What's it called where you're from?

[LadyShea]

So, I was IMing with viscousmemories and used the word "pop" in reference to soda pop and he said that is the not the Western term. I have always lived in the West, and always called it pop so wondered if the terms are still regionally based, or if mobile populations have blurred the usage lines for various words.

So, I have two pictures below. Please post what you call each item, and the basic region or the state you live in, or where you are from originally if you carried the term with you when you moved.

I may do a series as I come up with other items...I used to have a whole list but it's gone right now.

1. http://www.planet.nl/upload_mm/d/e/7/1990023296_1999998188_cola.jpg




2. http://www.edmontoncartservice.com/images/S-Cart1.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

It's called "soda" where I am from, but I call it "pop" or "soda pop" because I think it's cute and it drives others batshit.
That would be a "shopping cart." :eh?: Is there another word for it?


ETA: Los Angeles, CA, USA
ETAA: Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.

[Crumb]

1. pop

2. shopping cart

Oregon.

ETA: My post count is MCI, they don't pay for that advertising do they?

[LadyShea]

Oh, guess I'll enter my answers

1. pop
2. basket

California, Colorado, Nevada

[livius drusus]

Soda (I can't believe I said pop first. I blame JD.) and shopping cart here too. It's a Connecticut influence for me.

[Ensign Steve]

2. basket

I thought a basket was the little one you carry when you only need to buy a few things.

[LadyShea]

2. basket

I thought a basket was the little one you carry when you only need to buy a few things.

That's a hand basket

[livius drusus]

Or when it needs to apply the lotion.

[Crumb]

It puts the lotion in the basket.

[LadyShea]

Or when it needs to apply the lotion.

It puts the lotion on its skin!

[BigBlue2]

1. Soft drink, if you're not being brand-specific.

2. Shopping Trolley.

Sydney, Australia.

ETAA: Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.
Oops.

[livius drusus]

That's okay BigBlue2. JD's a total fag hag.

[Ensign Steve]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002JE85C.16._AA384_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Tennis shoes or tennies (if there were a pair, at any rate).

[Crumb]

Tennis shoes or sneakers

[Ensign Steve]

http://www.signdiego.com/photos/medium/dec12_0179.jpg

Restroom

[BigBlue2]

Tennis shoes or tennies (if there were a pair, at any rate).
Neither. That's a sneaker.

[BigBlue2]

That's okay BigBlue2. JD's a total fag hag.
That one is going through to the 'keeper.

[John Carter]

1. Coke. I grew up in Georgia, where the generic term for non-alchoholic carbonated beverages is coke. If you mean some other specific brand, you identify it by name.

2. Shopping Cart

[Ensign Steve]

That one is going through to the 'keeper.

:qhuh:
:scratch:

[Corona688]

1) Pop
2) Shopping cart

[Dingfod]

OP:
1. Soda Pop, or even Sody-pop when I'm being whimsical. I was raised by people that called it pop, but grew up in Texas where everything like that is a Coke. "You wanna Coke." "Yeah." "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Dr Pepper."

2. Shopping Cart


Ensign Steve's Question:

1. Tennis shoes, or tennie-runners.

[viscousmemories]

1. Pop in Michigan. Soda in Santa Cruz and San Diego, California.
2. Shopping cart everywhere.
3. Tennis shoes.
4. Bathroom or restroom - depending on audience.

[Dingfod]

4. Restroom to be polite, Bathroom in familiar company.

[Ex-zombie]

"You wanna Coke." "Yeah." "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Dr Pepper."


:laugh: I thought that was just a North Carolina thing.

[Dingfod]

"You wanna Coke." "Yeah." "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Dr Pepper."


:laugh: I thought that was just a North Carolina thing.No, I think it's pretty prevalent throughout the southern tier states.

[John Carter]

"You wanna Coke." "Yeah." "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Dr Pepper."


:laugh: I thought that was just a North Carolina thing.

As I posted earlier, that's the way it is in Georgia.

[LadyShea]

Canvas Keds are "Jan Brady's", all other athletic type shoes are tennis shoes or tennies.

Bathroom most of the time,
Restroom in formal situations,
Potty amongst family :blush:

[justaman]

1. Soft drink.
2. Trolley.
3. Fuck everyone who makes fun of my responses
:hmph:

[Dingfod]

1. Soft drink.
2. Trolley.
3. Fuck everyone who makes fun of my responses
:hmph:Trolley? Ha-ha-ha! That's so funny. Next thing you know, he'll call a pickup truck a ute and a can of beer a tinny.

[justaman]

:hissyfit:

[Weaselboots]

Couple of other Aussies beat me to it.

1) Soft drink
2) Shopping trolley
3) Joggers
4) Bathroom or Loo mainly



Next thing you know, he'll call a pickup truck a ute and a can of beer a tinny.

But a pickup is a Ute and a can of Beer is wrong because it should be in a stubbie or a long neck.

[Dingfod]

I thought stubbies and longnecks were bottles of beer. Isn't a stubby is the 375 ml bottle and the longneck the 750 ml bottle? According to this Australian slang dictionary (http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html) a tinny is can (a personal serving sized aluminium container) of beer.

[Weaselboots]

I thought stubbies and longnecks were bottles of beer. Isn't a stubby is the 375 ml bottle and the longneck the 750 ml bottle? According to this Australian slang dictionary (http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html) a tinny is can (a personal serving sized aluminium container) of beer.


Yes you are perfectly right there.
Sorry, i meant that beer in can was wrong, as in the taste factor, bottles much better.
Don't know many who drink tinny's over stubbies but if thats all there is, its better than nothing.

[Dingfod]

I thought that might be the case, but not until after I posted. You are right about the taste thing, but here there are some places, like beaches and swimming pools, where glass bottles are not allowed, places where tinnies become essential. Sometimes they're cheaper than bottled beer too.

[Weaselboots]

The Australian Slang site you linked to is bloody funny but so true. I use so many of those words, but they look really wierd written down.

[JoeP]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002JE85C.16._AA384_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Tennis shoes or tennies (if there were a pair, at any rate).
Takkies!
That's strictly in SA.

[JoeP]

2. http://www.edmontoncartservice.com/images/S-Cart1.jpg
It's a trolley, for god's sake. "Cart" is so american. I will only use cart in the internet context.

[huntress]

Don't be silly. It's a coke, a buggy, tenny-shoes, and a bathroom.

Texas is where I got my vocab.

Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.OK, Ensign Steve. I've heard this "that's just so gay" thing for years now. Since you brought it up, please explain the implications of the expression. I've been wondering for some time now. Is this supposed to be derogatory in some way?

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[Beth]

1. Coke. A generic term for any soda. We'll say we want a coke, then go to specify a Pepsi, Sprite, diet Coke, etc.
2.cart
the shoes: tennis shoes
the sign: bathroom sign

[Beth]

I thought that might be the case, but not until after I posted. You are right about the taste thing, but here there are some places, like beaches and swimming pools, where glass bottles are not allowed, places where tinnies become essential. Sometimes they're cheaper than bottled beer too.
Beer on every Gulf Florida beach that I have seen is illegal. When we want to drink, we pack shooters in a cooler and leave it in the car. We head back to the car to imbibe. Getting caught doing shooters, even in the parking lot can get us fined or jailed, but they are easier to sneak, faster to gulp down. The gulf beach parking lots are usually well patrolled by police to help prevent burglary.

[viscousmemories]

Don't be silly. It's a coke, a buggy, tenny-shoes, and a bathroom.

Texas is where I got my vocab.

Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.OK, Ensign Steve. I've heard this "that's just so gay" thing for years now. Since you brought it up, please explain the implications of the expression. I've been wondering for some time now. Is this supposed to be derogatory in some way?

d
Keep making one post every 9 months and you'll be at you'll almost certainly be at XXX before you die.

It's good to see you here. :)

[Roland98]

1) Pop
2) Cart
3) Tennies.
4) Restroom or bathroom.

Ohio native.

Waitressing in Connecticut was a PITA because I'd have to consciously make myself say "soda." Now, of course, I say both--and I even hear "soda" a lot here in Iowa. Maybe it's just because it's a college town and a lot of people aren't Iowa natives?

And no one said "carriage" for the shopping cart yet? I heard that a lot in CT too.

[beyelzu]

"You wanna Coke." "Yeah." "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Dr Pepper."


:laugh: I thought that was just a North Carolina thing.

As I posted earlier, that's the way it is in Georgia.
born and raised here in the great state of georgia all sodas are cokes unless brand specific.


first time i heard someone say that they were going to buy their kids some pop, I thought they said a different 3 letter word that starts with p.

I had no idea why the woman wanted to buy her kids some pot.

[godfry n. glad]

1. Soda

2. Shopping cart / grocery cart / bag man's home

3. Tennis shoes / tennie-runners / running shoes

4. Restroom, and, thanks to international travel, toilet.

I do not intend on resting, nor on bathing, when I seek and enter one of those rooms. Indeed, there is rarely a tub in any of them.

Born and raised in Oregon. (The "tennie-runners" is due to a black PE teacher in elementary school.)

[godfry n. glad]

"You wanna Coke." "Yeah." "What kind of Coke do you want?" "Dr Pepper."


:laugh: I thought that was just a North Carolina thing.

As I posted earlier, that's the way it is in Georgia.
born and raised here in the great state of georgia all sodas are cokes unless brand specific.


first time i heard someone say that they were going to buy their kids some pop, I thought they said a different 3 letter word that starts with p.

I had no idea why the woman wanted to buy her kids some pot.

Because she was a caring and concerned mother, of course. :D

Does anybody at all, ever, ever ask for a Pepsi in Georgia?

[LadyShea]

My mom's friend from Georgia takes it a step further...it's a cocola.

I think the reason coke is the preffered Georgia term is that Coca Cola is, or was, headquartered there.

[JoeP]

Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.OK, Ensign Steve. I've heard this "that's just so gay" thing for years now. Since you brought it up, please explain the implications of the expression. I've been wondering for some time now. Is this supposed to be derogatory in some way?

d
I await the Ensign's comments with interest, but meanwhile, my"Cart" is so american.was definitely intended to be derogatory. I hope you're all scathed and will immediately correct your use of English.

[godfry n. glad]

Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.OK, Ensign Steve. I've heard this "that's just so gay" thing for years now. Since you brought it up, please explain the implications of the expression. I've been wondering for some time now. Is this supposed to be derogatory in some way?

d
I await the Ensign's comments with interest, but meanwhile, my"Cart" is so american.was definitely intended to be derogatory. I hope you're all scathed and will immediately correct your use of English.

Trolley?

These are trollies ----> here (http://www.pa-trolley.org/TakeRide2.htm)

Get it straight!

Like I'm goin' take some grocery cart uptown.....sheeeesh.

[Dingfod]

OK, Ensign Steve. I've heard this "that's just so gay" thing for years now. Since you brought it up, please explain the implications of the expression. I've been wondering for some time now. Is this supposed to be derogatory in some way?I asked my daughter about this phrase. She said they mean no offense to homosexuals, but it means "it sucks". Gays suck, gay things suck, get it? Different useage of the term suck, I know, but that is my understanding of the meaning of it. I don't use the phrase because "it sucks" is so comprehensive itself and slightly less offensive. I also believe that most of the people that use it that way mean absolutely no offense to homosexual men.

[Dingfod]

What do you call this grocery filled paper container?

http://www.dowagro.com/about/images/about_09.jpg

[LadyShea]

A bag of groceries

[BracesForImpact]

Ok, in Chicago it's pop, tennis shoes, cart, shopping bag. Here in Indianapolis it's pretty much the same except pop is soda. Apparently 350 miles makes a difference.

In Indiana, the most southern state above the Mason-Dixon line, they have an interesting word for a common household appliance. When I wish to get stuff off of my carpet, I grab my vacuum. I plug it in and then I vacuum the floor. It wasn't too long living in Indianapolis when I was asked to get the sweeper out of the closet. I went into the closet and grabbed the broom. They laughed at me for that. Apparently a vacuum is a sweeper and you sweep the floor when you wish to clean up. Dammit a broom is for sweeping, and these backwoods bred hillbillies will never convince me otherwise!

[LadyShea]

I have also heard a vacuum called a Hoover and you also Hoover the carpet. Seems to me it was a UK term, but I may be wrong.

I thought it was weird to choose that particular brand name over all the others.

[Dingfod]

We call it a "vacuum cleaner" and you "vacuum the [floor covering*]."

The paper thing is a grocery sack.


*What do you call the woven floor covering many people have on their floors?

[LadyShea]

We call it a "vacuum cleaner" and you "vacuum the [floor covering*]."

The paper thing is a grocery sack.


*What do you call the woven floor covering many people have on their floors?

Carpet if it's wall to wall and attached. Rug if it's moveable and separate.

[Roland98]

Apparently a vacuum is a sweeper and you sweep the floor when you wish to clean up. Dammit a broom is for sweeping, and these backwoods bred hillbillies will never convince me otherwise!

Yeah, I'm one of those hucklebucks who says "sweep the floor" when I mean vacuum.

[huntress]

Keep making one post every 9 months and you'll be at you'll almost certainly be at XXX before you die.

It's good to see you here. :)Thanks, Tom.

I have a good excuse or two. I really do. Most of it has to do with a glaring lack of time for BBs these days (but like the AA member who promises himself he can have all he wants to drink tomorrow, I keep telling myself that someday I can immerse myself in BBs again...someday). I can probably even access y'all from work (they have IIDB blocked, the barsteds), but again...people have discovered that I'm not completely incompetent, and so I seem to not have free time there, either. Sigh.

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[John Carter]

Does anybody at all, ever, ever ask for a Pepsi in Georgia?

Yes. It's rare, and usually means the peson is from somewhere else, though.

If you want a specific brand, like Pepsi, you ask for it by name. But the generic term for soft drink is "coke" or "cocola". As far as that goes, asking for a pepsi or other brand in a restaurant is mostly futile in Georgia. Coca Cola pretty much has a monopoly on soft drink sales in dining establishments. With very few exceptions, the only places you can find anything other than Coca Cola products is in those fast food chains that are owned by Pepsi like Taco Bell and KFC.

I think LadyShea is probably correct about why this is. Coca Cola was founded in Atlanta, and is still extremely influential there. During the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, for example, many convenience stores stopped carrying all other brands. I'm not sure why this usage spread to other Southern states.

[Ensign Steve]

Groceries go in a bag. Pronounced BAG not BAEG.

Where do you buy groceries?
at the market

I vacuum the carpet or the floor.*

*(I mentioned shampooing the rug in another thread. I was raised on "carpet" but I say "rug" for the same reason I say "pop." It's just fun to say it the other way.) That's also why I say "market" when I was raised on "grocery store."

"gay" means stupid or lame. It is derogitory and I really shouldn't say it, but it's habit, and I only say it when I don't really mean it, like how I used it in this thread. Or how if someone likes to play Magic the Gathering they are gay.

[Dragoon]

When I was a kid back in Chicago, everything was "Coke." When I visited Ireland years ago, it was "a mineral" (short for mineral water?). Out west it was "pop" and for years and years it now seems to be "soft drink."

A shopping cart has always been a shopping cart unless it was a supermarket cart.

Again, in the low tech days, a rubber shoe was a "sneaker" or a "tennis shoe," but now it's a "cross trainer" or some such nonsense.

A paper grocery bag was always a just a "paper bag."

A man's defectory is a "toilet" or a "men's room."

A vacuum cleaner has always been a "vacuum" or a "sweeper."

[Ensign Steve]

Three pages into this thread, and suddenly the OP reminded me of a funny story. And Armenian friend of mine read an American book that was translated from English to Armenian. They translated "Scotch and soda" quite literally, so my friend was extremely confused and grossed out as to why somebody would mix baking soda with liquor.

[godfry n. glad]

Three pages into this thread, and suddenly the OP reminded me of a funny story. And Armenian friend of mine read an American book that was translated from English to Armenian. They translated "Scotch and soda" quite literally, so my friend was extremely confused and grossed out as to why somebody would mix baking soda with liquor.

Probably because it was more sensible than dipping a kilted guy in fizzy water.

[Ensign Steve]

Scots are a people. :sheepshag:
Scotch is a drink. :partyhat:

[godfry n. glad]

So... What do you call that storage space (usually with a lockable door) in your auto, just forward of the passenger's knees?

[Legs]

1. Pop
2. Shopping cart
3. Trainers
4. John

[John Carter]

So... What do you call that storage space (usually with a lockable door) in your auto, just forward of the passenger's knees?

A glove compartment.

[Legs]

So... What do you call that storage space (usually with a lockable door) in your auto, just forward of the passenger's knees?

Glove box

Thats where I keep these http://www.electriclover.com/products.large/pd472.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

Globe box or glove compartment.

[Ymir's blood]

I'm pretty sure the numbers will get messed up but.

1) soft drink or just drink. Growing up my mother called it COcola but she has mostly stopped now.
2) Shopping cart
3) tennis shoes or sneakers
4) restroom or bathroom, john (informally)

[Dingfod]

Sometimes I call a soft drink a soda pop, sometimes, particularly when asking my daughter's friends if they want one, I'll ask them "Would you like a refreshing carbonated beverage?"

I've knew a guy that came from Mississippi that called a car's glove compartment "jockey box", but he and his dad were they only ones I ever heard call it that.

[Crumb]

A man's defectory

:rofl:

I am definitely going to start using that word!

[BigBlue2]

4) restroom or bathroom, john (informally)
Toilet, loo or dunny.

[JoeP]

Trolley?

These are trollies ----> here (http://www.pa-trolley.org/TakeRide2.htm)

Get it straight!

Like I'm goin' take some grocery cart uptown.....sheeeesh.
godfry, you sick self-centred has-been excuse for a citizen of the world, that's a tram. (I'll also admit the American term "streetcar", quaint though it sounds.) You push a trolley from behind - hope you don't have to push your trams from behind. A cart is what kids play on, or something drawn by a horse. (And btw - a cart is pulled from the front.)

Plus: glove compartment.

[JoeP]

What do you call this grocery filled paper container?

http://www.dowagro.com/about/images/about_09.jpg
In the ROW we don't have those. Shopping bags are made of plastic (and therefore sometimes imaginatively called plastic bags. In SA this tends to be abbreviated by the shop assistants to "plastics" as in "do you went a plasteec?"). They're "shopping bags" or (in Britain, and not as common as it used to be) "carrier bags".

Even when shopping bags are made of paper, here in the ROW they have handles. What is with America? Why don't your "grocery sacks" have frikkin' handles? We can see on TV shows how you struggle with carrying them from cars, upstairs, into houses and apartments, etc, and two at once is pretty much the max. In the ROW we struggle to carry more than four or five in each hand. Fewer trips. Of course, in some places we have people to carry the shopping for us.

joe

[LadyShea]

We mostly use plastic as well these days.

And handles are very expensive, you want the poor grocery stores to lose profit for customer convenience? What's wrong with you?

[godfry n. glad]

Sometimes I call a soft drink a soda pop, sometimes, particularly when asking my daughter's friends if they want one, I'll ask them "Would you like a refreshing carbonated beverage?"

I've knew a guy that came from Mississippi that called a car's glove compartment "jockey box", but he and his dad were they only ones I ever heard call it that.

Well, now you got another. That's what I called it when I was growing up. I didn't even know it was called a glove box (glove compartment) until I was a teen. My father hailed from the Dakotas. I'm told that the term comes from pre-auto days, when nearly every wagon had a box of tools up next to the wagon seat, where the "jockey" could get ready access to it.

Now I'm beginning to think it would be a good place to keep my jockeys once I manage to convince Legs to take off those gloves. :pant:

[JoeP]

And handles are very expensive, you want the poor grocery stores to lose profit for customer convenience? What's wrong with you?
Shame on me. I hadn't thought of the poor retailers' profit margins.

[Major Atheist]

It puts the lotion in the basket.

:popcorn:

[Dragoon]

A man's defectory

:rofl:

I am definitely going to start using that word!

I KNEW somebody would like that. :yup:

[godfry n. glad]

A man's defectory

:rofl:

I am definitely going to start using that word!

I KNEW somebody would like that. :yup:

Of course, this set me to wondering about a "refectory".

[Lauri D]

Without having read the whole thread yet, so I might be missing some here:

Soda or soft drink
Shopping cart
Tennis shoes, tennies, sometimes sneakers
Restroom or bathroom
Bag of groceries, what else? :chin:
Glove compartment or glovebox

Born and raised in California, USA.

[Shake]

OK, I'm a little late getting to this thread, but here goes:

1. Soda
2. Shopping/grocery cart
3. Sneakers
4. Bathroom or restroom
5. Bag of groceries
6. Glove box/compartment

Rochester, NY

And let me add one, although I know what any New Englander will say ... what about those devices that dispense H2O?

One of these:
http://216.119.109.157/content/images/water13.jpg

I call it a water (or drinking) fountain.

[Ensign Steve]

Drinking fountain.

What else is it called? (besides water fountain)

[godfry n. glad]

And let me add one, although I know what any New Englander will say ... what about those devices that dispense H2O?

I call it a water (or drinking) fountain.

Yeah...that...or a used chewing gum recepticle.

[Dingfod]

Better than the drinking fountain, what do you call this:
http://www.cityofaurora.org/faucet.gif

[Ensign Steve]

Faucet or spigot. Spelled spigot. Look it up.

ETA:

1. A faucet. See Regional Note at andiron.
2. A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
3. The vent plug of a cask.


:roflmao:

[Dingfod]

Faucet or spigot. Spelled spigot. Look it up.

ETA:

1. A faucet. See Regional Note at andiron.
2. A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
3. The vent plug of a cask.


:roflmao:We always called it a faucet, but I know people that call it a spigot and other that call it a water tap. That's where you get tap water.

I used to use a bungwrench on a regular basis in the oilfield, so named because the threaded plugs on a 55 gallon drum are called bungs and the threaded holes they go in, bungholes. So, stick a spigot in your bunghole and call me in the morning.

[Ensign Steve]

Yah, 'tap' is okay, too. I just can't stand "spicket." It's such a non-word. I imagine a house with a white spicket fence and that's just wrong.

[viscousmemories]

Shake's is a drinking fountain and warren's is a faucet.

[viscousmemories]

Please hold while I split out the eco discussion.

Okay, the discussion of Eco waste has relocated to here (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2341).

[John Carter]

Shake's pic is a water fountain, unless it's on a ship or boat. In that case, it's a scuttlebutt. Warrenly's is a faucet. If it's outside, it magically becomes a spigot, or if it's on a keg or other barrel it's a tap.

[LadyShea]

Shake's is a drinking fountain and warren's is a faucet.

Ditto for me

[Ensign Steve]

Shake's pic is a water fountain, unless it's on a ship or boat. In that case, it's a scuttlebutt.

It's also a scuttlebutt if you're a Navy puke who's been land-locked for way too long and has started talking like every building on the post is a damn ship.

[Legs]

Okay - what do you call this?

http://www.kidspriorityone.org/teens/images/pacifier.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

pacifier

[livius drusus]

An oral fixation in the making?

[Dingfod]

A binky.

[Crumb]

pacifier or binky

[BigBlue2]

Better than the drinking fountain, what do you call this:
http://www.cityofaurora.org/faucet.gif
That's a tap.

[BigBlue2]

Okay - what do you call this?

http://www.kidspriorityone.org/teens/images/pacifier.jpg A dummy.

On a related note "Spitting the dummy" means you're throwing a tantrum.

[LadyShea]

That's a pacifier or noony.

[TomJoe]

1. Coke
2. Shopping Cart

I'm from Oklahoma, via New York.

[JoeP]

Tap
Dummy
(you know which items I'm referring to, I'll stop quoting the pictures now)

[TomJoe]

Dummy, pacifier ... when I grew up, I called it a binky.

[livius drusus]

Weird. I've never heard it referred to as anything but a pacifier. Noony? Binky? You're saying adults use those words for it?

[wei yau]

Weird. I've never heard it referred to as anything but a pacifier. Noony? Binky? You're saying adults use those words for it?

Well, prior to the birth of my daughter, I only heard it as "pacifier" or "paci". Since the joyous occassion, however, I heard "binky". From adults. From the nurses at the NICU. From the daycare providers.

We (wife, child and myself) also refer to it as "nuk" (nook), in reference to the brand name.

And yes, we've weaned her off the damned thing (more or less).

[LadyShea]

Weird. I've never heard it referred to as anything but a pacifier. Noony? Binky? You're saying adults use those words for it?

Adults use it only with children in my experience. Noony was what a pacifier was called to Frankie's niece, (who had the worst pacifier habit I have ever seen) and was then used with the younger nephews.

Just silly substitute words for common items many parents use with their children.

And a Binky is a security blanket. What the hell kind of people use it for a noony?

[LadyShea]

Okay, what do you call this
http://clahey.org/images/graco_baby_stroller.jpg

I call it a stroller.

[TomJoe]

I believe "binky" is actually the name of a company which produces pacifiers. It falls under the same category as "Coke". Calling the product by the name of the company which produces it.

And yes, I still call it a binky, though it's been some years since I've used one. :P

Edited to add: Did a check and came up with the following:
Binky-Griptight, Inc., Wallington, New Jersey; (800) 526-6320.

[Roland98]

I believe "binky" is actually the name of a company which produces pacifiers. It falls under the same category as "Coke". Calling the product by the name of the company which produces it.

Yep. I hated those names with my kids; only Aurora used one, and we just called it a pacifier. Binky sounds too baby-talk to me.

[wei yau]

LadyShea, that's a stroller. Looks like a Graco model.

[Shake]

Items subsequent to my last post:
Water faucet
Pacifier
and a stroller.

The item in my last post -- since evidently we don't have any New Englanders here -- is known in those parts as a "bubbler".

[Soubrette]

This is like some weird party game :)

Fizzy drink - although I'll often call all cola's coke - this is not common uk usage at all. (and I drink pepsimax through preference)
Shopping Trolley
Daps (which is actually specific to Bristol rather than the UK in general)
Toilet (I'm so sorry - I'm British, not rude :blush: )
Bag of shopping
Glove compartment or glovebox
Drinking Fountain
Pushchair
And Dummy

Oh and we call them nappies over here ;)

I think I got them all :)

And I'm from the South West, UK

Sou

[livius drusus]

What the hell is pepsimax? :wtf:

[godfry n. glad]

Weird. I've never heard it referred to as anything but a pacifier. Noony? Binky? You're saying adults use those words for it?

Well, prior to the birth of my daughter, I only heard it as "pacifier" or "paci". Since the joyous occassion, however, I heard "binky". From adults. From the nurses at the NICU. From the daycare providers.

We (wife, child and myself) also refer to it as "nuk" (nook), in reference to the brand name.

Nook? Is a smaller one called a "nookie"?

And, "noony"? I've heard of "nooner", but not "noony"..... Wait, wait.... I err. A friend injured himself while jogging by falling forward onto a railroad rail. He had to get a new knee. Somehow, I don't think we're talking about the same thing, though.

Binky it is. Or, pacifier for the more mature. And "blanky" is different from a "binky".

[TomJoe]

What the hell is pepsimax? :wtf:

http://www.pepsimax.com.au/

Useless Tidbit of the Day: You know they don't sell Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper in New York, but they do in Oklahoma?

[livius drusus]

What the hell is pepsimax? :wtf:

http://www.pepsimax.com.au/

So, erm, it's Diet Pepsi? Max what, exactly? More food coloring than ever before?

Useless Tidbit of the Day: You know they don't sell Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper in New York, but they do in Oklahoma?

I did not know that. :carson:

[Soubrette]

Sacrilege :fuming:

It's defintely not the same as Diet Pepsi (we have that too). that's nasty insipid diet stuff.

Pepsimax has a couple more calories per can but tastes much nicer :yup:

Sou

[Dingfod]

Useless Tidbit of the Day: You know they don't sell Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper in New York, but they do in Oklahoma?Yes. Some places.

[xavierOnassis]

livius drusus - An oral fixation in the making?

:blush3: :runaway:

[livius drusus]

I hope I didn't scare you too badly, xavierOnassis. Can I interest you in an avatar with a transparent background as an innocent gesture of comraderie?

[BigBlue2]

Okay, what do you call this
http://clahey.org/images/graco_baby_stroller.jpg

I call it a stroller.
A pram or stroller (I think it depends on the size, but don't quote me on that).

[Legs]

I figured there would be a few pet names for the pacifier... my sister calls it a 'dummy tit' but I have friends that refer to it as a suckie, a num num, a binkie and a nook nook.

[livius drusus]

:chuckle: @ dummy tit.

[huntress]

And "blanky" is different from a "binky".Nonono, silly man. It's a "bankie," as in "If I'd have known this restaurant was going to be so fucking cold, I'd have brought my bankie."

d

[huntress]

"gay" means stupid or lame. It is derogitory and I really shouldn't say it, but it's habit, and I only say it when I don't really mean it, like how I used it in this thread. Or how if someone likes to play Magic the Gathering they are gay.Thanks, Ensign. It always sounds mildly insulting to gays to me, but damned if I can figure out why, really. Maybe it's just the delivery that invariably accompanies the expression: it's never said as a compliment, but I can't for the life of me find a connection between what people are referring to and being gay (such as the term "buggy" being "so gay").

So I guess I'm curious about the genesis of the expression. Any clues? Anyone?

d

[viscousmemories]

So I guess I'm curious about the genesis of the expression. Any clues? Anyone?
I can't remember if the etymology is covered here and I don't have time to re-read the thread right now, but we had a discussion about it here (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1764) back in February.

[Ensign Steve]

If you want a specific brand, like Pepsi, you ask for it by name. But the generic term for soft drink is "coke" or "cocola". As far as that goes, asking for a pepsi or other brand in a restaurant is mostly futile in Georgia. Coca Cola pretty much has a monopoly on soft drink sales in dining establishments. With very few exceptions, the only places you can find anything other than Coca Cola products is in those fast food chains that are owned by Pepsi like Taco Bell and KFC.


Damn, it took me forever to remember what thread I had read this in. Arise and walk, my thread!

I was on the phone with Pizza Hut this evening, and the combination of my shitty cell-phone and the loud restaurant led to a lot of repeating myself. I said, "And a diet pepsi!" She said, "What?!" I shouted, "DIET COKE!" She goes, "IT'S PEPSI!"

:roflmao: It made me think of this post. I'm in Georgia but not from here, BTW, for those just turning in.

[Ensign Steve]

And as long as it's back from the dead...

d you are absolutely right, and I feel shitty for it. Not because of what you said, just because it really is shitty. My mom gets on my case about it, too, and I'm really going to start paying attention. It's not like I can get away with that at work, so why bring it home with me?

I still believe, however, that people who play Magic: The Gathering are most likely homosexual.

[M.A.D.]

on the first pictures
pop/cola/coke
cart
runners/running shoes
Western Canada

And the paper container with groceries is the "grocery bag"
or just plain "paper" when the check out clerk askes "paper or plastic"

[pescifish]

Here's a quiz on these sorts of words
What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/)



65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

[Crumb]

<table style="color: black;" width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
<h3>Your Linguistic Profile:</h3>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
60% General American English</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
15% Upper Midwestern</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
15% Yankee</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
5% Midwestern</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
0% Dixie</td></tr></table>

<div align="center">
<a href="http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/">What Kind of American English Do You Speak?</a>
</div>

[livius drusus]

<table style="color: black;" width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
<h3>Your Linguistic Profile:</h3>
</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
45% General American English</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
30% Yankee</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
15% Dixie</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
10% Upper Midwestern</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
0% Midwestern</td></tr></table>

But there were two questions where I just picked something at random because none of the answers meant anything to me. :shrug:

[Sweetie]

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern



There were three or four non-applicable for me ones too.

[Dingfod]

Bloody hell! No wonder people in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah thought I didn't have an Okie accent, I damn near don't.

60% General American English
10% Midwestern
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie

[Ymir's blood]

60% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

There were a couple of question where the answer was unclear. I unconciously modify my speech patterns depending on to whom I am speaking.

[Dingfod]

Bloody hell! No wonder people in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah thought I didn't have an Okie accent, I damn near don't.

60% General American English
10% Midwestern
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% DixieHmmm? What's the other 5%, Utahnese? Oh. My. Heck. It may friggin' well be.

[godfry n. glad]

My Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

I would have expected more Yankee (my girlfriend is a Mainiac), but I guess that's what I get for hanging out with a guy from Jersey. Y'think?

[viscousmemories]

65% General American English
25% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

[LadyShea]

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Yankee


I have heard they send newscasters to Colorado to learn to speak without an accent, and there appears to not be a category for "California" so the "General" thing makes a lot of sense. My family is all Southern so I got "y'all" from them, and my best friend's family came from Michigan which is where I got "pop" I finally figured out. I said Coke until I started hanging with her. Anyway, those two terms are where the 10% came from I am sure.

I have never even been to Yankee country or the Midwest, not sure where the 5% came from.

Oh, and what's a cruller? Is it a donut or something? Only time I have ever heard it was on the Wayne's World movie.

[Beth]

45% General American English
30% Dixie
25% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Not fair. I cannot do HTML tables, unlike the, ahem, privilaged few.

[Godless Wonder]

55% General American English
25% Dixie
20% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Some of those were just weird...

What do you call it when it's raining and the sun is shining

a) The Devil is beating his wife

What???

[Beth]

What do you call it when it's raining and the sun is shining

a) The Devil is beating his wife

What???Hehe. I know! I never heard that before.

[Crumb]

19. "Route" rhymes with...
I wanted to answer "Depends on whether it is a noun or a verb" !

[beyelzu]

55% General American English
35% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


yep, not real surprising that I dixied like a motherfucker.

[Godwhacker]

I dont need yinz to tell me...I speak picksburgese

http://www.pittsburghese.com/translator.shtml

"wir da burgh
resistance is futile
yinz will be assimilated"
-da Burgh

[Sweetie]

and my best friend's family came from Michigan which is where I got "pop" I finally figured out. I said Coke until I started hanging with her.

See, that question didn't make any sense to me. :chin: Pop is a general term to include all carbonated beverages such as Coke, Pepsi, Gingerale. When I speak of specific kinds I say Coke or Pepsi, etc. So I just don't understand how the terms Coke and Pop to some may be considered to be interchangable.

Oh, and what's a cruller? Is it a donut or something? Only time I have ever heard it was on the Wayne's World movie.

Here it's a specifically shaped donut, looks like it's got treads kinda, like a tire.

http://www.krispykreme.com/varieties.html#

Though you know, oddly enough, while I can identify what a cruller is, I don't think I've ever used or spoken the word. I'd just call it a donut, "that donut over there", lol.


Anyhoo, I always figured that Canadians tended to speak more what is considered proper English just without the British accent.

[LadyShea]

Coke became a generic term just like other brand names are generic. Kleenex is a generic term for tissue and BandAid is a generic term for bandage, etc.

[Sweetie]

Coke became a generic term just like other brand names are generic. Kleenex is a generic term for tissue and BandAid is a generic term for bandage, etc.

Oho, really? So Coke means "pop" to many of you? Good to know. :yup:

Coke to me is Coca-Cola only or other simulated brands of Coca-Cola.

[Crumb]

Coke to me is Coca-Cola only or other simulated brands of Coca-Cola.
As it is for all normal folk.

[Beth]

Crumb, you are right. I am exceptional folk and I use coke as a generic term.:P

[beyelzu]

Crumb, you are right. I am exceptional folk and I use coke as a generic term.:P
what an amazing coincidence, I too am exceptional and I use coke as a generic term.


I guess only phillistines use the word pop.

[Crumb]

Y'all are freaks.

[LadyShea]

Sweetie, read the first few pages of the thread and you can see why Coke is a generic term here, especially in the South where Coca Cola originated and is headquartered.

Lots of older folks call all margerine "Oleo" which was a brand name that doesn't even exist anymore that I am aware of.

[Sweetie]

Y'all are freaks.

:giggles:

I have no idea where or why I picked up the term "y'all" but I find myself saying it every so often. :eek:

And then there's "ain't".

"I ain't your sweetheart."
"I ain't no fool."

:D

Or my favorite that I say:

"I ain't neither."

But these are exeptions and are usually intentional, usually it's mimicry.

[Crumb]

But these are exeptions and are usually intentional, usually it's mimicry.
'tis for me 'swell.

[viscousmemories]

I didn't like that I had to choose between "rolls off my tongue" and "never use it" for y'all, since I use it but it doesn't exactly roll off my tongue.

I grew up calling all sweetened, carbonated beverages pop (Michigan) but switched to calling them soda when I moved to California. I didn't find out that some people use coke (well, in that sense) until I moved here.

[JoeP]

Talking is hard for you Americans ... ah, prejudice confirmed. :P

[godfry n. glad]

Talking is hard for you Americans ... ah, prejudice confirmed. :P


No, Joe... Talking is easy. Communicating is difficult.

[JoeP]

I don't understand what you mean, godfry :?

[pescifish]

Speaking of communicating...
Kleenex is a generic term for [facial] tissue I use the word Kleenex because ...well... no one seems to understand me when I ask them to "han me duh diddooz-pleez" when I really need one badly! Kleenex is easier to articulate.

Until more companies got into the business, the word Xerox used to mean photocopy.

[godfry n. glad]

I don't understand what you mean, godfry :?

Then you have the idea. We talk a lot, it's just not that it means we're necessarily communicating. I suspect it has more to do with message reception, rather than message generation.

[Dingfod]

Lots of older folks call all margerine "Oleo" which was a brand name that doesn't even exist anymore that I am aware of.Not going to dispute the fact that their might have been a company named Oleo that made margarine, but the oleo in the word oleomargarine refers to one of the constituents of the produce, olein, a glyceride of oleic acid, a fat that congeals at low temperatures.

[godfry n. glad]

Lots of older folks call all margerine "Oleo" which was a brand name that doesn't even exist anymore that I am aware of.Not going to dispute the fact that their might have been a company named Oleo that made margarine, but the oleo in the word oleomargarine refers to one of the constituents of the produce, olein, a glyceride of oleic acid, a fat that congeals at low temperatures.

Isn't the other way 'round? It congeals at higher temperatures than butter?

I understand this was a development that was tailored for a need in Panama, during the digging and construction of the Canal. Any truth to that?

[Penni]

So, I didn't read some of the middle pages, so forgive me if this is already posted, but what do you all call these:

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/ITS/ITS212/ITF142050.jpg



Is there ANYONE that doesn't just say Q-tip?

[LadyShea]

Those are Q-Tips, though I suppose some people might call them cotton swabs, I have never heard it.

[godfry n. glad]

So, I didn't read some of the middle pages, so forgive me if this is already posted, but what do you all call these:

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/ITS/ITS212/ITF142050.jpg



Is there ANYONE that doesn't just say Q-tip?

Folks in the health care professions tend to refer to them as "cotton swabs". If the patient indicates puzzlement at that term, they'll clarify with, "Like Q-Tips." The reason is that some patients are very literal, and if you ask if they use Q-Tips, they'll tell you they're not when they are using a cheap, knock-off brand.

[Zikes]

Well, it was invented by an american ;)

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/shopcart.htm

[Zikes]

1. Pop
2. Shopping Cart
3. Tennis Shoes/Shoes
4. Bathroom/Restroom

[livius drusus]

Well, it was invented by an american ;)

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/shopcart.htm
That's not a shopping cart! That's a folding carrier basket. :hmph:


Anyone else reminded of the Simpsons episode where Moe calls a garage a carhold?

[Zikes]

That's not a shopping cart! That's a folding carrier basket.

Now now, let's let the man that invented the thing decide what to call it :P

[Dingfod]

Map showing, county by county, whether they call that dark carbonated cola beverage Coke, pop, or soda. (http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=2283750&location=http%3A%2F%2Fi7.tinypic.com%2F21n1nd5.jpg)

[Julie]

Well This has been an interesting read :)

Me...I speak a weird combo of Western Canadian/Kiwi :) Mostly to the annoyance of my husband. My Poor kids have picked up on it as well, which isnt suprising, They hear it from Me My Sister and My Dad.

[godfry n. glad]

Map showing, county by county, whether they call that dark carbonated cola beverage Coke, pop, or soda. (http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=2283750&location=http%3A%2F%2Fi7.tinypic.com%2F21n1nd5.jpg)

I love those maps. Atlantic magazine used to run one every issue.

This one begs the question of what the "others" are. I find North Carolina and New Mexico, along with that little teeny pip of land in northern Minnesota. What do they use there?

[LadyShea]

I knew someone originally from Michigan who uses "Sodawater", not just soda. Also, I have heard a few people, region of origin unknown but mostly old-timers, use "Sasparilla"

As I think I mentioned earlier in this thread, I used "Coke" as a young kid because my family's Southern. Switched to "pop" in Colorado during my teen years. Then started using "soda" when I moved to Vegas because few people know what pop was. Now I am in Alabama and back, full circle, to Coke.

[Ymir's blood]

This one begs the question of what the "others" are. I find North Carolina and New Mexico, along with that little teeny pip of land in northern Minnesota. What do they use there?
'Soft drink' or just 'drink' are what I've heard most often.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

1. Coke
2. Shopping cart

[Watser?]

1. Cola
2. Karretje

[Artemis Entreri]

1. http://www.planet.nl/upload_mm/d/e/7/1990023296_1999998188_cola.jpg
2. http://www.edmontoncartservice.com/images/S-Cart1.jpg

1. That stuff you mix with Jack Daniels
2. Hobo RV

[RareBear]

Soda and shopping cart--from Brooklyn NY.

Pop is for quiffs.

[Dingfod]

I love those maps. Atlantic magazine used to run one every issue.

This one begs the question of what the "others" are. I find North Carolina and New Mexico, along with that little teeny pip of land in northern Minnesota. What do they use there?I've been in places where every drink of the carbonated variety they called it Soda Pop or Sody Pop. I find that map to be fairly accurate as far as the places I have lived, places as diverse as Southeastern Kansas, Memphis, Tennessee, Beaumont, Texas, the Panhandle of Texas, Northwestern and Northeastern Oklahoma, Southwest Wyoming, Southwest Colorado, and Northern Utah.

[foo fighter]

1. is called "pop"
2. is called a "buggy" or "shopping buggy"

[foo fighter]

Hobo RV :laugh:

[California Tanker]

I'm a late arrival, but hitting the things I see...

Soft drink (or Soda, now I'm being Americanised)
Shopping trolley (or cart, now I'm being Americanised)
Runners (Or trainers, now I'm being Americanised)
Water fountain.
Tap
Pacifier
Pram
Glove Compartment (Does anyone keep gloves in there any more?)

Other ones not mentioned but which I've noticed.
Tarmac. (Instead of 'Asphalt'. I'm not sure if there is actually a difference in terms of actual composition instead of simple common usage)
Torch. (Though I'm starting to say 'flashlight' more)
Curiously, I'll say the 'hood' of a car, but also say 'boot' (As opposed to 'bonnet' and 'trunk'), so I combine the two. I think the 'hood' bit comes from my reading American train magazines.
'Tram' instead of 'Streetcar,' though I will generally say 'streetcar' when referring to an American unit.
Fire Engine instead of Fire Truck. (I know, they're really called 'appliances')

Here's a fun one: "Peeler" or "Gard" instead of "Cop(per)." I tend to say 'Cop' these days though, now I'm being Americanised.

'Waiter/Waitress,' instead of 'Server.'
Manual Transmission vice Stick Shift.
'Queue' instead of 'line'

And finally, I keep my knife in my right hand, and cross my legs in the European thigh-on-thigh style instead of the American ankle-on-thigh.

I'm sure I'll think of others.

Ireland turned California.

NTM

[Dingfod]

And finally, I keep my knife in my right hand, and cross my legs in the European thigh-on-thigh style instead of the American ankle-on-thigh.Well, I'll be knackered, I've been acting European all these years (knife in right hand and leg-crossing).

[godfry n. glad]

I love those maps. Atlantic magazine used to run one every issue.

This one begs the question of what the "others" are. I find North Carolina and New Mexico, along with that little teeny pip of land in northern Minnesota. What do they use there?I've been in places where every drink of the carbonated variety they called it Soda Pop or Sody Pop. I find that map to be fairly accurate as far as the places I have lived, places as diverse as Southeastern Kansas, Memphis, Tennessee, Beaumont, Texas, the Panhandle of Texas, Northwestern and Northeastern Oklahoma, Southwest Wyoming, Southwest Colorado, and Northern Utah.

Yeah...I agree. I found the spot around St. Louis to be interesting, as well. Did a large number of New Englanders migrate to St. Louis?

[Sorrel]

Soda/pop we call fizzy drink, or ginger (slang)
Shopping trolley
Trainers
Toilet or loo
Never seen anyone given grocery shopping in a paper bag. Instead, we have plastic bags with handles. Our food/household shopping we call our messages. I carry my messages home from the supermarket in poly bags.
Hoover the carpet with a hoover.
A woven floor covering is a carpet when it's the size of the room, and a rug if it’s smaller than the room with bound edges.
Glove box.
Drinking fountain
Use a dummy to stop a baby crying
Take a child out a walk in a buggy
Wipe my nose with a hankie
Q-tips are called Cotton Buds

Scotland.

[Ymir's blood]

Tarmac. (Instead of 'Asphalt'. I'm not sure if there is actually a difference in terms of actual composition instead of simple common usage)
Tarmac is the road itself, though the term specifically refers to an archaic form of paving tar + macadam. Macadam is defined as broken rocks. Tar was used to cement them together and form a road. Modern asphalt roads are built the same way, except using asphalt instead of tar. Asphalt is a byproduct of petroleum.

That said, I've only heard the term 'tarmac' to refer to airport runways.

[pescifish]

That said, I've only heard the term 'tarmac' to refer to airport runways.Me, too. Runways and taxiways for airplanes.

[California Tanker]

OK, well, regardless of what it's made of, the black stuff that cars drive on is known by the lay person in Ireland as tarmac. A few people still say tarmacadam, and nobody would look at you confused if you said it, but it's like few people say 'telephone' instead of 'phone'. The thing next to it is the footpath, not the sidewalk, and in between the two, you will find the kerb.

On that note, I say "mobile 'phone" vice "Cell 'phone"
Fire Brigade vice Fire Department.

Some more automotive ones: Lorry vice Truck. (though I'm saying 'truck' a lot more these days)
Saloon vice Sedan.
Estate vice Station Wagon. I'm saying Sedan a lot more than Station Wagon for some reason these days though.
Coupé vice Coupe. (i.e. koop-ay vice koop). Why that got changed, I have no idea.
Coach vice Car. (Railway)
Bogie vice truck. (The articulated item under a railway car/coach/wagon)
I do say 'switch' instead of 'points'. (Again, my reading too many American train publications)
Economy vice Coach. (The part of an airliner reserved for self-loading cargo)
Traffic Light instead of Stoplight.
Zebra Crossing iinstead of Pedestrian Crossing. (The black and white stripes, you see...) There is another variant known as a Pelican Crossing, which is a zebra crossing with flashing orange warning lights instead of a full set of red/amber/green traffic lights.

Speaking of weird French things, where do yanks get off on saying 'entrée' for "main course?". To me, an entrée is an appetiser. Heck, just look at the word.

I also threw my tank commanders once when I asked them to meet me at my tank for a 'chinwag'

NTM

[Crumb]

"vice"? :confused:

[Beth]

Speaking of weird French things, where do yanks get off on saying 'entrée' for "main course?". To me, an entrée is an appetiser. Heck, just look at the word.
I know. This puzzles me, as well. I always thought that an entree was the appetiser, as well. I noticed last year that it was not so.

[California Tanker]

"vice"? :confused:

Evidently we have another candidate, though I'm surprised it's not in American usage.

From M-W

Main Entry: 3vice
Pronunciation: 'vIs also 'vI-sE
Function: preposition
Etymology: Latin, ablative of vicis change, alternation, stead -- more at WEEK
: in the place of <I will preside, vice the absent chairman>; also : rather than

Speaking of 'v' words, a legal difference from across the pond:
"John v. Joe" is said aloud as "John and Joe" instead of "John versus Joe".
Another legal difference: Solicitor = attorney, not a door-to-door salesman.

NTM

[godfry n. glad]

Speaking of weird French things, where do yanks get off on saying 'entrée' for "main course?". To me, an entrée is an appetiser. Heck, just look at the word.
I know. This puzzles me, as well. I always thought that an entree was the appetiser, as well. I noticed last year that it was not so.

Errant pretension.

It's a grand ol' American tradition.

[godfry n. glad]

"vice"? :confused:

Evidently we have another candidate, though I'm surprised it's not in American usage.

Another legal difference: Solicitor = attorney, not a door-to-door salesman.

NTM

Bum = derriere, not vagrant.

Bonnet = engine cover, not headgear.

Boot = stowage, not footwear.

[California Tanker]

Bum = derriere, not vagrant.


Speaking of, 'Fanny' has a slightly different meaning as well.

NTM

[livius drusus]

An entree was originally the introduction to the main dish, which in 10-course banquets in pre-Revolutionary France was nowhere near the beginning of the meal. Now that most of the courses have been cropped from our dining experience in favor of lighter, more focused fare, the entree has morphed into the main dish.

[California Tanker]

An entree was originally the introduction to the main dish, which in 10-course banquets in pre-Revolutionary France was nowhere near the beginning of the meal. Now that most of the courses have been cropped from our dining experience in favor of lighter, more focused fare, the entree has morphed into the main dish.

So the rest of the world is wrong? Including the French? At least they dropped the right 7 courses.

NTM

[livius drusus]

I don't understand the question.

[viscousmemories]

Here's a fun one: "Peeler" or "Gard" instead of "Cop(per)."
I've heard 'peeler' used to describe women who do nude dancing here in the States. As in "one who peels her clothes off".

[Kyuss Apollo]

1. http://www.planet.nl/upload_mm/d/e/7/1990023296_1999998188_cola.jpg




2. http://www.edmontoncartservice.com/images/S-Cart1.jpg

1. That's soda. No one says 'pop' in RI.
2. Carriage, or sometimes shopping cart.

[TheBeast]

1. I use the brand name, so coke. Generally pop, though

2. Trolley

UK


ETAA: Please don't say "trolley" or "buggy" because that is just fucking gay.

Suck us.

[TheBeast]

cross my legs in the European thigh-on-thigh style instead

Either you're a woman or you get phone calls from your bollocks asking

'Can you run? I think not.'

[Crotalus]

The geographic line where the majority of people call soft drinks 'pop' instead of 'soda' seems to lie somewhere in central Pennsylvania. I'm from eastern PA, where virtually everyone calls it soda, as in the rest of the Northeast. The people from the western part of the state mostly call it pop, as does everyone else in the Midwestern U.S. Somewhere in central PA there must be areas that are bitterly divided.


Here is a neat page (http://www.popvssoda.com/stats/USA.html) I found with some statistics all over the U.S. (I haven't read the whole thread yet, so maybe someone else already posted it.)

Edit: Navigating back to the main page of the link, you'll notice a sweet map (http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html) that really sums it all up and includes county stats! Looking from the map, Pennsylvania does indeed seem to be a major battleground of the pop vs. soda war! Missouri is another big battleground, and I don't even know what's going on in North Carolina...

[livius drusus]

Wow, Florida is almost evenly divided along coke and soda lines. Cool link, Crotalus. :thumbup: