The use of language in today's world.
 

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?

Is it Halal or Kosher?

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!!!

Kosher for us

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

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."

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.

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.

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?

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.


rhode island cabinet drink - Bing

Bacon and cheese on a kosher hotdog? Really?

Anyone know what an egg cream is?

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

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!

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.

You are definitely from my neck of the woods.

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

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.😜

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

In Idaho...
 

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.

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.

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?

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 😂

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.

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.

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.

Heyna or no ???
 

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 ??

I am a RI native and in RI a cabinet is a thick shake!!
 

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Wow you banged a youee, that must have hurt.:bigbow:

Italians will call sauce, gravy

There's always Quahogs and clamcakes too.