Are we speaking the same language?

[EStreetJoe]

This is pretty cool.
22 maps showing how regional dialects effect the pronunciation of words and what we call certain items.

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6


(Hope this isn't a d_b)

 

[LongTimeListener]

When I was younger and thirsty, I used to choose between pop and a bubbler. But now I don't live there anymore so I just grab a merlot.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

When I was younger and thirsty, I used to choose between pop and a bubbler. But now I don't live there anymore so I just grab a merlot.

I had never heard a water fountain called a bubbler until one of my friends, who's from Wisconsin, said it once when we were talking on the phone. I asked her what she meant, and she said it was northerners word for water fountain.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

When I was living in NYC, even the ground outdoors was referred to as "the floor". To me the floor was indoors.

 

[LongTimeListener]

This one is tremendous: What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? From Louisiana through North Carolina, they say "the devil is beating his wife."

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#seriously-alabama-and-mississippi-that-is-terrible-19

 

[spikechiquet]

I'm a Yooper. We don't speak right...we know it and we love it.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

When I started dating a New Jersey girl in the early 2000s she asked me if I wanted to go get on line. I was like, "What do you mean? You want to go to an Internet cafe or something?"

"No, get on line for movie tickets."

"Oh, you mean in line."

 

[Riptide]

What does Bubbler call a bubbler?

 

[dixiehack]

This one is tremendous: What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? From Louisiana through North Carolina, they say "the devil is beating his wife."

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#seriously-alabama-and-mississippi-that-is-terrible-19

They left off "with a dishpan."

Every one of those maps proves again that Mizzou has no business being in the SEC.

 

[dooley_womack1]

This all is fascinating. In most parts of the country, the perfect woman is a 10. But the people of sj must be from a part of the country where the perfect woman is a 6.

 

[dixiehack]

This all is fascinating. In most parts of the country, the perfect woman is a 10. But the people of sj must be from a part of the country where the perfect woman is a 6.

Tahoe.

 

[cyclingwriter]

This one is tremendous: What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? From Louisiana through North Carolina, they say "the devil is beating his wife."

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#seriously-alabama-and-mississippi-that-is-terrible-19

They left off "with a dishpan."

Every one of those maps proves again that Mizzou has no business being in the SEC.

pronounce caribbean is another one...

 

[Gutter]

They should've posed the question, "What machine do you withdraw money from?"

ATM
Tyme Machine
Cash Station

 

[KJIM]

This one is tremendous: What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? From Louisiana through North Carolina, they say "the devil is beating his wife."

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#seriously-alabama-and-mississippi-that-is-terrible-19

Well, yeah. Except it's "whipping." What do you call it?

 

[LongTimeListener]

My answer would be A) "I have no term or expression for this."

 

[Bubbler]

What does Bubbler call a bubbler?

Hence the name.

 

[shockey]

one more geographical word difference: i spent my life going to carvei for a vanilla cone with SPRINKLES.' on my first cape cod vacation, te ice scream joints called sprinkles 'jimmies.' another geographical difference: 'ketchup vs. cats-up.' 'uncomftable' vs. 'uncomfert-ahbull'

 

[Batman]

They should've posed the question, "What machine do you withdraw money from?"

ATM
Tyme Machine
Cash Station

Growing up in New Jersey, we always called them "MAC machines," since the first ones were called "Money Access Centers."

 

[Batman]

Another one is any soft drink in the south is called a "Coke." Took me a couple of years to figure that one out when I went away to college.
Friend: You want a Coke?
Me: Sure, that sounds fine.
Friend: OK, we've got Coke, Diet Coke or Mountain Dew.
Me: <confused silence>

 

[EStreetJoe]

They should've posed the question, "What machine do you withdraw money from?"

ATM
Tyme Machine
Cash Station

Don't know if that was one of the 100 or so other questions that were asked they didn't post. They were only given permission to put up 22 of the 122+ questions the professor who did the study asked. (or axed - depending on where you're from)