If I go “to” someone’s house, I enter their home. If I go “by” someone’s house, I just drive past it without stopping in. Maybe the rural roommate was driving past also?
No, go by means stopping in where I live. Usually used by rural people.
Ditto- by means the same as to. " Stopping by…" is a term I use- … the store, someone’s house, means a perhaps quick visit, without much planning.
“Stopping by…” is very common here, but not “go by…”
“Stopping by…” is very common here, but not “go by…”
As a young adult on Long Island, I would get “proofed” before entering a drinking establishment. After I moved to Boston, I would get “carded.”
You would have been carded in Wisconsin also.
I attended college in the south and I’m from the Midwest. I had a Professor talk about “carrying” someone somewhere. I found it amusing because he was going give them a ride. He also would use the term “might could” which I translated to “maybe” or “possibly”.
Jersey shore lingo-
Northern beaches- “Bennie” someone who comes to the shore in the summer. A summer only resident or day tripper. Always had Benny go home parties the weekend after Labor Day. Everyone dressed up like a Benny-Black socks with sandals, a big blow up ducky tube around the waist etc etc. The Southern beaches call the Shoebies… same concept.
Terms from our stay in the Far North Midwest:
parking stall = parking space
coulee = creek
lahvosh = crisp thin saltine-cracker-like crust topped with whatever you like. No, this is not a pizza. Yes, it is served hot.
@washugrad
I can’t imagine why someone would want to drink unsweetened tea, seems wrong to me. I just finished making a gallon of tea, it is now in the fridge chilling, 3 cups of sugar per gallon.
It’s not as common now but older people here always used to put an er sound on the end of things. We had a preacher who grew up in Anderlusier, Alerbamer(not really sure how to spell it the way he said it) and my grandmothers were Lola and Velma, which wound up being Loler and Velmer.
Not a tea (or coffee- can taste the bitterness no matter how doctored- even in a dessert) drinker. I cannot understand how people tolerate sweet tea! Waay too sugary for many tea drinkers. Even sodas or not as sweet! I still remember the old days when McD’s and others did not have those swet tea containers.
Do sweet tea drinkers drink it for the tea flavor or for the sugar? Adding sugar to taste seems the way to go instead of bombarding it with too much sugar.
PS- struck a nerve there. Some unhealthy habits should not have gone nationwide…
Now that I’ve moved from the Northeast to VA, I have to be careful to specify that I want unsweetened tea when I order it.
@wis75
I love the taste of sweet tea, but despise unsweetened or not sweet enough tea, too bitter. Having grown up drinking sweet tea, I’m not sure what it is about it that I like, I just know that I like it. I also don’t like ice in my drinks, it waters them down and I like them full strength. I also despise coffee, even a hint of it in anything. Normally I drink water, sweet tea, mountain dew, or skim milk.
As far as adding sugar to taste, sugar does not dissolve in a cold drink, so that would only work if your tea is hot.
“As far as adding sugar to taste, sugar does not dissolve in a cold drink, so that would only work if your tea is hot.”
It does but takes a little more time and stirring.