Soda, Pop or Coke? Or something else?

[Vijoge]

We call it "pop", too. Regional vocab is really interesting. I know this is really random, but what do you guys call the grass that is between the sidewalk and street? Here, we call it a devil strip.

Here it's called the parkway.

 

[torsie24]

We call that the easement.

I am curious when you all go grocery shopping do you place that soda/pop/whatever in a cart (as I do), buggy, basket, carraige (these are the 4 I have heard living various palces) or something else????

Into the trolley...

What about when the road comes to a circle leading to a few other roads?

Traffic circle, or Rotary?

It's a roundabout.

 

[Geeg]

Into the trolley...



It's a roundabout.

Snap

Trolly and roundabout

 

[SeattleRedBear]

In Seattle:

Parking strip

Traffic circle

Pop

shopping cart (shopping basket is what you carry)

Long time ago, I was reading through an encyclopedia of regional dialects and they identified Rochester NY as the dividing line between soda and pop.

 

[TheBeadPirate]

... we "make groceries" by pushing our "buggy" through the store while filing it with "soda"...

translation for our midwest friends (my native home)... buying groceries, pushing a shopping cart, and pop of course!

 

[jenn&nelsonrego]

We call that the easement.

I am curious when you all go grocery shopping do you place that soda/pop/whatever in a cart (as I do), buggy, basket, carraige (these are the 4 I have heard living various palces) or something else????

soda in the carriage...

What about when the road comes to a circle leading to a few other roads?

Traffic circle, or Rotary?

rotary... although I do really like the term roundabout and will use that just to confuse people

 

[2GirlsMama]

We put pop in the cart and drive around a traffic circle.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Here in the central/northern part of Alberta, Canada we call it a traffic circle and push our shopping carts in the grocery store where we pick up some pop ...

 

[DVCajun]

Coke. nuff said.

 

[MemoToMe]

In our yard it's "the part where we need to replace the sod"

Honey, I told you I would take care of that as soon as I finished my drinking my soda while driving through the roundabout.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We call that the easement.

I am curious when you all go grocery shopping do you place that soda/pop/whatever in a cart (as I do), buggy, basket, carraige (these are the 4 I have heard living various palces) or something else????

I call it a cart. DH (who you will remember has lived his whole life in TX, and worked in grocery retail for 17 years) calls it a buggy.

I call the circular thing in the street "Those damn ring-around-the-rosy things" because they are so fricking confusing. We don't have those here. They have them in Kansas. When my mom had her cancer surgery last summer I was often stuck driving in completely unfamiliar territory and had to navigate those damn circle things. The people who designed those are in the same category as the people who messed up the ADR window. Really.

 

[rpmdfw]

I call the circular thing in the street "Those damn ring-around-the-rosy things" because they are so fricking confusing.

That's awesome!

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Well, my Grandfather used to call soda, "soft stuff" as opposed to "hard stuff" (whiskey).

I say soda, unless I want a tonic.

Cousins in Worcestershire said "bubbler" for water fountain too. I'll still say it myself from time to time.

Let's see? Roundabout mostly, but have been known to say "stupid rotary."

Shopping cart. Buggy is something pulled by a horse!

That strip of grass thing? That strip of grass thing over there.

 

[kitsch4]

We put pop in the cart and drive around a traffic circle.

Me, too. If I don't have to get too many groceries, I carry a basket. My husband calls a cart a buggy. He also calls a pen an inkpen.

 

[MonorailMan]

I call it......
Refreshing.

And "pop".......even though most of the people here in Columbus that I know refer to it as "soda". I grew up 200 miles north of here, which has apparently made a difference.

 

[NHdisneylover]

What about when the road comes to a circle leading to a few other roads?

Traffic circle, or Rotary?

Roundabout(yes, even as an American that is what I learned)

Long time ago, I was reading through an encyclopedia of regional dialects and they identified Rochester NY as the dividing line between soda and pop.

Oooooh--now I have t o email my friend in Rochester and ask him what he calls it (better yet his husband who was born and raised in Rochester--that is who I need to hear from). They are so gonna wonder where such a random question came from

I call the circular thing in the street "Those damn ring-around-the-rosy things" because they are so fricking confusing. .

 

[PghLybrt]

OK the round thing in the road we call "look kids, big ben , parliament.". Although I think that is just in our house.............


At the grocery store we push a shopping/grocery cart although older people around here call it a buggy.

 

[jenn&nelsonrego]

The people who designed those are in the same category as the people who messed up the ADR window. Really.

 

[MonorailMan]

OK the round thing in the road we call "look kids, big ben , parliament.". Although I think that is just in our house.............


At the grocery store we push a shopping/grocery cart although older people around here call it a buggy.

I've noticed older people tend to pronounce the word "restaurant" as "res-trint". Some southern states seem to do the same thing. (Even Paula Deen does it.) I've never quite understood this.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I've noticed older people tend to pronounce the word "restaurant" as "res-trint". Some southern states seem to do the same thing. (Even Paula Deen does it.) I've never quite understood this.

I lived in East Texas the first 8 years of my life. Other than when I am on the phone with my aunt (who sounds just like Dolly Parton) I have compltely dropped the accent EXCEPT for pronouncing restaurant as you noted adn pronouncing pen and pin the same and tin and ten the same (both with the "i" sound)--I cannot do that without a very concious effort