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I don't know if other people use it, but my Mom (and a couple of other people around here) call Wal-Mart "Walle-World" and McDonald's "Mickey-D's".
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In Western Washington, it was pop, here in Northern California it is soda. There: I had a daveno (sp?) while I grew up, because it opened up into a bed, but when we got rid of that we got a couch. Here we have a sofa. I live on a gravel road. There we would have called where I live now, 'out in the country'...here we call it 'just outside of town'. There we did the wash, here we do the laundry. There we had dinner and supper, here we have lunch and dinner. There neighbors would drop in and gab, here they call first - most would never invite themselves. There when you talked about going out for coffee, it meant coffee. Now it just means a generalized something to drink. Which is probably just a generational thing.
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Originally Posted by madamekelly
One of my favorite 'regionals' is; "the mountain is out". That is Seattle-speak for, It's a bright clear day. My husband always called any surface in the house with a flat top, a stand. As in "It's on the stand". Made for several friendly arguments as to which 'stand", in what room, was he referring to? When I lived in Tennessee, People would ask if I could "ride them to the store". (Give them a ride!) That one always gave my a visual that would make me laugh.
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Originally Posted by katiebear1
I was born and raised in CO. and now live in KY. My Mom was born in WVA and lived in PA in her early adulthood. She had this saying Instead of saying"we need to tidy or straighten up the house "she would say we need to red up the house. Anyone else heard that?
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I call it a Couch. My mil calls hers a devan.
We say pop in Missouri and I call a gravel road a dirt road and I live on one. My mil laughs at me ( nicely) for saying yeller for yellow and I kid her about saying battrys for batteries. We say over yonder, ya'll, you'ins and across the way too. |
I remember my mom calling a paper bag a "poke". She was from WVA.
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We have a couch, and drink pop on it, lol!
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What a great thread. Been lurking for a while...
We sat on the Davenport, people went to the poke store to buy booze, we warshed the winders...always said pop. the gravel road was a gravel road, but the paved road was the hard road |
Katied, that's why they called it the poke store...you always had the booze in a paper bag.lol
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While travelling, it was french fries or chips. I drove the waitresses crazy.
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