Archive through December 24, 2003
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Archive through December 24, 2003
Twiggyish | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 12:15 pm     Pcakes, your friend must have been in a different area of Florida. I've never heard anyone, except my grandpa from Tennessee call the fridge an icebox..LOL |
Pcakes2 | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 01:33 pm     I got used to the ice box..it's the buggy that cracks me up! |
Whoami | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 01:43 pm     You know, I think I remember my grandma calling it a buggy once in a while. She was from Oklahoma. How about this one...do you "wash" or "warsh." Our whole family "warshes." But, we do acknowledge our nation's capitol as "Washington" (I have heard people say Warshington). We've always figured we got that extra "r" from our grandma's Oklahoma roots. |
Lkunkel | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 01:53 pm     I grew up with Pop in Michigan, and then moved to Vegas and started with Soda. DH and I WASH, as opposed to warsh, at least in our little corner of short-a Nevada. (As opposed to umlaut-a Nevada) |
Treasure | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 01:58 pm     I was born in "Warshington" state and lived there until about age 8. I have always put that r in the name and still "warsh" my hands and put my clothes in the "warshing" machine. Treasure |
Bobbie_552001 | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 02:34 pm     I'm from Ohio and its "pop" for us. I always blamed this on my grandmothers West Virginia roots, but I always say "warsh"...and a "down yonder" even slips out once in awhile. |
Pcakes2 | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 02:58 pm     I wash, but my mom warshes. She does OK with Washington, but has a problem with the state below it...ARR-A-GON |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 04:08 pm     I warsh. It doesn't sound right to waaaaash..LOL |
Landi | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 04:43 pm     i warsh clothes, i've never been to warshington, i have been to arragon, i drink soda, y'all are my friends, and every now and then i bake a pah (i.e. pie) now the clincher - i'm a californian - it's living with my virginian aunt that did this to me. |
Neko | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 05:06 pm     NS Canada - I say pop or coke. For every flavour... Ps - I've never called my couch, a "chesterfield" or my napkin, a "servette"  |
Sia | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 07:13 pm     Growing up in Ohio in a middle-class family, I rarely was given (or even offered) pop. My family just didn't drink it. We drank lots of milk and we had lemonade and fruit punch delivered to the house in 2 1/2-gallon fridge dispensers. This was in the 1960s! When we moved to a rural part of the state, my well-to-do cousins always offered us pop from the fridge. What was this strange nectar of the gods? They always had at least three flavors from which to choose. These "rich" cousins were always the ones who sent out for Pizza whenever we stopped to visit. What fun memories; what a great thread! I tend to call pop "soda" now, but can't say why. My great-aunt from North Carolina always offered to get you a "Co-cola," no matter what flavor of pop she had on ice. This would be interesting to ask folks here: do you prefer your soda-pop chilled and served in the bottle/in the can, or room-temp poured over ice cubes (or cracked ice), or chilled and poured over ice? Do you always/sometimes/never use a straw? |
Mamie316 | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 08:58 pm     I like mine chilled and poured over ice. |
Kady | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 10:49 pm     Louisiana-I always say coke!! When I buy groceries, I use a buggy. And when I get home, I put my cokes in the ice box. When I was little, I remember my cousin used the word sofa...it took me forever to realize he meant the couch.  |
Cathie | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 11:17 pm     My mother always refers to margarine as oleo, and even puts it that way in her recipes. I have shared some with friends and always have to tell them what oleo is. She is from Illinois so I don't know if that's where she picked it up or if it's just a sign of her age. And, when we were growing up and visited our cousins in IL they drank sodie while we had coke, lol. |
Melfie1222 | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 11:22 pm     Kaili mentioned bag... I know the word as beyg, rhyming with sag, tag, rag, all of those. Some of my friends from California pronounce it baaaahhg. How about where you go to buy food? I call it the store. Some other people call it the grocery store, the supermarket, even the grocery mart. |
Herckleperckle | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 11:45 pm     This Ct Yankee (from DE) says: Wash Bag (with a short a) Lid Grocery store Grocery cart Drinking fountain Refrigerator (and sometimes, 'Fridge') Margarine Sofa (but also, occasionally, 'Couch') Sodas taste best right out of the can--when they are so cold you can taste little bits of ice in the drink. In this case, I need no glass, no ice and no straw. How about 'creek' vs 'crik' (sic)? I say creek. |
Azriel | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 06:18 am     I like my coke as cold as you can get it. I put it in the fridge and serve it over ice. I grew up in Texas and have lived in Louisiana for a long time and it's always called called coke. It doesn't matter if it's margarine or butter, we call it butter. 'Is there butter in the fridge? Yes, we have two packs of Parkay.' I grew up with my parents, who are from Texas, calling the refrigerator the icebox. Of course, when they were growing up the iceman actually came and they put ice in the icebox to refrigerate their food. I call it icebox, fridge or refrigerator, depending on what mood I'm in I guess. I put a lid on it. I wash my clothes. Bag rhymes with hag. |
Kaili | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 06:18 am     I wash my clothes and the "laundry-mat" (not the laundra-mat or any other version of it). I often get thirsty while doing laundry. Usually I'll just get a drink from the fountain (yeah, the water fountain). I love soda from a machine better than from a can or bottle. It tastes different. So I would prefer to stop somewhere and get a medium Pepsi. It's important that the lid is on securely if I'm driving. I wouldn't want to have to wash the pants that I'm wearing while I'm doing laundry! When I go to the grocery store (or just the store, depending on how specific I need to be with whoever I'm speaking to), my groceries are first transported through the store in a cart, then brought home in a "beyg" (bag, long a). When I get home, I put my groceries, including margarine, into the refridgerator. It's margarine o be specific, but generally it's butter because you do the same stuff with it as you do with butter. Sort of like Kleenex. I don't care what brand of tissue it is, I'll call it kleenex. Anyway, sometimes I get lazy and it's the fridge. If it's a frozen item, it will go into the freezer. After a long trip to the store (see, I don't need to say grocery now because you guys know where I was just talking about going to), I like to plop down on the couch. You know, my gramma calls it a davenport? What's that?! The worst thing is to discover a leak in your "ruff" (roof) after a hard day working. Well, even after a hard day playing. One time when I was a little kid (I hear some people refer to them only as children), I was "oot" (out) playing in the creek and came home to a leak in the kitchen. My mom wasn't home so I called my "ant" (not my "awnt" aunt). She helped Story done for now. I love these. |
Jbean | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 07:03 am     i am from missouri (mi-soor-ie, not missour-a, as some people like to call it), where we drink both sodas and pop. we called them pops when i was a kid, but then i guess i got around more cultured people. lol i wash my clothes, hands, hair, etc, not worsh. but my grandma worshes everything. my grandma also uses a tallet, as opposed to the toilet, and then worshes her hands at the lavratory, which i like to refer to as a sink. grandma also likes to "ompen" things, rather than OPEN them. i prefer the latter of the 2. we say bag with a short a, roof (rufe) not ruff, and creek (like creak). i like my sodas best (cold) in the can right out of the refrigerator or vending machine. when i buy soda at the store (or supercenter) i put them in the cart so i don't have to carry them around. those are all the ones i can remember. this is cool to note all the different accents, etc. |
Pcakes2 | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 07:22 am     When I lived in NY, I carried a bag. I kept my money, keys, makeup, check book, etc. in it. My best friend carried a pocket book with the same items. Now that I live in CA, I carry a purse. Do you eat Dinner or Supper? I eat dinner. |
Mamie316 | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 07:47 am     It's dinner though our friends whose mom grew up in Kansas called it supper. |
Kaili | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 08:42 am     I don't think I've ever had supper in my life. Just breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And dessert |
Serate | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 09:48 am     I grew up with breakfast, dinner, & supper. When I was school age at home it was dinner, but school days it was lunch. Now I'm breakfust, lunch, supper. We put our groceries in a sack, the employees that did that were sackers, and my Aunt [ant not ont] calls the cart a buggy, but that's cuz she's bein goofy and I love her for it. [she calls tongs "Froglegs" - I about freaked the first time she said look in the drawer for the froglegs so I can get the tenderloin out of the grease.] Dog is dawwwwwg and I can't even begin to tell you how I say Iowa. [when I moved to kansas I was told I had an Iowan accent, when I came back to Iowa to visit I was told I had picked up a Kansas accent, I say I don't have an accent y'll do!!!!] The nickname I use at a chat is CrickChick so I guess that should tell you how I pronounce the word creek. *L* |
Cathie | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 02:47 pm     My family always referred to meals as breakfast, lunch and dinner, while my husband's, from 40 miles away, called them breakfast, dinner and supper. I was in the city, he in the country if that makes a difference. My secretary, who is a wonderful, sweet lady from rural TX always drops the "L" if it falls in the middle of a word. Jewelry becomes jewery, Pennsylvania is Pennsavania, and help is hep. Her son's name is Michael and she gets that L okay, but the others used to drive me crazy. Now I just think positive thoughts until the irritation passes... |
Texasdeb | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 05:25 pm     Grew up in NW-OK in the 60-70s. We were allowed 1 pop a day after school. It was bottled & bought in a 24ea crate. It was always stored hot (never put in the fridge) & poured over ice. I loved getting the super cold pop out of a coke machine at gas stations. But a real treat was every Sat. going to the local drug store & getting my fav. cherry coke at the soda fountain. |
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