What does the way you speak say about where you’re from?

[AGDee]

The roly poly bug is kind of like a grub but it has a hard coated shell (in several parts to make it flexible). We called them either roly poly bugs or water bugs, but water bug wasn't a choice.






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae

[pinksequins]

Rotaries are circles in DC (Logan Circle, DuPont Circle), and I grew up knowing them as roundabouts (not sure of the region that represents). (Rotary is a civic organization!) And AGDee is absolutely right -- roly polies -- that's them!

[clemsongirl]

I call those bugs potato bugs because my mom calls them that, and she originally grew up just outside of Cleveland. I think it's interesting when a word is only used in one specific area and you can pinpoint where it's been picked up from.

[pinksequins]

I don't know whether it was the roly-poly or the roundabout, but the test placed me in two cities in the Southeast that are not geographically proximate, but one of which is my hometown!! That's a little eerie!

Well, it wasn't the roly-poly because AGDee is from Michigan.

[pinksequins]

I have a question for any Coloradans reading this thread: How do you pronounce the city named "Pueblo"? (A neighbor, who is from southern Colorado, surprised me with her pronunciation. I'm curious whether it is the norm or not.)

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by pinksequins

I have a question for any Coloradans reading this thread: How do you pronounce the city named "Pueblo"? (A neighbor, who is from southern Colorado, surprised me with her pronunciation. I'm curious whether it is the norm or not.)

NOT a native Coloradoan, but living there now. I pronounce it "pweb-lo". I have heard radio commercials where they say "pwayb-lo". How does your neighbor say it?

I got Chicago first then Rockford and Aurora (two towns outside of Chicago). No surprises there. My coworkers tell me all the time they hear my accent. LOVE IT!

I was pretty impressed with my husband--he attempted answering it to try guess the answers for New Orleans since he lived there for a year and was spot on! He got New Orleans, Baton Rogue and then somewhere else nearby.

[pinksequins]

I pronounced it as a Spanish word and was quickly corrected that it is pronounced ... Pyoo-blo. What??


That pronunciation just sounds cringe-worthy to me. From a business marketing perspective, would you want to invest in Pyoo-blo? Plus that isn't correct as a Spanish word.

Coloradans, please say it isn't so!

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by pinksequins

I pronounced it as a Spanish word and was quickly corrected that it is pronounced ... Pyoo-blo. What??


That pronunciation just sounds cringe-worthy to me. From a business marketing perspective, would you want to invest in Pyoo-blo? Plus that isn't correct as a Spanish word.

Coloradans, please say it isn't so!

Wtf! Again I'm not native, but everyone I have met out there says like the Spanish pronunciation.

[SWTXBelle]

Jackson, Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

No Texas?!

[AGDee]

It's a traffic circle here, not a roundabout. If you take the test again, you'll see that on the left hand side, it shows how your response to the previous question relates to geographic areas, based on just that response. Some things are definitely related to larger areas than others.

One I didn't see on there but that I know is different in different places is a shopping cart. We call them shopping carts but everybody I know in the South calls it a buggy.

[pinksequins]

What part of the South, AGDee? I truly don't know anyone who calls a shopping cart a buggy. You are still correct on roly-poly! (So it must be the roundabout that planted me in the Southeast.)

I took the test again and some different questions popped up. The resulting map was still the Southeast but a new hotspot. I then selected the least similar map, and up popped Providence/Worcester. Clemsongirl, that means our pronunciation of your university differs! : ). Of course, Clemson has three syllables! : )

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by pinksequins

What part of the South, AGDee? I don't know anyone who calls a shopping cart a buggy. You are still correct on roly-poly! (So it must be the roundabout that planted me in the Southeast.)

I took the test again and some different questions popped up. The resulting map was still the Southeast but a new hotspot. I then selected the least similar map, and up popped Providence/Worcester. Clemsongirl, that means our pronunciation of your university differs! : ). Of course, Clemson has three syllables! : )

I call it a buggy in Tennessee, FWIW.

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by pinksequins

What part of the South, AGDee? I truly don't know anyone who calls a shopping cart a buggy.

I've called it a buggy my whole life, and everyone around me calls it the same. I grew up in Texas and have lived in several other locales throughout the southeast. It's been part of the vernacular everywhere that I have lived.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by pinksequins

What part of the South, AGDee? I truly don't know anyone who calls a shopping cart a buggy. You are still correct on roly-poly! (So it must be the roundabout that planted me in the Southeast.)

I took the test again and some different questions popped up. The resulting map was still the Southeast but a new hotspot. I then selected the least similar map, and up popped Providence/Worcester. Clemsongirl, that means our pronunciation of your university differs! : ). Of course, Clemson has three syllables! : )

How would you pronounce Clemson? I call it CLEM-sun but I've also hear CLIM-sin, CLIM-sun and CLEMP-sun depending on the degree of Southern accent.

[pinksequins]

Thanks, AIB! I really was scratching my head on that one.