When I was in jr. high we made up a survey and sent it out to differant schools around the US. This survey had questions pertaining to what words you used for say a sofa. Do you call it a sofa or a couch?
Or do you say pop or soda? or something else entirely?

My MIL was raised in the hills of Missouri in the 30's. She calls a recipe a receipt. This is a generational thing rather than a regional thing. But it is interesting to me to hear what words people use for things or phrases that are regional.

My DH uses his mom's phrase "It's raining like the gits" But noone knows what a gits is. Just something she picked up as a child.
She also says "Poking on the pounds" which puts a picture in my head of someone using their fingers to literally poke the fat into the their side!! Like applying the fat straight to my thighs instead of eating it! LOL

I would love to hear any phrases or words like this.

What do you call your couch? And is there a differance to you as to what constitutes a couch or a sofa?
I call a road that has small rock on it a gravel road. My DH calls it a rock road.

Do you have the idea? I would love to hear other's experiences with words!

We have a sofa or a couch depending on the word that comes to mind first. I lived in a little town in southern Colo. that called sodas "pop", and somewhere along the way I heard "sody water" and liked the sound of it. We always had lunch at noon, but in the evening we had dinner or supper, again depending on which word popped into my mind.

I noticed a lot of differences in expressions depending where I lived.
In New York it's soda, in Ohio it's pop
In Ohio they say ink pen- can't wrap my brain around that b/c I don't know any other kind of pen, except an animal pen!
When I lived in Georgia, little kids would say "Tote me Mama", whereas my kids would say "Mommy, pick me up"
I love regional sayings!!

I also have no idea what "gits" are hahaha
If anyone can tell me about ink pen let me know! :D

Uh, in my area of NY it is called pop....

While living in the south years ago I heard phrases such as.....

I am going to snatch her bald headed. (cat fight......LOL)

Yonder ways (meaning a direction)

Up around the bend (same as above)

Cookin' up a mess of greens (yummy, need I say more)

Here in Oregon

They refer to one's pick up or SUV as a rig.
In Nevada a rig is a drug paraphernalia.

I call it a sofa, I drink sodas, I eat pancakes as opposed to flapjacks. My brother eats johnny cake and I eat cornbread.

We call it a couch, cola, and folks here are bad about adding r's to the middle and end of a word. ex. We live in Eva,but they say Everrrr and names like Crstyal are pronounced Crishtal. And the ever famous Walmarks for Walmart.LOL

I never heard the word pop until I moved to Ohio. Interesting- Horseheads isn't that far from Utica :)

By golly could I start a list ..... but I will just comment on soda which we call soft drink or lemonade, we sit on the couch and live on a gravel road.

At the moment its raining like the dickens.

No particular reason but I use couch. We call a vehicle with a headlight out a "popeye" For instance, There's a popeye coming.

When in public if one of us sees a person that looks a lot like a mythical character like Santa Claus or Rumplestillskin or even a famous person we simple say "It's a natural". A few seconds later when politely out of ear shot we compare notes and agree or not about who the person looked like.

Another term we use is rapster. We use this to describe a rapper that often seems to have run-ins with the law. It is a cross between a rapper and a gangster.
One more is the "review" mirror instead of rear view mirror. This came about when our daughter was very young and that is what she thought we were saying when referring to the rear view mirror on a car.

New Englanders (not as common now-a-days) called Coke/Pepsi "tonic" and that was how the grocery store aisle was labelled! We also have frappes which are made with ice cream which differs from milk shakes. Don't know if it's a NE saying vs. one just for my town but in one of my posts I mentioned that I'd grown up on a pond and someone wrote back asking if I walked on water?!? :-)

My mother and father were from Oklahoma, but lived in Texas since they were young. Dinner was at noon and supper was the evening meal. They inserted a lot of r's in words, such as warshed, and words ending in ing were replaced with an aw. As for Couch or sofa, we called it a divan, the fridge was an icebox and we drank sody water.

The nuns called where we put our coats the cloak room. No, I am not 100 !! hahahaha

Sofa, soda, ink pen uses cartridges for legal purposes usually as opposed to roller ball and ball point pens. Here we are in the process of having out chimneys cleaned but they call them chimleys, wash is warsh and Warshington DC. Its spittin rain.

Hobo, THANKS!! I really had no idea why they were called that :D
My son lives in Warshington DC hahahaha

From NC I learned that, no one is sure how far "down the road a piece is" but they get there just fine! They also borree something instead of borrow and instead of living on a particular road, they "stay" there. At first I thought that someone was visiting, but nope, just the way it's said.

I have a couch, an ice box, I like soda and my dad drives a truck for a living and has a pick-up truck at home. We have winders (windows) and pillars on the bed. I say over yonder (over there). Mind you I grew up in Ca. but I speak like this. LOL.

Love them all! My DH and his mom call a desk a dest and mark is mart. I tried to correct his pronunciation of this as a young wife and it was explained to me that that is how it is said! LOL end of story! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Carrie, don't pillars hurt your head ??? hahahahaha :D

We go "down the shore" when we go to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean.

Lmbo!! Actually mine are nice and fluffy. LOL. I remember when DH and were dating he never knew what I was talking about. He finally asked me what the h__l is an ice box? Anybody know what an ice chest is? I won't give the answer yet.

We have a sofa or couch depending on who I'm talking with. I drink cokes (no matter what it is)..we eat lunch at noon and supper or dinner at night and have to be careful about inviting people for dinner....they might just show up at noon!

Daddy says the he likes a "right smart" amount of some things. And only black people "stays" somewhere..white people "live" places. I have a frig in my kitchen. The land is "flat as a fliver" and I have no idea what a "fliver" is. The grocery store "sacker" totes my stuff to the car for me.

I sit on the couch and drink a coke (no matter if it's sprite, pepsi, or dp) and eat my lunch and supper while it rains like a cow pissin on a flat rock. (now that is some serious rain)

hahaha, this is getting funnier by the post! I love it :D

Geezzzzz Carrie, you must be older than you look. My Gram used to say ice-box hahahaha

Susan I am 42, I just grew up with the older generation calling it an ice box.

We drink sodas,have dinner and supper,sit on the couch or divan,go up or down the road,or over yonder ,we had a ice box, the stove is what you cooked on and the heater is what you backed up to get warm. When it rained it either sprinkled or poured. When it was cold out my folks would say "be sure to put a wrap on," instead of coat or jacket.

Couch, pop, gravel roads(That's where we lived when we were little.), Lunch at noon, Supper in the evening(some people said dinner), My pickup is a truck(It is almost that large), Semis are the trucks that have a truck and trailer and are used for long haul. My late husbands family--I seen it over yonder. Pillars hold up a church and I lay my head on a pillow. We have windows in our houses. Neat and Cool were very popular terms. The Boxboy took your groceries to the car. The mailman can be male or female. Yup, yeah, or yes. Nope, no. When my husband said squirrel stew--I was astonished it really had squirrels in it. Squirrels here are to watch as they play in the trees. Chili had beans, hamburger and sauce--goulash had noodles, hamburger, and sauce. Potatoes were spuds.

This is one explanation I found for fliver. All the sites refered to the Model T.

IF you'd ever heard a Model T running you'd know... they have a nasal wheezie sound like "fliver fliver fliver" over and over. They were refered to as "flivers" because of it and it has been thus since. Go to an antique auto show sometime and listen to one. You'll have to smile !!!

some of the comments refered to an old dilapidated car or airplane. Interesting word!!

Do you know why it was called an ice box? My mom was an antique dealer so I have seen the real ice boxes.

I call it a couch, but when I was young my mom and dad called it a davenport.

I grew up drinking "cokes" no matter what flavor (usually orange!) Now I ask William to pick up some "soda" or "pop".

We had an icebox or a fridge...and the ice chest was the freezer.

I sit on a couch or loveseat, but have sat on sofas, divans, and davenports.

Mom was adamant about "washing" and "windows" but my ex's family all warshed their winders...

And William loves "Eye-talian" food...

If we have a big meal at noon, we have dinner, and then supper later...if it's a sandwich at noon, then we're doing lunch with dinner later... My mom maintained that dinner was at 5pm, and supper was later...say 8 or 9...

I've heard "flat as a flitter" don't know what the heck a flitter is either!

we used a icebox in our home. it was great until we forgot to empty the water pan.but then the floor got mopped so it wasn't all bad!! I am from Ohio but have lived in s.c. for over 30 years.but we still drink POP.

I hang my clothes on a hanger but my exhusband called it a "rack". I use a spapula to take cookies off the pan but he called it a "egg turner".

If you have to go to the bathroom real bad you need to " pee like a russian race horse".

Its raining cats and dogs. What does that really mean having to many puppies and kitties???? I don't know but have said it all my life to refer to a heavy rain.

No matter if I am living inside the city limits or on a country road if I leave the house I'm " going to town".

We actually do have an old ice box in my mom's room, half the time that's what I call the fridge now.

The old days before refrigerated ac's we had water cooler's or swamp cooler's.

Dinner is lunch time, supper is the night meal.

Lots of folks referred to beer as Colorado Kool Aid.

We have a sofa or couch depending on what comes out when saying it. We drink soda. We also drink wooder, not water. I called the place under your arm an arm pit, my DH called it an underarm. Our poor son got confused and called it under pit. It stuck. My dad called a rubberband a gumband and a paperbag a poke. My mom warshed her dishes in the zinc.

My aunt called the couch a settee. :shock:

My daughter calls it her underpit.. I drink soda, but ask hubby to bring me pop and he knows to get a Pepsi, My SUV is a truck, I live off a gravel road and we use the sofa to sit and the couch to lay on.

Hutch, sideboard, buffet? To me it's a sideboard.

Country fried steak or Chicken Fried steak is the same except in TX where it's always called chicken fried. (I guess as opposed to catfish fried. Or okra fried. Or maybe even French fried.)

Sack, poke, bag, satchel? My ex always toted stuff in a poke, but I usually carried it in a bag.

Then again, in some parts of TX, they "carry mama to the doctor/church/store/Aunt Jean's"...doesn't matter if she weighs 300 lbs or not, they "carry" her! (OWw!)

Soda, pop, drink, cola to me is nearly always a regular Coke, with ice, in a glass, or "go cup" from a fountain/drive-in.

Movie, film, flick, theater? Movie here. "Theater" is for live performances.

Frigidaire, ice box, frige, refrigerator, cooler? I mostly say 'frige'.

Whole-house-fan vs swamp cooler? First heard the evaporative cooler in my daughter's newly-built house called "swamp cooler" when I visited her in El Paso in June. As it was 100 degrees with no shade, and there was not a single swamp for hundreds of miles around, I just did not get it!! They put in AC within the year, LOL!

Jan in VA

Rhonda it's called a ice box because they used to put ice blocks in the Container on the bottom to keep the food cold. Correct me if I am wrong please. I know didn't give a very good discritption of it.