Pop vs soda vs coke and other regional differences.

[Jorge Galvan]

Soda.


Mr. Pibb Fanatic here!!

[Werewolf]

So what do you call shoes? Sneakers, tennis shoes or other?!

Tennis shoes or tennies.

[jwyblejr]

Lot of cricks and rivers around here are called kills

examples:
Catskills
Fishkill
Peekskill
Wallkill
Paulinskill
Bushkill
Schuylkill

BTW, saying Schuylkill (pronounced school kill) to somebody not from the area can be a bit awkward

That's another one. "Crick" vs. "creek" and "root" vs. "route".

[Mikey]

That's another one. "Crick" vs. "creek" and "root" vs. "route".

Round these parts it seems everybody say's crick --- kids usually say creek

I say root, crayfish and cray-ons …. also, I say "use" to refer to "you all"

[CrimsonGhost]

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.

[TomStrong]

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”.

[TomStrong]

It was hard to get used to that.

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!”

[Mikey]

What exactly is sweet tea ?

I only know of it from To Catch a Predator -- The bait girl often offers it to pervs

Is it just iced tea ?

[CrimsonGhost]

I'm not from the south, but I think sweet tea is iced tea with enough sugar in it to strip the enamel off your teeth. Is that about right?

[PNGwynne]

^IMO, yes.

[Marvelmania]

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”.

North east Tennessee is completely different lol

[EmergencyIan]

When I moved to New York, from the Midwest, in 2001, I noticed some differences in what they called or how they referred to some things.

Grocery shopping is Food shopping.
They stand “on line” not “in line.”
Green beans are called string beans.

There are other differences like this, but now that I’m typing, that’s all I can think of.

- Ian

[warlock664]

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.

[Werewolf]

Ole and Lena jokes. People outside of upper Midwest have probably never heard them. My aunt loves those jokes, uffdah.

[Mikey]

…….. and that you wear a ski cap on your head. Lunacy.

We call them hats a beanie around these parts - and I live close to some ski resorts