Whoopy is the noise it makes, Scooper is what it does.
Thanks ! Not everyone does – I’ve been accused of being unable to put anything briefly-and-simply.
AAAH! My brother and his friend had a song they sang in Boy Scouts about here comes Dan, the kybo man! Nobody has ever heard of this. Thanks for verifying that I’m not insane.
Oooo, now I really like you. People tell me the same thing. But they’re wrong and I’m right.
Perhaps our mutual hero should be Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century British lexicographer. Dr. J. was very big on long and elaborate words, preferably with foreign derivations, being “the way to go”. There’s a tale of his dismissing a literary or dramatic offering by someone, saying initially about it, “It has not wit enough to keep it sweet”. He then, seemingly, thought, “hold on, that’s too terse and matter-of-fact”; and rephrased his comment as, “It has not sufficient vitality to preserve it from putrefaction”.
Johnson was, in various ways, major-league weird – but I reckon him an extremely cool guy.
It’s not what “most people” call it. It’s what some people call it. Others call it pop (like you, and me, and a whole heck of a lot of people), or coke (even if it’s not cocacola), or fizzy drinks, or probably several other things as well. You only think soda is so prevalent because that’s what hollywood writer monkeys call it, so that’s what you wind up hearing in movies and TV.
My dad has a funny term for garage door openers and TV remotes - “the pushy”. He also calls the garden hose a “hose pipe”.
A few years ago I heard my grandma use “toasted cheese”. I’d never heard that before but I liked it and now use the term myself.
Growing up, my mom wouldn’t let us say certain words, such as fart. Farts were thus known as “putt putts”. Made miniature golf (also known as putt putt golf) a much funnier experience. Before putt putts became the term, when we were really little, we called them “bottom burps”.
Many people around my hometown call bell peppers mangoes.
My family never did, however.
Seriously? I’ve never heard of calling a bell pepper a mango, but a Google search indicates that this is common in Indiana and Kentucky.
I call this “French toast” and I would imagine most USAians do too.
my nanna called them “fluffs”
Your Google search would be correct. I grew up in Indiana and called them mangoes.
We didn’t do homework, we did “lessons”. We didn’t brush our teeth, we “scrubbed” our teeth.
My parents were from Utah.
The junk drawer in the kitchen is called "the little drawer’. In my last four kitchens, the junk drawer was the same size as the others, but in the house I grew up in, the junk drawer was the smallest drawer in the kitchen, so the junk drawer is and ever shall be, “the little drawer”.
Yep.
Maybe it’s the Pittsburgh in me, but bologna was “jumbo.”
Rubber bands were gum bands, the basement was the cellar. Any basement.
Thorny bushes were stickers, icy streets were “slippy.”
I had a sort of feeling that US French toast, was kind-of-like bread dipped in egg and fried; but had a sweet element to it (British “eggy bread” is strictly savoury). Maybe I’m mistaken about US practice here.
True, “French toast” typically has milk & sugar but some people just dip in scrambled egg.
You folks sure have a lot of weird names for a cheese toastie!
So… and you this was coming… what do they call mangos, then? If I went to the local Jamba Juice and asked for a Mega Mango smoothie, would I get a nasty surprise?
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Back when I was growing up (60s and 70s), real mangoes weren’t part of the equation. They hadn’t been marketed enough as a flavoring and heaven knows, weren’t shipped in any significant quantity to the rural midwest to even be on our radar. The only reasons our household knew of their existence were school reports and Gilligan’s Island.