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To be honest, I'm more interested in the specifics than the overview. Here are my individual answers, to make fun of or agree with.
1. The level of a building that is underground is called the:
Cellar
Basement
2. What do you call the night before Halloween?
Nothing
Devil's night
Mischeif night
3. You bring back your groceries in a...
Sack
Bag
4. The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called...
Toilet papering
Rolling
TP'ing
5. You call sweetened, carbonated beverages:
Soda
Pop
Coke
6. You drink from:
A water fountain
A drinking fountain
7. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:
Icing
Frosting
Both
8. Do you use the word cruller?
No
Yes
9. What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?
Rotary
Something else like a circle, traffic circle, or roundabout
10. What do you call an easy class?
A crip course
A gut
A blow off Note: Actually, I used to say "fuck-off class" but I have said blow off too.
11. If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it:
The Devil is Beating His Wife Note: I had no idea that other people said this. I thought my parents made it up.
A sunshower
You have no term for it
12. What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
Kitty corner
Diagonal
Catty corner
13. What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in?
Buggy
Carriage
Shopping / grocery cart
14. You work out in...
Tennis shoes
Sneakers
15. "Y'all"...
Just rolls off your tongue
Is not sometihng you say
16. The second syllable in pajamas sounds like:
The A in jam
The A in father
17. Does "caramel" have two or three syllables?
Two Note: I used to say it both ways, now I look for excuses to avoid the word altogether, since I don't like caramel anyway. I hate the way it sounds both ways.
Three
You say it both ways
18. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
Yes
No
19. "Route" rhymes with...
Boot Note: Only after leaving Texas, for some reason.
Out
20. Mary / marry / merry...
Are pronounced differently
Are pronounced the same
Bonus Question: In the word "insurance" which syllable do you stress? INsurance, or inSURance?
I go back and forth but try to only say inSURance while I'm outside of Texas, and INsurance when I'm IN Texas. I don't like to stand out.
nalidoll)Your Linguistic Profile: |
55% General American English |
25% Dixie |
10% Upper Midwestern |
10% Yankee |
0% Midwestern |
To be honest, I'm more interested in the specifics than the overview. Here are my individual answers, to make fun of or agree with.
1. The level of a building that is underground is called the:
Basement
2. What do you call the night before Halloween?
Nothing
Mischeif night
3. You bring back your groceries in a...
Bag
4. The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called...
Rolling
TP'ing
5. You call sweetened, carbonated beverages:
Pop
Coke
6. You drink from:
A water fountain
7. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:
Frosting
8. Do you use the word cruller?
Yes
9. What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?
Something else like a circle, traffic circle, or roundabout
10. What do you call an easy class?
A gut
A blow off Note: Actually, I used to say "fuck-off class" but I have said blow off too.
11. If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it:
The Devil is Beating His Wife Note: I had no idea that other people said this. I thought my parents made it up.
You have no term for it
12. What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
Diagonal
Catty corner
13. What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in?
Carriage
Shopping / grocery cart
14. You work out in...
Tennis shoes
15. "Y'all"...
Just rolls off your tongue
16. The second syllable in pajamas sounds like:
The A in father
17. Does "caramel" have two or three syllables?
Two Note: I used to say it both ways, now I look for excuses to avoid the word altogether, since I don't like caramel anyway. I hate the way it sounds both ways.
You say it both ways
18. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
Yes
19. "Route" rhymes with...
Boot Note: Only after leaving Texas, for some reason.
20. Mary / marry / merry...
Are pronounced the same
Bonus Question: In the word "insurance" which syllable do you stress? INsurance, or inSURance?
I go back and forth but try to only say inSURance while I'm outside of Texas, and INsurance when I'm IN Texas. I don't like to stand out.
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Things they forgot...
Date: 2005-04-14 04:21 pm (UTC)What do you call a sandwich that's made on a long roll of bread?
Re: Things they forgot...
Date: 2005-04-14 04:44 pm (UTC)1. milkshake. Not Frappe. Nor Frap.
2. Sub.
How about you?
Re: Things they forgot...
Date: 2005-04-14 05:09 pm (UTC)2. Sub. My father calls the bread for a sub a Spucky.
Re: Things they forgot...
Date: 2005-04-14 05:16 pm (UTC)I am very curious as the the origins of such things.
Re: Things they forgot...
Date: 2005-04-14 05:19 pm (UTC)I was very confused the first few times I heard the phrase "package store". I kept thinking "why would you go to Mailboxes, etc. for beer??"
Re: Things they forgot...
Date: 2005-04-14 05:22 pm (UTC)I love trying to pinpoint where people are from based on words they use, or their accents.
let me clarify...
Date: 2005-04-14 05:11 pm (UTC)1. Milkshake... Not frappe. Nor cabinet (a weird Rhode Island thing).