You say soda, I say coke, they say pop....

Nice! was a time Regional TALK nailed as who you are were...But no more I Think.!.Its getting mixed up...I think Mass communication did that..Mid West was the so called norm,and a Guy from Brooklyn was distinctive,not to say Georgia was not...
no mistaken TV Paula Deen....When shes says Salt???... Me ? I'll have a Brew!....Fun Thanx!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg2HKMFsers
 
I say soda pop. But then my speech is a mixture of East Texas & West Tennessee with some New Orleansisms thrown in for good measure. And a touch of British English now and then left over from my times in the UK and Europe. It all depends on where a person has lived and how long they were there.
 
That's about right.
I moved one state, and had to just about completely alter my entire vocabulary when I got here so they could understand me.
Supper is eaten after Dinner. Okay.
But there is no way I'm calling it a Lightning Bug, its a Firefly. :icon_lol:
 
In the Mid-West we refer to a soft drink as soda pop or 'pop.' When I had visited New England many years ago on vacation I told the girl behind the fast food counter I'd like the 'pop' to go along with what I had ordered. She went bananas in laughter. It was if it was the funniest thing she heard in many moons.....(never did find out what they call a soft drink in New England area...)
 
It Was In The Army,way back in the 50s,when a NYC kid encountered thousands of aliens....kids from every state in the US..What Fun we had making fun of one another...However soon,there were no problems with regional Linguistic,peculiarity's...We all spoke as one......Untill we met English,Irish,,Scot, Aussies....The culture shock was great,and again all gone with a Beer a smoke..And a Pic of our girl friends!..I was not At Normandy,but Those Kids Spoke as one also..French Too....
Its Not how you sound ,but what you say!!..Vin
 
I was having a similar discussion with a friend the other night.

Is it gar-AGE with harsh G's or garahhge - soft G's -0 seems interchangeable'

And while I'm here, maybe Germans can answer this, why is München Anglified to Munich? Seems no other German cities I can think of are so altered not even Monchengladbach. Seems with every other city in the world we accept the local name. Bombay was dropped in favour of Mumbai. Beijing accepted over Peking.
 
It's called a lightning bug, that's what we've always called them.

I don't see "serdy" on the list. Way back when I worked in a Winn Dixie grocery store, I had a customer ask me "where ya keep tha serdy's?"

Me: "What?"

Customer: "Serdy's, where ya keep 'em?"

Me: "I'm sorry, what is a 'serdy'?"

Customer: "Ya know, serdy pop."

Yeah, you meet all kinds working in a grocery store.
 
Very true, I have searched maps of the eastern USA for Noo Yawk and Joizie without success, but I just know I've been there. That said, there's a city back home called Liver Pewl and I keep missing the motorway junction.

However I defy any non-Brit to correctly pronounce Cholmondeley, Featherstonehaugh and Milngavie on first acquaintance. Not to mention Machynlleth.
 
It cracks me up how us weirdos here in southeastern PA are pretty much the only ones refer to "sub" sandwiches as "hoagies". Same goes for "mischief night" (night before Halloween).
Having lived in other parts of the US, I was well aware of the regional obscurity of the hoagie term....but I had no idea mischief night was so localized to the PA/NJ area!

However I defy any non-Brit to correctly pronounce Cholmondeley, Featherstonehaugh and Milngavie on first acquaintance. Not to mention Machynlleth.
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:icon_lol: True enough! Although here in the Philadelphia area we actually have a few towns with Welsh names - ie: Bala Cynwyd and Bryn Mawr.

It's also surprising how many locations here have stolen English names - Chester, Aston, Exton, Cheltenham, Hatfield, etc.
 
brad kaste said:
In the Mid-West we refer to a soft drink as soda pop or 'pop.' When I had visited New England many years ago on vacation I told the girl behind the fast food counter I'd like the 'pop' to go along with what I had ordered. She went bananas in laughter. It was if it was the funniest thing she heard in many moons.....(never did find out what they call a soft drink in New England area...)
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Well, I grew up just outside Boston, and we always referred to it as "tonic", but that was probably a really local reference. There are several other "yankees" on here, so let them have their 2 cents...:icon_lol: (specifically the Lowell area, north of Boston)
 
When I first moved to the Chicagoland area about seventeen years ago, I was puzzled for the longest time by the local newscasters' references to "gapers..."

...until it finally clicked with me that they were referring to "rubberneckers," which is of course what the rest of the U.S. calls 'em! :icon_lol:
 
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