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

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  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,512 Member
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    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: 1,512 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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: 304 Member
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    Minnesota. soda, sub or hoagie, fireflies and sofa. No y'all, we say 'you guys'.
  • kethry70
    kethry70 Posts: 404 Member
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    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: 2,723 Member
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    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
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    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: 1,470 Member
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    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: 1,470 Member
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    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.
  • Alisontheice
    Alisontheice Posts: 9,624 Member
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    Now in Toronto, where it is Soda, Sub, Firefly.

    ^^ Yup.I'd also say couch or sofa.

    Others...
    hydro = electricity or power. I.e. The hydro lines came down in the storm last night.
    Bathroom or washroom not a restroom
  • Proph24
    Proph24 Posts: 195
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    parlor = living room
    cellar = basement
    jeet yet? = did you eat yet?
  • 32sami
    32sami Posts: 380 Member
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    pop, sub, and both
  • StraubreyR
    StraubreyR Posts: 631 Member
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    In Connecticut.

    Soda, grinder, firefly

    And the store where you buy liquor? That's a package store or packy!
  • CindyMarcuzAdams
    CindyMarcuzAdams Posts: 4,006 Member
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    Up here in Ontario Canada we say pop subs and lightning bugs. At least I do.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
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    We say "cola" here.

    Here being Germany.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,512 Member
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    In Connecticut.

    Soda, grinder, firefly

    And the store where you buy liquor? That's a package store or packy!

    Do you still have to check out before 8pm and they are closed on Sunday? We left CT 12 years ago, took awhile to get used to those rules when we first moved there!
  • walleyclan1
    walleyclan1 Posts: 2,784 Member
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    New mexico here...

    Coke
    Sub
    I don't think those exist here but lightning bug??
  • llonka
    llonka Posts: 76 Member
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    I'm from Kansas and we say pop, subs and fireflies. :)
  • Bonita_Lynne_58
    Bonita_Lynne_58 Posts: 2,845 Member
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    From Oklahoma and I say Pop, Subs and Lightning bugs

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