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

Lisa1971
Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
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Do you say Pop or Soda?
Hoagies or Subs?
Lightening bugs or fireflies?

I'm from Ohio but now in PA and I say Pop, subs, and lightening bugs.

Tell me what you say and where you are from and add in new words too!
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  • fr053n
    fr053n Posts: 2,793 Member
    I'm from CA and have always said:
    soda
    subs
    fireflies

    and I say couch not sofa
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    pop. subs. lightning bugs.
  • collingmommy
    collingmommy Posts: 456 Member
    Soda, sub, lightning bug, Kentucky girl
  • geozinger
    geozinger Posts: 1
    I'm from Northeast Ohio, lived in Western PA, Georgia and now Western Michigan. I've always said pop, subs, lightning bugs and couch. ;)
  • WhatAnAss
    WhatAnAss Posts: 1,598 Member
    GA girl everything is a coke, subs, lightening bugs
  • JamieG8991
    JamieG8991 Posts: 1,203 Member
    Soda, subs, lightening bugs and I'm from Arkansas
  • Michelle_Padgett13
    Michelle_Padgett13 Posts: 417 Member
    I'm in Savannah, GA. It's not pop or soda. It's Coke (it's used as a generic term like Kleenex and Xerox).

    Subs. And fireflies.

    We also say "fixing to" instead of "going to/preparing to," "tote" instead of "carry," and "carry" instead of "give a ride to." For example, "I was fixing to make lunch, but we're out of bread. Can you carry me to the grocery store and then help me tote the groceries into the kitchen?"

    :smile:
  • BruinsLeafs718
    BruinsLeafs718 Posts: 397
    from central northern ontario(canada)
    Pop
    Subs
    LIghtning Bugs/fireflies... depending on the weather.. if its after a storm, they get referred to as lightning bugs.. on a beautiful night.. they are fireflies
  • scottkjar
    scottkjar Posts: 346 Member
    Iowa native, but lived all over, currently in Las Vegas.

    Pop
    Dagwood or Hero Sandwich
    both Lightning Bugs and Fireflies
    Davenport, not couch or sofa
  • twinteensmom
    twinteensmom Posts: 371 Member
    I grew up near Chicago with a mother from Philadelphia and a father from Detroit, and I am now in Vermont. So, it's soda pop, both lightening bugs AND fireflies, and most of the time, it's grinders instead of subs like I used to call them.
  • Proph24
    Proph24 Posts: 195
    boston

    soda/tonic,
    sub/grinder,
    da faq is a lightning bug?:huh:
  • jeannemarie333
    jeannemarie333 Posts: 214 Member
    Chicago born and raised and we say

    "Pop" "Subs" and "Lightening bugs"
  • moij0
    moij0 Posts: 87
    cumbria (lake district) nw england

    pop subs fireflies sofa

    see we are not so different over the pond

    Marra means friend here in cumbria.
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    Originally from Ohio and Michigan, but been in NC for 30 years. I say soda, sub and firefly or lightening bug, whatever comes out of my mouth. My husband is originally from Long Island and has been here for 25 years, he says soda, hero and firefly.
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    Texas:

    Everything is called a coke. When you say you want a coke, you will be asked which kind. I guess subs? And lightning bugs for sure

    We also say yall of course, and some countrified folk say 'aint' and 'fixin to' but not all Texans. Ok, ok sometimes I'll accidentally let a 'fixin to' slip but it's rare. Oh, and something my Colorado born husband doesn't understand.. the word 'pallet' and I don't mean the wood kind. Anyone else use that term?
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Fizzy drinks
    I had to google hoagie... no idea what the eff it was - baguette
    Firefly

    London, UK.
  • shellbell696969
    shellbell696969 Posts: 4 Member
    In australia - its a soft drink - roll and fire fly
  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
    I'm from CA and have always said:
    soda
    subs
    fireflies

    and I say couch not sofa

    Ditto above in Missouri - in the city - out in the country the only exception is the occasional Sr. citizen still calling their couch or sofa a davenport.

    And it is Missoureeeee - not Missourah
  • SaintGiff
    SaintGiff Posts: 3,679 Member
    Originally from southern IL, where it was Coke, Sub, Ligthnin' Bug.

    Now in Toronto, where it is Soda, Sub, Firefly.
  • Meerataila
    Meerataila Posts: 1,885 Member
    Soda sub fireflies
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    Born and raised in South Carolina, currently in Virginia until I can go home again!

    We say Coke as in, "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Bring me a Mountain Dew."
    subs
    lightening bugs
    Oh and that thing you push around the grocery store is a buggy, not a cart.
    Supper is served at night, not dinner.
    And I do say I'm "fixin to" do something.

    My Popeye (grandfather, couldn't say PeePaw when I was little) still calls the refrigerator the ice box. :heart: I just love that man.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    I'm in Savannah, GA. It's not pop or soda. It's Coke (it's used as a generic term like Kleenex and Xerox).

    Subs. And fireflies.

    We also say "fixing to" instead of "going to/preparing to," "tote" instead of "carry," and "carry" instead of "give a ride to." For example, "I was fixing to make lunch, but we're out of bread. Can you carry me to the grocery store and then help me tote the groceries into the kitchen?"

    :smile:

    You speak my kinda language! Good to know if we do move to Savannah, it will feel like home. :heart:
  • stuart160
    stuart160 Posts: 1,628 Member
    From Scotland but went to High School in SC so it's always Coke by name, subs, lightning bug, buggy, and sometimes I am fixin to get it done
  • TravelinChiGal
    TravelinChiGal Posts: 216 Member
    I grew up saying pop. Went away to college, came back saying soda.

    Always been Subs.

    Toss up between lightening bugs and fireflies. Interchangeable.
  • SandraJN
    SandraJN Posts: 305 Member
    Minnesota. soda, sub or hoagie, fireflies and sofa. No y'all, we say 'you guys'.
  • kethry70
    kethry70 Posts: 404 Member
    Born in upstate ny, grew up in fl, live in ga

    Soda (but its coke here), sub, and I use firefly/lightning bug interchangeably
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    In Northwest Illinois, it's pop, sub, and Lightning Bugs. We have fireflies as well, but they appear after the lightning bugs have gone and they flash in a different fashion
  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
    Coke, subs, and use both lightning bugs and fireflies. Like another Texan said in this thread I sometimes let a fixing to slip.
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    Coke, subs, and use both lightning bugs and fireflies. Like another Texan said in this thread I sometimes let a fixing to slip.

    Do you know what a pallet is? lol. I am afraid this is a very, very countrified word... which would make sense considering my family is very, very countrified.
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    Oh and that thing you push around the grocery store is a buggy, not a cart.

    My Popeye (grandfather, couldn't say PeePaw when I was little) still calls the refrigerator the ice box. :heart: I just love that man.

    It is a buggy in Texas too. And I have stopped the use of the word "ice box," despite my own parents using it. It is a fridge.

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