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05-20-2013, 06:35 PM
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The University Of Alabama-Huntsville Men's Ice Hockey Team would love to see these people at their games.
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Lol!
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05-20-2013, 07:01 PM
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The University Of Alabama-Huntsville Men's Ice Hockey Team would love to see these people at their games.
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Okay, generally sports that don't involve ice or other cold things 
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05-20-2013, 07:55 PM
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Okay, generally sports that don't involve ice or other cold things |
Except for cold beverages  (says the Southern-born Carolina Hurricanes fan.)
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05-20-2013, 11:05 PM
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So here's something that came up tonight that made me think of this thread...
I was having dinner tonight with my bf (who's originally from TX) and a friend (who's from South Africa). My bf was making fun of me because I call a shopping cart a "carriage," and our South African friend said that he calls it a "trolley."
What say you, GCers? Cart? Carriage? Trolley? Buggy? etc.
What do people tend to call them in your neck of the woods?
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05-20-2013, 11:12 PM
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It's a cart. My parents/grandparents occasionally called it a buggy.
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05-20-2013, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
So here's something that came up tonight that made me think of this thread...
I was having dinner tonight with my bf (who's originally from TX) and a friend (who's from South Africa). My bf was making fun of me because I call a shopping cart a "carriage," and our South African friend said that he calls it a "trolley."
What say you, GCers? Cart? Carriage? Trolley? Buggy? etc.
What do people tend to call them in your neck of the woods?
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Cart or buggy. We call them buggies all the time in Louisiana.
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05-21-2013, 09:51 AM
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Cart.
I'll cop to calling a water/drinking fountain a bubbler.
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05-21-2013, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by limegreen
Cart.
I'll cop to calling a water/drinking fountain a bubbler.
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You mean caht and bubblah?
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05-21-2013, 10:11 AM
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Nope. I'm from the other state that calls it a bubbler.
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05-21-2013, 10:35 AM
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Being from another planet (California) we called carts – shopping carts.
What do north and south call vacuum cleaners? I have to poke fun of Ohioans. They call vacuum cleaners Sweepers. What the heck?
I remember during the beginning of my marriage my husband asked me for the sweeper. I figured he wanted to sweep something, so I gave him a broom. I will never forget his look.
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05-21-2013, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by amIblue?
Not familiar with your source, but if it includes St Louis as "culturally southern" (see your earlier post), then I don't know how much stock I'd put in its definitions.
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St. Louis is another border town, and an odd one at that. It is on the border between the Breadbasket (to its north and west) and Dixie (to its south and east), but East St. Louis belongs in the Foundry.
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I will have to say that there is quite a bit of southern 'influence' in St. Louis. A large percentage of the St. Louis-area population is either from southern Missouri or descents of family from southern Missouri. Southern Missouri, especially close to the Arkansas border, identifies strongly with the South. As a result, many people who moved to St. Louis for jobs carried a lot of southern traditions with them (and I don't mean the Confederate flag).
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05-21-2013, 10:44 AM
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Also, I find it interesting that many people don't consider Oklahoma to be "southern." From my upper midwestern perspective, every Oklahoman I've met has been a lot closer to southern than they are to midwestern, at least in terms of speech patterns and dialect. I saw a tornado survivor being interviewed on the Today Show this morning, and he said, "fixin' to."
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05-21-2013, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by clemsongirl
You mean caht and bubblah? |
Ha, heck yea!
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Originally Posted by xibair
Being from another planet (California) we called carts – shopping carts.
What do north and south call vacuum cleaners? I have to poke fun of Ohioans. They call vacuum cleaners Sweepers. What the heck?
I remember during the beginning of my marriage my husband asked me for the sweeper. I figured he wanted to sweep something, so I gave him a broom. I will never forget his look.
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For some reason, this made me think of Hawaii and the fact that they call flip-flops "slippahs".. and no, that isn't me using a Boston accent.
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05-21-2013, 03:27 PM
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ASTalumna06,
You cracked me up with the slippahs. Growing up my mom would yell at me to put on my slippahs. My parents are originally from Massachusetts outside of Boston. Oh I can go on.
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05-21-2013, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by xibair
ASTalumna06,
You cracked me up with the slippahs. Growing up my mom would yell at me to put on my slippahs. My parents are originally from Massachusetts outside of Boston. Oh I can go on.
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Do they also drive tha cah and bang a u-ey - most likely to avoid a gahkablahka and the troopahs - to hit up the packie, then head ova ta Stah Mahket to grab some Hoodsies and tonic? That's wicked pissah.
ETA: This pretty much sums it up.
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F
Btw, 'Sweet Caroline' is the only song I'm willing to sing at karaoke
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