[mamamia54]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

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]

Originally Posted by 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."

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

[mamamia54]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[B-flat]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

[/COLOR]

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

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

[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.