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Sorry kitzy, I ran out of spaces. :( I originally had options for "coke / cola" and "soda pop / sody pop".
Ah, that explains it... I was going to say, you forgot "chesterfield". Haha!
Ooh, I'll throw in some Aussie ones for you to REALLY skew the poll! :P
Soda/Pop - Soft drink/fizzy drink
Sucker/Lollipop - Lollipop
Bag/Sack - Bag
Sofa/Couch - Lounge
Grocery card/Buggy - Trolley
Pickup/Truck - Truck
Supper/Dinner - Dinner/tea
Soda; a sucker is flat and a lollipop is a ball (globe shaped); bag; couch, but sofa isn't weird to me; cart; pick up is a small truck; dinner, unless it's Sunday, in which case dinner = noon meal and supper = evening meal.
I call soda "coke" as well. My dad and mom call it "pop" and my Grams calls it "Cold Drink". My dad was raised in South Texas but lived for a while with my mom and her family in Iowa when they first got married. Mom's always called it pop. I grew up in South Texas/Southeast Louisiana.
I grew up in the North and South and use those terms interchangeably. It was hard for me to choose a category!
A Chesterfield is a sofa, not a pop! :) But she ran out of space for more options...
Lol - I love these types of polls!!! I'm from the Northeast and I say:
Soda (for those that say pop, does your generic soda at the store say 'orange soda' or 'orange pop' on it? Same for Coke people - does it say 'orange coke'? I'm so curious about that!!)
Lollipop
Bag
Couch but sofa is used too
Cart
pickup for a truck with an open bed in the back (truck is like a Mac Truck)
Dinner
You know what else is a good one? Hoagie, Grinder, Sub ......
We say Sub here
I have never heard of a Chesterfield, I learned something new!
(I also learned about "grey ducks", aka geese, today!)
I grew up in Ohio, and now live in the DC area. In almost every category, I would have used a different word now than I did then.
I still remember the trip to Annapolis when I first came there to go to college. I saw "package stores" that sold "sodas." So I'm figuring that a "package store" must be a store that sold packaging materials. But I have no idea why such a store would sell ice cream sodas (which was what soda meant to me).
Soda
Lollipop
Bag
Couch or Sofa -- I picked couch because that's what I say, but either is ok
Cart
Truck -- The only time I would use 'pickup' is to distinguish between that and a semi.
Dinner -- Although, that's what I prefer because I think the word "supper" is weird. :) In my area, most people say supper and a fancy meal for lunch is "dinner"
@luckyprincess: We say 'subs' too :)
Me being from Philadelphia...
Soda
Lollipop
Shopping cart
Plastic bag or paper bag
I use both sofa and couch but couch more often
Truck
Dinner
Oh, Grinder/ sub/ hoagie?.... I'm from Philly, it's definitely Hoagie!!
Oh, gravy or sauce?... spaghetti sauce and mashed potatoes and gravy
Oh, and "What are you going to do" ... I say. "What are you gonna do?" Yeah, people in Seattle do not understand what I'm trying to say. haha
I'm from Southern Ontario:
Pop
Sucker
Bag
Couch (or Chesterfield!)
Shopping cart
Truck
I say both Dinner and Supper
toques or beanies?
hoodie or bunnyhug? (this is a regional difference!)
@Lindsay05: TOQUES! :-D The Americans are now going "huh?"
I've never heard of tons of this stuff.... like Chesterfield? What is that? Or are other bees just messing with me... Or buggy... unless we're talking about something a baby rides in.
We say pop, but the cans and boxes at the store say "soda" on them. If you call everything Coke, how do you differentiate between pops? Like, what if I want a Sprite?
I know what a toque is! But I call it a beanie.
I guess we Chicagoans say "where you at?" or something like that that people don't understand.
How about sneakers or tennis shoes? That's a regional thing. I say tennis shoes.
@SBourgeous: Chesterfield is a Canadian regional word for a couch. It's actually mentioned in, "If I Had a Million Dollars"! Actually, I don't really hear anyone other than old people use it most of the time.
I used to think my MIL was nuts for saying buggy but in AL, I hear it all the time!
@Lindsay05: Oh man, you are living in SK too! I am from Ontario and I always get found out because I can`t bring myself to say bunnyhug! IT IS A HOODIE!
Pop
Sucker
Bag
Couch (or Chesterfield!)
Shopping cart
Truck
I say both Dinner and Supper, as well.
@Brianalaura: Haha Yep, good ol' French Canadian terms. I'm not french but I know I wear a toque on my head if it's cold outside! ;)
I said pop the other day here in Miami and was asked what that was. I corrected to soda. Ha!
@Brianalaura: haha I only ever hear older people say it too!
Grew up in Illinois & I say:
Pop
Sucker
Bag
Couch
Cart
Truck and/or Pickup
Dinner
Now living in WI, I've been asked if I'm from Minnesota because I called it 'pop.' Really? Like no where else uses that term? hah
I say soda, my FI says pop and for some reason it annoys the crap out of me *shrugs* and i have always said truck but now my daughter repeats and it cant pronounce things correctly and it comes out f*** I have been trying to say pickup LOL
I grew up in Indiana so I say the following:
Pop
Sucker
Bag
Couch
Cart
Trunk
Dinner
Wow, I was honestly thinking about starting a topic like this the other day! We were talking about this in my linguistics class last week.
I live in Northeast Ohio and I say:
Pop
Buggy
Sucker
Bag
Couch
Truck
Dinner
Here's another question for you though: What do you ladies call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the curb? Because I call it a Devil's Strip and apparently that's ONLY a Youngstown/Pittsburgh thing!
Also, I use hoagie to refer to a steak sandwich but sub to refer to anything else.
I say coke as well.
I couldn't vote for sucker or lollipop because I say both but mostly sucker- lollipop seems fancy.
Couch. I do say sofa as well.
For the rest of them, I say both as well except Supper. I have to say supper because dinner can be used for lunch and it cuts down on the confusion for me. My dad says dinner and it's a little hard to figure out which one he's talking about.
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