Are we speaking the same language?

[Jake_Taylor]

I thought it was pretty interesting the sandwich one had the whole country pretty dark red for subs, with the exception of Pennsylvania and their hoo-oh-gies. I bet there would have been more color on that map 20 or 30 years ago, but I suspect the proliferation of Subway and other national chain sandwich shops kind of universalized that one.

I was thinking the exact same thing. That used to be a real regional difference, but I think Subway's popularity has single-handedly changed that.

Wasn't it actually hoagies/subs/heros/gyros not so long ago?

Don't forget grinders.

Navy beans, navy beans, navy beans...

Sloppy Joe, slop a Sloppy Joe.

Which brings up another one. In Western Maryland and South Central PA, they are called steamers.

 

[MCbamr]

Do you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner? Breakfast, lunch and supper? Breakfast, dinner and supper?
Does anyone call a lawn mower a "grass cutter?"

 

[Jake_Taylor]

My father-in-law has what I call a riding lawn mower. He calls it a tractor. To me this is a tractor:

This is a little tractor:

This is a riding lawn mower:

 

[93Devil]

Gumband...

Chipped ham...

Down to the street...

and Miracle Whip, IIRC, is never called Miracle Whip where I was born.

 

[da man]

Stuff I remember from visiting my grandparents in Brooklyn: The street was the "gutter," cottage cheese was "pot cheese," the refrigerator was the "frigidaire" (even though it was really a Whirlpool), and that little pink rubber ball we bounced off the wall was a "spaldeen."

 

[KJIM]

Gumband...

What is the English word for this?

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

The woman I mentioned in the "get down" post had a hard time dealing with Southern pronunciation, including TEEvee (that thing you watch shows on) instead of Tee-Vee, INsurance instead of inSUREance, plus several others I can't recall. My brain's tired. It's FRY-dee. It's been a long week.

 

[DanOregon]

cockroach not cockaroach

poinSETTA not poinsettEa

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

 

[93Devil]

Gumband...

What is the English word for this?

Rubber band

 

[Shoeless Joe]

One thing that drives me nuts around here is that any word that ends in -ower is pronounced "ire" such as power = pire or tower = tire.
I also laugh because where my wife grew up in North Carolina, the stuff that comes out of your faucet is called "war-ter" and a make of car named after an Indian chief is a "Pony-ac"

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

A coach I knew who was born and raised in Pittsburgh but has spent most of the past 35 years in the Deep South did local Powerade commercials 10 years ago and pronounced it "PYRE-ade."

 

[Riptide]

One tiny, unidentified village in America
still pronounces "No problem" as "You're welcome."

 

[buckweaver]

It's FRY-dee.

Boy, that one takes me back. Haven't heard anyone say it like that since I left my hometown.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

One thing that drives me nuts around here is that any word that ends in -ower is pronounced "ire" such as power = pire or tower = tire.
I also laugh because where my wife grew up in North Carolina, the stuff that comes out of your faucet is called "war-ter" and a make of car named after an Indian chief is a "Pony-ac"

Translating Southern to English can be a lot of fun ...

 

[I Should Coco]

One difference I've noticed between the Northwest and the Midwest:

Most people out here don't pronounce the invisible "r" in "Washington."

 

[Riptide]

Where I come from, to do laundry is to warsh your clothes.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Has this entire thread missed the New England dialect of pronouncing the letter R in most cases like it was an H?
As in "I'm going to pahk the cah in the gahage" (I'm going to park the car in the garage)

My favorite example of this dialect comes courtesy of a story my wife told me. She was born and raised in the Philly area but went to college in Massachusetts. Her freshman year roommate was from Maine. So one night during freshman year her roommate asks her "Are you going to the pahty (which my wife heard as potty) tonight?" The roommate had to ask a second time for my wife to figure out she was saying party not potty.

Also some of those New England slang expressions take some getting used to.
Like something that's really funny is a "wicked pissa"

 

[93Devil]

malk

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Could I hear any difference between the way you say pin and pen?