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

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  • bloodyhonest
    bloodyhonest Posts: 196 Member
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    Coke or Pepsi

    iduno
    iduno
  • grandmothercharlie
    grandmothercharlie Posts: 1,361 Member
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    Lisa, I am just the opposite. I am now in Ohio from PA.

    From western PA I say: Pop. Hoagies. Lightning bugs.

    In Ohio: Pop. Subs. Lightning bugs (at least I do).

    When I lived in Pittsburgh for 10 years after leaving my hometown, they really had different terms. They had gum bands (rubber bands), jumbo (baloney), and chimlies (chimneys).
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 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.

    It must be a regional thing in Texas, because I've lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone call it a buggy. I grew up in central Texas, but extended family is all from the DFW area.
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
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    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.

    It must be a regional thing in Texas, because I've lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone call it a buggy. I grew up in central Texas, but extended family is all from the DFW area.

    Might be!
  • lexbubbles
    lexbubbles Posts: 465 Member
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    UK, London (now Glasgow)

    Fizzy drink
    It's only a sub if it's from Subway, otherwise it's a baguette... or just a sandwich
    Fireflies
  • Who_DatWill
    Who_DatWill Posts: 24
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    Louisiana
    Coke
    Sandwich
    Fireflies
  • kikicooks
    kikicooks Posts: 1,079 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.

    I'm in PA now too but from Chicago so I used to say all that but I have transitioned to hoagies and soda sometimes. Still lightening bugs though.
  • kerrilucko
    kerrilucko Posts: 3,852 Member
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    Ontario Canada

    We say pop, subs and fireflies
  • cardbucfan
    cardbucfan Posts: 10,428 Member
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    Grew up in St. Louis but now in Florida

    Soda
    Subs
    Lightning bugs
    Couch

    And definitely ya'll (from my Kentucky born grandpa)
  • TminusFitnessN321
    TminusFitnessN321 Posts: 58 Member
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    Every soda is either called a pop or coke, no matter the drink.
    - Oklahoma
  • chelleynicole
    chelleynicole Posts: 1
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    Soda
    Sub (if cold) or Grinder (if hot)
    Fireflies

    I'm from Connecticut. Also, the little pieces on top of your ice cream are sprinkles! Always sprinkles.
  • aedreana
    aedreana Posts: 979 Member
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    LOVE this thread. I have lived in Washington DC (and we call it DC or the District, not Washington), Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Only the tourists ever say pop or youse! I say sofa, soda, (shopping) cart, sub, firefly, tumblebug/roly poly, liquor store, breakfast/lunch/dinner, restroom, and y'all. In Nashville, no one understood me if I said "nabs" which everyone back East calls those packets of cracker sandwiches. I had never heard of "meat and 3" till I lived in Nashville. I say put up for put away, house shoes, purse, and everyone everywhere I have lived calls laundry soap "washing powders" even if it is liquid laundry detergent.
  • LegendaryOrange
    LegendaryOrange Posts: 2,864 Member
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    pop. subs. lightning bugs.

    This. I'm in Buffalo, NY

    I grew up in buffalo and I would say firefly. It wasn't until I moved away that I heard lightning bug.

    Also, for all you Buffalonians out there, I think you're the only ones that call pig in the middle 'pickle' in the middle.
  • UpEarly
    UpEarly Posts: 2,555 Member
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    Lifelong Virginian with New England roots.

    Soda, Subs, Fireflies
  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
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    Haha. Yes. I do slinky. . Both types.

    Too. Funny.

    By the way, I am a RN and my husband is a paramedic. Not a firefighter, just a paramedic. He hates fire.
    That's awesome. I'm an emt. Currently in an emt advanced class, and hopefully soon a paramedic class. I work part time on an
  • zeal26
    zeal26 Posts: 602 Member
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    I'm in Ireland.

    Do you say Pop or Soda? Neither. Fizzy drinks or Minerals.
    Hoagies or Subs? Subs, but use the word hoagies for a specific type made with steak.
    Lightening bugs or fireflies? Don't have these but know them as fireflies.
    Thing you push in the supermarket - trolley
    Place where you buy liquor - off-license
    Thing you sit on - couch or sofa
  • Jelaan
    Jelaan Posts: 815 Member
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    Toronto, Canada here, we say pop/soft drink, sub and firefly (not the TV show), Mixed on couch/sofa and buggy/cart (occasionally trolly) in the store. I was born and grew up in England until 18 and now Canadian and have parents who are now U.S. citizens living in Florida so excuse me for being linguistically confused lol.
  • rollng_thundr
    rollng_thundr Posts: 634 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!

    FYE

    http://popvssoda.com/

    http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-origin-of-hoagies-grinders-subs-heroes-and-spuckies

    http://www.firefly.org/facts-about-fireflies.html
  • christacb
    christacb Posts: 29 Member
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    Southwest Ohio Here!

    Pop
    Hoagies and Subs ( I use both, it depends on the type of meat that is used on the sandwich.)
    Lightning Bugs
  • nicolemtracy
    nicolemtracy Posts: 301 Member
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    Utah

    Soda
    Subs
    Fireflies

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