Neville, it is not a grocery cart, it is a "shopping cart".

 

In Chicago I get chastised for even that and get "It's just plain cart"

 

I also say "Call off work tomorrow".  Supposedly it should be "call in sick", or at least I am always told.

 

And in the donut world, what I always thought were Cream Sticks, are called Long John's

 

Am I crazy? lol

I had a roomate in college that said buggy, he was from Trumbull as well.

 

Neville, it is not a grocery cart, it is a "shopping cart".

 

In Chicago I get chastised for even that and get "It's just plain cart"

 

 

Tell Chicago to get over it.  :-) Also please tell Chicago that putting tomatoes on a hot dog is disgusting.  :?

 

 

50% General American English

 

35% Yankee

 

5% Dixie

 

5% Upper Midwestern

 

0% Midwestern

 

I have no idea where the Dixie comes from.

can someone tell me where the remaining 5% of each of our surveys has gone?

Neville, it is not a grocery cart, it is a "shopping cart".

 

In Chicago I get chastised for even that and get "It's just plain cart"

 

I also say "Call off work tomorrow". Supposedly it should be "call in sick", or at least I am always told.

 

And in the donut world, what I always thought were Cream Sticks, are called Long John's

 

Am I crazy? lol

I had a roomate in college that said buggy, he was from Trumbull as well.

 

 

Long John's don't have any filling in the middle.  They just look like eclairs/cream sticks without filling.  St. Louis also uses the Long John term.

More annoying New Yawk language traits:

 

1) they refer to ground beef as "chopped meat"

 

2) they call grocery shopping "food shopping"

 

3) and maybe not so much anymore, but when I first moved here many years ago people (especially those from Brooklyn) called jeans "dungarees" (how many decades back does that go?!)

 

 

Back to the days of iceboxes.

I use both "chopped meat" and "food shopping" on a regular basis. My dad calls them 'dungarees', but he's a child of the depression too. I don't know anyone under the age of 70 that refers to them as such.

 

Both my folks say 'icebox', and as a result I've found myself referring to the fridge the same way on occassion.

 

So, quick poll: If I were to say I wanted a 'coffee, regular', how would you prepare it for me? (presuming you were inclined to make me some coffee :-) )

I'd pour you some caffeinated coffee.

So, quick poll: If I were to say I wanted a 'coffee, regular', how would you prepare it for me? (presuming you were inclined to make me some coffee :-) )

Coffee with a splash of cream/milk, and two tablespoons of sugar.

So, quick poll: If I were to say I wanted a 'coffee, regular', how would you prepare it for me? (presuming you were inclined to make me some coffee :-) )

Coffee with a splash or cream/milk, and two tablespoons of sugar.

 

MTS gets the change in the tip jar.  :lol:

regular coffee is w/cream & sugar, no?

 

edited: Sorry, didn't see above, asked and answered.

MTS gets the change in the tip jar.  :lol:

Did you forget that I'm a reformed caffeine addict.  Coffee was my life.

So, quick poll: If I were to say I wanted a 'coffee, regular', how would you prepare it for me? (presuming you were inclined to make me some coffee :-) )

Coffee with a splash or cream/milk, and two tablespoons of sugar.

 

MTS gets the change in the tip jar.  :lol:

 

Honey, all he EVER gets is change! :lol:

So, quick poll: If I were to say I wanted a 'coffee, regular', how would you prepare it for me? (presuming you were inclined to make me some coffee :-) )

Coffee with a splash or cream/milk, and two tablespoons of sugar.

 

MTS gets the change in the tip jar.  :lol:

 

Honey, all he EVER gets is change! :lol:

HUSH!  Just remember, change starts with you! :wink:

Is it a couch, a sofa, or a davenport?

Is it a couch, a sofa, or a davenport?

As my mother would say, it depends on the piece of furniture as a "couch" doesn't necessary have traditional "arms"  ie. a chaise.

45% General American English

 

25% Dixie

 

10% Midwestern

 

10% Yankee

 

5% Upper Midwestern

 

Just goes to show ya... I grew up in So. Ohio, moved to Virginia, then to New Jersey...Im all kinds of mixed up...

Is it a couch, a sofa, or a davenport?

 

No one calls a couch or sofa a "Davenport".  Couch and sofa are interchangeable, I don't believe either is regional.  It is more of a class thing.  If you are affluent, you probably say, "sofa", if you lower/middle class you probably say "couch".  Put it to you this way, if it has plaid fabric, it is a couch! ;)

in 4th grade my teacher told me to "put something up" meaning "put it away."  it made no sense to  me, and still doesn't.  my bf says "put something up" and "soda" (also "eyetalian," ...vom) he's from that lighter blue part of rural central michigan on the pop/soda/coke map.

I hate when people use a long I sound in Italian (eyetalian) I always say, "Is it pronounced Eyetaly? No. So say it right!

One thing I've noticed..well to be honest there are a few.. like around here (Philly area) it's "wooder" not water. And it's, "wanna come with?" First time my boyfriend/now husband said that to me I looked at him and said, "come with what, a side of chips?" I'm sure I'll think of others... soda's a big thing over here. My friends became upset with me when I tried to teach their son how to ask for "pop". Apparently, here, Pop is a name for your grandfather

I didn't know folks in Philly said "Wanna come with?" That's a common expression in Chicago and parts of Minnesota, but those are the only places I'd heard it.

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I didn't know folks in Philly said "Wanna come with?" That's a common expression in Chicago and parts of Minnesota, but those are the only places I'd heard it.

 

my husband, his family.. I'd never heard it before here, or I had, I'd blocked it out.

More annoying New Yawk language traits:

 

1) they refer to ground beef as "chopped meat"

 

2) they call grocery shopping "food shopping"

 

3) and maybe not so much anymore, but when I first moved here many years ago people (especially those from Brooklyn) called jeans "dungarees" (how many decades back does that go?!)

 

 

My wife "food shops" ... it is annoying.  I've been trying to correct her.  Her family is from Long Island...or is it Lungisland?

My wife "food shops" ... it is annoying.  I've been trying to correct her.  Her family is from Long Island...or is it Lungisland?

 

Its Law-ngk-Eyeland

My wife "food shops" ... it is annoying. I've been trying to correct her. Her family is from Long Island...or is it Lungisland?

 

Its Law-ngk-Eyeland

 

lol...yes...the "ngk-eyeland" part is the clincher...I was trying to figure out the best way to spell it...

My wife "food shops" ... it is annoying.  I've been trying to correct her.  Her family is from Long Island...or is it Lungisland?

 

Its Law-ngk-Eyeland

 

lol...yes...the "ngk-eyeland" part is the clincher...I was trying to figure out the best way to spell it...

 

no, it's Lawn Guyland !