yeah, we were in Erie, PA, which is rather close to Canada.

10/6/2009 12:40:54 PM

My family is in Pottsville and a little small mountain town called Pine Grove (about an hour north of Hershey on I-81). Both coal mining mountain towns.

10/6/2009 12:43:49 PM

Quote :

"What do you call the thing with wheels that you put groceries and stuff in at the store?"

Bahaha.. this made me lol-irl because mine and bmel's northern suitemate freshman year would always make fun of us for saying buggy

10/6/2009 12:47:59 PM

My Grandmother called it a buggy, and she lived in PA until she died at 88

10/6/2009 12:49:39 PM

The cart son?

10/6/2009 12:49:58 PM

^2 I've never heard someone from up north say it, but I guess everywhere you're going to have a few outliers... my friend from PA would also make fun of us and ask if we were pushing babies >.>

10/6/2009 12:51:08 PM

i actually got "buggy" from my grandmother. i thought it was a northern thing, honestly

10/6/2009 12:52:46 PM

who the fuck callls it a buggy? It's a shopping cart. And "pop" is a mid-western thing.

stupidity in this thread!

10/6/2009 12:54:20 PM

according to wiki:

Quote :

"# buggy – Southern U.S., Canada, and Pittsburgh; the latter case often being considered a word related to Pittsburghese"

Maybe that's why she said it? (I have no idea where your fam is from, and no I didn't read the thread haha)

10/6/2009 12:55:06 PM

Yes. I am.

10/6/2009 12:55:40 PM

we are an hour from Philly and like 4 hours from Pittsburgh, but who knows. my family are some backwoods ass mountain fuckers

10/6/2009 12:58:19 PM

i have lived in nc all my life, and i always called it a shopping cart, i even worked at winn dixie for three years

10/6/2009 1:00:35 PM

djeternal: do you also say gum band for rubber band, bubbler for water fountain, and sweeper for vacuum cleaner?

how about jimmies for sprinkles?

10/6/2009 1:01:14 PM

i dated a girl from Pottsville for a minute, but not much more

10/6/2009 1:01:22 PM

isn't that where they make yuengling?

10/6/2009 1:02:32 PM

I've lived in NC my whole life as well, and so has bmel, and we've always called it a buggy.. My fam from Georgia and Mississippi call it a buggy, too

10/6/2009 1:02:33 PM

Quote :

"djeternal: do you also say gum band for rubber band, bubbler for water fountain, and sweeper for vacuum cleaner? how about jimmies for sprinkles?"

My grandmother called them gummie bands, but I have always called them rubber bands
never heard bubbler for a water fountain
I call it a sweeper
never heard jimmies for sprinklers

Quote :

"isn't that where they make yuengling?"

yes



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10/6/2009 1:03:56 PM

pedophile talk in this thread

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

10/6/2009 1:04:55 PM

we had to say how are you doing today and did you find everything you were looking for?


mine eventually evolved into "hiiii, how ya'll doin' t-day? Ja find errything you were lookin fah?"

and then

"ya'll come back soon!"


it was awful, but i couldn't help it! i swear my accent changed so much just from working at winn dixie, but i spent 5 years working in cary and it is now back to slightly southern but mostly neutral. i have been asked on three separate occasions if i was from colorado. i've never even been to colorado.

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 1:07 PM. Reason : dje, sprinkles...like on ice cream.]

10/6/2009 1:06:25 PM

Quote :

"never heard jimmies for sprinklers"

hahahahaha....I said sprinkles. iswydt.

10/6/2009 1:06:50 PM

when you quit trying, and just are.

10/6/2009 1:10:27 PM

^^ lol. that wasn't intentional. but I haven't heard it for sprinkles either

10/6/2009 1:11:52 PM

Quote :

"who the fuck callls it a buggy? It's a shopping cart. And "pop" is a mid-western thing. stupidity in this thread!"

my mom's family is rural johnston county NC for generations, and i aint never heard any of them call it a buggy. that just sounds dumb.

"pop" is a midwestern thing, but also common in western PA, as well as here in Washington state.

i HATE calling it "pop". that just annoys the crap out of me, and i refuse to do it.




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10/6/2009 1:12:43 PM

just reminds me of soda popinski

10/6/2009 1:13:56 PM

i remember a survey one time for the us about what people call it...don't some states call it all coke?


maybe i'm crazy

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 1:15 PM. Reason : ^^and my ex's family in pa called it pop]

10/6/2009 1:14:53 PM

Quote :

"djeternal: do you also say gum band for rubber band, bubbler for water fountain, and sweeper for vacuum cleaner? how about jimmies for sprinkles?"

this thread is so relevant to my interest.

my dads side is from pittsburgh pa, i spent a lot of summers there. they definitely called them "gum bands" and "sweepers" a lot of other "pittsburgh-ese" that i cant recall off hand.

Quote :

"i remember a survey one time for the us about what people call it...don't some states call it all coke?"

that would be the southwest, esp. Texas.

"what kind of coke y'all want?"

10/6/2009 1:16:31 PM

Everybody in Gaston county calls it a buggy... I think that shit's weird. It's a goddamned shopping cart.

10/6/2009 1:17:08 PM

My family doesn't say "turn out that light" they say "outin' that light"

beat that

and they don't use "ain't" the same way we do. They say "that was crazy, ain't?" as if to say "that was crazy, wasn't it?"

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10/6/2009 1:18:00 PM

its a shopping cart...its what crackheads use to transport stolen goods to the scrap metal yard

10/6/2009 1:20:00 PM

Quote :

"Everybody in Gaston county calls it a buggy"

that explains it. Gaston county is full of crackheads and retards.

10/6/2009 1:21:06 PM

my dad says buggy. he was born in durham, moved to rocky mount when he was 2. he's the only one in the whole family who says it. everybody picks on him for it.

Quote :

"My family doesn't say "turn out that light" they say "outin' that light""

you're supposed to say "cut off/on the light"

what do you call one of these areas between the yellow lines?


[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM. Reason : ]

10/6/2009 1:22:52 PM

a parking space?

which reminds me, my buddy from Michigan calls a blinker a "turn indicator"

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10/6/2009 1:24:54 PM

i think i used to call them Parking Slots.

not sure when or why... i say "space" now.

10/6/2009 1:26:52 PM

people around here call them parks, although i call them parking spaces.

they're not parks, parks are grassy with trees and swingsets. just sayin'

what do you call the thing that changes the channel on the tv?

10/6/2009 1:29:22 PM

I too, am confused with what I am.

10/6/2009 1:30:30 PM

i call it a gotdam remote. but i've heard it called a "clicker" cant remember where.


Heres something that's probably not a "southern" thing, but is always an issue ... When it's getting too hot and you need to cool off, do you say:

"Turn the AC down"

or

"Turn the AC up"

?

10/6/2009 1:33:28 PM

Turn the AC up

or

Turn the thermostat down

10/6/2009 1:34:41 PM

also one time in Australia dude asked me if I wanted to get some beer and I was like "yeah I'm down" and he thought I meant like "BEER IS BAD, DOWN WITH BEER!"

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM. Reason : dbl post]

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM. Reason : double]

10/6/2009 1:34:41 PM

i would probably say something like "pull the thermostat down"

10/6/2009 1:35:06 PM

se7entythree
who the hell is calling them "parks?"
Jason?

10/6/2009 1:35:41 PM

yeah, well you're an engineer, so that doesnt count.

10/6/2009 1:35:43 PM

my granny isn't an engineer and she'd say that

10/6/2009 1:36:41 PM

Quote :

"do you ever do things just to mess with people like look at them crazy if they dont sit down for tea every day or act like they dont know what a lorry is "

I can't stand tea, so I couldn't care less if people drank it every day, hot or cold. And I wouldn't expect people to know what a lorry is so if people don't understand they don't get odd looks from me.

Quote :

"are boots and bonnets really car parts?"

Yes and yes.


If anyone cares btw,

shopping trolley = shopping cart
elastic band = rubber band
hoover = vacuum cleaner
indicator = turn signal
carpark = parking lot

10/6/2009 1:41:48 PM

well, your granny has good sense then.

i cant recall how many people i knew would say "turn the ac down" when it was hot. this was in NC, but that's just cause i lived so much of my life there. im sure they said it other places too.

obviously, to me, if you turn the AC "down" you're decreasing the output of the AC unit, and will warm the place up.

but some folks will fight you over it.

10/6/2009 1:42:33 PM

i just say, it's too cold or it's too hot.


then the boy gets up and fixes it, or gets me a blanket

10/6/2009 1:53:01 PM

When you miss Bojangles

10/6/2009 1:54:23 PM

Quote :

"then the boy gets up and fixes it, or gets me a blanket"

winner

10/6/2009 1:59:50 PM

10/6/2009 2:01:51 PM

It's tough being a lorry driver. Shift gear, shift gear, murder a prostitute, change lanes, shift gear, shift gear, murder, etc.

[/Clarkson]

10/6/2009 2:16:15 PM

set it up

10/6/2009 2:16:53 PM