What do you call it?

[drummerboy]

And we never, EVER say "going to the beach." Nope. It's "down the shore." And you go swimming in the "wooder" although I pronounce it wahdder.

And you live west of Phiwadephia. We used to swim in the wooder down the shore when I lived in South Jersey. Now I go to the beach and swim in the woewatah.

[princessjojo]

Here if we're thirsty, we want a coke or a drink otherwise.

Lunch is noonish, dinner is the big meal in the evening. I also have Sunday dinner after church and pot luck is what's left after that.

We have roundabouts, but they drive me crazy.

A sub is an oblong sandwich with tons of stuff on it.

And it all depends on who you ask weather it's awesome, hot, cool, or just plain ol' great.

[Stitchahula]

I have to agree with the 1 poster who said jimmies were the brown ones and sprinkles the colored ones. That was how we always told the difference. I don't know how bubbler came to be but that is what we call it here in MA.

[DMApixie]

I'm also in Southern California where


We drinks sodas
have sandwiches
eat lunch and dinner
have potlucks
it WAS thongs when I was a kid...but now they are flip flops
wear a robe and slippers
we drive on a freeway, not expressway
we go to the grocery store
we use shopping carts (not buggies or wagons)

DH is from Chicago where

they drink pop
have hoagies
eat lunch and dinner
have potlucks
wear 'shower shoes'
wear a housecoat and house-shoes
drive on an expressway, not a freeway
go to the market
use carts or buggies

Oh, and my mother, born and raised right here in SoCal warshes her clothes. I wash mine. ;-)

[Nascfan]

Hey, we warsh clothes too!

Here in Ohio we:

drink pop

eat subs and grinders (a grinder is basically a hot, usually toasted sub where the cheese is melted and gooey) or even hoagies sometimes

have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, sometimes supper, which would be served at the same time as dinner, the evening meal

when everyone brings a dish to pass, it's a potluck

wear flip flops in the summer

grill outside when it's warm

the kids go down to the crick (not a stream or brook) and catch tadpoles

go to the grocery store and put our items to buy in a cart.

Fortunately we don't have any roundabouts, yet. Those things look confusing!

[Tinkerfreak]

Hey, we warsh clothes too!

Here in Ohio we:

drink pop

eat subs and grinders (a grinder is basically a hot, usually toasted sub where the cheese is melted and gooey) or even hoagies sometimes

have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, sometimes supper, which would be served at the same time as dinner, the evening meal

when everyone brings a dish to pass, it's a potluck

wear flip flops in the summer

grill outside when it's warm

the kids go down to the crick (not a stream or brook) and catch tadpoles

go to the grocery store and put our items to buy in a cart.

Fortunately we don't have any roundabouts, yet. Those things look confusing!

"warsh clothes" I love it we leave out our r's here in the North and you guys add them in.

[drummerboy]

Oh, "barbeque" in the south is strictly a noun, denoting the pit-cooked pork product (whether tomato based or vinegar based sauce is better is a subject of much debate). We cook out on a grill.

[Ed]

And we're gradually slipping into the wonderful world of Bawlamerese, the native tongue of people from Bawlamer, Murlin.

Ahmalanze.... vehicle that takes sick people to the hospital

Zinc.... place where you warsh your hands with soap and wooder

Wrench.... what you do to get the soap off your hands (see above)

Far.... a product of combustion, creating flames, heat and smoke

Poe-Lease.... law enforcement officer

[DMApixie]

"warsh clothes" I love it we leave out our r's here in the North and you guys add them in.

Well we couldn't just leave all those unused r's just laying around, now could we?

[pixiesmimi]

As already posted for AL or LA (lower Alabama)
coke for all drinks. What kind of coke do you want?
too bad we have to ask for sweet tea now in restaurants. Never used to have to ask.

lunch and supper. Dinner is Sunday noon or a formal night meal. Actually supper was originally a light meal late at night, I think.

Used to be thongs, now flip flops

We don't really have round-abouts here but if there is one, it is a round-about and no one knows how to drive it.

Potluck or dinner on the grounds (at church)

If it is a long bun with meat, etc. it is usually a sub (like from Subway) but otherwise is a sandwich.

We 'cookout'

We're not going to do something, we are fixin' to do something.

[alphamommy]

We live in Michigan, where we drink pop, and eat subs (if they're long sandwiches). Sometimes we go to potlucks.

My folks were from Alabama, and they ate breakfast, dinner, and supper. I always ended up caught between the two worlds, because everyone else up here ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I use "dinner" and "supper" interchangeably, and sometimes refer to "lunch" as "dinner".

I say "creek", but my FIL says "crick".

I can't say that I've ever heard "sprinkles" called "jimmies".

[Hull-onian]

We say "Wicked cool".

We drink soda

We eat supper, but

We go out to dinner.

We eat subs.

If we are going somewhere, and in a hurry, we "book it."

[Tinkerfreak]

This thread is wicked cool, it is crackin me up. Great idea!

[crazypoohbear]

I think because I'm an army brat, I get confused.
WHen we first moved to the northeast we all drank coke
Then it became soda but I remember asking my future FIL for a soda and he gave me soda water
We use to eat grinders, now we eat subs.
We go to the beach
We cook out on the grill and have people over for a cookout.
We were always called in for food by "suppertime".
We drive on a highway or "the pike"


How about do you eat potatoes, spuds or what?
What's the difference between Yams and sweet potato?

What do you wear to bed?
Pajama's, nightgown, dressing gown, PJ's

[Melanie]

And we're gradually slipping into the wonderful world of Bawlamerese, the native tongue of people from Bawlamer, Murlin.

I know it's a different area Ed, but it's no joke that the 3 years we were in So. MD, I thought some of those folks were speaking a different language. It became endearing though.

[barnaby]

Here in South Jersey, its:

Soda or by the brand name
Hoagies
Dinner
Bingo
In Jersey we have circles.
Just plain old awesome or cool.

Its jimmies on ice cream cones.
And we go "down the shore".

Also, we say wooder (water) and keller (color).
And we say crick (creek).

And alot of folks were I grew up, a southern suburb of Philly, say words with Os like home and Coke funny. Hard to describe - think a drawn out, more prounced O.

[Ian]

Oh, and my mother, born and raised right here in SoCal warshes her clothes. I wash mine. ;-)

True story ... Back in high school I worked for a time at the local car wash. One day we got a package from a guy in SoCal and it was addressed to "White Glove Car Warsh."

Everyone pretty much has already covered the Philly-isms, but the one that drives me nuts-o around here is "wooder" (as in, the stuff you drink). DW says that and it makes me batty ... I always say, "What does that mean? Wooder? Is that like this here tree is "wooder" than that one."

It's WAW-ter!! WAW-ter!!

And yes, we eat hoagies (and cheesesteaks!! ), drink Coke, go "down the shore", and "up the mountains."

[pink]

We say pajama's.

In Colorado we called then tennis shoes in NY we says sneakers.

We call pizza, a pie.

We would never call flip flops thongs, that means the type of underwear to use.


New question:
Do you put it in the trash or the garbage?

In CO would say garbage, NY we say trash.

[crazypoohbear]

New question:
Do you put it in the trash or the garbage?

Good question.
We use to have a garbage pail - that was for the food scraps
Trash was the paper stuff.
So since I have a garbage disposal, we put the trash out.

Or
Do you call it trash still or "recycling"????

[beksy]

I'm guilty of adding those extra "r's"!
We always use pizza. Pie is a dessert!
We have flip-flops. Thongs is a new one for me (other than underwear!).
We take out the trash for the garbage collector
Here we used to always have the choice of sweet or unsweetened tea (I think I'm too young to remember just sweet tea) but now it's moving toward just having unsweet tea and that's just not the same!
We go to the beach on the interstate.
We have sweet potatoes (pronouned pa-ta-tas), never yams.
At night we wear nightgowns or pajamas (with all soft a's) if it is 2 pieces.
We eat supper but just "go out to eat" without naming a meal and wear tennis shoes.

My parents and grandparents are from a very small town in WV and they say: The headache for a headache, balloons are "by-loons".

An old boyfriend used to drive me crazy with words he used. He would say first-aid for an ambulance and other words that I'd never heard before. He was from southwestern VA (small town).

I say rescue squad or ambulance interchangeably. Which do you use?