[cbmerl]

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.

Not so nice to correct Gracie's grammar (drank to drunk) in public. Shame on you, Mr (or Mrs.) Perfect.

[Lilhassle]

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]

Originally Posted by 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!!!

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]

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?

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]

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?

[TooColdNJ]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Bacon and cheese on a kosher hotdog? Really?

Anyone know what an egg cream is?

Of course! It’s what you mix when you’re following a recipe- egg and cream! NOT!
Oh, how I miss them! Hershey’s syrup just doesn’t cut it!

Bacon and cheese on a hot dog? Of course! As long as you eat it on a paper plate!
Milk shake and a burger? Only if the shake is dessert after the burger! Lol

Hypocritical? Of course not!

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by TooColdNJ

Of course! It’s what you mix when you’re following a recipe- egg and cream! NOT!
Oh, how I miss them! Hershey’s syrup just doesn’t cut it!

Bacon and cheese on a hot dog? Of course! As long as you eat it on a paper plate!
Milk shake and a burger? Only if the shake is dessert after the burger! Lol

Hypocritical? Of course not!

Interesting the way we all eat things.

Recently our 6 year old grandson who likes hot dogs with ketchup was very worried when they were going to Chicago. He was concerned what others would say when he put ketchup on.

Turns out when he put mustard on it he liked it that way better. lol

[jammendolia]

We called it soda. A frappe was a milk shake with ice cream. A milk shake had no ice cream. We said "wicked" a lot.
Born in Dorchester, grew up in West Roxbury.

I miss it!

[Linny]

Of course, pop is correct.
Years ago I googled pop vs soda and got a map of where the terms are used. I think that’s the word we found that had the biggest difference as we were moved around the country

[Larry P.]

Originally Posted by 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.

I grew up in the Detroit area and Vernors and vanilla ice cream was called Boston Cooler. What did people in Boston call this drink?

[mmignosa]

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."

I drank tonic growing up.
Tonic is coke, root beer or any other soft drink.

[Dgizzi]

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?

Hi we are from O-H-I-O also. Yep I grew up with Pop. And boy when I meet a Floridian they know I am from “up north” now I have started using Up North too when I am talking about Ohio. I was born in Garfield Hts, “suburb” of Cleveland. Last placed lived before moving to Florida in sept 2017 was Medina, city somewhat close to Akron.

[Scorpyo]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Italians will call sauce, gravy

Which do you put on pasghetti?

[Scorpyo]

My first wife was Italian. We're both from The Bronx. My father-in-law used to refer to me as a sunsabitch. I never could find sunsabitch or sonsabitch in the dictionary so I assumed it meant something like brilliant.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by theruizs

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.”

Having spent my first 18 years in Iowa, of course it is pop. What do you call your last big meal of the day...dinner or supper? Growing up in Iowa, we called it supper, but in the Chicago area, it is usually called dinner.

My dad pronounces Iowa as Ioway. I think he is the only one I know who does this.

Aunt is pronounced "ant."

Sofa, couch or davenport?