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

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    • 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.
    • Posts: 696 Member
      Pop, subs, lightening bugs

      I'm in Missouri
    • Posts: 3,892 Member
      Alaska - Soda, Subs, FireFlys
    • Posts: 2,168 Member
      Soda, heroes, fireflies, subway, inSURance.
      New Yawk baby!
    • Posts: 331 Member
      Soda hoagies & lightening bugs!
      Northeastern pa
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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).
    • Posts: 1,444 Member
      Soda, subs, fireflies

      I'm from NH, so we also use "wicked"
    • 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:
    • 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
    • Posts: 12 Member
      Do you say Pop or Soda? - Soda
      Hoagies or Subs? - Sub
      Lightening bugs or fireflies? - Fireflies

      :smile:
    • Posts: 22 Member
      Texas: Coke, Sub, Lightning Bug
    • 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.
    • Posts: 4,489 Member
      NY:

      Yo
      B**ch
      Son
      Eff off

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

      Yo
      B**ch
      Son
      Eff off

      I think that's about it!
      NY sounds like such a friendly place..lol.????
    • 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
    • Posts: 331 Member
      AZ,
      Soda
      Sub
      We don't see fireflies
    • 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. :)
    • 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:
    • Posts: 4,489 Member
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      NY sounds like such a friendly place..lol.????

      It really is... haha :)
    • 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)
    • Posts: 144 Member
      Vermont. Soda, grinder/sub, lightning bugs.
    • 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. :)
    • Posts: 28 Member
      soft drinks, subs, lightening bugs
    • 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.
    • Posts: 720 Member
      Pop, subs, fireflys
    • Posts: 55
      Im in florida and we say dr pecker, sammich and glow bugs.
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