Comments | pennylane_4: Y'all come look at this meme

pennylane_4

Y'all come look at this meme

Apr 06, 2008 16:39

Gacked from connielane and angua9. I love seeing the differences in language among the various regions.

Except for numbers 4, 15 and 19, my answers were identical to angua9's, which I suppose means we Texas girls really do all talk alike.

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stmargarets April 6 2008, 22:01:15 UTC

We always said "tennis shoes" in KC, but since I moved to the East Coast, I now say sneakers. Same with Coke - now I say soda. Since we moved to Nova Scotia, I can say "supper" again. "Dinner" is lunch here.

pennylane_4 April 6 2008, 22:06:55 UTC

Yeah, the Coke thing really throws non-Southerners off, doesn't it? LOL. I don't think I've ever said "supper", though I know lots of people who do.

stmargarets April 6 2008, 22:10:17 UTC

I think "supper" is a lower economic class thing. My grandmother always called a lunchbox a "dinner bucket" - you weren't taking that to the boardroom!

pennylane_4 April 6 2008, 22:24:45 UTC

Dinner bucket, I love it! I've also heard it called a "lunch pail", which inexplicably makes me giggle.

grandma_kate April 7 2008, 03:11:55 UTC

I must be from another planet than Texas because I had lots of different words for things. Stream, skillet, drain pipe, sofa, sweet fizzy drinks, water bug, teeter-totter and with a knife and fork.

I grew up in California but had a very Irish Mum so that may explain some of the terms.

pennylane_4 April 7 2008, 05:00:11 UTC

Yes, there is quite a difference, isn't there? But the other people from Texas, or from the southern U.S., who've done this meme have all said "skillet" as well, so I guess I'm an oddball, even in my own state!