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

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  • hannahkoen
    hannahkoen Posts: 18
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    Tonic
    Grinder
    Fireflies
    and Wattah Bubblah :P
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
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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!

    Soda now but I grew up saying pop.

    Hoagies if I make my own but a sub if I get it from subway (when in Rome).

    Fireflies

    Colorado.

    Add in:

    We call it legal now.
  • pinksneakers1
    pinksneakers1 Posts: 8 Member
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    i grew up in Newfoundland, Canada:

    Pepsi and people would ask what kind?
    Sub
    Firefly i guess. We didn't have them in Newfoundland

    Grocery carts
    Cap or hat for toque
    Clip for barrette
    Bar for chocolate bar (or candy bar as Americans say)
    dinner or lunch was at mid day and supper in the evening
    chips for french fries
    chesterfield not sofa
    bonnet of the car - not the hood
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,573 Member
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    Fizzy drinks
    I had to google hoagie... no idea what the eff it was - baguette
    Firefly

    London, UK.



    ^^ this :) ^^

    I thought baguette was the name for the type of bread not the whole sandwich...

    My aunt used to say davenport instead of sofa or couch.

    I use sofa/couch ... firefly/lightning bug interchangeably. We say hoagie or sometimes hero. Soda....99% of the time. Northeast PA.
  • DeterminedBex
    DeterminedBex Posts: 97 Member
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    I'm from australia- here we call soda "soft drink"
    Not sure what the others are tho lol
  • SusanL222
    SusanL222 Posts: 585 Member
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    Here in Maine we just say lobstah! Oh and my grandparents' generation said "sody" for soda pop; davenport for couch; and piazza for porch. Actually, we also say: soda, lightening bugs and subs, although we used to say Italian sandwich. We also like to say "wicked good"; "up the rud a piece"; and we just love a good whoopie pie!
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
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    --- Pop or soda? - I usually order by brand name, and ask for cola if I don't know if they serve Pepsi or Coke. Sometimes I go crazy and say "soda pop"
    --- I'll order a sub at place that don't back the sandwiches, and a grinder if it is baked (like at a pizza place)
    --- Lightning Bug
  • ninzworld
    ninzworld Posts: 1 Member
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    Chicago originally. pop, sub, lightening bug." finna" instead of fixin-to
  • arainiday1
    arainiday1 Posts: 1,763 Member
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    Born and raised in Central Florida which is a mix of EVERYWHERE!!!

    Soda

    Sub

    Firefly

    Couch
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
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    Pop, subs and fireflies up in Canada :)
  • HypnoticEuphoria
    HypnoticEuphoria Posts: 46
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    Washington
    - I say Pop and Soda equally
    - I don't use Sub or Hoagie. I just call it a sandwich.
    - Firefly
  • MissMamaAndrea
    MissMamaAndrea Posts: 99 Member
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    Utah
    Soft drink, sandwich and we don't have lighting bugs / fire flies
    we also say frick and heck instead of swearing haha!
  • faceoff4
    faceoff4 Posts: 1,599 Member
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    SoCal - surf's up and dude does get thrown around a lot unfortunately
  • 303enfield2
    303enfield2 Posts: 6
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    poo
    poo
    poo
  • 324_B21
    324_B21 Posts: 122 Member
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    Soda
    Subs
    Lightning bugs

    I'm from Virginia.
  • treesha450
    treesha450 Posts: 321 Member
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    Do you say Pop or Soda?
    I go back and forth. I grew up in NY and said soda, moved to Wa and say pop most of the time
    Hoagies or Subs?
    another change in NY we said Sub or submarine sandwich. I now say hoagie
    Lightening bugs or fireflies?
    I haven't seen a lightning bug since I moved to Seattle. but we know what they are and people here call them firefly's.

    Here is one for ya. dragonfly's are called 'diamond needles' in NY, at least back in 1979 when I lived there !
  • karlschaeffer
    karlschaeffer Posts: 1,504 Member
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    Philly born & bred. Soda, Hoagies are hoagies, everything else is sandwiches. Lightning bugs. It's Iggles, not Eagles. Go Birds!
  • cakebatter07
    cakebatter07 Posts: 814 Member
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    Born and raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

    I say soda, subs, and fireflies.
  • liftmeup1
    liftmeup1 Posts: 373
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    If you say pop....you are just wrong!
  • palmerdanielle
    palmerdanielle Posts: 341 Member
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    Southern Ontario, Canada.
    Pop, subs, fireflies
    :drinker:

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