<p>Sorry. A doorwall is a door out to the backyard or patio. Usually a sliding glass door.</p>
<p>I live in Georgia, and I have never heard anyone call soda “coke”, so I completely disagree with that one map. The first time I’ve ever heard anyone call soda anything different was when I moved to Illinois for college. I honestly thought coke was more of a Texas thing than a generic Southern thing. Maybe it’s because I’m in the Atlanta Suburbs, but who knows. I still hate it when people call it pop lol. When I think of pop, I think of pop rocks.</p>
<p>the sounds of “m” “n” and “r” will change the sound of the vowels preceding them, so the sounds of those vowels can’t be directly compared to the sounds of the same vowels in different positions.</p>
<p>Anyone know the term “smackover?” Where are you from?</p>
<p>They forgot to list an option for second person plural: “all of y’all”.</p>
<p>ETA: And now that I’ve read further, apparently I’m not the only one to think so…</p>
<p>I spotted some cocktail napkins the other day that said, “Eat, drink, and be married.” I thought about it and turned it over in my mind a bit and then realized it was probably a lot cleverer if you thought marry and merry sounded the same!</p>
<p>Bubbler- so they use it in Rhode Island also. Very convenient and shorter than those two word versions, the drinking water bubbled up from some fountains at the Madison, WI zoo.</p>
<p>You have to decide whether to take the tollway or freeway when going through Chicago- it can be a time versus money decision. The interstate always has a number with the red white and blue signs (and some don’t go OOS like the name implies). Highways can be the interstate, a state road or other- some go slow with lights or stop signs in town. It always freaks me out to see stoplights on a highway outside of a town or city- the main highway should be the fast, no stopping one.</p>
<p>Soda in Milwaukee but pop in Madison, a college transfer said it was soda pop in St Louis back in the early '70’s.</p>
<p>Ask if someone would like a drink and you mean something alcoholic, something to drink means a fluid.</p>
<p>Always thought the pronunciation of “vehicle” was very indicative of area of US.</p>
<p>Virginia is a mishmash of people from Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and other places who’ve come here for work in addition to the natives. So it’s kinda really skewed. I wish we could get them to differentiate between natives and non-natives in these surveys…</p>
<p>In the Boston area you’d buy a pony keg (a half sized keg) at a packie. </p>
<p>“Your cousin is gonna get you a pony keg from the packie? Wicked ****a! Just make sure you don’t get pulled ovah by no statie on the Pike on your way back to the Zoo!”</p>
<p>For a little fun with regionalisms:
[The</a> Real Housewives of South Boston - YouTube](<a href=“The Real Housewives of South Boston - YouTube”>The Real Housewives of South Boston - YouTube)</p>
<p>Something I realized kinda irks me this morning: people who end the days of the week with “-ee” instead of “ay”. “Fridee.” <em>shudder</em></p>
<p>It was interesting to see this for my area, Huntsville, since there are fewer and fewer people native to Alabama. The high tech companies have brought a lot of people from around the US.</p>
<p>Right, so it’s a conglomeration of Pop/soda/Coke, college/cawledge, wash/warsh, sophomore/southmore, you guys/y’all, think/reckon, call/holler, carry/tote, and buggy/shopping cart population. </p>
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<p>@HisGraceFillsMe - LOL - That’s something that’s done here all the time! </p>
<p>@mom2collegekids - We experience that phenomena here too. More so in “the city”. (Houston)</p>
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<p>Yes. “Tennies” for short. :)</p>
<p>Here’s one I don’t think that’s been mentioned yet. I think this is a Boston thing since I notice it when I’m watching the Red Sox (oh, Jerry Remy, I hope you’re back soon)…</p>
<p>There are random “r” sounds inserted - I can’t figure out why, but I think it has to do with the ending sound of word (ending in a vowel sound??)</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>Tonight’s Amica Pitch Zone brought to you by Amicer Insurance…
Wear your seatbelt, it’s the lawr in Massachusetts…</p>
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<p>JustaMom - Where you have an added r, you also have the dropped r. “My sista had an idear.” Sometimes the r is dropped in the middle of a word too, Dorchester becomes Dah-chest-ah.</p>
<p>Emaheevul - I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the Mary, marry, merry thing. I grew up in New England and have no idea how one would possibly pronounce these three words differently.</p>
<p>Ema, my fiance is also from west Michigan. So is my other roommate. They both think I’m crazy lol.</p>
<p>Though no baggles here. My friend from Jersey says that though.</p>
<p>Here in my area some people put an extra H in some words beginning with S. Like “Shtreet.” Drives me nuts.</p>
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Marey
Mahrry
Mehrry</p>
<p>I grew up in New England as well and I’d pronounce all three “Marey.”</p>