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

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  • elv1ra
    elv1ra Posts: 146 Member
    im in alberta canada

    we say pop and subs. i dont know about the bugs, ive never seen one.

    we also call winter knit hats "toques" i think you americans call them "beanies"?

    we call the meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but i was born on the other side of the country where the meals were breakfast , dinner, and supper.

    where i was born we called backpacks bookbags, and pencil crayons "Leds". i have no idea why.
  • lna_1981
    lna_1981 Posts: 696 Member
    Pop, subs, lightening bugs

    I'm in Missouri
  • FrozenSongBird
    FrozenSongBird Posts: 3,892 Member
    Alaska - Soda, Subs, FireFlys
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    Soda, heroes, fireflies, subway, inSURance.
    New Yawk baby!
  • aqualeo1
    aqualeo1 Posts: 331 Member
    Soda hoagies & lightening bugs!
    Northeastern pa
  • just4nessa
    just4nessa Posts: 459 Member
    Growing up in Brooklyn it was soda, heroes and lightning bugs, moved to NJ and it was soda, subs and fireflies. Live in Upstate NY now, still soda and subs but I haven't seen a lightening bug/firefly so I don't know what they call 'em up here.
  • JulieGirl58
    JulieGirl58 Posts: 158 Member
    I lived in Oregon most of my life but now live in Utah. I have always said Soda and Subs and I have never seen a lightening bug or firefly. Or even a cockroach. I've always said davenport, not sofa or couch. Utahans speak rather strangely and have terrible grammar so I have tried not to pick up any bad habits. But occasionally I speak in the vernacular to my embarrassment.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I'm in Missouri and most people in my area call it "pop" but I have always said soda, as do my family & most friends. It's never hoagie, always sub (older folks usually lengthen it to "sub sandwich"), and lightning bug.

    I was probably 25 before I knew lightning bug = firefly. ha! I thought fireflies were dragonflies or something.

    Lightening for lightning is one of my pet peeves. I drive past a business sometimes called "Lightening Lube" and wonder if they are in there doing foils of blonde highlights on the side ;-)

    A lot of older people in my area pronounce washer like "warsher". The Conoco gas station we say "CON-uh-ko" and I know some people from the Northeast who say it a bit like "Koh-NO-ko", it sounds like a Japanese restaurant that way (to my ears).
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    Soda, subs, fireflies

    I'm from NH, so we also use "wicked"
  • BAFilek
    BAFilek Posts: 139 Member
    Minnesota. soda, sub or hoagie, fireflies and sofa. No y'all, we say 'you guys'.

    Minnesota born and bread - pop, sub firefly!! Ya, you betcha! :drinker:
  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    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!

    Not saying exactly where I live but I'm on the east coast.

    Soda
    Subs
    Fireflies
  • NJamison69
    NJamison69 Posts: 12 Member
    Do you say Pop or Soda? - Soda
    Hoagies or Subs? - Sub
    Lightening bugs or fireflies? - Fireflies

    :smile:
  • pentadad
    pentadad Posts: 22 Member
    Texas: Coke, Sub, Lightning Bug
  • MissyI30
    MissyI30 Posts: 382 Member
    So I say soda pop or the specific name Mountain Dew ect. I hate when at a resturant you ask for a Pepsi and the waitress says oh is Coke ok? No, no it isn't because Coke is not Pepsi..lol.
    Sub
    Lightening bug although I don't think I've ever seen either here in New Mexico.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    NY:

    Yo
    B**ch
    Son
    Eff off

    I think that's about it!
  • Pathend2
    Pathend2 Posts: 142
    Soda - never pop.
    Sub
    Lightning bug, although we never really saw many of them.
  • Raniatlw
    Raniatlw Posts: 3
    Alberta, Canada. Pops, Subs, and Fireflies.
  • MissyI30
    MissyI30 Posts: 382 Member
    NY:

    Yo
    B**ch
    Son
    Eff off

    I think that's about it!
    NY sounds like such a friendly place..lol.????
  • getnfit87
    getnfit87 Posts: 34 Member
    grew up in an around Memphis, Tennessee and it was always coke, subs and lightning bugs, and coke as in want a coke? we have dr pepper or pepsi or grape, was all coke regardless if none were coke lol
  • ecphillips1286
    ecphillips1286 Posts: 331 Member
    AZ,
    Soda
    Sub
    We don't see fireflies
  • FeraFilia
    FeraFilia Posts: 4,664 Member
    Soda. Sub. Lightning bug.

    Grew up in Maryland (currently in SC), with a mama from the south and a daddy from the mid-west.

    My vocabulary is all over the place. :)
  • HornedFrogPride
    HornedFrogPride Posts: 283 Member
    Pop (y'all better not be drinkin' pop cuz it ain't good for ya!) (we speak the opposite of Minnesotan aka "Minnesoda"}. You should have proposed "soda pop" as a third way but I wholeheartedly reject pop, soda, and soda pop because they are all bad for ya!:wink:

    Subs (there better be some healthy fat avocado on that there sub!) (hoagies is how they speak in Philly) actually philly is another option. I'll stick with subs:laugh:

    and Fireflies because 1) it's shorter; and 2) I love the show Firefly :love: that was stupidly cancelled. BRING IT BACK network bozos!
    (unless I'm in a nostalgic Mark Twain mood then I may quietly utter or mutter...lightnin' bugs! oops! I can't believe I said that.)

    And the Nebraska plural of y'all is "all y'all" (plural possessive or some crazy nonsense!). Y'all understand?

    From Nebraska, the Good Life :bigsmile: :glasses: :blushing:
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    NY:

    Yo
    B**ch
    Son
    Eff off

    I think that's about it!
    NY sounds like such a friendly place..lol.????

    It really is... haha :)
  • laurie04427
    laurie04427 Posts: 421 Member
    Soda (never met a person in real life that said "pop", only seen that in the movies)
    Subs
    Fireflies
    (from state of Maine, USA)
  • skiextrm
    skiextrm Posts: 144 Member
    Vermont. Soda, grinder/sub, lightning bugs.
  • joecmoore1
    joecmoore1 Posts: 87 Member
    Coca Cola, samich and fireflys. Also, a sofa is a devan. Also...a burlap bag is a toe sack, a paper bag is a paper poke and roofing tin is sheet iron. :)
  • Susanlove316
    Susanlove316 Posts: 28 Member
    soft drinks, subs, lightening bugs
  • MelisRunning
    MelisRunning Posts: 819 Member
    Mississippi here.

    Lightening bugs.

    Soda.

    Sofa.

    Hoagie (went to college in PA)

    Paper bag not sack. So, I have a bag lunch not a sack lunch.

    And...when I am getting ready to do something? I'm fixin' to do it.
  • paulawatkins1974
    paulawatkins1974 Posts: 720 Member
    Pop, subs, fireflys
  • The_Hungry_Atheist
    The_Hungry_Atheist Posts: 55
    Im in florida and we say dr pecker, sammich and glow bugs.

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