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Pop vs soda vs coke and other regional differences.
So what do you call shoes? Sneakers, tennis shoes or other?!
Tennis shoes or tennies.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
When you buy groceries, do you put them in a bag or a sack? I grew up in Western Nebraska and they say "sack" and to "sack your groceries" as a verb also. Moved to New Jersey and had to start saying "bag" as saying sack to them got a confused reaction. Living in LA now and I guess they say "bag" out here.
Had to switch from saying "pop" to "soda". Not going back to saying "pop", it sounds stupid to me now.
Also used to pronounce the word "measure" like May-zhur and got goofed on. Had to switch to Meh-zhur.
Also grew up saying coupon like Cue-pon as opposed to Coo-pon. Now I guess I say Coo-pon. Not sure what they say in Cali yet.
Last edited by CrimsonGhost; Jun 18, '18, 6:26 PM.
Reason: I'm dumb
Southern Tennessee is coke, period. Every fizzy drink is a coke or a “cole drank”. Athletic shoes are “tenni shoes”. My grandfather was born and raised in Sheffield, Alabama and he never referred to the refrigerator as anything but “the ice box”.
A big culture shock for me, in the south, was people with really thick accents always had trouble understanding me. I'm from southern Wisconsin and we barely have an accent at all if any. Seriously, you don't get into the thick "Fargo" accent until you get way into Northern Wisconsin.
My step daughter went to New York with her husband for his work and they had so much trouble understanding her. He did fine but she’s got a pretty thick accent. We had so much fun listening to her frustrations. She couldn’t get sweet tea anywhere either and was devastated. They thought she was saying sweat tea! “What’s sweat tea? We don’t have that ma’am!”
Southern Tennessee is coke, period. Every fizzy drink is a coke or a “cole drank”. Athletic shoes are “tenni shoes”. My grandfather was born and raised in Sheffield, Alabama and he never referred to the refrigerator as anything but “the ice box”.
When I was a kid and it was cold outside, I wore a toboggan on my head. I have since met people who claim a toboggan is something you ride in the snow, and that you wear a ski cap on your head. Lunacy.
Ole and Lena jokes. People outside of upper Midwest have probably never heard them. My aunt loves those jokes, uffdah.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
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