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I'm totally with you! Oh, and I drive an automobile....also known as a c-a-h!
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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.
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Now thats what im talkin about
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Thank you for posting something truly entertaining.
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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 🤣🤣
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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!!!
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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:
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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: |
Anyone want to go to a pitch-in?
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In Texas it's "would you like a coke"? "Sure" "What kind"?. " Dr. Pepper please"....
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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. |
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. |
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"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. |
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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.
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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.
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Gaggers......ALL THE WAY!
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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)
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y'all shore do talk funny!
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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 |
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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. |
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. |
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.
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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.
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I thought the northeast called it soda?
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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. |
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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: |
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!!!
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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 |
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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.
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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. |
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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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