Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express
I don't guess I know what they are called. Maybe lint ball?
Last year when my daughters were in first grade, their class was trying to find lots of homophones (words that are spelled differently and sound the same).
I grew up in Texas and these words sound the same in Texas.
Pin & Pen, Din & Den, Bin & Ben, Tin & Ten
However, we live in California and they are not considered homophones here. I've told my daughters that their teachers are wrong, and they are homophones.
Yep
Except when they say they don't have coke .. then I ask for a soda :0)
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.
merry christmas
Everyone I know around here (Louisville) says "coke." However, born in California, I do find myself saying "soft drink" sometimes. When my good friends from Eastern Kentucky say "give me a pop," it always sounds like they want me to hit them. LOL.
Born and Raised in Ohio. It was Pop. Moving to the Socialist Democratic Republic of New Jersey took much adjustment. It was almost painful for a while to ask for Soda. I've adjusted after 8 years.
100% posilutely absotively right-on. Any REAL southerner knows it's all coke...you just have different flavors whether it be Dr. Pepper, orange, grape, or my personal favorite, a good ol' cold R(ruh)C co-cola.................
Sorry DW. I only posted it, I didn't create the map - I cannot attest to the accuracy for your area. :)
Was it a "POP" fountain that started it all or a "SODA" fountain?
An expression which my Mother used to use and I never even knew it was regional until I got to Kansas and they thought I was weird is "it came up a cloud" for "it rained".
Here's another one...what do you call $1 bills? Ones? Singles?
Here in New York, they're called "singles" (as in "do you have 5 singles for a five?") I thought this was universal until I was out of state once, needed change and asked for "singles" and the person looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe thought I was a "swinger"! LOL
Exactly why I call it soda even though everyone else around me calls it pop or coke.
ping
Yep, my wife's 90 year old aunt does the same. I call it a couch.
I'm near the Philly area and it's called ones
As a kid Southerner visiting my cousins in South Boston, I was perturbed to be offered a "tawwwnic" in bottles from the Cott Co. 'Zat fer yer hair? No, stoopid, ya drink it!
Make my coke a Nehi grape.
"Gimme a Budwiser"
"What kind?"
"Huh?"
"What kind?"
"Oh, I see,,,ummm,,, make it a Miller Lite Budwiser"
The store's name is "SOFA EXPRESS" not "COUCH EXPRESS" or "DAVENPORT EXPRESS". ;)
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