That’s one that grates on my nerves. You are in line. On line is computer connectivity talk.
I’ve never noticed this being restricted to NY. I hear it in Boston and elsewhere in the US.
And thus my point is proven! In non-SEC states, very few people would even think of the University of S. Carolina when they hear “USC”.
But that’s a region, not 1 of 50 states. Lots of states in the south east would think South Carolina before Southern Cal.
Amen! To the point of using USCw and USCe when discussing topics where both names are apt to appear.
And if you say UT in this area, you damn well better mean Tennessee!
In urban/suburban Florida, people who say “I’m from Florida” mean “I moved to Florida at least five years ago.” Nobody is really from here - I’ve lived in or around Orlando since I was 13 and I’ve met perhaps eight people who were born in the state.
Florida has one too, though not exactly in the same sense: the boundaries of the City of Jacksonville are exactly coextensive with the boundaries of Duval County, and they share a single consolidated government (the Jacksonville City Council.)
Nah. I’m in Florida and I only think of South Carolina first because I visited there and liked the campus (downtown Columbia, SC is surprisingly lovely, except for the angry federal marshal who yelled at me when I climbed on the Strom Thurmond statue.)
I’m glad somebody pointed this out. Calling 9/11 “an attack on Pennsylvania” is like calling Pearl Harbor “an attack on the Pacific Ocean” just because the Japanese missed with some of their shells.
It took me a long time to get used to the American use of “line”. In the UK it’s a queue and you are queuing while in one. Not coincidentally, the British are much better at it.
South Carolina didn’t even join the SEC until 1991. I went to an SEC school, and to me USC played UCLA and in the Rose Bowl. There are two major college sports programs, South Carolina and USC, the latter of which is in California. No confusion at all in my mind.
UK is the University of Kentucky. The University of Kansas is KU.
Hah! We used to go fishing over by Tiki Island. (both sets of grandparents lived in La Marque).
There’s no beach in Tiki Island that I know of though; you still have to go to Galveston for that.
I wonder if the people you hear it from are originally from the NYC area? Because all references to it online talk about it being strictly a New York thing.
I did some realty photos there in another life.
A friend of mine in Anahuac constantly had gators in his yard. Good times…
OSU football in Oklahoma means that University next to Eskimo Joe’s in Stillwater
Yeah, people don’t really call South Carolina “USC” here.
I think you learned the wrong emphasis on it. Yes, it means your claim is empty, but it’s good because you’d rather have all that gold in the bank than still buried somewhere in your claim. (A bird in the hand and all that.) Also, in order to pan out, you must have found some gold to begin with - if your claim was a total dud, you’d never say you panned it out. Your second definition is the only one I ever learned, and I lived in CA until I was 25.
It seems like the people who say “It only happens in [my home state]” have rarely been outside their home state.
As a kid, I’d go with my friend and his dad, and we’d go on his air-boat and cruise around a swampy area somewhere between Anahuac and Baytown. I recall feeding gators several times out there.
Go Beavs!
*I’m a Beaver
You’re a Beaver
We are Beavers all!
And when we get together
We give the Beaver call:
nik!nik!nik!nik!nik!nik!
*
Yeah, but WOULD they ever say that? Or would the natural phrasing be, “We’re headed into Chicago for some fun”?
I get that what people would receive the meaning of “the City” to be different, but to use it in active speech, I personally have only heard it from New York Metro’ers and that one San Jose’an.
Admittedly, one time it was a native New Yorkwr making a point of sorts that he’d “gone native” while I was visiting him by referring to Los Angeles that way. It drew derision from the other “genuine” locals, as nobody in Southern California ever calls LA “the City”.
Interesting. I hadn’t heard of Philly as “the City” but it makes sense that there’s a Jersey idiom of use that necessarily changes its reference point somewhere around Trenton. OTOH I doubt people in Delaware call Philly “the City”? I really don’t know.
I’ll try to explain the mentality of the divide.
Students and cadets stand in line. That line is strict, single file, and maintained by external discipline.
Lines, or queues, of people in NYC are often concurrent, fluid or both. There is no order imposed but convention. Cutting in line (as an arriviste) is definitely Verboten, but not shifting to take up slack from someone who’s paid their dues in minutes or hours… And so people hop from one to another, if there are multiples, or play the smudge game where some group of people aligned together in a general direction eventually resolve into a single file or files at the end, keeping options open until the last minute when commitment is required. The question is then asked, “are you on this line, or that one?”, as if it were a trolley ride. The answer presupposes that there are multiple ways to reach a shared goal - a ticket window, a checkout counter, a bus to some destination or other, - and nobody wants to be playing in the wrong game.
LA is spread out. I live in the Valley and ’ go into the city" when I take a canyon road there, although I live in the city of LA.
In NY I grew up eating hero sandwiches, drinking soda and carrying a pocket book. If I went out of state, that pocket book became a purse.
In NY a NY steak is called a strip steak.