Support NeoGAF

[sixteen-bit]

People say jammies?

lol

do the jammie shuffle

 

[matrix-cat]

I'm Australian, and this is all so weird. You guys all pronounce Mary/merry/marry to rhyme? I don't even...

 

[Professor Renegade]

The sunshower one is hilarious.

 

[Grym]

I have a friend who is from Wisconsin that pronounces it that way. That's fair, though. I'm inclined to believe you don't say it that way. Especially since you do recognize when you do produce inconsistent pronunciations.

You get this. You understand how it works. I think you're the first. ^_^

I grew up in Wisconsin and pronounce "been" exactly like the first syllable of the name Benjamin....Ben. So I guess that's the northern/minority way. I guess the Bin vs. Ben difference has never been something I've noticed while traveling. Probably because it a fairly quickly spoken glossed over word in most cases.

 

[OneEightZero]

I grew up in Wisconsin and pronounce "been" exactly like the first syllable of the name Benjamin....Ben. So I guess that's the northern/minority way. I guess the Bin vs. Ben difference has never been something I've noticed while traveling. Probably because it a fairly quickly spoken glossed over word in most cases.

Very glossed over. It's a word that typically doesn't register when someone speaks it.This is why I was suggesting that he does pronunciate it differently at times. Much to my surprise of the opposite.

I pronounce it 'bin', which is typical for the area I'm from (Mississippi), but I know I've used the other version in natural speech.

 

[andycapps]

This confirms what a lot of people already know, that South Florida is just a bunch of snowbirds. Another reason to stay out of Florida.

 

[OldAsUrSock]

Welcome to the Internet, NC State.

What do Brits call Soda/Pop/Coke? Sparkling Sugar?

 

[BocoDragon]

What do Brits call Soda/Pop/Coke? Sparkling Sugar?

I'm going to guess:

"soder".

 

[OneEightZero]

What do Brits call Soda/Pop/Coke? Sparkling Sugar?

Obesity Juice.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

This confirms what a lot of people already know, that South Florida is just a bunch of snowbirds. Another reason to stay out of Florida.

South Florida is basically the Northeast.

 

[OneEightZero]

South Florida is basically the Northeast.

Yep. Hello retirees. ^_^

 

[OldAsUrSock]

They clearly have not been to Central Pennsylvania where it is youns and Pittsburgh where it is Yinz guys.

Y'all is the best one. You guys just sounds so...dudebro.

 

[distantmantra]

Almost forgot the greatest divide!

My wife and I have actually talked about this one recently. We were outside with our daughter and they were crawling around. Me being the Seattle native, I called them potato bugs. She grew up in Nebraska, and just stared at me like I was on crack, since they're pill bugs.

 

[DRock]

Almost forgot the greatest divide!

North Jersey here, always called it a rolly polly.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

My wife and I have actually talked about this one recently. We were outside with our daughter and they were crawling around. Me being the Seattle native, I called them potato bugs. She grew up in Nebraska, and just stared at me like I was on crack, since they're pill bugs.

Rolly po-ly is the best name

 

[BearChair]

?

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Yeah, I thought a potato bug was something else altogether, like a slightly bigger brown bug with some red on it, maybe? Looks kinda like an ant?

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Dafuq is a potato bug they don't look like potatoes

 

[Thagomizer]

I've always called them pill bugs.

This is a potato bug.

(I'm from Maine/Massachusetts)

 

[OneEightZero]

Yeah, I thought a potato bug was something else altogether, like a slightly bigger brown bug with some red on it, maybe? Looks kinda like an ant?

Sort of like this?

What everyone else is calling a roly poly is just a different lexical item for the pill millipede, or pill bug. ^_^

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Also:

I wish I could punch St Louis in the balls, lol. STL is like that sibling or former classmate who goes to Ireland or somewhere for a couple of weeks and then has a "slight accent" the rest of their lives.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Sort of like this?

What everyone else is calling a roly poly is just a different lexical item for the pill millipede, or pill bug. ^_^

Oh, yeah, maybe... I was kind of picturing something a little more heinous though, somehow.

 

[OneEightZero]

I'm also cross checking roly-poly in the OED and apparently the first usage was in the 1600's to describe a worthless person, or a rascal. By the British.

We didn't start using the term to describe the pill millipede here until the 1930's. ^_^

 

[gutter_trash]

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/51af5dc1ecad040f4900000b-900/residents-of-the-far-north-have-an-oddly-canadian-way-of-pronouncing-been.jpg

I'm Canadian and I pronounced it like "bin".

same here, but Canada is geographically wide which separates tons of people and different regions have also their own thing.

I have never heard of soft drinks being called as ''POP'' until a dude from Kitchener, Ontario said ''POP'' and I went wut?

 

[NobleXenon]

They need a map of of how Americans call the carts you stroll around in stores with. In the North and West, they're called "carts", in the South they're called "buggies", and in the East they call them "carriages".

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Oh god this is it:

 

[OneEightZero]

They need a map of of how Americans call the carts you stroll around in stores with. In the North and West, they're called "carts", in the South they're called "buggies", and in the East they call them "carriages".

That's a good one.

I'd also like to see one for /ɡɪf/ /dʒɪf/ also. I want to know which one has more usage.

 

[cdyhybrid]

They clearly have not been to Central Pennsylvania where it is youns and Pittsburgh where it is Yinz guys.

I prefer "you people".

Also it's soda.

 

[Diprosalic]

as a foreigner i didn't know there was no difference between marry/merry. i say marry with the "a" like "man" and merry with the "a" like "men"

 

[fuzzylogic]

Have you ever heard the slang "kife" and do you know it's meaning?

I've used and heard that word, in Utah (USA). It means something totally different here. It means to steal or snatch away. Usually in a playful, among friends, way.
"Brad kifed my sandwhich." Haha, I can't even think of a good example. But yeah, it means to steal.

I have no idea where I picked up this definition. I only used it among friends or talking to my brother. Maybe they didn't even know what I was talking about, haha. Since I've left school, I also don't use it anymore, or hear it anymore.

Looks like this site agrees with both of our definitions: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/kife

 

[Grym]

They need a map of of how Americans call the carts you stroll around in stores with. In the North and West, they're called "carts", in the South they're called "buggies", and in the East they call them "carriages".

It's question/map #75 on the full website
http://spark-1590165977.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/

 

[Socreges]

The A in Mary is pronounced like the hard A "Mare" of a horse. Mare-ee.

The A in Marry is pronounced like the soft A of Man or match

Merry is pronounced like a soft E, like Mexico or mechanic.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mary?s=t
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marry?s=t
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/merry?s=t

Mary and merry sound identical to me, just spoken by two different voices. Marry is slightly different, but negligibly so (imo).

I'm Canadian and I pronounced it like "bin".

Same. That was bullshit.

 

[Sol..]

From GA and yes we use "y'all" a lot. It just easier than saying "you guys".

Also from Georgia and saying "you guys" out loud tickles me somethin' fierce. Got me up in tears. My face is wetter than the devil beatin' his wife.

 

[mavs]

Sort of like this?

What everyone else is calling a roly poly is just a different lexical item for the pill millipede, or pill bug. ^_^

Uhh no, they are not millipedes. They are isopods. Like this thing:

 

[OneEightZero]

Uhh no, they are not millipedes. They are isopods. Like this thing:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg/IMG][/QUOTE]

Oops. I goofed it. Sorry. ^_^

 

[GungHo]

some things are off, like pecan pie, but i attribute that to both my parents being from Mass

FUCK YOU ALL IT'S A HOAGIE

Par-don mon frere, but dat dere is a purrboy.

 

[StrikerObi]

I'm Australian, and this is all so weird. You guys all pronounce Mary/merry/marry to rhyme? I don't even...

Not me. I'm from New Jersey!

I could see people pronouncing mary and marry the same, but merry too? WTF?

 

[perfectchaos007]

I want to know what people call this around the country

A. Sleeveless
B. Tank Top
C. Wife Beater

 

[StrikerObi]

I want to know what people call this around the country


A. Sleeveless
B. Tank Top
C. Wife Beater

I call that a tank top. I'm from New Jersey. I live in Florida (Tallahassee) now and everybody here seems to call it a Wife Beater. After living in the south for this long (yes, Tallahassee is very southern, we're 20min south of Georgia) I can understand why they do.

 

[Grym]

Its co-cola

I was looking at the result breakdown and saw "cocola"

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_105.html

big WTF to the respondent in FL who calls it "lemonade" or the ones who call it "fizzy drink" or "dope" LOL

 

[jmdajr]

Yeah this one time when I said coke they thought I meant cocaine. I'm sure it's been mentioned.

 

[Eidan]

I call that a tank top. I'm from New Jersey. I live in Florida (Tallahassee) now and everybody here seems to call it a Wife Beater. After living in the south for this long (yes, Tallahassee is very southern, we're 20min south of Georgia) I can understand why they do.

I always thought wife beaters were standard sleeveless undershirts.

 

[Grym]

I want to know what people call this around the country


A. Sleeveless
B. Tank Top
C. Wife Beater

B. Tank Top

Wife Beater to me refers to a plain white tank top (like a hanes or fruit of the loom undershirt) worn by an unsavory looking person. I'd probably not call it that to his face because he'd beat the crap outta me.

 

[perfectchaos007]

B. Tank Top

Wife Beater to me refers to a plain white tank top (like a hanes or fruit of the loom undershirt) worn by an unsavory looking person. I'd probably not call it that to his face because he'd beat the crap outta me.

I think there are exceptions now though. It also depends on the condition of the shirt, # of holes, brand logo ( In this case miller lite ) to quantify a wife beater. Obviously, there is some grey area.

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

This one actually got me in serious trouble once.

I grew up in New York and knew them as sneakers. I was on a plant floor in Ohio once wearing converse all stars and someone told me I couldn't wear "tennis shoes" (I was wearing them because I had injured my foot and they were the most comfortable shoe I had for the injury). Okay, I thought, these must be called tennis shoes here, I'll wear my sneakers tomorrow.

Nope.

Guy saw me the next day wearing my sneakers and blew. his. fucking. top. I tried to explain that I thought there was a difference between sneakers and tennis shoes and it only made it worse; he thought I was full of shit and having a laugh at him, threatened to throw me off the job and everything.

I feel so god damned vindicated right now you have no idea.

Edit: Seriously, how can you use the phrase "tennis shoe" to describe anything with a rubber sole? That doesn't make any damn sense.

 

[Grym]

This has just become my favorite question and set of data:

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_82.html

82. What do you call the gooey or dry matter that collects in the corners of your eyes, especially while you are sleeping?

I'm scrolling through all the responses just thinking, wow we really need a term for this...there are so many different answers. Then I got to Choice i: eye shit. LOL

Also:

77. What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car?
a. doing donuts (80.71%)
b. doing cookies (1.74%)
c. whipping shitties (1.43%)
d. other (16.12%)

 

[OneEightZero]

This one actually got me in serious trouble once.


I grew up in New York and knew them as sneakers. I was on a plant floor in Ohio once wearing converse all stars and someone told me I couldn't wear "tennis shoes" (I was wearing them because I had injured my foot and they were the most comfortable shoe I had for the injury). Okay, I thought, these must be called tennis shoes here, I'll wear my sneakers tomorrow.

Nope.

Guy saw me the next day wearing my sneakers and blew. his. fucking. top. I tried to explain that I thought there was a difference between sneakers and tennis shoes and it only made it worse; he thought I was full of shit and having a laugh at him, threatened to throw me off the job and everything.

I feel so god damned vindicated right now you have no idea.

Edit: Seriously, how can you use the phrase "tennis shoe" to describe anything with a rubber sole? That doesn't make any damn sense.

Well... the actual term being used in this instance is "tenashoes". Phonemically derived from "tennis shoes", but has come to mean "sneakers" for nearly everyone except speakers in the Northeast.

"Tenashoes" wouldn't appear on the survey, because it's spelled "tennis shoes".

For those keeping up... /'tɛnəʃuz/.

 

[Ace Harding]

Yeah as a native Philadelphian I can be easily identified by these.

Hoagies for life. Also, subs and hoagies ARE different: anyone that makes and calls something a sub is making an inferior sandwich. Subs are the shit they sell at subway (which are fucking disgusting - ugh that shitty, shipped-in from god knows where frozen dough bread).

How the fuck do you have no expression for a sunshower? Seriously? What do you say then? "How curious! It appears to be raining whilst simultaneously sunny..."

Also Philly is included in the Mary/Merry/Marry differences. I don't even know which ones are supposed to sound the same. Its Mary (rhymes with Hairy), Merry (rhymes with Berry), and Marry (rhymes with Harry).

Crayfish are live things I'd find in a creek around here. Crawfish are the dead, cooked versions of those animals.

Its Cray-ahn, though it sounds pretty damn close to cran.

They left off "Youse guys," or just "yuz"

Fuck tennis shoes. Those are for playing tennis. Sneakers are your normal everyday casual shoes. And no they aren't "for sneaking."

 

[OneEightZero]

Yeah as a native Philadelphian I can be easily identified by these.

Hoagies for life. Also, subs and hoagies ARE different: anyone that makes and calls something a sub is making an inferior sandwich. Subs are the shit they sell at subway (which are fucking disgusting - ugh that shitty, shipped-in from god knows where frozen dough bread).

How the fuck do you have no expression for a sunshower? Seriously? What do you say then? "How curious! It appears to be raining whilst simultaneously sunny..."

Also Philly is included in the Mary/Merry/Marry differences. I don't even know which ones are supposed to sound the same. Its Mary (rhymes with Hairy), Merry (rhymes with Berry), and Marry (rhymes with Harry).

Crayfish are live things I'd find in a creek around here. Crawfish are the dead, cooked versions of those animals.

Its Cray-ahn, though it sounds pretty damn close to cran.

They left off "Youse guys," or just "yuz"

Those responses are the top four responses produced in the interviews. The ones you suggested don't appear because they didn't get enough of those as responses.

 

[les papillons sexuels]

"I have no word for this" lol perfect

the problem with this is that a roundabout and traffic circle denote 2 different things. A traffic circle has multiple lanes while a roundabout doesn't.