Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express
8-) Mmmmm... Cheesesteak.
But you still can't beat a good Italian with oil and hots.
LOL! My Gus won't appreciate being called "fluff and debris" though!
Coke for me in south FL! :-)
OK, what the hell is a "cabinet." They had that on the menu at Bergson's.
You know you are really in the South when your hear "Co-koler".
I never knew you grew up in Maine. My sister-in-law is from there. After a few years I finally started to understand her!
My mom always called the couch the divan. I called it the divan until my hubby from WI had no clue what I was talking about. There there is the difference between vacuum and sweeper! Errrrrrrr.
Give me an RC dope and and a Moon Pie, and I'll be fixed 'til supper.
"This is kind of like when you go to a grocery store. Up north you get a paper "bag". Down south you get a "sack". "
Or a "poke."
Two different things: a vacuum cleaner is electric, and a carpet sweeper isn't -- it's mechanical.
Ok .. now I getting hungry ...
Um, there is another way to pronounce those two words? ;-)
Ahh, can't wait to spend some time in New England again. I'll come back to Cali with my outrageous (by their standards) accent in full tilt for a day or so.
Yes. But since we don't own a sweeper I think my engineer husband ought to understand that when I ask him to "sweep" the house that I really mean to use the electrical vacuum. But he plays dumb and says he can't sweep because he doesn't have a sweeper. But these responses are from a guy that calls a water fountain a Bubbler.
Obviously, the creater of this map doesn't have a clue. New Hampshire shows a whole state of "Soda." That is BS. Up here we call it "tonic," pronounced "tawnic."
I recall hearing one of my grandpa's friends always called it a 'dope'.
I always thought that was so odd.
Personally I say 'soda', though I live in a county colored lime green ('other').
Pop it is. I grew up in Central Illinois. Coke is just one of the brands that happens to have cola in it ;-). We specify drinks by brand around here!!!!! (grin)
Strictly speaking, a "davenport" is a particular type of sofa that converts to a bed. I can't remember which mechanism the davenport uses, though, but it was once a trade name which became generic. I don't have time today to research it.
. . . Massachusetts wherein the ice cream was kept in a "cabinet". The pharmacist/soda jerk began calling a mixture of milk, ice cream, and syrup a "cabinet" ...
www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m0621M04.htm
Now that you mention it, I'm sure I've encountered this use of the term and I'm going nuts trying to remember where. Probably read it somewhere, but that's not much help.
Do you keep your dishes in a cabinet or a cupboard?
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.