Pop vs soda vs coke and other regional differences.

[palitoy]

Anyone remember SNL's Bill Swerski's Super Fans? "Da Bears! Da Bulls!" People find mid western accents hilarious. Uffdah.

It's absolutely fascinating to cross a border and experience a different accent. What Chris said above about Buffalo is true, I had the "Maps/Mops" experience in a Topps (pronounced "TAPPS" there) grocery store. I find it so funny that we don't sound alike because of a lake.

[Mikey]

When I watch youtube videos I can always tell it's a Canadian at how they pronounce "out"

Kind like Ah-oot

[The Nawd]

Me and my brothers call them "soda". I'm in eastern TN.

[Werewolf]

It's absolutely fascinating to cross a border and experience a different accent.

From the Wisconsin/Illinois border the more you go into the Illinois side you start to get the "Bill Swerski" accent and a little bit into Wisconsin you start getting "you betcha."

[cjefferys]

I worked with a guy from Belleville that said "hoose" and "aboot" all day long, I never brought it up but yeah, they do exist.

Slightly North of us, 2/3 of my wife's family speaks a language called "Frenglish" and there is a strong leaning to make every statement sound like a question.

ie "I went down to the store?"

I haven't ventured far outside the "Golden Horseshoe" part of Ontario, so I haven't encountered these myself. I need to make more trips into the wilds up north.

It's absolutely fascinating to cross a border and experience a different accent. What Chris said above about Buffalo is true, I had the "Maps/Mops" experience in a Topps (pronounced "TAPPS" there) grocery store. I find it so funny that we don't sound alike because of a lake.

Heh, I got the maps/mops example from your story about going to Topps ("Tapps never staps saving you more!"). It is weird that that specific type of accent didn't cross the river into Canada. My mom has a bit of that accent but she's from Niagara Falls, NY, so it makes sense. We used to always make fun of her accent when we were kids.

[Werewolf]

People find the upper Midwest Wisconsin/Minnesota accent hilarious.

The rest of you just don't talk normal.

[Marvelmania]

No, but it still does make them wrong. It should be called "Pop" of course.

I do hope no one takes any of this seriously. It's meant all in good fun.

I mean there's an entire movie making fun of mid western accents.

You betcha!

IT'S SODA!!!!!!!

[Duncan]

OK...now I really want poutine and a Fresca.

[jwyblejr]

It's absolutely fascinating to cross a border and experience a different accent. What Chris said above about Buffalo is true, I had the "Maps/Mops" experience in a Topps (pronounced "TAPPS" there) grocery store. I find it so funny that we don't sound alike because of a lake.

A lot of them talk like that out in the farms around here too. Especially heading towards Cooperstown.

[PNGwynne]

OK...now I really want poutine and a Fresca.

lol I hope I'm not corrupting anyone.

[Nostalgiabuff]

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 because the area was founded by the dutch, and kill is the dutch word for creek

[RonnyG]

I never understood the difference between supper and dinner. Are they different, or do they mean the same thing like saying soda and pop?

[PNGwynne]

^That's complicated, it has to do with:

*What region you live in.

*What's the largest meal of the day, and at what time.

*Formal vs. informal.

[jwyblejr]

In my house,supper was what we had on Sundays. Dinner was the rest of the week.

[RonnyG]

^That's complicated, it has to do with:

*What region you live in.

*What's the largest meal of the day, and at what time.

*Formal vs. informal.

That's interesting! Dinner does sound more fancy and formal, like in the movies when the butler comes into the room and announces to the guests, "Dinner is served!"
On that note, shouldn't "TV Dinners" be called, "TV Suppers!" LOL