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talktome 08-09-2020 07:40 AM

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

omimom 08-09-2020 07:43 AM

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 08-09-2020 07:52 AM

Now thats what im talkin about

nick demis 08-09-2020 07:59 AM

Thank you for posting something truly entertaining.

Lorizim 08-09-2020 08:02 AM

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 08-09-2020 08:03 AM

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 08-09-2020 08:04 AM

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 08-09-2020 08:06 AM

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 08-09-2020 08:11 AM

Anyone want to go to a pitch-in?

nhtexasrn 08-09-2020 08:12 AM

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

Doro22 08-09-2020 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1814672)
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 08-09-2020 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1814672)
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 08-09-2020 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 1814863)
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 08-09-2020 08:31 AM

I have no idear what youse guys are torking about.

OrangeBlossomBaby 08-09-2020 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 1814775)
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 08-09-2020 08:40 AM

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 08-09-2020 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by joseppe (Post 1814865)
There's always Quahogs and clamcakes too.

OH YEAH!! Love ‘em.

OrangeBlossomBaby 08-09-2020 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Gpsma (Post 1814919)
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 08-09-2020 08:52 AM

Delightful!
 
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 08-09-2020 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by kimgarwel12@gmail.com (Post 1814894)
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 08-09-2020 09:07 AM

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 08-09-2020 09:13 AM

Gaggers......ALL THE WAY!

onejld 08-09-2020 09:20 AM

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 08-09-2020 09:23 AM

y'all
 
y'all shore do talk funny!

xlhig 08-09-2020 09:25 AM

Words WE use
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1814672)
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
And how to make them - "Let's Get Cookin' - Garbage Plate" - Jim Gaffigan - YouTube

manaboutown 08-09-2020 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by nhtexasrn (Post 1814902)
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 08-09-2020 09:27 AM

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 08-09-2020 09:31 AM

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 08-09-2020 09:38 AM

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 08-09-2020 09:41 AM

I thought the northeast called it soda?

nn0wheremann 08-09-2020 09:41 AM

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 08-09-2020 09:42 AM

Ohiobuckeye
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1814672)
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 08-09-2020 09:52 AM

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 08-09-2020 10:03 AM

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 08-09-2020 10:04 AM

I'm not sure how to spell redd up
 
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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1814693)
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 08-09-2020 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1814693)
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 08-09-2020 10:51 AM

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 08-09-2020 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sherrilee (Post 1814995)
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 08-09-2020 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1814672)
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 08-09-2020 11:11 AM

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?


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