In your neck of the woods...What do you say?

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  • HypnoticEuphoria
    HypnoticEuphoria Posts: 46
    Washington
    - I say Pop and Soda equally
    - I don't use Sub or Hoagie. I just call it a sandwich.
    - Firefly
  • MissMamaAndrea
    MissMamaAndrea Posts: 99 Member
    Utah
    Soft drink, sandwich and we don't have lighting bugs / fire flies
    we also say frick and heck instead of swearing haha!
  • faceoff4
    faceoff4 Posts: 1,599 Member
    SoCal - surf's up and dude does get thrown around a lot unfortunately
  • 303enfield2
    303enfield2 Posts: 6
    poo
    poo
    poo
  • 324_B21
    324_B21 Posts: 122 Member
    Soda
    Subs
    Lightning bugs

    I'm from Virginia.
  • treesha450
    treesha450 Posts: 321 Member
    Do you say Pop or Soda?
    I go back and forth. I grew up in NY and said soda, moved to Wa and say pop most of the time
    Hoagies or Subs?
    another change in NY we said Sub or submarine sandwich. I now say hoagie
    Lightening bugs or fireflies?
    I haven't seen a lightning bug since I moved to Seattle. but we know what they are and people here call them firefly's.

    Here is one for ya. dragonfly's are called 'diamond needles' in NY, at least back in 1979 when I lived there !
  • karlschaeffer
    karlschaeffer Posts: 1,507 Member
    Philly born & bred. Soda, Hoagies are hoagies, everything else is sandwiches. Lightning bugs. It's Iggles, not Eagles. Go Birds!
  • cakebatter07
    cakebatter07 Posts: 814 Member
    Born and raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

    I say soda, subs, and fireflies.
  • liftmeup1
    liftmeup1 Posts: 373
    If you say pop....you are just wrong!
  • palmerdanielle
    palmerdanielle Posts: 341 Member
    Southern Ontario, Canada.
    Pop, subs, fireflies
    :drinker:
  • stormbornkraken
    stormbornkraken Posts: 302 Member
    I am trom Florida and it is soda, subs but I must add there is a clear difference between a firefly and lightning bug. Two different insects. One has a glowing abdomen and one has two false glowing eyes.
  • SusanUW83
    SusanUW83 Posts: 152 Member
    in CA it's soda, subs, and what are fireflies except in movies?
  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    dontcha know
  • Phaedra_27
    Phaedra_27 Posts: 26 Member
    I'm from MI--it's pop, subs, and fireflies :glasses:
  • rowlandsw
    rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
    Philly born & bred. Soda, Hoagies are hoagies, everything else is sandwiches. Lightning bugs. It's Iggles, not Eagles. Go Birds!

    Funny you should mention the Iggle thing. We have a chain of grocery stores called Giant Eagle based out of pittsburgh but down there everyone calls it Giant Iggle lol. Though they did have video stores called Iggle Video in them until the mid 2000s.
  • abyt42
    abyt42 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I grew up in CA, but am now in OR.

    Soda, for clear/citrus/seltzer. or Cola, if I mean "brown pop"
    (we don't have fireflies, but fireflies)
    Hoagies (if you mean the meat/cheese/oil & vinegar sandwiches), but subs if you mean from Subway.
    We have a sofa.
    And "traffic circles." (It's not a roundabout. It's a snarl waiting to happen, people.)
  • starrylioness
    starrylioness Posts: 543 Member
    GA girl everything is a coke, subs, lightening bugs

    Same here in NC.
  • RachelSteeners
    RachelSteeners Posts: 249 Member
    Soft drink
    Roll or sandwich
    Beetle

    I'm Australian :)
  • caseyjarryn
    caseyjarryn Posts: 61 Member
    Australian here:
    Soft Drink
    Salad Roll?! Sub if from Subway.
    We don't have them, but I guess I'd call them fireflies. closest thing we have here in Tasmania are glow worms (that obviously don't fly).
  • MelaniLight
    MelaniLight Posts: 738 Member
    Soda
    Hoagie
    Firefly
    I live in Oklahoma, but grew up in Germany, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
  • Ideabaker
    Ideabaker Posts: 531 Member
    Where I live now in New Zealand:

    Fizzy Drink
    Roll
    We don't have fireflies here (sniff, sniff)

    Where I grew up in Oklahoma/Texas, it was:

    Pop (or "Coke")
    Submarine Sandwich
    Firefly or Lightning Bug
  • dogluvr_2014
    dogluvr_2014 Posts: 54 Member
    Originally from Baltimore, MD... soda, subs and lightening bugs. The funniest thing was when I lived in San Diego years ago and was working as a vet tech at an animal hospital. Another tech was leaving for the day and had a dead car battery so I had to call the main office to let them know we would be outside for a bit since we were the only two there at the time. I told them I was going outside to give her a "hot shot". Since they only knew it as a jump start (which I had never heard of before) they thought I was trying to give her a needle.
  • Phaedra_27
    Phaedra_27 Posts: 26 Member
    If you say pop....you are just wrong!

    Don't hate lol
  • Ribena145
    Ribena145 Posts: 201 Member
    Canada here (BC): soda (most here don't know what I'm talking about, picked this up in California), sub, firefly, couch and don't forget sneekers, tennis shoes or runners - I say runners.....
  • Cudleigh
    Cudleigh Posts: 188 Member
    I'm from Massachusetts.

    I say soda. Never ever pop.
    Subs, for the most part. Sometimes I hear bomb/grinder
    Fireflies!


    Also this reminds me of the dialect quiz/map.
    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
  • ChasingMyBliss
    ChasingMyBliss Posts: 803 Member
    Here in Montana ... It is pop, subs. We don't have any fireflies!! So when we see them, it's usually "cool"!
  • leadslinger17
    leadslinger17 Posts: 297 Member
    I'm from North Carolina and I say soda, subs, and lightning bugs.

    I don't know if that is true NC/southern dialect though, my dad was from Baltimore and my mom was from outside of Pittsburgh so I don't think I speak like "real" southern people, lol
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  • bugaboo_sue
    bugaboo_sue Posts: 552 Member
    East Coast:

    Soda
    Grinder
    and I use lightening bug and firefly interchangeably.

    I did one of those "what region are you from" quizzes twice and both times it gave me the same answer and was spot-on.
  • yellowlemoned
    yellowlemoned Posts: 335 Member
    I know know which neck of the woods this counts as since I've moved around so much (Texas NY Michigan California)

    Coke
    Sub
    I say both but probably firefly more (I know i said lightning bug more as a kid)

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