texas1958
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posted on September 18, 2000 06:52:19 PM new
Busybiddy, I too hang my clothes in the closet, never thought to put them in the cupboard but would seem a little inconvenient!
Cat - Jeanyu Around here a bag AKA Sack has become "Paper or Plastic"
Tex
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rancher24
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posted on September 18, 2000 07:22:19 PM new
Oh, Oh....Someone get the folks from the UK to play!....I worked for a British company for years & the amazing differences in the "English" language were a riot.....Nearly fell off my chair when one of my English counterparts asked me if I "still blew fags" (eg. Smoked Cigarettes)....while we queded (sp?) up (eg. lined up)...for the lift (eg. elevator)...
~ Rancher
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Elfgifu
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posted on September 18, 2000 07:25:48 PM new
Texas1958,
Indiana checking in, and we call it all Coke too! My friends from Wisconsin and Lousiana think we're nuts!!
No, I'm not new to AW -- just took all of your advice and changed from my eBay id!!
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akt
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posted on September 18, 2000 07:38:06 PM new
Alabama Coke
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eventer
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posted on September 18, 2000 07:48:56 PM new
So what do you call that place in your bedroom where you hang your clothes?
The FLOOR.
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texas1958
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posted on September 18, 2000 08:06:48 PM new
Hey that is where my daughter hangs her clothes Too!
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 18, 2000 08:13:34 PM new
Ah, an old debate. 
NY, soda.
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Antiquary
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posted on September 18, 2000 08:26:10 PM new
In NE OK, pop and coke are both pretty much used equally; soda is used occasionally but rates a way distant third place....unless preceded by the word scotch.
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Antiquary
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posted on September 18, 2000 08:28:22 PM new
Double Post!!
[ edited by Antiquary on Sep 18, 2000 08:29 PM ]
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mrpotatoheadd
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posted on September 18, 2000 09:25:15 PM new
Born and raised in southern California- coke it is. Pop heard occasionally, soda, practically never. At least, that's my experience...
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berkeley
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posted on September 18, 2000 10:44:52 PM new
Alberta, Canada here...definitely pop. Hang my clothes in a closet (or on the floor too depending...) and the cabinets in the kitchen are cupboards and the pantry for cans and dry goods.
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Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will.
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thedewey
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posted on September 18, 2000 11:52:07 PM new
Georgia -- It's ALL Coke here. 
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BlondeSense
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posted on September 19, 2000 01:15:22 AM new
Growing up in Illinois - Pop
Moved to Texas and got strange looks. Now I say soda or Coke.
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on September 19, 2000 08:47:54 AM new
Western New York (Buffalo) - pop (pronouned nasally, "paahp"
Boston (Barry, I'm surprised at you!) - tonic (TAHWNic)
And here in Pensacola it's "unsweet" tea, not "notsweet". Iced coffee is "cold coffee".
"Regular" hot coffee here gets you black; back in Boston, "reggulah" gets you cream and 3 teaspoons (!) of sugah (not "shigger", which is Buffalonian).
Here the thing you carry your groceries in is a "sack". Buffalo: bag or "bayug" (nasal again).
Okay, folks: is it "rOOOf" or "ruhf", and "creeeek" or "crick"?
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texas1958
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posted on September 19, 2000 08:54:33 AM new
Hart ROFL 
Of course, it is a ROOOF and A Creek
but I do remember my grandad calling it a Crick but he was from Oklahoma. He called the trunk of a car a turtle-hull.(Go figure)
Tex
[ edited by texas1958 on Sep 19, 2000 08:55 AM ]
[ edited by texas1958 on Sep 19, 2000 08:56 AM ]
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snowyegret
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posted on September 19, 2000 10:37:44 AM new
HCQ:
LOL!!! An ongoing(endless) debate in this house is rooof vs ruhf. I'm from TX, and say rooof. My husband(from Philly) says ruhf. I tell him he lived in South Jersey way too long.
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socrfan2
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posted on September 19, 2000 11:11:36 AM new
When they were younger, my kids (DC suburbs) made up a little story that made fun of how their grandparents(Ohio) talked. Something about "driving to Oh-hiyah" in a "yella" car, to the house by the "crick" to pick up a "davenport" and put it on the "ruhf" of the car, and getting a bottle of "pop" from the "cupboard" in the kitchen.
Then there's the eternal question, grinder (or, in Boston, GRINE-duh) vs hero vs hoagie vs submarine.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 19, 2000 11:16:13 AM new
One of my nine year old nephew's great pleasures in life is making fun of my alleged New York accent (he lives in Maryland).
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on September 19, 2000 11:54:17 AM new
"Alleged" as in you have no accent (and speak in whatever the American version is of BBC "received" English), or that HE thinks your accent is that of a New Yorker (when it's actually an accent from someplace else)?
socrfan2, you forgot "po-boy" (anywhere within 3 hours of New Orleans) and "bomber" (western New York state).
Got another one for you. What is the correct way to cook hot dogs?
(a) steam or boil them
(b) brown them on a griddle/frying pan
(c) roast them over a charcoal fire
And if you look at the hot dog roll/bun, how is it slit open?
(a) From the top
(b) From the side
And a final one: Do you call that doughnut a KROOler or a KRUHLer?
[ edited by HartCottageQuilts on Sep 19, 2000 11:56 AM ]
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thedewey
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posted on September 20, 2000 01:44:10 AM new
HCQ -- How to cook hot dogs? Preferably roasted on a stick over an open fire in the middle of the woods  but I'll settle for boiled.
The bun is split open from the side ...
To whoever asked: It's most definitely a ROOOOOOF.
And a question for y'all ... Do you sit on a sofa, a devan, a couch, or what?
I sit on a couch, but my great grandmother, also from Georgia, used to call it a devan.
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on September 20, 2000 05:51:37 AM new
My grandparents had a davenport.
My mother had a couch.
In early adolescence I got pretentious and started calling it a sofa.
It's been a sofa ever since.
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texas1958
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posted on September 20, 2000 06:20:15 AM new
THEDEWEY---We used to have a devan but now we have a Couch much more comfortable but don't think we have had a Sofa.
Can you see calling someone a
Devan Potato or even a Sofa Potato????
Tex
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Shadowcat
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posted on September 20, 2000 01:06:34 PM new
We hang our clothes in the wardrobes since we have no closets. In the Netherlands, we hung the clothes in the kast. In Germany, we hung clothes in the schrunk.
And it's Coke(or Coke Light for those choosing no calories) over here. You'd be hard-pressed to find Pepsi at the local convenience stores.
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abingdoncomputers
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posted on September 20, 2000 01:47:46 PM new
If you buy groceries in Western Virginia (not West Virginia), the bagger puts them in a bag. In eastern Virginia, they go into a poke. In Georgia, they go into a sack.
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xardon
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posted on September 20, 2000 07:55:52 PM new
Well I'm sure glad ya'll straightened me out on that "poke" thing.
I learned most of my southernisms from watching "Lonesome Dove" on TV. I thought poke meant something entirely different.
Next time I travel down south I'll look forward to hearing "Do you want a poke with that?" from some comely checkout clerk.
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MaLady
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posted on September 21, 2000 09:59:54 PM new
Here in S.California, unlike what mrpotatoheadd said, I've only heard 'soda'. Coke, if you want a Cola.
My youngest son has a slight lisp and when we eat out, he asks for a "Soda". When the waitress asks what kind, he says, "Sprite, Seven-Up, or Slice". His speech therapist told him it was good practice.
[ edited by MaLady on Sep 21, 2000 10:03 PM ]
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jozi
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posted on September 22, 2000 08:04:06 AM new
New Brunswick, Canada- Pop!
And Pepsi is King here!
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bleagle
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posted on September 22, 2000 12:26:24 PM new
eastern PA=soda. Nebraska= pop. I knew a guy from Georgia who called it =sweet water. By the way what do you call the black stuff you drive your car on? Macadam, asphalt, or black top? In England its tarmac and that does not mean any old place you happen to park an airplane dispite what the blow-dry talking heads on the evening news tell you.
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texas1958
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posted on September 22, 2000 01:40:25 PM new
Okay to add insult to injury, what do you call that bread at the ends?
I always heard it called the heel but I was informed it is the "butt" and it doesn't matter which end!
Something tells me this lady was not from Texas.
Tex
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texmontana
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posted on September 22, 2000 08:36:43 PM new
I'm from Texas: I call it Dr. Pepper
Hubby from Oklahoma: Calls it Soda water
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