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

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Slidell, huh? Covington High class of '86. Will be in Slidell over Christmas visiting my sister and mother.

Cool. Graduated in Tangipahoa Parish (Oak Forest Academy) in 1985. Moved to Slidell in 1995.

It's a small world.

Lived in Tangipahoa (Uneedus) from '77 until '87 (originally from Metairie), about 3 miles across the St. Tammany Parish line. Used to go to Loranger, but my mother had me switched to Covington for high school 'cause she didn't like the crowd I was hanging out with. She was able to pull a few strings as a teacher there.

Missouri - pop, subs and lightning bugs

Sneakers - tennis shoes - running shoes - I don't know which to say these days

Eastern Nebraska

Pop

Hoagie

fireflies

sofa

fridge (altho I'm older and still revert to icebox like my folks did)

I'm really enjoying this thread a lot - love linguistics soooo much! And love the world - wide view this is presenting! Thanks everyone for keeping it going.

Pop, subs, fireflies...

And apparently MN is the only state to call a certain childhood game "duck duck, grey duck"

Tucson, AZ

Soda
Subs
There's no such things are fireflies here. So sad, I grew up in CT and miss them.
Sofa although I will also use couch
Refrigerator or fridge, never icebox

Actually, this area is a big mix of people from all over the country that you hear many different terms for the same thing. I grew up calling them sneakers but most people here call them tennis shoes or "tennies" and I've conformed.

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!

You must be in Pittsburgh or close by. Those are Pittsburgh-isms. Like rubber bands are gum bands, and thorn or briar bushes are jagger bushes.

Pop.
Subs.
Lightening bugs.

Michigan, represent.

I'm from Ohio. I say pop, sub and lightening bug. Sometimes I say soda because I've met a lot of people who say soda and I just picked it up.

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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

Agree on all of this, drives me crazy that my mom says Missourah....she was born and raised here, my brother and I did not pick that up from her thankfully.

Hoagies, soda, and lightning bugs.

The phrase "it's all" when referring to something being all gone.

Yup, central PA here. Lol

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!

Iowa here. We say the same.

Originally from St. Louis:

Soda
Subs
I've used Lightning Bug and Firefly interchangeably.*

*Note: I'm now in the Pacific Northwest and don't use either term because we don't seem to have these bugs here. It makes me sad. Did you know their eggs glow?

Soda, Sub, and Fireflies!! New Mexico native!!

Ditto from New England.

Northeast Delaware/Philadelphia metro area....

All the signs on the sandwich shops say "Subs" but a lot of people around here call them Hoagies too. And when a sign on a shop says "Steaks", they aren't talking about New York Strip.....they're talking about thin sliced beef in a sandwich.

Soda....NEVER "pop"

I've heard people call them both fireflies and lightning bugs around here.

In upstate NY, ppl call creeks...'criks'. I don't get it.