[Linda Taranto]

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]

Gaggers......ALL THE WAY!

[onejld]

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]

y'all shore do talk funny!

[xlhig]

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?

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]

Originally Posted by nhtexasrn

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]

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]

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]

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]

I thought the northeast called it soda?

[nn0wheremann]

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]

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?

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]

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!!'

[Sherrilee]

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]

Originally Posted by CFrance

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