We all know names can be misleading. Pronunciations can be misleading and different. It all depends on where you live! REALLY!!!! Location, location, location!!!!!
Tomato - how it is said. Toe Mate O -------- Toe Mot O
Potato - """""" Poe Tate O """" Poe Tot O
Pecan - """"" Pee Can """" Pu Con
You see what I mean? LOL
It depends on where you live, on how you say different words. I think it is very neat. There are even various ways of saying names of cities. New Orleans, St. Louis, Terre Haute, Louisville - all have different variations. There are so many!!
I know it can be confusing to many.
Let's clear up a couple today.
I believe this is a scone in some places - please correct me if wrong.
This is what we call scones. They can be sweet or savory. They are often served with tea or coffee.
I guess I can see why people get confused when we say we have biscuits and gravy!!! LOL - yeah ICK!
Ground beef = mince
Trash/garbage = refuse
Stroller = trolly
diapers = nappies
Chickens = chooks
Patio = veranda or lanai or terrace
I can things = others bottle or jar them
I just find it all so interesting have different regions have different words or meaning for things.
What other things have you noticed, or do you know?
Let's increase our knowledge today. We should all learn something new each day! My Daddy used to ask me EVERY single day - "what did you learn today?" I thought it was annoying as a child - now I try to find something new to learn every day. I challenge myself.
What differences can you come up with?
Let's have a little fun today and learn a little bit as well!
There's always the POP vs. SODA debate ...
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I forgot about that one! Thanks
DeleteI am a pop person!
I ask for a pop, my husband asks for a soda pop
DeleteFunny how we get stuck in our ways! No matter what we call it - we all know what it is!
DeleteIn my neck of the woods, it is pasty vs. pastie. One is a meat pie and the other strippers wear.
ReplyDeleteLOL - well let us not confuse those!!!!!
DeleteI will take the hand meat pie any day!
In my world, a garden is where vegetables/flowers are grown. In England, the garden is what I call the yard. There are many phrases used locally that can be attributed to cowboy culture, i.e. cut me some slack (give me a break), cowboy up (put your all into it). The porch in my house is the back entry while some refer to the porch as the verandah or outside landing. Supper and dinner may be used interchangeably referring to the evening meal as can dinner and lunch referring to the midday meal. I think turnip & rutabaga is used interchangeably although they are different root vegetables. Then there's casserole while hotdish is common vernacular in the US Midwest.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many slangs that we all use daily.
DeleteI think pf garden as flowers and especially veggies.
At home we had a front porch - open and good for setting. We had a back porch - which was enclosed and held utilities.
Dinner was Sunday noon meal and supper was evening meal every other day. Lunch was mid-day 6 days.
I do casserole here.
It is neat to be reminded of so many fun differences.
It is about lunch time here and I am getting a bit peckish!!!!! LOL
I say Pop and my sister in Hawaii says soda. I saw a funny meme as to why we say pop in Michigan the other day- because that's what they do when frozen LOL.
ReplyDeleteI never know why it was called pop - I figured it was just a shortened version of soda pop! LOL
DeleteI love the Australian term whipper snipper for weed eater.
ReplyDeleteI never heard that one. I like it! I learned a new one today!
DeleteI've heard that term used here in Canada as well.
DeleteWe had a neat activity in school once where we thought of things that are actually a brand name, but we’ve made them into generic names. Kleenex and Xerox come to mind, but there are many others.
ReplyDeleteNeat idea. I would think Coke would be one as well. Some people call all soda or pop Coke!
DeleteHere in the South, all sodas/pops are Cokes!
DeleteAnd regional as well - we Yankees don't eat biscuits with gravy! ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL that is funny. You should give t a try - it is tasty!!!
DeleteBelinda we say hoover but thats a brand name and we made generic.
ReplyDeleteEvening meal... We usually say we are having our tea and we may not even have tea with it lol
What do you do in your yard? Mine is the back entrance to our house. Its were the water hose is and sometimes my car.
Cheryl i love reading your menu for the week. Probably not things i would find familiar. Lol
We are all different.
Sylvia
OK, I have heard of hoovering.
DeleteI think we call tea, just a special moment in the afternoon - with tea! There is another learning moment.
Thank you - I realize we are from all over and things are different. I do try to fix things from other places now and then. It is kind of fun breaking loose a little!
Boots, galoshes and rubbers. Divan, couch and sofa. You, you all and yinz. Rubber band and gumband. I had to unlearn a lot of midwestern regionalisms and learn a lot of Pittsburghese when I moved to this region. I've been here nearly 40 years and people still can occasionally tell I'm from the midwest.
ReplyDeleteCoyote. I grew up with it pronounced ky-o-tee, My mother (in Kansas) recently corrected me saying that ky-ote refers to the dog-like animal and ky-o-tee refers to the person who smuggles people across the southern border. I note that the dictionary does not agree with her, though.
DeleteSub, grinder, dagwood, po'boy, hoagie.
Delete(Can you tell I love to play with the English language!)
We had boots or galoshes. Never heard gumband.
DeleteI say ky o tee as well. Old Wiley Coyote - wouldn't be right if you called him anything other than ky o tee!!! Glad to know the dictionary agrees!
I have had a sub and a hoagie. I guess I have heard the other phrases as well.
I love this - it is fun!!!!!
We call the heros in NY
DeleteYep - I have heard that one too
DeleteMy Iowa friends say cupboards instead of cabinets. Also sloppy Joe's are taverns and unless cookies are round, they are bats. I am in S. Indiana. They tease me as we don't have potlucks..we have pitch ins.
ReplyDeleteI can go either way with cabinets and cupboards. I have never heard a tavern called a sloppy Joe!!! Never heard an odd-shaped cookie called a bat either. I have lived in IN all my life - those are new to me! Thanks
DeleteI have both potluck and pitch-ins!
Not bats...bars...geez, must proofread going forward...lol!
ReplyDeleteOK - that makes more sense to me!!!! LOL
DeleteThanks.
My dad was Scots so I grew up with different words from where I lived near London. Mother had gone for the messages. That is shopping. Its fair dreich meant it was a grey miserable day. Down south we have lunch at midday and dinner in the evening. Up North they have dinner midday and tea in the evening. My Canadian DIL calls the pram the stroller. The pavement is the sidewalk. We have totally different words for parts of a car. I think its fun.
ReplyDeleteThere are several of those I have never heard.
DeletePram - forgot about that one. It is a stroller here as well.
This is fun - a great learning experience for us all.
Well a rig or an outfit in Idaho is a truck. As in he has a nice outfit.
ReplyDeleteI have heard big rig - but not outfit. Cool.
DeleteWhen I went away to college I ordered an ice cream cone with sprinkles. The counter girl giggled and said do you mean jimmies?
ReplyDeleteI would have said sprinkles too! I have heard of jimmies - but never knew anyone who used that term.
DeleteNeat.
Many a time I look up a word to see what it means in another country as well.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That is such a good idea. Learning something new all the time!
DeleteHere in Canada we use serviettes, while my American relatives call them napkins.
ReplyDeleteAnother I have never heard of. Thank you!
DeleteIn the NW, Seattle specifically they have always had a Bumbershoot festival. Bumbershoot or umbrellas. Sometimes it's hard to figure out the words but fun.
ReplyDeleteIt seems I remember hearing that word back in the day. Yeah, I wonder how they came up with that name? Of course, I wonder how they came up with umbrella??? Both words are odd.
DeleteAnd they have a whole festival for them!!!!! LOL
This post is fascinating and all the comments are great! I read a lot of British fiction so am familiar with several of the words. This is a little silly but my girls used to call sprinkles fairy t**rds. ha! Sack vs bag, soda vs pop vs Coke, biscuits vs cookies, and we always called peonies "pineys". My sister-in-law always called corn on the cob "rosen'ears" which is a mishmash of roasting ears. Lots of folks have origins in the south so we have all kinds of variations on terms. Dialects are so interesting!
ReplyDeleteI recently commented to my husband that I didn't know the correct word peony growing up. It was always pine-y. And they bloomed just right to pick bouquets to decorate graves at Memorial Day.
DeleteDonna it is interesting, isn't it? Now fairy t**ds is a new one!! LOL
DeleteI have used both ways to say peonies. My Mom and Aunt always said pine - y.
I have heard roasting ears - sounds like a slang of that.
Language is just fascinating.
Linda - I think we have all said the word both ways. I thought for years that Memorial Day was actually called Decoration Day, as that is what Mom called it. Peonies were cut and put in tins of water and set on graves - to decorate them.
DeleteThere's pizza & pie.
ReplyDeleteYes. I have heard both used. That is a good one.
DeleteIn the UK they call the trunk of a car a boot. My Australian cousin calls a pullover sweater a jumper.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about the jumper. First time I read that somewhere, I thought why would a boy wear a dress! A jumper to me was a sleeveless dress you wore over a blouse.
DeleteI sure wonder where the names come from.
There are two differences that seem to be specific to my province of Saskatchewan.
ReplyDeleteFirst, the sweaters with hoods, that most people call hoodies now were bunny hugs when I was growing up.
Second is chocolate milk that was called Vi-co here. From Wikipedia "Vi-Co was a brand of chocolate milk manufactured by the company Dairy Producers. When Dairy Producers were bought out by Dairyland in 1995, the Vi-Co line was abolished. It was available in Saskatchewan, Canada, a few parts of Manitoba, New Brunswick and Quebec. ... (1911-1976) in Sherbrooke, Québec."
Bunny hugs - never heard that one! Cute.
DeleteVi-Co definitely must be local. Not a brand or name I have heard. Chocolate milk - is just chocolate milk here.
We did have a shelf stable product that came in cans like soda pop called Chocola and one called Yoo-Hoo. Wasn't totally (if at all) a milk product - but sure tasted good.
Yoo-Hoo can still be purchased in some places, and Chocola has one spot that locally produces it where it can be purchased. They purchased the recipe and name years ago.
It is neat how different regions have such different products!
Well, I was going to contribute jumper and boot...but see someone else already has. I know I know more, but cannot think. We always called the midday meal dinner, and supper was supper. Now I might call the midday meal lunch, but supper is still supper.
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