Different words for different things

magichatter06

I was born and raised in Oregon.

I live in Connecticut now.

It took me awhile to get used to saying different things. Mainly the soda/pop thing. I grew up calling it pop. Came out here and learned it was soda. Now, when I go visit my family and ask for a soda, they look at me funny.

Also, I grew up with Best Foods mayo which becomes Hellman's on this side of the Mississippi. LOL!

My parents were born & raised in CT and when they moved down here they called it pop...so my bro in law is real southern and he'll say "pop" and my mom goes " We don't have 'pop' in this house we have 'soda'" haha

Losing_It

I too, go to "Wally World" and push a "buggy". Thank goodness I no longer have to purchase "Binkies" or "Passy's" (Pacifier). I do love me some "pop" though...although I'm trying to quit! :laugh:

mburris

In Louisiana it's a buggy.
Any carbonated beverage is a coke.
We call Walmart Wally World

I got one: Some places in Louisiana call grocery shopping "making groceries".

magichatter06

Also, I just thought of...around here, everything no matter what sport it is called "playing ball" and I get confused b/c I'm like which sport is it! Basketball, softball, football, baseball???

haha

heather0mc

my family moved from NYC to a small town in AZ when i was 5. my parents both born and raised in NYC had very different terms for things than they used out there - we were very influenced by CA where i lived.

anyways, my mom called a purse a pocketbook. there were other things too. like soda.

i remember being at a b-day party at the beach where my mom was bbqing some lunch. when it was ready she said - who wants a frankfuter? all the kids looked at her like - what??? i said, mom its a hot dog, HOT DOG not a frankfuter. :laugh: i was embarrassed by my mom's dialect, but now it just makes me smile.

marisa0918

I was raised in PA a little north of Pittsburg

I say....
Wally World
Buggies
Pop
Yinz ( same as y'all)
When I say "warm" it sounds like "worm"
Also when I say "wash" it sounds like "worsh"

And one that no one ever knows..... gumband instead of rubberband

Ohh I forgot this one...I live in FL now so instead of saying Target they pronounce it like tar-zay. When I first heard it pronounced like that I thought it was some fancy store or something :laugh:

Carl01

Get a cart!

My mom was from upstate NY and raised me in Florida. I remember going to Georgia with a friend when I was a kid. I thought they spoke another language there!

I asked for water and she told me to get it out of the spicket :drinker:
Then I had to go to the bathroom and she said the comode was down the hall:noway:
The mom told us to clean my friends room and my friend replied 'aingonndoit'


I really thought it was a different language!:laugh: :laugh:

Imagine being a country bumpkin from NY....no one ever knows what I am saying.

Phoenix_Rising

I carry a purse or a pocket book. Interchangeable. Or if I'm feeling trendy, I carry a "bag". ("Lemme grab my bag, dahling.")
I drink sodas.
I drink sweet tea. (It's the house wine of the South.) Did you know in the South if you order "tea", it's automatically sweet? Down here you must specifically order unsweetened tea. Also, it's always iced. You must spefically state if you want "hot tea".
I push a buggy in the grocery store. Or a shopping cart.
My kid's pacifier was called a paci (passy? shortened version of pacifier) but only because we were too lazy to say "pacifier" and didn't want a really cutesie name like 'binkie'.

My friends in the mountains of NC taught me new phrases during college.
A skunk is a pole cat. (As in, "Shoowee, I smell a pole cat!)
Gasoline is called "push juice" or "go juice" (cause it makes the car go).
Women sit around and "talk stories" (instead of gossip or chat or talk.... i.e. "We were at dinner talking stories when all of the sudden....")

I am Southern so I say "ain't" and "y'all" and "ma'am" frequently.
Other phrases used in my common speak, since I have a 3 y/o: Oh my gracious, oh my goodness, oh my gosh, bless her heart, dang it, what the crap, what the heck, sheesh.
BTW: Bless her heart is usually a way to preface a horrible statement about someone, like "Bless her heart, she has the frizziest hair in the world!" :laugh:

breezysoul

I think this might be regional. Here in Wisconsin, we call the thing you drink water out of that's attached to the wall a "bubbler".

stef_e_b

When I went to New Zealand a lot of the food served was sea food and I don't eat sea food. They would ask me if I wanted a hot dog instead. I assumed it would be a weiner on a bun but it was a pogo (named for the brand) or I'd still know what they meant if they said corn dog or hot dog on stick. But that's a hot dog to them and if I wanted a regular hot dog I would have to say american hotdog and then I'd get teased forever about being a yank...despite being from Canada!!! Sorry just my own little rant lol.

LuckyLeprechaun

I think this might be regional. Here in Wisconsin, we call the thing you drink water out of that's attached to the wall a "bubbler".

I believe that is called a water fountain.

I think "Wally-World" has spread all over the country now, but the first time I heard it, was from my cousins in Oklahoma. They also say "pop". weirdos. it is a SODA! Oh- and the thing you push, in order to gather your groceries? a shopping cart!

LOL my husband and I call Wal-Mart "Mecca" because we lived a 1/4 miles froma super-wal-mart and it seemed like we were making daily (sometimes more than once-daily) trips to Mecca! Now we just say Mecca and nobody understand what we are talking about. :laugh:

Carrie6o6

I call walmart wal-fart. I HATE walmart!! Grocery cart, pacifier, pop (soda is so american ),


Pâté chinois - I think in english... its... shepards pie? with the layer of mashed potatoes, corn and hamburger. Dad is french and we always called it that.

and then Tourtiere, for meat pie. Thats probably a more common word though eh?

Our iced tea in Canada is all sweetened. When I was in cali and got an ice tea! EWWWWW!! It was cold tea!!

I say oh my goodness all the time.. I dont swear and get made fun of for saying things like that. hahaha

and of course... Like a stereo typical Canadian I do say eh... at times.. not ALL the time

LuckyLeprechaun

hey canadians: say this word "about"
Americans say uh-bow-t. canoodians say uh-boot.

LOL

ah it is great.

if Albanians are from Albania, then why aren't Canadians from Canadia? :laugh:

Carrie6o6

hey canadians: say this word "about"
Americans say uh-bow-t. canoodians say uh-boot.

LOL

ah it is great.

if Albanians are from Albania, then why aren't Canadians from Canadia? :laugh:

No no no nooooo!! We DO NOT say a-boot!!! Im south park they say we talk like that. I say about as "ah-bow-t"!! I dont understand where aboot comes from!! EVERYONE i have talked to NEVER says aboot!! YOU HOSER!! :laugh: Thats an old one

LuckyLeprechaun

LOL they do say that on South Park , but I have heard it right out of the mouths of Canoodians as well. I was in Montana and crossed the border into Canadia, so IDK which province I was in, but they said A-boot, and sounded just like the woman in the movie Fargo (dontcha-know) kind of like the accent Tina Fey used when she was mimicking Sarah Palin.

mommared53

I'm orgininally from Missouri and I call it a shopping cart.

mommared53

I call my three main meals breakfast, dinner and supper.

Carrie6o6

LOL they do say that on South Park , but I have heard it right out of the mouths of Canoodians as well. I was in Montana and crossed the border into Canadia, so IDK which province I was in, but they said A-boot, and sounded just like the woman in the movie Fargo (dontcha-know) kind of like the accent Tina Fey used when she was mimicking Sarah Palin.

BC and Alberta are above montana. I live in BC... Its possible some of those crazy albertans talk like that! hahahahaha

magichatter06

I guess this is more of an Italian thing but I call a dish towel a "moppine" (Even before I knew that Rachael Ray did!)

kerrilucko

hmmmmmm living where I'm living (VERY far from home, lol) they call notebooks (like for school) "scribblers". I call shoppign carts buggies too. and I think "Pop" is a canadian thing. I called it soda once and my guy freaked out at me saying "only americans call it that!" :laugh:

kerrilucko

hey canadians: say this word "about"
Americans say uh-bow-t. canoodians say uh-boot.

LOL

ah it is great.

if Albanians are from Albania, then why aren't Canadians from Canadia? :laugh:

No no no nooooo!! We DO NOT say a-boot!!! Im south park they say we talk like that. I say about as "ah-bow-t"!! I dont understand where aboot comes from!! EVERYONE i have talked to NEVER says aboot!! YOU HOSER!! :laugh: Thats an old one

ya I don't even know where that "a-boot" thing came from. NOBODY says that. I have to admit I do say "eh" a lot, but I know a few americans that do that as well so...... lol. :laugh:

laird20k

Hahaha.. I love seeing the differences in Canadian/American talk. I'm from Saskatchewan and when we went to Disney World everyone laughed when we asked where the Washroom was.. I couldn't bring myself to say bathroom either.. A bathroom is in my house not in public.. I feel weird asking where the "bathroom" is in public. I've also kids from the states laughing at our coloured money and asking how we tell the difference.. I don't know how all green money could be easier to tell the difference.. It seems every time I have American money I overestimate... if only I underestimated.. haha..

Hannah_Banana

When my baby brother was actually still a baby, he used to run his skinny naked butt around the house. 'Skinny' stuck.

So now in my family we refer to nudity as 'being skinny' :ohwell:

laird20k

I guess another different word would be Ice Tea.. I get stuck with actual iced tea when I order it in the States.. Up here it's sweetened and hardly has any tea taste.

magichatter06

I was just sitting here and I thought of another one...

You know that thing that you change the channels on the TV with??

I call it a switcher lol I have called it that ever since I was young...I have heard it called a remote and a clicker lol

you?

LuckyLeprechaun

When my baby brother was actually still a baby, he used to run his skinny naked butt around the house. 'Skinny' stuck.

So now in my family we refer to nudity as 'being skinny' :ohwell:

like skinny dipping, right? swimming in the birthday suit?

my parents have a weird one- the thing you hold in your hand, to use to play your video games? they call it a "paddle". IDK where that came from. leftover from the days of PONG? maybe? Idk