Google “is a potato a vegetable” I got a chuckle.
Kentucky produces a lot of the bourbon made in the US.
That is why the official drink of the State of Kentucky is…
Milk.
I think maybe Jeebus had more to do with it than Bourbon did. 
Yeah I did too. 
My brother lived in Atlanta for many decades. Each time he visited up north he’d take back some Vernors. I can’t imagine him ever saying he was bringing Coke to Atlanta.
I’m not alone after all!
You pretty much made brandy.
Or worse, a Chicagoan. My sister in law was instantly pegged as Not From Here when she and my brother moved to Connecticut.
(About phones) Could be worse, AT&T called this a voice terminal.
Strange, I’ve never heard anyone call it soda out here.
Uh, what do they call it?
Pop. In Seattle. I’m from the Midwest, so I listen for differences in dialects and pronunciations, but I’ve just not heard anyone use soda.
I’ve lived here practically my whole life and almost never hear “pop”. That is not what it’s called in Seattle, not by natives.
By the way the Seattle PI agrees with you mostly but I still call BS. I have to trust my own experience over many decades here.
Hmm, maybe out where you live soda is more prevalent than it is in Seattle itself. I think of “soda” as being more of a rural or old-fashioned term, and while Auburn certainly isn’t rural anymore, “soda” may be more entrenched there.
Ever notice people calling the airplane company “Boeing’s” out there? Used to drive me crazy. I don’t hear it so much anymore. When I worked there briefly in 1979-1980, it was very common.
I grew up in Bremerton and lived for years in Everett, I’ve only been in Auburn for the past 8 years. I’ve worked in Seattle itself on and off for decades though.
Again, it’s weird as a native here for more than 40 years that’s not what I ever heard growing up or hear today either. It’s at the point where hearing it called “pop” is so rare it’s jarring.
I’m going to start quizzing people. Maybe I’ve just tuned it out.
Well like I said, the PI agrees with you. It’s just so weird from my experience.
I don’t use the term “pop” because it wasn’t what was used where I grew up ¶ - but it’s short for “soda pop”, so I can’t agree with you on finding that one irritating.
I’ve heard that in the South, “Coke” is a generic for any soft drink - but in all my years of living in NC (now in Northern VA, which is “Southern” only for Mason-Dixon Line purists) I never heard anyone do that. They were just “drinks” - or if one had a very strong accent, it came out more like “dranks”.
We called the beverages in question “soft drinks” growing up; not sure when I evolved to calling them “sodas”, which i tend to use interchangeably.
NC is the only place I’ve heard the word “crank” used for starting a car. “turn over” is another term I’ve used for the same procedure (does the engine spin or something?). At least “crank” harkens back to when cars truly DID need someone in front turning, well, a huge crank. The first time I heard “Crank” was when i needed to borrow a roommate’s car, and she said something about having to crank it multiple times. I had no idea what she was talking about!"
YES!!! This is a new phenomenon - last 10 years or so, at most. I’ve lived in the DC metro area for over 30 years and was very puzzled when i started hearing “DMV”. By contrast, “DelMarVa” (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) for a certain peninsula east of the Chesapeake, has a certain charm especially given the sea-like implications of “delMar”.
And you’ll still claim to “dial” said “phone”. I haven’t seen a phone with an actual dial on it in decades. At least “phone” is an abbreviation of “telephone” (“far speak”)- and the devices we call “phones” are actually still used for that purpose - even if they have other functions as well. Plus, the thing on the wall in the kitchen, which serves only one function, is also called a “phone”.
In PA, it was tinfoil. No headgear usage was implied. I think I use “foil” now though it wouldn’t surprise me if I said “tinfoil” occasionally. I do wonder how it ever got to be called that - was there ever a tin-based product that served a similar role?
“Criss-cross applesauce” is something I’ve heard, rarely, in the context of a teacher dealing with a preschool-age child. I think the dentist once used it when asking my 5 year old daughter to sit that way (more stable? less likely to slide down in the dental chair?).
There was quite a bit of discussion of this upthread. I currently live in NC, and have never heard “Coke” used as a generic term here, but I have heard it in and around Atlanta. There was some concrete evidence from linguists cited upthread that it really is commonly used in a lot of regions in the South, as well as some other regions outside the South.
Really? I do hear it, and use it, IRL in NC, but despite being a transplant, it never struck me as unusual. I don’t specifically recall hearing it in Chicago or Northwest Indiana where I grew up, but, again, it never struck me as anything other than a standard phrase when I’ve heard it around here. Same with “turn over” for a car engine starting.
“Cranking” to me is turning the ignition key (becoming less common with push-to-start vehicles becoming more common), and the resulting, well, “cranking” sound as the engine engages. “Turn over” is the engine successfully starting up and engaging. Again, terms I hear all the time in NC, and maybe those are regionalisms, but I don’t recall ever thinking about them that way even when I first moved here.
Teachers have told me “criss-cross applesauce” is the new PC version of sitting “Indian style.”