Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express
Transplanted from Cleveland ("pop") to Johnstown, PA ("soda"). I still get made fun of. This from the people who brought us "buggy" instead of shopping cart, "yuns," "I need to 'bath' the baby," "Be careful, that ice made it awful slippy out," and "my dog needs fed."
I simply cannot STAND the accent.
I am beginning to understand why people in other countries consider English the hardest language to learn!
I don't know anyone in New Orleans who says anything but
' soft drink'. I've heard soda outside in nearby areas, but Coke, to me, is Coca Cola- which I consider to foul to drink.
Pepsi is Pepsi, Sprite is Sprite, etc.
"Maybe it was a brand name at one point. I've heard people call a couch a "chamberlain" too, which is probably due to being fairly close to Canuckastan, where that name is rampant. My mom calls a couch a davenport, as do many of the older folks I know."
Not "chamberlain" - it's "chesterfield". I can't recall offhand where that comes from, either. I seem to remember that "chesterfield" refers to a fairly specific sort of couch/sofa, though. People, at least educated ones, used to be much more precise in their use of language than they are today.
I remember mom telling me of the stories of them and about the guys delivering the ice to homes
"i grew up in erie county,n.y and it was called pop.
after my first tour in the marines coming back from camp pendleton i asked my mom to get me some soda.
she returned with plain soda water."
But, it's the one everyone wants to learn!
I remember that from Little House on the Prairie. I am in N. AL and there was a picture in our paper many years ago which showed a car on ice in the middle of the Tennessee River. Guess it got much colder back then. I think it was from the 30's or 40's.
I don't' think I've ever heard anything besides "dust bunnies" (as a few other posts mentioned). Is there another name or word for them?
I have lived all my 44 years in SE Wisconsin, and I've never heard anybody but an out-of-towner call it "pop." It's always been "soda" around here. Look at the map.
>>Here in California, I think people say "you guys", at least the people I know here do. And this includes if you are talking to girls -- it makes no difference, they're still "you guys".
Not just that, I have overheard teenage girls saying "Dude" to one another.
Tonic.
I recall hearing the term "grubbles", or something of that nature. Maybe from the midwest?
I use to work with a girl from Germany who learned much of her English from the Oxford English Dictionary
One day at work, I was joking around and called her a wench .. she didn't know what I meant and proceeded to look it up in her dictionary .. a few seconds later she yells .. I am not a whore!!
That's when I learned to be really careful with the words I choose *L*
Well, we lived on a farm just outside the city limits and we would go get our ice. My dad knew nearly everyone and that was just a gossip trip! I think the reason we had both was that we had so many people coming to eat with us that that extra ice helped cool our tea! In those days, the refrigerators only had 4 trays and when we had 20 or 30 eating with us, that did not go very far! I remember my brother coming home one time and there was not any space for him to sleep so he slept on the dining room table which was very long. I still wonder how we fed so many people so often! Of course, we grew our vegetables, meat, and fruit so that helped a lot. Ah! The good ole days!
Well I've lived in SE Wisconsin since 1980 and it's always been pop to me. Obviously we've never met.
I grew up in Rochester, New York. It was pop there. When I moved to Auburn, New York back in '80, I had to get used to pop being soda. It's still soda where I live now in Rome, New York. If I end up moving to Florida as I want next year, I see I may have to call it something else again.
Grinder?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.