Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express
and do you say wash or warsh...my mom always said warsh..I say wash a lot...I normally say creek though. But that may have been cause I was raised in New Orleans
Aunt. That's a ticklish one. When I was growing up we called our mom's sisters, Auntie (read antie). During a time of being stationed in Abiline Texas, our oldest started saying aunt (read ont). Then we started homeschooling and phonetically it is ont, so now we say Aunt (read ont), although I still call my one remaining Aunt, Antie!
It's an ice cream sundee...
Notice "soda" is in the elite areas of the country, California and the NE.
The word which is mispronounced nearly always and by people who should know better is "forte" when used as someones strong point. It is pronounced "fort", not for-tay which is a musical term.
We always thought it was funny when I moved to New Orleans, that people would say Ont for Aunt, instead of Ant for Aunt, like they were putting on airs. Then they would tease me for saying pin and pen exactly alike...while they made a sound difference. Mary, marry and merry all get pronounced alike out of my mouth, but each are different in New Orleans.
There is definitely a north/south split between coke and pop.
Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana are really interesting because there is a strong current of both there.
Paper or plastic? Just forget the bag or sack part.
Well, here you have the option of either paper or plastic....but I think you are trying to say people will call it a paper bag and sometimes a paper sack.
They always call it a paper bag here....but never the PLASTIC one a bag....it is always a sack.
Very interesting....
Since Caleb Bradham invented Brad's Drink (a.k.a. Pepsi Cola) here at the corner of Middle and Pollack Streets, we say "Pepsi".
I call 'em alot of things. It depends on what I'm doing with it. I keep paper sacks (from the grocery store) for recycling, but I tell the kids to 'bag' the groceries while I pay for them, so I'm not stuck on any one term. I have lived in or spent significant time in 39 of the 50 states so my vocabulary is well seasoned with slang/phrases from all over. For example, I hope I don't hit 'black ice' while going to church where we will have a 'pan of squares' after the service.
My mom says "warsh" instead of "wash" growing up here in Kansas. I never picked up that one.....say wash.
I normally say creek as well. But, I have caught myself saying something basically in between roof and ruff a lot.
Grew up in Illinois and always called it soda.
true....I say "cahn" here.
say cupboard here.
Weird word when you think about it. A cup and a board. There has to be more than one board to house the cups....and you keep dishes in there too.
Exactly. This shouldn't be hard to figure out. :)
I am from NW Florida, and noticed we had just about identical usage on all words, slang etc. but that was the one word which we used differently.
I have a feeling the two areas were settled by identical ethnic groups so the pecan pronunciation must have been a recent divergence.
Now I live in Washington, DC, and call it soda.
I find it difficult to believe that the folks in Cherry County, Nebraska call it soda.
My mom says divan all the time.
I am a couch man.
This stuff is fascinating. I will have to e-mail the website link to my English professor. He loves this stuff.
Pizza Hut is 'carryout,' but everywhere else, I say take out. Say Greazy....and "wash" though my mom says "warsh," driving me nuts.
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