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swiftdog2.0

I tell you one and one makes three...
Mar 16, 2010
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Good morning!

Would you like a soda water, soda, pop or Coke with your burger?

Do you stand on line or in line?

I freaked out a student the other day. She asked me the time and I answered, "A quarter to." (15 minutes to the hour.)

Do you have stuffing or dressing with your turkey?

I like the idea of saying, "I have to stop and get a bag of milk."

Hasta luego. See y'all later! :)

If I want a Coke I'll say I want a Coke (by Coke I mean Coca-Cola)!

If I want another type of soft drink I'll say I want a soda. Although some in Boston would say they want a tonic.

Who dresses a turkey?! It's stuffing because you stuff the turkey with it!!

Quarter Til / quarter past. Whatever. It's just increments of 15 minutes. Not sure why some folks can never figure that out.

I stand in line. I'm not standing on anything, except the floor / ground. The ground ain't a line. Queues are for Europeans, or data files that are in a central location waiting to be processed!!
 

Sigmund

Waiting in Uber.
Jan 3, 2010
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In your mirror.
I'm seeing green after all that! :D

Are you having corned beef and cabbage tonight, Siggy?

Am I supposed to?

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You ever notice it smells funny when you cook cabbage? xD
 

Sigmund

Waiting in Uber.
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Here in Pittsburgh (at least when I grew up), lunch is called lunch, and dinner and supper are synonymous. My parents tended to call it supper, dinnner seemed more formal sounding to my ears.

We call soda "pop".

Hi, sir!

My BIL was in a pick-up basketball game and when it was over one young man (on the losing team) approached him. Asked him if he would like a "pop". BIL says he didn't know if he was threatening to punch (pop) him or offering drugs. :)
 

80sFan

Just one more chapter...
Jul 14, 2015
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Some Philly-isms:

Crayon is pronounced "crown"
Towel = tail
Water = wooder
Living room = pallor*
Go to the beach = go dailn** the shore

*parlor
**down

And according to the internet, the word "jawn" is used for most nouns, but the only time I've ever heard that is in the movie "Creed".
 

Mr Nobody

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Jul 9, 2008
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Trust me I have supper, it usually compromises of cereal and milk. I weigh 12 stone dripping wet, but I've got the metabolism of the proverbial gannet

Yeah, same here. Apart from weighing 12 stone. I remember those days, but...
I don't call a late-night bowl of cereal 'supper' though (or know anyone who does...well, apart from you, now! :smile2:). No one round here really calls it anything. Weird, eh?

Sigmund: 'Pop' covers pretty much everything, fizzy or still. If we specifically mean still we'll usually say 'squash' or 'cordial'. Though of course we also have juice, which is different.
Soda water is just called soda water, unless it's going in whisky or something. Then we might shorten it to soda. Same applies to tonic water.
'Soda', as champ1966 says, is bicarbonate of soda...though AFAIK most people just shorten that to 'bicarb' rather than 'soda' (at least 'round these parts).