<p>Slide 7 fails to reference another difference in dialect. The Jefferson County, MO variant of “Ya’ll” is strangely “You’ins”</p>
<p>I’m in Tennessee and I hear all y’all for the plural you.</p>
<p>In Boston, where I’m from, soda is tonic. And a milkshake with two scoops of ice cream is a frappe. </p>
<p>I’ve become totally acclimated to the South now, though, so I no longer use those terms. But I do still say “cahnt” and “pahst.” Some habits are hard to break.</p>
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<p>They say it all to rhyme with Mary, and they get it from the context. My Chicago-born-and-raised husband and kids all say the three words the same; I say them differently (as I was born and raised on the East Coast). My first name has some of the same characteristics as the Mary-Merry-Marry trio, and it gets said a little differently out here than how I say it.</p>
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<p>How does one tell the difference between to, too, and two?</p>
<p>We spent some time in Philly, where “youse” or “youse guys” is heard commonly. Also, don’t dare use any word but hoagie for that long sandwich!</p>
<p>As if the same young attendant would have asked GolfFather if he wanted two to go, too?</p>
<p>By the way, all abbreviations should work as well as “thru.” Pronounced the same, means the same and you save almost 50% of the keystrokes.</p>
<p>I’ve always said, “coke” to mean any soft drink. Ask someone if they want a “coke” and then ask them what kind you have to offer. Sounds normal to me :)</p>
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<p>This has been the opposite of my experience. Growing up in CA it was always freeway. Living in Indiana now it depends. Interstate/highway/freeway are all different. In CA they’re all just called the freeway. And it’s THE 405/605/710/whatever. This is only SoCal and was a big source of debate when I went to school in Northern California.</p>
<p>And don’t get me started on “hella” which has slipped into my vocabulary after 4 years in NorCal, but my SoCal friends insist is not a word.</p>
<p>Another big debate in Indiana (those of us in my Master’s program are all from different places) is soda vs. pop.</p>
<p>We’ve also done the tennis shoe vs. sneaker debate.</p>
<p>And one that I didn’t think of–I once was cooking at a friend’s house (he’s from Illinois) and asked him if he had Tupperware. He gave me a confused look and said “no, but I have some Rubbermaids.” And handed me…a tupperware.</p>
<p>I just always assumed that’s what those food storage containers were called, because that’s what we called them. I had no idea tupperware was a brand!</p>
<p>An interesting one we came across (same friend and I): we were sitting in his apartment one night and he asked me “what’s 63 by 9?” Or something similar and I said, “7.” Another confused look. “No, by means multiply.” “No, by means divide.” He said “No, [insert phrase I don’t remember here] means divide.” “No, that means multiply!”</p>
<p>And I don’t know if this is regional or not, but my building partner would always say “Ten of nine,” “Quarter of five,” etc. and I would always look at him confused and ask, “Do you mean 8:50 or 9:10?”</p>
<p>“Pop” or “soda” - when in Alabama please…PLEASE…don’t use those terms. Just say “soft drink.” “Pop” just makes me want to scream.</p>
<p>As for “you’uns” in Missouri…“you’uns” is a word used extensively by my Western North Carolina relatives. There was a great-great grandfather who disappeared back around 1910 or so, and many years later turned up in Missouri where he had a new family. Maybe there were other North Carolinians who migrated there, too?</p>
<p>SUCH a fun topic!
signed, UA A.B. English degree holder</p>
<p>I grew up using hoagie. Dh thinks Subway is the cause for the change to using the term sub.</p>
<p>I also grew up using pop (parents are from the Buffalo area) but now use soda even though many say coke around here.</p>
<p>POP! lol That is what we say here in Chicago. My darling daughter has taken much ribbing about saying ‘pop’ for soda, or coke as it is called in Alabama. One girl even told her that she had heard that people called it pop, but she had never actually knew anyone who used that. </p>
<p>She has also taken some very good natured teasing about how she says: SAWsage, ChiKAWgo and ‘you guys’. lol I do notice that you guys is being replaced by y’all.</p>
<p>That Chicago A is hard to change…</p>
<p>We call a long sandwich w/ meat a Sub sandwich, short for Submarine.</p>
<p>Actually, we always said that a “shower that occurs when the sun is shining” means that “the devil is beating is wife behind the kitchen door”</p>
<p>I still don’t understand what the door part means.</p>
<p>Forgive my ignorance, but is “sneaker” really a regional term? I’ve know that some people prefer “tennis shoe” but I thought “sneaker” was fairly standard. Quick question on the use of “coke” as a term for a sweetened carbonated beverag, if one is offering two brands, niether of which is Coke, is coke still used? What if the only beverage available was sprite, would “coke” still be offered?</p>
<p>in parts of the South (at least the part I grew up in), ALL carbonated drinks are called “Coke,” as in:</p>
<p>"What do you want to drink?
“A Coke.”
“What kind of coke?”
“Hmm… maybe a Diet Mt. Dew. Thank you!”</p>
<p>yeah, it’s dumb and inefficient, but it’s language.</p>
<p>Here in central Alabama, we call any type of sandwich just that–a sandwich. Not subs or hogies or po’boys.</p>
<p>“Dh thinks Subway is the cause for the change to using the term sub.”</p>
<p>In Connecticut we say grinder even though the Subway sandwich chain was started there.</p>
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<p>Yes, I’ve heard that, too. There are parts of the south where “y’all” is singular and “all y’all” is plural.</p>