<p>I had no idea sear-up wasn’t the standard. lol I thought only grand-mom called it sir-up. Same with sneakers, only where I’m from (Villanova (suburb of Philly)) we specialize every different type of shoe (basketball, tennis, running - shoe) and those “all purpose” type shoes are what we call sneakers </p>
<p>Also one that I was surprised wasn’t one of these maps is “wAter” vs. “wOOter” my area is greatly divided between these two.</p>
<p>Those of us from the Philadelphia area…how about the funny looks directed at us when pronouncing the word for the liquid which comes from the faucet…“wooder” right? Or the word mountain…I can’t even write phonetically how we pronounce it, but it is very different from anywhere else!</p>
<p>em1994, great minds think alike!! Sear-up is the way to go!</p>
<p>@beachfam it definitely is! Sir-up just doesn’t sound right. And the only “sub” I know of is a submarine.</p>
<p>Working as a bartender in college it always amazed me what folks called a glass of beer pulled from a keg. There was draft, shell, pull and draw to name a few.
What do most of you call it?</p>
<p>Interesting I liked it…actually some things got me mad ;)</p>
<p>Also…
What?</p>
<p>I was also sad to see the very small number of people who say gymshoes 
Other than that about everything was right for my area.</p>
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<p>But is it “wooder” or “wudder”? </p>
<p>I guess I’ve heard both ways around Philadelphia. Like when I walked into a convenience store in South Philly that had a sign outside that said “water ice,” which my daughter tells me is a favorite Philadelphia confection. Philadelphians insist it’s different from the Italian ice you get in New York or Chicago. Naturally, I wanted to try some. So I went in and asked for “water ice” in my broad Midwestern accent. The cashier looked at me in total bewilderment and asked me to repeat myself. I said, “I want some water ice; you have a sign outside that says you have water ice.” She again looked completely befuddled, then suddenly her face lit up.</p>
<p>“Oh, you want WUDDER ice!” Then she yelled into the back room, “Hey, Marge, do we have any wudder ice?” Turns out they had just finished the last of the season, so I never got to try it, but D1 and I have shared a chuckle over that story many a time since then.</p>
<p>The drive through liquor stores I’ve seen are at the NC shore. As GF noted they sell wine and beer. They’re called a Brew-thru. I’m not sure if that’s brand, but it’s the only thing I’ve ever seen them called. </p>
<p>From Va it drove me nuts spending 5yrs in Western PA to hear yuinz, slippy, gumband, and the odd disappearance of “to be”…it needs washed, it needs fixed. What the?? Then there were gobs which we had no equivalent for. Two round pieces of cake with gobs of frosting in the middle. Ugghh. </p>
<p>I do say y’all, soda, sneakers or tennis shoes are interchangeable, I have an aunt who I call Auntie (ants crawl on the ground), so naturally I say envelope the same way. I’m guilty of r in warsh. Shore instead of beach. Subs are the big sandwiches. I refuse to say tomatah, but my mother, Auntie, and Nana do/did. Tomato (long o). I don’t call roads anything but their assigned numbers…66, 95, 81, or the bypass, which is literally called the bypass.</p>
<p>My girls had fun with this. We say tennishoes. All run together. Not tennis shoes…tennishoes.</p>
<p>Here in Tennessee folks mash the button on their camera to make a picture. I have heard mamaw, memaw, nana, and nanny for grandmothers.</p>
<p>In Texas, I have heard LOTS of different words for grandparents. I think partly it’s related to heritage. We have a large Czech population, German, Mexican, etc. Also grandparent names are often picked or pegged by the first grandchild. My paternal grandmother was “Bobby” to the first of 11 grandchildren, so it was Bobby and Big Daddy for all of us. Maternal grandparents were Nanny and Pa-pa (Pawpaw).</p>
<p>When I was growing up in western PA, my NC-born mother was horrified by “yinz” and “yinzers” and threatened to wash my mouth with soap if I ever said either. The correct term in her book was “you” or “you guys.” Ironically, she never objected when we visited her family in western NC and returned to PA saying “y’all” with a NC twang. ;)</p>
<p>Another western PA idiom that I have never heard anywhere else is “nebby nose” or the verb “to neb.” A “nebby nose” is a busy body who “nebs” into other people’s business.</p>
<p>i basically live in DC, and we have a city in maryland called bowie and we pronounce it boo ē</p>
<p>VillageMom (#52) “Pony Keg”
Yes, born and raised in Dayton. </p>
<p>Married a southerner.
Spent 11 years in Arkansas. Just got a lot of laughs out of “**** Southern Women Say” videos (on youtube).</p>
<p>Near Pittsburgh, I believe the correct construction is “the lawn needs mowed.”</p>
<p>My favorite is that most of the US knows what “the City” refers to.</p>
<p>My Dad (Chicago) and my mother (Boston) used to argue about merry, marry and Mary all the time.</p>
<p>Weirdly my mother’s sister says tomahto while she says tomayto.</p>
<p>How do you all pronounce radiator? Raydiator or Radd iator? </p>
<p>It’s draft beer, unless I’m in Germany then I want my Ma</p>
<p>I say ray-diator. </p>
<p>And I say wooder like a true Philadelphian. I had a client who marketed a major flavored water brand, and when I would present to them, my team members would sit in the back of the room and add up how many times I said “wooder” and snicker.</p>
<p>I love strong Boston accents.</p>
<p>car keys = khakis </p>
<p>And also, “Park the car in Harvard Yard.”</p>
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<p>Half of the US knows that it refers to something OTHER than New York – or actually, doesn’t have much of any reference to “The City.” The biggest concentration of “Other” is in NorCal. San Francisco should have had its own color.</p>
<p>^ I’m confused as to how “most” of the country knows what the city is. That map looks pretty blue to me. </p>
<p>I think most of the country just calls it “New York” (because that’s all that’s in New York, right? :p)</p>