[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]

Originally Posted by 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.


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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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]

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."

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by 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

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Wow you banged a youee, that must have hurt.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by mamamia54

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

Italians will call sauce, gravy

[joseppe]

Originally Posted by B-flat

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

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 🤣🤣