Comments | ticklewarrior: Pop vs Soda vs Coke

ticklewarrior

Pop vs Soda vs Coke

Jun 25, 2009 23:19

Poll What Are You Drinking?
If you're at all curious about what the rest of the country calls their soft drink, this map might interest you.
Even if you're not curious, it's still kind of interesting.

Being from Florida, it seems to vary throughout the state. I've never actually heard anyone call what I call soda "pop" before.

I think two of the strangest things I've heard was ( Read more... )

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ticklewarrior June 26 2009, 21:04:01 UTC

Totally had to look up what a forward roll was. lol.
I didn't watch the video but it looks like the same as a summersult (sp?).

likelydisaster June 26 2009, 14:18:34 UTC

People around where I'm from (Western PA) speak a special brand of North-speak called Pittsburghese.

I don't tidy up a room, I "redd it up." Something isn't slippery, it's "slippy." Some people call shopping carts "buggies and rubber bands "gumbands," but I never have. It's pretty crazy, though. Oh, and this isn't listed on the Wikipedia page, but I say "sweeper" instead of vacuum. People in Ohio had NO idea what I was talking about the first time I said I needed to run the sweeper! Haha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_English

ticklewarrior June 26 2009, 21:06:24 UTC

Ah! That article is one of those things that make me wish I had taken a linguistics class or something. Language is so interesting, I love the changes that it makes from region to region.

I'd be really interested in seeing where the term "redd it up" came from. It gave the origin on wikipedia but that's it. I guess it's like "fixin' to" instead of "about to" no one will ever know.

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ticklewarrior June 26 2009, 21:08:21 UTC

For hoagie and jumper, I always thought that there was something specific about them that made them different from a sub or a sweatshirt. I guess not.

I've never heard bubbler. That one's kind of strange but I suppose a really crappy fountain bubbles more than it...fountains?

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ticklewarrior June 27 2009, 00:41:42 UTC

Well, I know that when I think of a jumper, I think of something more like this instead of this which to me is a sweatshirt (hopefully those hyperlinks work).

But both of those pictures came up when I googled "jumper clothing" as an image search.

derogation June 27 2009, 17:37:47 UTC

Hehe moving to Wisconsin introduced to me a lot of these type of things. I've always called soft drinks "pop," and most people in Illinois do (although "soda" becomes a little more popular the further south you go) but it's always soda in WI. And they have bubblers, not water fountains too. And they call ATMs "TYME machines," which makes sense when you see it written out (TYME was the first banking network to have ATMs), but when you hear it, you're like "time machine?? WTF?" They also switch up "learn" and "teach," so they ask "Can you learn me this?" instead of "Can you teach me this?" and then "borrow" and "lend," so they ask "Can you borrow me this?" instead of "Can you lend me this?" There's a huge German population and apparently it comes from that--in German, "teach" and "learn" are the same word (or similar) and "lend" and "borrow" are the same word. At least that's what I've heard--I don't know any German so I really couldn't tell you. Oh, baby strollers are buggies up here as well ( ... )