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

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.

Lifelong Virginian with New England roots.

Soda, Subs, Fireflies

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

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

Utah

Soda
Subs
Fireflies

I'm from Connecticut. Also, the little pieces on top of your ice cream are sprinkles! Always sprinkles.

are you on crack? they are jimmies! :smokin:

^ it gets better

Oregon...

Pop
Subs
And we have never seen fireflies here, but if we did it wouldnt be a lightning bug..

Also in the south they say buggies, but here they are shopping carts

Also in Alaska a snowmobile is a snow machine. Here we call that something that produces snow

Do you say Pop or Soda? I say do you want a Pepsi, or soda if only generic stuff available
Hoagies or Subs? Sub, the first time I heard someone say hoagie I had to ask what they h*ll the where talking about. lol
Lightening bugs or fireflies? Lightening bugs
Shopping cart or Buggy? Cart, because calling it a buggy is just plan weird!
Sofa or Couch? I sit on a couch, actually its a futon put in couch position lol

I'm from NW Missouri

i shop with a carriage

Arkansas. Everything is a coke then you specify what you want.
Sub or sandwich
lightnin' bugs
Couch
Fixin to
y'all

Scotland, in the UK.

Do you say Pop or Soda? We tend to call everything juice or fizzy juice.
Hoagies or Subs? Depends where you are, I call them Subs, loads of folk say hoagie.
Lightening bugs or fireflies? Never seen one here so never had the need! But I'd say fireflies.

We have so many words that sound bizarre compared to other places in the world, lol. My favourite odd one is 'piece' which we say instead of sandwich! "D'ye want me tae make ye a piece?" "Aye, geez a peanut butter yin, ta." XD

I'm from Central Florida and I grew up using "coke" for just about any soda. The first time I saw a firefly I was up north visiting my grandparents and I spent hours catching them and then later releasing them. I also grew up calling sandwiches "subs" but I heard "grinders" and "hoagies" plenty from people who had moved here from elsewhere. There was a special little sandwich shop in my home town that opened and sold "grinders" and man were those delicious! The owner would also load me up with the veggies she could no longer serve to feed my rabbits. Man did those little buggers get big. Oh, and I laughed as a young kid when I had a new friend from New Jersey use the term "sneakers" in front of me for the first time. I used "tennis shoes" for those. Lots of trash talk ensued. I've lived in enough places now where I tend to use all of these terms interchangeably.

Soda
Subs (or Heros)
Lightning Bugs

just wanna mention by the way, anyone who hadnt heard of hoagies should be ashamed of themselves..does the name Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable mean nothing?!?