What do you call ............
#91
Originally Posted by cherylynne
We go "down the shore" when we go to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean.
Loving this thread- I am very interested in language, and regional variations, even accents, are being reduced so much by TV, so it is good to know that some are still alive and well!
#94
Originally Posted by akrogirl
Originally Posted by sewmuchmore
My aunt called the couch a settee. :shock:
#97
Originally Posted by quilter on the eastern edge
Soda or pop is a soft drink. Sometimes we say sofa and sometimes chesterfield.
#98
Originally Posted by hobo2000
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.
#99
We sat on a davenport in my house.
Lunch was the mid-day meal and supper was the evening meal.
We put our food in the fridge.
We bought our food at the market and a bag boy would put them in paper sacks and put them in the cart.
Main Street was downtown, regardless of where you were.
POP was the name for any kind of soft drink.
We cooked on a stove, not a range.
Substitutes for swear words were gosh and golly and darn.
We warshed ourselves with warsh cloths.
We took a bath, not bathed.
We had a crick that ran through town.
It rained cats and dogs, and was hotter than the devil.
Pick-ups were simply trucks.
A road with rocks was a gravel road.
Every train had a caboose, also known as "the red car"
If we referred to an old person, they were "older than dirt"
or "came on the ark."
Lunch was the mid-day meal and supper was the evening meal.
We put our food in the fridge.
We bought our food at the market and a bag boy would put them in paper sacks and put them in the cart.
Main Street was downtown, regardless of where you were.
POP was the name for any kind of soft drink.
We cooked on a stove, not a range.
Substitutes for swear words were gosh and golly and darn.
We warshed ourselves with warsh cloths.
We took a bath, not bathed.
We had a crick that ran through town.
It rained cats and dogs, and was hotter than the devil.
Pick-ups were simply trucks.
A road with rocks was a gravel road.
Every train had a caboose, also known as "the red car"
If we referred to an old person, they were "older than dirt"
or "came on the ark."
#100
just want to add (please don't take offense- this is from a commercial)
Name:MY NAME IS JOE, AND I AM CANADIAN (
Hey.
I'm not a lumberjack,
or a fur trader...
and I don't live in an igloo
or eat blubber, or own a dogsled...
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,
although I'm certain they're really, really nice.
I have a Prime Minister,
not a President.
I speak English and French,
NOT American.
and I pronouce it ABOUT,
NOT A BOOT.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.
DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,
AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
A TOQUE IS A HAT,
A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH,
AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!
CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS!
THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY!
AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!
MY NAME IS JOE!
AND I AM CANADIAN!
Name:MY NAME IS JOE, AND I AM CANADIAN (
Hey.
I'm not a lumberjack,
or a fur trader...
and I don't live in an igloo
or eat blubber, or own a dogsled...
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,
although I'm certain they're really, really nice.
I have a Prime Minister,
not a President.
I speak English and French,
NOT American.
and I pronouce it ABOUT,
NOT A BOOT.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.
DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,
AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
A TOQUE IS A HAT,
A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH,
AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!
CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS!
THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY!
AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!
MY NAME IS JOE!
AND I AM CANADIAN!
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