In your neck of the woods...What do you say?
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Coke or Pepsi
iduno
iduno0 -
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).0 -
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. 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.0 -
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!0 -
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
Fireflies0 -
Louisiana
Coke
Sandwich
Fireflies0 -
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.0 -
Ontario Canada
We say pop, subs and fireflies0 -
Grew up in St. Louis but now in Florida
Soda
Subs
Lightning bugs
Couch
And definitely ya'll (from my Kentucky born grandpa)0 -
Every soda is either called a pop or coke, no matter the drink.
- Oklahoma0 -
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.0 -
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.0
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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.0 -
Lifelong Virginian with New England roots.
Soda, Subs, Fireflies0 -
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.0 -
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 sofa0 -
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.0
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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.html0 -
Southwest Ohio Here!
Pop
Hoagies and Subs ( I use both, it depends on the type of meat that is used on the sandwich.)
Lightning Bugs0 -
Utah
Soda
Subs
Fireflies0
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