I use both terms. Chicago, IL. I couldn’t tell you if one is more popular than the other. I think “brights” is perhaps the more common one, as the phrase “flash your brights” sounds slightly more natural to me than “flash your high beans,” although I can’t say for sure.
Both sound equally fine, the first is more colloquial. Like something a mechanic or tuner might use. But I was just thinking of this distinction a day or two ago!
It nailed me perfectly: Omaha, Overland Park, KS, and Aurora, CO. I’m a little surprised it was so accurate since I say “soda” instead of “pop,” which is idiosyncratic for Nebraska, but there you go.
The results for the Canadians taking the test are interesting - maybe we have too many “others,” so we get virtually random results.
I would call that a Mickey Mouse course.
They’d be “brights” here
I had trouble ordering in a Burger King in Pennsylvania years ago - I wanted a Sprite with my meal, and the cashier kept saying Coke. No, not a Coke, a small Sprite! Yes, that’s what I said - a small Coke. Gah!
It’s used in NYC. I’m fairly sure I figured out what it meant what might more formally be called a ‘newsagent’ from watching countless hours of Law & Order. I’ve also heard it in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Boston, but it may be a transplant from New York.
I had never heard the term tree lawn until I lived in NE. In southern MN we called it a boulevard. And the strip of grass and trees in the middle of a street we call a parkway.
For me I see I’ve been strongly influenced by my mother’s side of the family from IA.