew dicks hat band was tight but I still don’t know y, I knew where up country was, and a place called yander.
After 27 years I was mashing the brake, and curing lights on and off, and I never felt so at home either.

[JanetMM]

Does anybody redd up their house? I still do. But my husband picks up the house. I know he is a lot stronger than I am but only Superman can pick up a house!

KFC has a commercial out that says “tell the kids to worsh up”. Grew up worshing clothes. Did you?

And some of the animals... that gorgeous striped cat, the tagger or our national bird, the iggle... what can I say about them.

Well what do youns think?

[Mama C]

I have truly enjoyed this post! I just told someone the other day that I am too old for them to correct my grammar and pronunciations 😂

[La lamy]

When living in Canada I'm a wannabe southern belle and pronounce things like beans and meat as boins and moit, ice tea as ass tee, pie as pai. It's just fun for my boyfriend and I, but people look at me funny in supermarkets since there's no "southern accents" where I live 1/2 the year.

[Malsua]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.


Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

I lived in Ohio for 28 years. It was Pop. I then moved to NJ. It took probably 5 years, now it's SODA. Still doesn't sound right, but now neither does POP :)

Brisket is not cheap roast. It's rub with salt and pepper, SMOKE FOR 12 hours, rest for 2 and enjoy central Texas style heaven roast.

[merlinda]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

My first post. I lived in RI for 47 years, until 2002. It is a cabinet as you said. My first job at 14 was at a walk up ice cream stand. Janet's, in my hometown of North Smithfield, was one of my favorite jobs. I made 1000's of them. A cabinet was what others call a milk shake. Milk and ice cream, coffee syrup and blended. Of course there were other flavors. A milk shake back in the 60's was just milk and syrup and blended. And cawfee is how we pronounce the flavor. I still have the accent.

[ladyarwen3]

thanks for the laugh GracieGirl ...

Here in NEPA we eat tomato and mayo "sangwiches" with our Cokes or cawfee; and we can go to one mining town for a "pan of pitz" (a tray of pizza) and the local church picnic to have a sausage and mango sangwich for supper.

On acconna you wanna know why ???? Heyna or no ??

[Primera199]

:):icon_wink::icon_wink:Cabinets? If you mean Cabernet, it's just a Rhode Island accent. They're saying cabernet. It just sounds like cabinet to you. If you're from New England it'd be 100% clear what she was saying AND you would recognize the accent (though I often confuse RI accent with a South Boston accent - they've very similar).

In college I took two courses: Voice and Articulation, and English Dialects. I learned that my accent didn't -quite- match my upbringing, but was fairly close. It turns out even the little state of Connecticut has several dialects. Mine was more of a West Hartford dialect, even though I grew up closer to the south-central shoreline area in central New Haven County.

We ALL called it soda though. In Boston it was called tonic. In Connecticut, tonic referred exclusively to tonic water, and in Boston, soda referred exclusively to soda water. In Boston outside the tourist areas, a milk shake was milk poured into a glass with chocolate syrup and shaken up. In the tourist areas, they all knew that us outsiders meant a frappe - ice cream, milk, syrup, all blended together in a blender.

We had hotodgs. But if we were in certain seafood and fried food joints, we'd have to be more specific. You'd order either a regular dog, a footlong, or a red-hot.

In certain parts of Connecticut, a lobster roll is hot lobster meat that's been simmering in a crock-pot of melted butter, dumped onto a grilled top-slit side-slanted hot-dog bun, and served with a wooden fork on the side for when the lobster falls out of the bun as you tip it to take a bite out of it.

In other parts of the state it's just cold lobster salad in a hotdog roll.

I call it a pocketbook. Some people call it a purse. For me, a purse is what you put the credit cards, bills, change, and drivers' license in, if you're a woman. If you're man it's called a wallet, not a billfold. A billfold holds ONLY bills, nothing else.

I call it a shopping cart and a shopping carriage alternately. I switch it out depending on which one spits out of my mouth at the moment. Down here apparently it's called a buggy. For me, a buggy is a basinette on wheels. Aka - a baby buggy.

Grace when you say you hear caw-fee vs your own cough-ee - the two sound exactly the same to me. However they are different from the pronunciation of crawfish or craw-dad, which is more of an "ahh" (open-mouthed) than an "ough" (less open mouthed).

Lastly - boomer is what the millennials call anyone over 50. If it makes you feel any better, when I was their age - I called your generation "fossils."

[Stu from NYC]

I came from a place where we parked our car at Harvard Yard...growing up what some call 'pop' we called tonic

when someone says 'ya'll' to me, I still look around to see if my whole family followed me into the store

I have aunts....never had a 'ant'

and the liquor stores were all referred to as 'packies'....we never made a U-Turn...we "banged a youee"

and roundabout were called rotaries
https://d32rzbb554tqz0.cloudfront.net/forums/images/smilies/bow.gif
Wow you banged a youee, that must have hurt.:bigbow:

[Stu from NYC]

In our house it was gravy, in my husband house it was sauce.

Italians will call sauce, gravy

[joseppe]

I like coffee cabinets.....here’s one for ya. Go to Newport Creamery and order an “Awful Awful.” Bet you can’t’ drink 3 of them to get the 4th one as a freebie. Maybe you’d prefer a “Del’s Frozen Lemonade?”

Sign Of Summer: Awful Awful Mondays Returning To Newport Creamery | Newport, RI Patch (https://patch.com/rhode-island/newport/sign-summer-awful-awful-mondays-returning-newport-creamery)

There's always Quahogs and clamcakes too.

[talktome]

I'm totally with you! Oh, and I drive an automobile....also known as a c-a-h!

[omimom]

I grew up outside Albany, NY and we drank soda, not pop. Coffee was cawfee and dog was dawg. We ordered an ice cream soda - it was ice cream, syrup and carbonated water. Vanilla ice cream in root beer was a float. My Vermont cousins wokked the dog (short O) but they loved to make fun of my wauking the dawg. When I visited my Vermont cousins we went upstreet. Upstreet had a soft ice cream place. It was there you ordered a creamy.

[Max0431Zoe]

Now thats what im talkin about

[nick demis]

Thank you for posting something truly entertaining.

[Lorizim]

Love this! In Michigan we say pop, water fountain not a bubbler, we brown our ground beef not scramble hamburg, purse not pocketbook (that’s for old ladies😂) And last but certainly not least: doorwall not slider 🤣🤣

[kimgarwel12@gmail.com]

When I ordered "pop" at a restaurant in Georgia one time, the waitress said "You must be from either Wisconsin or Michigan. They're the only people who call it "pop." We call is soda down here." Hmmmffffttt!! My brother and sister-in-law live in Atlanta (her born and bred, him for over 40 years). He asked me once if I wanted any "cokes." I told him, no, I'd rather have Dr. Pepper. He said down there, ANY "pop" or soda or soft drink was referred to as "coke(s). I don't think I have an "accent" (from Wisconsin), but everyone south of the Wisconsin/Illinois border insists I do!!!

[theruizs]

We are both from Iowa. We drank pop and helped our ants do the wushing. We got older and moved around alot and now we drink soda and do the washing, but we still call our aunts ants. Worked with a lady who grew up in the UK and when I would ask her to pick me up she would say, “I’ll be knocking you up at seven then.”:eek:

[Two Bills]

In UK we call Rutabaga a Swede.
Your 'two times' is our twice.
Our sausages are 'bangers.'
Our gardens are your 'yards.'
We also love roundabouts, and drive on the correct side of the road!:icon_wink:

[pdearmond]

Anyone want to go to a pitch-in?

[nhtexasrn]

In Texas it's "would you like a coke"? "Sure" "What kind"?. " Dr. Pepper please"....

[Doro22]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

Good post. I was at a meeting here in The V one time and a lady was saying that her club needed “yawn”, nobody could figure out what she was asking for. Well someone finally figured out she wanted donations of yarn. Lol! She was from Boston.

[Doro22]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

What are “cabinets”?

[Gpsma]

Italians will call sauce, gravy

Many do but not most. I grew up in an Italian “ghetto”, with many immigrants and first generation Americans and it was always sauce.

[Scorpyo]

I have no idear what youse guys are torking about.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

we lived in west hart almost 18years! howdy, neighbor. btw, our sandwiches are grinders. & we say New BRIT-enn :coolsmiley:

See in Southern Connecticut (y'all) it's either grinders or subs. As in Subway subs - since it was founded in Milford.

Depends on which shop I'm getting the sangwich from and which kind I'm getting. If it's a cold italian sangwich actual real delicatessen or Italian pizza joint, I'd probably call it a grinder. One shop had an italian sangwich they called a Bomber. Hot cappicola, prosciutto, genoa, mortadella, pepperoni, mild provolone, onions, green peppers, tomato, banana peppers, hot pepper relish, and anchovies, heated in the pizza oven long enough for the cheese to melt. Now THAT'S a sangwich! :boxing2:

Speaking of - cold cuts, or deli meats? I call it cold cuts.

[BlackhawksFan]

Being a native New Englander there are things I know that get pronounced differently. I tend to say draw instead of drawer. My mom adds an r to idea, so it's idear. She also pronounces liverwurst, liverwish. Don't ask me where that comes from.

Other things like grinders to me are a sub or hoagie to you. I'm sure I'll think of 100 more after the coffee kicks in.

[B-flat]

There's always Quahogs and clamcakes too.

OH YEAH!! Love ‘em.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Many do but not most. I grew up in an Italian “ghetto”, with many immigrants and first generation Americans and it was always sauce.

I think it depended on the type of sauce, in some households.

"Gravy" is actually a type of sauce. It is meat-based, even if it doesn't have any actual pieces of meat in it. It's the drippings from making meatballs added to sauce and the sauce thickened a little with flour or starch. Other stuff can be put in it, but that's the basis of a true Sicilian gravy.

There's all different types of tomato sauce. Pomodoro (made with yellow tomatoes), puttanesca (spicy), marinara (smooth), primavera (variety of vegetables), pizza sauce (basically a meatless puree), etc. etc. Gravy is just one type of tomato sauce.

Not all Italians make or serve gravy in their homes. But those who do, usually call it gravy to distinguish it from any other type of sauce they also make.

[Duneahh]

Thanks GracieGirl for starting this absolutely delightful fun post! I grew up in midwestern "pop" land where we stood IN line; then moved (for 8 years) to nuttin'-westa-da-Hudson "soda" world where everyone stood ON Loin. Never had patience for either (eye-ther) one when eating (doining) out.:) Love all the many different accents & uses of language in our great big beautiful country.

[Hogfan55]

When I ordered "pop" at a restaurant in Georgia one time, the waitress said "You must be from either Wisconsin or Michigan. They're the only people who call it "pop." We call is soda down here." Hmmmffffttt!! My brother and sister-in-law live in Atlanta (her born and bred, him for over 40 years). He asked me once if I wanted any "cokes." I told him, no, I'd rather have Dr. Pepper. He said down there, ANY "pop" or soda or soft drink was referred to as "coke(s). I don't think I have an "accent" (from Wisconsin), but everyone south of the Wisconsin/Illinois border insists I do!!!
That is so true about “getting a coke.” I know in the mid-south (Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and I don’t know how much further it spreads out, anytime someone wanted to get what some call soda or pop we would always say “let’s go get a coke” even though some ended up with Dr Pepper or Sprite, etc. We never used soda or pop. These are interesting differences from area to area. And how many parts of the country say y’all? Not you all, just the contraction y’all?

[Linda Taranto]

This was the most fun string I have seen on Talk of The Villages since I joined! Brought back many memories for me; I'm from Pennsylvania originally and I could relate to so many of the comments. The only one I didn't see was "Rad" for radiator. Back when I was a girl, we would come in from playing in the snow and lay our gloves and hats on the Rad to dry until our next trip outside. Probably only really old houses still have radiators.

[Nessie913]

Gaggers......ALL THE WAY!

[onejld]

For people that are unfamiliar with t5he south ya'll has a singular and plural, as in ya'll (singular) ,and all of ya'll (plural)

[miked]

y'all shore do talk funny!

[xlhig]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

We drink pop, not soda or soda pop. We don't eat hoagies or grinders, but rather subs. We also don't eat hot dogs - we eat hots (and burgers, too).
We eat plates - that's short for garbage plates, which consist of (2) Zweigles hots, preferably 1 red and 1 white or 2 cheeseburgers or one of each, over home fries, baked beans and mac salad, then covered with meat sauce. This is what we call HIGH CLASS EATIN' in Rochester, NY :)
Here's a great video on our plates - "Garbage Plate, Rochester, NY" - Jim Eats The World - Jim Gaffigan - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hfl5cX-oc)
And how to make them - "Let's Get Cookin' - Garbage Plate" - Jim Gaffigan - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlibiiaNVWE)

[manaboutown]

In Texas it's "would you like a coke"? "Sure" "What kind"?. " Dr. Pepper please"....

Same in New Mexico. I grew up referring to any soft drink as a coke. Some kids used to put peanuts into their bottle of Coke (Coca Cola) before they drank it. I tried it once, yuk! I liked a shot of cherry syrup in my Coke at a soda fountain, though. That was in the 1950s way before Cherry Coke was ever marketed.

Also blue jeans were called Levis, never jeans, regardless of their brand. Men's wallets were called billfolds by many locals. My mother who was from Maryland called her purse a pocketbook. She always said "half past" while I say "30" as in 10:30.

If you did not like what another kid said or did you might call him a "pendejo" (which is Spanish slang for stupid - and literally means pubic hair).

If you order say a cheese enchilada, the waiter will always ask "Red or green?" which tends to puzzle most tourists. They are asking whether you want red or green chile sauce poured over it. If you answer "Christmas" they will pour both red and green chile sauces over it.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I thought of more!

Growing up we had a couch AND a sofa. The couch was covered in black pleather (vinyl). It was in the den, which was our family room and where we all sat to watch TV or just hang out with each other as a family.

The sofa was in our formal living room, and was covered in green silk, and was reserved ONLY for us to sit (not lay down) and read or listen to music, or for guests to sit on.

We also had "package stores" in Connecticut - the term originated there, because the law required customers to carry their liquor out of the store in sealed containers, bags, or otherwise similarly packaged. Georgia also had the same law so you might know it as a package store there as well.

[vonbork]

In Rhode Island if you mix coffee or any other syrup with milk it is called a "milk shake". If you add ice cream, it's called a "cabinet" (don't know why). Others places call it a "frappe" or just a "milk shake". Coffee ice cream, syrup, etc used to be pretty much localized to southern New England at one time, so the "cabinets" are most often associated with coffee. I still stop in for a coffee "cabinet" once in a while when I visit and I know people who carry coffee syrup back with then when they return from RI.

[airstreamingypsy]

NYC here. Coke and Pepsi are "sodas" Hot dogs for me, preferably Sabrett dirty water hot dogs, with mustard and that strange tomato onion sauce. Subs, not heroes.

[Mustagotlost]

I thought the northeast called it soda?

[nn0wheremann]

I was raised in St.Louis (Saint Lew-us, not Les-ie) when we drank soda, which might have been Coke, and we never put the cart before the harse of Highway farty when doing the warsh or eating a sammich for lunch made from stuff brought home from the grocery in a bag. Then I went to college 120 miles west at Mizzou and found there was no soda, only coke, which cold be an orange coke, a 7-up coke, or a Coka Cola. Then I migrated to KCMO, whereupon I found it was a sanwich you ate for dinner with a bottle of pop on Four-TEE HIGHway, made from thangs brought home from the store in a sack, never a bag. Then I moved to ChihCAWgo, and it really got confusing, I mean right dare over dare, even for a regular guy like me.

Of course television and nationally broadcast chain radio have mostly homogenized the Anguished language as spoken in ‘Murcia deez days, doncha know.

[OhioBuckeye]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?

Once probably 45 yrs. ago we were in N. Carolina vacationing I ask a waitress what kind of pop they had & she said you must be from the north (Ohio) then she went on to say, here pop means drugs, we say “What kind of Coke do yo have”. We laughed about that. I still think Coke is a beverage name. Here in Texas they say soda & pop!

[Two Bills]

Regarding language and pronunciation.
Some years ago BBC 'English' was crystal clear diction, every vowel pronounced, and everyone understood what was being said.
Then the 'millenials' took over and decided that what was needed was more 'diversity' and regional accents.
Result is now, that without captions on, the chance of understanding what is being said is about zero, and to put the icing on the cake, music was added to give 'atmosphere!!':ohdear:

[Sherrilee]

I have a strong Boston accent... had a New Years party here and told a friend to bring — pick-ons—. She said “ really, ok I’ll bring pecans”. I’ve laughed for 2 years!!!

[lem001]

Where I come from, we call it pop. However, we have always drunk pop, we have not always drank pop. Same with sink, sank, sunk. I guess it depends on whoever taught you junior high grammar. Edit: that should be whomever??

Soda to us was seltzer water and syrup mixed together, with a scoop of ice cream added at the end. If everything was blended together, it was a milkshake.

A rubber band was a gumband, people who stuck their noses in other people's business were nebby, and we tended to redd up if the house was untidy. I'm not sure how to spell redd up. Some people warshed their clothes, but we washed ours. If you enjoyed a beer with someone, you "pumped an arn--Iron City Beer."

I have been as far as Puerto Rico and picked out a person from Pittsburgh. Such a crazy accent, that I don't have because my parents were from elsewhere.

When we lived in New Jersey, our neighbor had to go to the dawktuh when she got sick.

When I went to school in Georgia, we "cracked the window" and "pulled the door to." My friend the elementary school teacher there would threaten to "pull a knot in y'all's tail" if they didn't stop misbehaving.

Fun stuff, Gracie. And I'm pretty sure you knew what cabinets are.



After much soul searching - i have decided :
you RED up the house
like giving a RED check mark for a job well done


also we would have hotdogs for a pic-a-nic down by the crick
where we would lift rocks to find crayfish

[cbmerl]

Where I come from, we call it pop. However, we have always drunk pop, we have not always drank pop. Same with sink, sank, sunk. I guess it depends on whoever taught you junior high grammar. Edit: that should be whomever??

Soda to us was seltzer water and syrup mixed together, with a scoop of ice cream added at the end. If everything was blended together, it was a milkshake.

A rubber band was a gumband, people who stuck their noses in other people's business were nebby, and we tended to redd up if the house was untidy. I'm not sure how to spell redd up. Some people warshed their clothes, but we washed ours. If you enjoyed a beer with someone, you "pumped an arn--Iron City Beer.

I have been as far as Puerto Rico and picked out a person from Pittsburgh. Such a crazy accent, that I don't have because my parents were from elsewhere.

When we lived in New Jersey, our neighbor had to go to the dawktuh when she got sick.

When I went to school in Georgia, we "cracked the window" and "pulled the door to." My friend the elementary school teacher there would threaten to "pull a knot in y'all's tail" if they didn't stop misbehaving.

Fun stuff, Gracie. And I'm pretty sure you knew what cabinets are.

Not so nice to correct Gracie's grammar (drank to drunk) in public. Shame on you, Mr (or Mrs.) Perfect.

[Lilhassle]

I was born in”Wosta” Married a guy fromBahston but always paRked my caR in HaRvaRd YaRd. If you met us you would not immediately know we were from taxachussets. Also lived in Marblehead.

[manaboutown]

I have a strong Boston accent... had a New Years party here and told a friend to bring — pick-ons—. She said “ really, ok I’ll bring pecans”. I’ve laughed for 2 years!!!

I had always heard pecan pronounced pee-KAHN until I visited an uncle in Maryland. I asked him what kind of wood was used to make his dining room set. He told me PEE-can. It took me a very long time to figure out what he meant.

When I was grade school age our family visited the school where my mother had taught on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. When they asked us to stay for lunch they pronounced toe-MAY-toe as toe-MAH-toe. That one I got but it sure sounded weird to me.

[damille]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?
In Rhode Island we used to call a water fountain a "bubbler" and a large "cabinet" was called an "Awful Awfull" sold by Newport Creamery.

[TooColdNJ]

Now for grammar... “All’s I need is a...”
South Jersey, Philadelphia,...or just wrong?
“Yous,” as in ,” Yous all better listen up”

Do you listen or listen up?

A sandwich is a “samwhich”

Flapjacks or pancakes?
Do you eat your burger on a roll or a bun?

[TooColdNJ]

Bacon and cheese on a kosher hotdog? Really?

Anyone know what an egg cream is?

Of course! It’s what you mix when you’re following a recipe- egg and cream! NOT!
Oh, how I miss them! Hershey’s syrup just doesn’t cut it!

Bacon and cheese on a hot dog? Of course! As long as you eat it on a paper plate!
Milk shake and a burger? Only if the shake is dessert after the burger! Lol

Hypocritical? Of course not!

[Stu from NYC]

Of course! It’s what you mix when you’re following a recipe- egg and cream! NOT!
Oh, how I miss them! Hershey’s syrup just doesn’t cut it!

Bacon and cheese on a hot dog? Of course! As long as you eat it on a paper plate!
Milk shake and a burger? Only if the shake is dessert after the burger! Lol

Hypocritical? Of course not!

Interesting the way we all eat things.

Recently our 6 year old grandson who likes hot dogs with ketchup was very worried when they were going to Chicago. He was concerned what others would say when he put ketchup on.

Turns out when he put mustard on it he liked it that way better. lol

[jammendolia]

We called it soda. A frappe was a milk shake with ice cream. A milk shake had no ice cream. We said "wicked" a lot.
Born in Dorchester, grew up in West Roxbury.

I miss it!

[Linny]

Of course, pop is correct.
Years ago I googled pop vs soda and got a map of where the terms are used. I think that’s the word we found that had the biggest difference as we were moved around the country

[Larry P.]

I grew up outside Albany, NY and we drank soda, not pop. Coffee was cawfee and dog was dawg. We ordered an ice cream soda - it was ice cream, syrup and carbonated water. Vanilla ice cream in root beer was a float. My Vermont cousins wokked the dog (short O) but they loved to make fun of my wauking the dawg. When I visited my Vermont cousins we went upstreet. Upstreet had a soft ice cream place. It was there you ordered a creamy.


I grew up in the Detroit area and Vernors and vanilla ice cream was called Boston Cooler. What did people in Boston call this drink?

[mmignosa]

Cabinets? If you mean Cabernet, it's just a Rhode Island accent. They're saying cabernet. It just sounds like cabinet to you. If you're from New England it'd be 100% clear what she was saying AND you would recognize the accent (though I often confuse RI accent with a South Boston accent - they've very similar).

In college I took two courses: Voice and Articulation, and English Dialects. I learned that my accent didn't -quite- match my upbringing, but was fairly close. It turns out even the little state of Connecticut has several dialects. Mine was more of a West Hartford dialect, even though I grew up closer to the south-central shoreline area in central New Haven County.

We ALL called it soda though. In Boston it was called tonic. In Connecticut, tonic referred exclusively to tonic water, and in Boston, soda referred exclusively to soda water. In Boston outside the tourist areas, a milk shake was milk poured into a glass with chocolate syrup and shaken up. In the tourist areas, they all knew that us outsiders meant a frappe - ice cream, milk, syrup, all blended together in a blender.

We had hotodgs. But if we were in certain seafood and fried food joints, we'd have to be more specific. You'd order either a regular dog, a footlong, or a red-hot.

In certain parts of Connecticut, a lobster roll is hot lobster meat that's been simmering in a crock-pot of melted butter, dumped onto a grilled top-slit side-slanted hot-dog bun, and served with a wooden fork on the side for when the lobster falls out of the bun as you tip it to take a bite out of it.

In other parts of the state it's just cold lobster salad in a hotdog roll.

I call it a pocketbook. Some people call it a purse. For me, a purse is what you put the credit cards, bills, change, and drivers' license in, if you're a woman. If you're man it's called a wallet, not a billfold. A billfold holds ONLY bills, nothing else.

I call it a shopping cart and a shopping carriage alternately. I switch it out depending on which one spits out of my mouth at the moment. Down here apparently it's called a buggy. For me, a buggy is a basinette on wheels. Aka - a baby buggy.

Grace when you say you hear caw-fee vs your own cough-ee - the two sound exactly the same to me. However they are different from the pronunciation of crawfish or craw-dad, which is more of an "ahh" (open-mouthed) than an "ough" (less open mouthed).

Lastly - boomer is what the millennials call anyone over 50. If it makes you feel any better, when I was their age - I called your generation "fossils."
I drank tonic growing up.
Tonic is coke, root beer or any other soft drink.

[Dgizzi]

I drink pop. I have always drank pop. The kind I prefer is Diet Coke and I have about one and a half a day. I was born in Ohio.

My friend likes to drink Cabinets. She is from Rhode Island.

I am not a Boomer, just got called a Boomer in another thread. I missed the cut off for Boomer. I am either better than a Boomer or older than a Boomer whatever you prefer.

We are a blended bunch here in The Villages. We say things and pronounce things quite differently from each other and I believe that some areas of this wonderful country have a little more "attitude" than my mother would have tolerated.

We were all raised with some things that sound normal to us and funny to others. Some people call that delicious dark brown liquid that many of us start the day with "Cu-aw-fee and I call it Cough-ee.

What do you say or call things that are a little different from other you have met here in The Villages. Just for fun.

Is it brisket or "cheap roast"? at your house??? Is it umbrella or bumbershoot. Do you eat hot dogs or franks?
Hi we are from O-H-I-O also. Yep I grew up with Pop. And boy when I meet a Floridian they know I am from “up north” now I have started using Up North too when I am talking about Ohio. I was born in Garfield Hts, “suburb” of Cleveland. Last placed lived before moving to Florida in sept 2017 was Medina, city somewhat close to Akron.

[Scorpyo]

Italians will call sauce, gravy
Which do you put on pasghetti?

[Scorpyo]

My first wife was Italian. We're both from The Bronx. My father-in-law used to refer to me as a sunsabitch. I never could find sunsabitch or sonsabitch in the dictionary so I assumed it meant something like brilliant.

[Schaumburger]

We are both from Iowa. We drank pop and helped our ants do the wushing. We got older and moved around alot and now we drink soda and do the washing, but we still call our aunts ants. Worked with a lady who grew up in the UK and when I would ask her to pick me up she would say, “I’ll be knocking you up at seven then.”:eek:

Having spent my first 18 years in Iowa, of course it is pop. What do you call your last big meal of the day...dinner or supper? Growing up in Iowa, we called it supper, but in the Chicago area, it is usually called dinner.

My dad pronounces Iowa as Ioway. I think he is the only one I know who does this.

Aunt is pronounced "ant."

Sofa, couch or davenport?

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I thought the northeast called it soda?

Except for the greater Boston area. There, it's called tonic, because soda, to them, is soda water.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Interesting the way we all eat things.

Recently our 6 year old grandson who likes hot dogs with ketchup was very worried when they were going to Chicago. He was concerned what others would say when he put ketchup on.

Turns out when he put mustard on it he liked it that way better. lol

I think the conversion from ketchup to mustard is a rite of passage. At least in my experience it was!

Now it's time for the real test:

Pizza
A-peez-a
A-beetz
Pie
Tomato Pie

purchased at:
A pizzeria
A pizza joint
An italian restaurant
At [specific name of place]?

And how was it ordered?

For me:

"I'm going to Luigi's for a medium mozz with mushroom and sausage."

For my grandfather:

"Let's get abeetz at Sal's."

[Incoblack1]

Halal is Muslim - kosher is Jewish!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

We called it soda. A frappe was a milk shake with ice cream. A milk shake had no ice cream. We said "wicked" a lot.
Born in Dorchester, grew up in West Roxbury.

I miss it!

DAH-chestah! And West Rawks-bree

I lived in different areas of Boston - started out on Beacon Street (between Exeter and Fairfield). Lived next door to Norman Lear and across the street from Joan Kennedy. Freshman year in the dorm there.

Next year was up near Fenway Park, also on Beacon Street, at the old Fensgate Hotel. Converted into a dorm.

Third year was at the foot of Beacon Hill, on Charles street. That was where I heard all the hard-core Brahmin accents. Think Thurston Howell III and his wife Lovey. That's a Beacon Hill accent. VERY distinct. You basically use a typical Boston accent, but keep your upper and lower jaws clenched at the back teeth while speaking.

Last year was Allston-Brighton, where most of the people living there were college students. Back to mostly normal mishmosh of accents.

Then after that I stuck around the area for a few years, lived in Brighton proper - at Oak Square. There - the most prevalent accent was an Irish accent. Really big contingency of Irish immigrants at the time. But their kids had Boston accents. It was pretty awesome.

[dtennent]

Great Thread!! Born in NJ moved to Ashland, Ohio when I was nine. When we first moved to Ohio, I was first confused as to what pop was. Mom never bought any pop or soda saying water was good enough and better for you anyway. We ate hot dogs though some folks called them weiners. Of course a Dachshund was known as a wiener dog. Dinner was served at 6:15 PM and proper English (no slang) was always spoken at the dinner table. My grandmother (not grandma!) was horrified that we were allowed to wear T shirts to the dinner table. and she wouldn't think of going to a dance in blue jeans. Those were work clothes. The 13 inch black and white TV was never in the living room but in the playroom. That is until I went to college and a 25 inch color TV showed up in the living room.

Thanks for the trips down memory lane.

[CFrance]

Having spent my first 18 years in Iowa, of course it is pop. What do you call your last big meal of the day...dinner or supper? Growing up in Iowa, we called it supper, but in the Chicago area, it is usually called dinner.

My dad pronounces Iowa as Ioway. I think he is the only one I know who does this.

Aunt is pronounced "ant."

Sofa, couch or davenport?
I forgot about davenport. That was a term I heard frequently growing up in Pittsburgh, but our family usually said couch. Sometimes sofa.


As to the previous spaghetti sauce/gravy question, that poster is opening up a big can of worms! They should do a search for sauce or gravy. Phew!

[kendi]

I call it pop. My husband and I are from opposite sides of the same city. He never heard of the word “stoop” (he thought I was calling the front porch stupid). Nor did he ever hear the phrase “teeming rain.”

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I call it pop. My husband and I are from opposite sides of the same city. He never heard of the word “stoop” (he thought I was calling the front porch stupid). Nor did he ever hear the phrase “teeming rain.”

The top of the stairs INSIDE the house (to the bedroom floor) was called "the landing." The top of the stairs OUTSIDE the house (from the walkway to the front door) was called the stoop. We didn't have a porch. But we did have a patio out back.

[CFrance]

I call it pop. My husband and I are from opposite sides of the same city. He never heard of the word “stoop” (he thought I was calling the front porch stupid). Nor did he ever hear the phrase “teeming rain.”
Exactly! Stoop sitting was a favorite passtime, and teeming rain was a common term.


As was "landing." Then there was "yinz," which would earn us a time out if we ever used.


"Kennywood's open" meant your fly was unzipped.


"n'at" (also verboten slang in our family), is usually tacked onto the end of a sentence, sort of meant et cetera. There is a bumper sticker: N@

[Doro22]

Now for grammar... “All’s I need is a...”
South Jersey, Philadelphia,...or just wrong?
“Yous,” as in ,” Yous all better listen up”

Do you listen or listen up?

A sandwich is a “samwhich”

Flapjacks or pancakes?
Do you eat your burger on a roll or a bun?

I am really liking these inputs of our different ways of communication. It’s an education. Very interesting how people from various parts of the country speak. I was born in Miami Beach...yep. My parents met in South Beach (B4 it was cool). They were from different corners of our country. Mom from Tacoma, WA. Dad from Brooklyn, NY. Grew up in North Miami area and later lived in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood areas. South Fl is such a conglomerate of speech patterns. Many Cuban friends. So myself & siblings have no discernible accents. My mom, & I think many of old time Miamians pronounced Miami...”My Am ah”. I used to call her out on that one. And in later years after visiting hubby’s relatives in Baltimore they said “youse”. Yuk. I once told them that it’s “you-all” - not “youse”. Ooh not a good thing to say in “Baldimer”. Lol!

[Stu from NYC]

The top of the stairs INSIDE the house (to the bedroom floor) was called "the landing." The top of the stairs OUTSIDE the house (from the walkway to the front door) was called the stoop. We didn't have a porch. But we did have a patio out back.

We used to throw a ball onto the steps of the stoop and play stoop baseball. Trick was how you hit the step would depend how far the ball came out. Wonder if anyone outside of brooklyn ever played the game.

[clwahlstrom]

Funny you should mention that we always called it “pop.” I am from the Detroit area. Or Michigan so to speak. Then moved to California and they never heard of pop. It was always soda. LOL.

[TomPerrett]

It’s ok to leave the past
I’m from Ohio I consider it the old country. I moved here to be around new things and we certainly are. Part of the fun.

[CaVillager]

IN Rochester, we don't call them hamburgers, they're just hamburgs.
And yea we called hot dogs just hots but if they were made from pork and were white, we called 'em white hots or porkers. And go figure out this one. The area down by Lake Ontario is spelled Charlotte, like the city in North Carolina, but the locals pronounce it Shalott.

[Dennys37Packard]

Sprinkles or jimmies (NJ)

[DanBrew]

Being from the middle of Illinois, I have no accent at all, but I lived in Glasgow, Scotland as a wee lad, so I get accents. The parents were from Tennessee and we had an aunt there who was Aint Ethyl. The first time I heard someone from Cincinnati say "please" when they meant excuse me I didn't hear you, I tilted my head to the side. The Pittsburg folks say "you uns" which seemed very southern to me. I got all that while living in West Virginia working for DuPont. Now the WV folks have accents that differ across the state. I won't even try to type those pronunciations.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Sprinkles or jimmies (NJ)

The black/brown ones are jimmies. The multicolored ones are sprinkles. And the little sugar ball ones are shots.

I stand by my conviction and my position is unassailable!

[MandoMan]

This has been a delightful thread. I love these local or regional differences in what we call things. Thank you, all.

However, I’d like to be a curmudgeon for a minute, since the thread title is about “Today’s Language.”

I’m tired of the word “ass” being used in words such as “bigass” and “badass” and “ass-hat” (whatever that is). I see the first two in television advertising a lot these days, and they all appear in shows, especially so-called “comedy specials”. What does an ass have to do with badass? (I have a friend who was just pronounced cured of a serious case of rectal cancer, but I don’t think they are referring to him.) If these words appear on tv, it’s because writers write scripts calling for actors to say these things. Why? Is this what they mean by “keeping it real”? What is real about it? It’s just imprecise and rude. I sometimes call someone an ass, but if I do, I’m referring to a donkey. I don’t mind calling a backside an ass. But “bigass” is unnecessary when “big” is sufficient, and “badass” is unnecessary when mean, violent, bad, or criminal will do quite well.

I’m also tired of the casual use of the word “dick” to refer to men who are unpleasant, thoughtless, mean, rude, sexist, etc. (I’m so glad my name isn’t Richard.) We are stuck with that slang term for a body part, but why then use it to describe a person? Just don’t say it!

This new use of the perfectly good German and Scandinavian name Karen to describe a certain type of older, entitled European-American woman is also disgusting. Please don’t use the name this way. Resist it! Tell off people who use it that way!

Another gripe is the use of the phrase “I be” instead of “I am” or the phrase “Ima” instead of “I’m going to.” There are Cajun areas in Louisiana where this is standard, due to their ancient French roots. My dear Uncle Johnny from Halifax County, Virginia talked that way, and I would never think of correcting him. But he also didn’t have a flush toilet. Don’t let this illiterate speech become part of your way of speaking. It isn’t amusing. Also, if I see a meme with that sort of language, whether from right or left, a wave of scorn rushes over me. I see this a lot in television advertising. It disgusts me.

One more common problem today that is due to people not reading and simply listening and speaking is when they write “should of” or “would of”. That makes no sense at all! They should write “should’ve” or “would’ve,” perfectly correct contractions of “should have” and “would have.” If you apply for a job and write “should of” in your application letter, you will be immediately classified as ignorant. Actually, you may simply never have thought about it. It’s not too late to learn.

[JanetMM]

After much soul searching - i have decided :
you RED up the house
like giving a RED check mark for a job well done


also we would have hotdogs for a pic-a-nic down by the crick
where we would lift rocks to find crayfish

Dictionary shows spelling as REDD. And shows how we came up with it. I love using term redd up the house. Scots in my family I guess.

[theruizs]

Having spent my first 18 years in Iowa, of course it is pop. What do you call your last big meal of the day...dinner or supper? Growing up in Iowa, we called it supper, but in the Chicago area, it is usually called dinner.

My dad pronounces Iowa as Ioway. I think he is the only one I know who does this.

Aunt is pronounced "ant."

Sofa, couch or davenport?
Was and still is Supper for us. Was davenport, but now we’ve given in to sofa. :)

[lynnschindel]

Gravy or Sauce ? In my Sicilian home, from Long Island, we said that sauce was put on pasta and gravy was put on mash potatoes, in pot roast, on turkey and used in many other recipes. But I have heard that gravy was referred to sauce on pasta also.
It was always sauce for the pasta and gravy for the meat. I'm from NJ, and that is a constant sore point for many. I always refer to the supermarket. There's no such thing on the shelves as Tomato Gravy!

[Primera199]

I am a native Rhode Islander and a cabinet is a thick shake and coffee is the preferred flavor for ice cream and milk . I have fond memories of having coffee cabinets!!

[mmignosa]

I also “ Pahked My Kah in Hahvids Yahd”. But now I go back to Maine in the summah. You can’t get they-ere ( 2 syllables) From here-er. The same terminology as the other Bostonian. :coolsmiley:

I came from a place where we parked our car at Harvard Yard...growing up what some call 'pop' we called tonic

when someone says 'ya'll' to me, I still look around to see if my whole family followed me into the store

I have aunts....never had a 'ant'

and the liquor stores were all referred to as 'packies'....we never made a U-Turn...we "banged a youee"

and roundabout were called rotaries

[Duneahh]

Having spent my first 18 years in Iowa, of course it is pop. What do you call your last big meal of the day...dinner or supper? Growing up in Iowa, we called it supper, but in the Chicago area, it is usually called dinner.

My dad pronounces Iowa as Ioway. I think he is the only one I know who does this.

Aunt is pronounced "ant."

Sofa, couch or davenport?

On the KS dairy farm of my youth, the noon meal was Dinner as it was the biggest, more properly served, meal of the day. All the hired hands joined us around the table, where we held hands for the prayer which we all said together in unison, food dishes were passed clockwise (starting with Dad at head of the table and THE MEAT PLATTER). Nobody ate a bite until everybody had their plate filled. Last meal was Supper because it was light; leftover meat from dinner, summer produce, a plate of white bread, jars of miracle whip and pickles (vs. being in serving dishes as at Dinner) ... usually really late after all chores were finished, just before bed. Sunday supper was special: popcorn and our once weekly POP on tv trays watching Bonanza. The lucky first one got to sprawl on the COUCH while the rest of us kids were stuck on the floor and tasked with skooching over and change to the other tv channel! Dad had a city cousin who retired from MinnaSO-TA to IoWAY. Mother aspired to go to Ha-WAH-ya (vs. Huh-Wie-E). It was fun when our Ants & Cuzzins visited!

[NotFromAroundHere]

thanks for the laugh GracieGirl ...

Here in NEPA we eat tomato and mayo "sangwiches" with our Cokes or cawfee; and we can go to one mining town for a "pan of pitz" (a tray of pizza) and the local church picnic to have a sausage and mango sangwich for supper.

Mango for Bell Pepper? That's what we called them in southern Indiana. Never hear it anymore.

[Stu from NYC]

On the KS dairy farm of my youth, the noon meal was Dinner as it was the biggest, more properly served, meal of the day. All the hired hands joined us around the table, where we held hands for the prayer which we all said together in unison, food dishes were passed clockwise (starting with Dad at head of the table and THE MEAT PLATTER). Nobody ate a bite until everybody had their plate filled. Last meal was Supper because it was light; leftover meat from dinner, summer produce, a plate of white bread, jars of miracle whip and pickles (vs. being in serving dishes as at Dinner) ... usually really late after all chores were finished, just before bed. Sunday supper was special: popcorn and our once weekly POP on tv trays watching Bonanza. The lucky first one got to sprawl on the COUCH while the rest of us kids were stuck on the floor and tasked with skooching over and change to the other tv channel! Dad had a city cousin who retired from MinnaSO-TA to IoWAY. Mother aspired to go to Ha-WAH-ya (vs. Huh-Wie-E). It was fun when our Ants & Cuzzins visited!

Thanks for the info.

Just curious why was food always passed clockwise?

[Lindacg]

They did that at Woolworth’s in Baltimore

[dougawhite]

I grew up in New London, CT, where they make nuclear submarines. You might think it's obvious a long cold cut sandwich would be called a 'sub' but it wasn't, they were Grinders.
Pizza - Italian/NY, or Greek? Greek for me with a slightly risen crust that has a crunch to it. Italian/NY is flat and soft dough good for folding.
Clam fritters, YUM, are deep-fried dough balls with lots of clam chunks mixed in. A clam cake is similar ingredients but shallow-fried in a pan and shaped like a large thick cookie.
Clam chowder is at least 3 varieties: New England with a white creamy base, Manhattan which is just vegetable soup withh clam chunks added, and Rhode Island which has same ingredients as New England but no cream so the broth is clear.
Most New Englanders remove R's from the middle of words (pahking place) but make up for this by adding them to the end of other words (great idear).
Pancake, flapjack, johnny cake?
Porch, patio, lanai, veranda?
Played 'stoop ball' but not by that name. Problem was if you missed the corner of the step you could break the glass in the front door - RUN!

[Duneahh]

Thanks for the info.

Just curious why was food always passed clockwise?

Don't really know... probably because Dad (THE boss) started the pass and it would have been a pointless waste of "argument capital" to shift the food flow and attempt to swim upstream while seated amidst hungry farm hands. :icon_wink:

[xlhig]

IN Rochester, we don't call them hamburgers, they're just hamburgs.
And yea we called hot dogs just hots but if they were made from pork and were white, we called 'em white hots or porkers. And go figure out this one. The area down by Lake Ontario is spelled Charlotte, like the city in North Carolina, but the locals pronounce it Shalott.
And don't forget Chili, NY - pronounced CHI-LIE not CHILL-EE

[Aloha1]

Halal is Muslim - kosher is Jewish!

And they are essentially the SAME.

[Aloha1]

In Detroit, we had PHOSPHATES! syrup, club soda, and a touch of phosphoric acid. Mixed for you at the soda fountain. Also eggs creams which were simply milk, syrup, and club soda.

Midwest accents use a hard "A' as opposed to the soft A of the east (CARR vs Caw).

Up North ALWAYS meant going from southern Michigan to northern Michigan. And yes, it was pop and never soda but also soda pop.

My parents called the couch also a sofa but my Grandmother called it a Davenport - because Davenport, Iowa was where many sofas were made. We had a refrigerator which was also called the icebox. Good times.

[Stu from NYC]

And they are essentially the SAME.

One rather major difference. For meat to be Kosher its preparation from a live animal to cuts of meat must be supervised by a Rabbi.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

And they are essentially the SAME.

They have similarities but no, they're not the same. If a -food- is kosher, then someone who observes halal restrictions can eat it. However the same is not true in reverse.

[Stu from NYC]

Don't really know... probably because Dad (THE boss) started the pass and it would have been a pointless waste of "argument capital" to shift the food flow and attempt to swim upstream while seated amidst hungry farm hands. :icon_wink:

Had a feeling it would be something like that.

Just like the captains table on a ship, he gets the remote.

[mamamia54]

We used to throw a ball onto the steps of the stoop and play stoop baseball. Trick was how you hit the step would depend how far the ball came out. Wonder if anyone outside of brooklyn ever played the game.

Yes, the Bronx did also.

[jblum315]

Brisket is not a cheap roast. Last time I looked it was about $9 a pound.

[Aloha1]

One rather major difference. For meat to be Kosher its preparation from a live animal to cuts of meat must be supervised by a Rabbi.

I agree, but my point was that the dietary laws derive from the same source. Another difference is in Islam alcohol is forbidden to be mixed in any food unless it occurs naturally as in fruit. So, no offense to our Muslim brothers but the pleasure of wine is one thing we got right!

[BK001]

There are 3 ways I can always tell if someone comes from the South.

1. Southerners say IN '- surance. The Northerners say insur'ance (more of an emphasis on the "sur")
2. Northerners own cars -- Southerners own vehicles
3. Southerners say impordent -- Northerners say importent. (important)

[Stu from NYC]

I agree, but my point was that the dietary laws derive from the same source. Another difference is in Islam alcohol is forbidden to be mixed in any food unless it occurs naturally as in fruit. So, no offense to our Muslim brothers but the pleasure of wine is one thing we got right!

Always wonder what percentage of Muslim will follow the prohibition of alcohol.

[Stu from NYC]

There are 3 ways I can always tell if someone comes from the South.

1. Southerners say IN '- surance. The Northerners say insur'ance (more of an emphasis on the "sur")
2. Northerners own cars -- Southerners own vehicles
3. Southerners say impordent -- Northerners say importent. (important)

Do you also have a Brooklyn accent?

[BK001]

Do you also have a Brooklyn accent?

According to me, absolutely not. According to those who hear me, probably. (This despite the fact that I have consciously tried to minimize/overcome it). You can take the girl out of Brooklyn but . . . :icon_wink: :icon_wink:

[Stu from NYC]

According to me, absolutely not. According to those who hear me, probably. (This despite the fact that I have consciously tried to minimize/overcome it). You can take the girl out of Brooklyn but . . . :icon_wink: :icon_wink:

We moved from Queens to Va about 30 years ago.

Never did lose our accent, people in the know can tell in about 5 seconds.

[Aloha1]

Always wonder what percentage of Muslim will follow the prohibition of alcohol.

Not as many as you'd think, I'd bet. Sort of like eating bacon!

[manaboutown]

An aerospace executive I know sells to the Saudis and other Arab countries, dealing with top echelon males. He has told me what alcoholic beverages they enjoy the most when they get an unobserved chance to imbibe. Scotch seems to be a favorite. They carry bottles in briefcases into their hotel suites.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

An aerospace executive I know sells to the Saudis and other Arab countries, dealing with top echelon males. He has told me what alcoholic beverages they enjoy the most when they get an unobserved chance to imbibe. Scotch seems to be a favorite. They carry bottles in briefcases into their hotel suites.

I think some of you confuse the word "Muslim" with "Islam." And many of you don't realize there are different sects of Muslims, just as there are different sects of Jews and Christians. Each sect has its own rules, and its own interpretation of its broader religion's rules.

There are some Muslim sects that are permitted to drink alcohol. It's not common among Muslim sects, but just like with Kosher law - different sects interpret the laws differently.

[Aloha1]

I think some of you confuse the word "Muslim" with "Islam." And many of you don't realize there are different sects of Muslims, just as there are different sects of Jews and Christians. Each sect has its own rules, and its own interpretation of its broader religion's rules.

There are some Muslim sects that are permitted to drink alcohol. It's not common among Muslim sects, but just like with Kosher law - different sects interpret the laws differently.

Not in Saudi Arabia.

[davem4616]

Gravy or Sauce ? In my Sicilian home, from Long Island, we said that sauce was put on pasta and gravy was put on mash potatoes, in pot roast, on turkey and used in many other recipes. But I have heard that gravy was referred to sauce on pasta also.


I've heard that too...my Italian in-laws never called red sauce 'gravy'...but ran into a few FBI's that did

guess it all depends upon which part of Italy one's family came from