48 states. Alaska has bouroughs, and they’re a bit different from counties or Louisiana parishes. And oddly enough, there’s quite a bit of unincorporated land that was eventually collectively semi-organized as the “Unorganized Borough”.
I have never heard anyone refer to the events of September 11, 2001 as “The 9/11 Attacks On New York And Washington.” It’s usually just “9/11.” A Google search for the term doesn’t even predict it until I get to the “w” in Washington, and even then refers out to more generic descriptors such as “9/11 Attacks,” “9/11,” “World Trade Center Attack,” etc.
I suspect one would find MANY unique perspectives and ideas that are limited to either Hawaii or Alaska and aren’t true of any other state, just because they’re so remote and different.
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I believe the term “hoagie” is only used in Pennsylvania. Everyone else calls it a sub or submarine sandwich.
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“Hoagie” is used in some other states in the area.
Curiously, a very popular sub joint in my hometown of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, was called “The Hoagie House.” It’s the first hit you’ll get for that Google search. Yet outside of that one place, I never heard the term “hoagie” - anywhere else you’d call it a sub. A “hoagie” was a sub you had actually bought from The Hoagie House. The founder wasn’t from PA, so I’ve no idea where the name came from.
49 States have at least one straight line border. Hawaii is the exception.
Prostitution illegal in 49 States, legal in some parts of Nevada.
I grew up a loooong way away from Pennsylvania, and heard “hoagie”, “sub”, and various other versions all used interchangeably.
Speaking of borders, Michigan seems pretty unique in its state lines.
What about local vs touristy sayings of cities? Things like “Frisco”, “Nola” and “Chi-Town”? Does that exist for states?Cali? Tejas? Ar-Kansas?
Hoagie was the preferred term in northern WV (where I’m from) back in the 70s, so it’s nothing new. Northern WV (Wheeling, the northern panhandle, and extending down into Morgantown) shares a lot culturally with the Pittsburgh region. There was a restaurant in Wheeling called Hoagie Shack, which according to google is not only still there but they have numerous branches all throughout the tri-state area.
In American Sign Language, there about eight different signs for “birthday.” All but one look like some kind of contraction of “born day,” or “cake day,” and there’re used over pretty wide regions, and understood by almost everyone.
In Indiana, there’s an odd sign for birthday that looks iconic of nothing. Everyone in Indiana understands it, and most people who have been to Gallaudet do as well, but if you use it in another state, it’s unlikely to be understood.
Best theory is that is refers to some extinct custom for a birthday child at the Indiana School for the Deaf. No one remembers the custom, but the sign lingers.
Also, Americans who live abroad tend to refer to the US as “the states.” I never heard that until I lived in Russia, but every American (that includes Canadians) I knew there referred to the US as “the states.” I’ve never heard anyone hear do that, unless it’s someone who recently returned from overseas.
In South Louisiana, it is known as a “po-boy” sandwich.
Connecticut still has counties as something of a historical relic, but since 1960, no county governments: List of counties in Connecticut - Wikipedia
In New Jersey you go “down the Shore”. Everywhere else it’s “go to the beach.”
Yes! Thank you - this is completely true, though I’ve never heard anyone else point it out.
In Maryland one goes “downey ocean.”
Heck, I grew up in New York and can’t say I was familiar with “Down East” in reference to Maine.
FWIW, North Carolina has its own coastal region referred to as “Down East”.
Since it includes the word ‘down’, I wouldn’t have guessed it to refer to something as far north as Maine.
California has the Highway Patrol. The other 49 call them state police.
Hoagies and subs are not the same thing. They’re similar, but the bun is sliced differently.
EDIT: I have a cousin who’s a Pennsylvania highway patrolman. In slang, he’s a “state trooper”, not a “state policeman”.
The 9/11 attacks didn’t happen in NYC, Washington and Pennsylvania. They happened in NYC, Arlington County Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
From Down East Magazine, by way of Wikipedia:
“When ships sailed from Boston to ports in Maine (which were to the east of Boston), the wind was at their backs, so they were sailing downwind, hence the term ‘Down East.’ And it follows that when they returned to Boston they were sailing upwind; many Mainers still speak of going ‘up to Boston,’ despite the fact that the city lies approximately 50 miles to the south of Maine’s southern border.”
Well, snap…
In that case, I’ll amend to say: Hawaii is the only state without a highway patrol/state trooper department.