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- Slang words can come from a region, state, or even one specific place. This episode of The List Show breaks down regionalisms and regional slang from all over.
The List Show is a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John looks at 107 words specific to certain regions such as Indiana's "pitch-in dinner", England's "loo", and Ireland's "to rabbit on."
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Does anyone else feel just awesome whenever he mentions where you live? like yeah i live there wand yeah we call it that
haha I felt that same thing. Although, I have noticed I sometimes disagree with him, but I understand people are different and he is going with the majority of the time type situations...
Don Ludtke yup
yea cause this is the only series on youtube that say West Virginia
chris martin Except for stand up comedians mocking it lol
ill help all you out - 3:30 - its a fucking rubber band
LoomisPowderdogs elastic band
I'm from PA and I've never heard gum band
In Utah, we call "traffic circles" round-abouts. Does anyone else call them that?
+Cassidy Blackham We do in Australia!
we do in malaysia
+Cassidy Blackham we do in Wisconsin
+apricot kiwi no we don't
We do in Alaska
I'm from the south and we don't say "traffic circle" we say "round-about"
Blinker is common for turn signal in the south and Midwest as well.
Michael Hibberd yes, from MN and always call it Blinker
Im a floridian and it one of the only souther slang we share with yall
In the UK we call it an 'indicator'... never heard someone call it anything else except for in films or CZcams. oof.
Also in the northwest lol
A good vid I saw was a guy saying: "in Australia we call this light an indicator, because it indicates what direction you want to go"
Then
"In the U.S., we call this a blinker, because lights go 'blink'.
2:44 In New England, traffic circles are also commonly known as 'roundabouts'.
Same with England
TheLinkinFest New England is literally a copy of England. So many towns are named after English cities it makes me cry. Even the weather is almost exactly the same. No wonder it's called 'New England'.
Garen Crownguard
yes but do you call a sidewalk a pavement in new england? is a diaper a nappy? is a cookie a biscuit? is a chip a crisp? lol
dan dandan yes, we often call a sidewalk a pavement, and pringles are called crisps. :D
what do you guys call americam biscuits tho? o-o
like an oreo? its a biscuit here. or more specifically a sandwich biscuit.
In Rhode Island and probably other New England states "doughnut holes" are munchkins which is what you'll buy at Dunkin doughnuts
Very true. We always call them munchkins no matter where they're from.
i eat dunkin donuts! THEY ARE SO GOOD
talking about the donut that's round with hole in the center that's a donut hole
Lol doughnut holes makes sense
Tim bits are called Tim Bits because they are from Tim Hortons.
And what about when they are from Walmart? What do yall call them then?
@@nicolethompson2399 Donut holes. Timbit is the brand name from Tim Hortons.
I'm from MA and we say grinder sometimes, but mostly we say "sub". Also, we say bubbler; and "wicked" is a REALLY common word. I can also confirm that we say rotary, frappe, blinkers, leaf peeper, cellar, and firefly (never heard anyone say lightning bug). We also say bucket rather than pail.
Mostly the same in RI too.
With most people I know a Frappe is a bit different from a milkshake though. Anyone else? No?
Yes, I have lived most of my life in Southern NH and a couple of years on the South Shore. Everything you say is accurate.
@@219kenzie frappe has ice cream (what the rest of the country calls milkshake) milkshakes in New England are flavored frothed milk
In Australia that piece of grass between the road and the side walk we call a Nature Strip. Also, most of us here call a side walk a Foot Path. Very interesting episode! Thank you!
I'm from Florida, and funny enough, me and my Grandmother get cart and buggy mixed up. I refer to a shopping cart as a "cart" and those electric shopping mobility scooters as a "buggy." My Grandma calls the shopping carts "buggies" and the scooters "carts." This results in a lot of confusion whenever we go shopping together.
Philadelphia: Wooder. Rest of USA: Water
Boston can see a wada if their accent is heavy enough
"Wooder" is also found in some of Delaware and southern Jersey
In maine it tends to be wadah
Wuhter is how most southerners where I live pronounce it.
I have a friend from Long Island who says wooder but i think that’s just her
I've lived most of my life in Australia and have never heard the terms 'boomer', 'flyer' or 'having a yarn' in casual conversation. We do however use 'soft drink', 'bubbler', 'rabbiting on', 'loo', 'blinker' (though we usually go by 'indicator'), 'icing sugar', and 'flat'.
As a fellow Australian I can agree, I've never heard "rabbiting on" though, and my family calls a toilet a "dunny".
However, no-one living within a 2-hour travel radius of a capital city uses the phrase "having a yarn" and means it. Also, we never used the word "shrimp". They're prawns. Crocodile Dundee taught you all wrong, folks.
ObsceneParadise the shrimp reference was from a tourism ad
In Ohio a "traffic circle" is called a roundabout lol.
Ive never heard it called otherwise in the USA
In New England rotary is put on the signs.
Same in illinois
You said "carry-in dinner" and it sounded like "carrion dinner."
To which I say no thank you.
Hey, as long as cooked properly, (and not contaminated) I'll eat it. I love dead animals on my plate.
Garage sales are called yard sales by everyone i know here in MD
Well, that's just dumb. If it's not in your garage, it is not a garage sale.
In florida we use them interchangeably
Yep. Interesting fact: in England, they are called "Boot Sales" because the idea is that the items are sold from the trunk of your car.
"WHEN I HAVER I'M GONNA BE THE ONE HAVERING TO YOU"
I ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT IT MEANT
I'm from Boston & I honestly had no idea some of these words were regional, like rotary. Wicked cool to learn about. Most of these are so true, though some things categorized as "New England" aren't everywhere.
New Englanders do not want to be different. We just want the rest of you to stop being wrong.
Exactly we're just being wicked good speakers
+Rob Eno How can the rest of us be wrong when we are so clearly right
+Insurgent Colonel Lemarkhan you aren't to familiar with history, are you?
Virginia bruh dats where its at
+Rob Eno The most hilarious thing I've seen is the distress of New Englanders when they find out their behavior is unacceptable in Europe. The result in Europe is the same as in the South. "We're not rude, we're just fast paced". Surrrrre...
Southern's call a shopping cart a "buggy" sometimes? More like, always.
In Australia its a 'trolley', go figure
canadaians call it buggy too
I say 'shopping cart' and I live in Arkansas. I do know old folks who say buggy, though.
Yes, it is always. Arkansas isn't considered the south. It's the Midwest. South is: south Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia. We refuse to acknowledge Florida as the south. They're a mixture of the west and northern stereotypes. We pretend it doesn't exist when someone generalizes the south.
Yes and if you say "shopping cart" people look at you funny lol
Dear critics, I almost hate to break it to you, but no matter how small your country is, there are several distinct dialects as well as a variation of slang that may or may not be used in your town or city, or even region. What you believe is "never said" often is "said a lot," just not where you live, and you shouldn't discredit it because only "rural" or "old people" say it-they're still people and they make up a significant portion of your population in both cases, whether you like it or not. But, all of these are very common and well known slang/word variations to the field of linguistics, and there is plenty of current data to back them up.
Timbit. Tim. Tim Hortons. Yeah.
congratulations on becoming my new workout routine. i have to do a crunch for every item in the list show while i watch it.
Used this video in class today, happy to get the word about Mental Floss and John Green in class :D
can i just say that England has a crazy amount of different accents and slang across the country, especially for its size. That means that saying 'the English use this word for this' is not exactly correct.
Mind you, i'd say that %90 of the things u said British people say i understood.
Dear John Green:
You did a whole 7m,30sec video on Slang Words and never, not even once, mentioned Newfoundland where the dialect is so fraught with Slang that other Canadians struggle to understand even the simplest of Phrases.
For shame!
He'd be there all day if he included Newfoundland slang. Oh my, but I suppose that would make for quite the video though, eh? (Well that was stereotypically Canadian of me.)
You'll hear "mango" a lot in central Pennsylvania for sweet green pepper. I think it came from the original German settlers. You'll hear it places where there's a Pennsylvania Dutch (actually Deutsch/German) influence.
Southern Indiana calls them mangoes too
@@marilyntaylor9885 - I believe there are Amish communities in southern Indiana. Maybe that's whom it came from?
In Philadelphia every noun can be replaced by "jawn"
john?
Learned this from an old boss from Philly after I thought he was calling me “John” all summer
BLINKER IS SLANG TOO!? AND CELLAR!?? MY ENTIRE LIFE IS A LIE! I THOUGHT IT WASN'T SLANG!
Hannah D it's not slang. Everyone else is just wrong
Any East coast, midwest slang is always right, we were there first. West coasters are always wrong.
As a person who's lived in WI their whole life, I can say I've never heard of someone calling a stream a "branch." But we do indeed say bubbler.
A bubbler in Canada... is a bong for smoking pot thru! lol
This was insightful and seemingly a product of an extensive research
did they ever have their staff pork chop party?
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I never heard any of the other presenters mention a pork chop party...only John. I think he is the only one that wanted it. He's also the only one that calls the studio a "salon". Every chance he gets.
I am glad there were some Canadianisms in there! Have you guys ever heard of a bunnyhug (strictly from the province of Saskatchewan, used to describe a hooded sweater). Or how about a Gongshow? I lived in the states for a year and got a lot of looks with my weird words.
No one in boston calls soda "tonic" but we DO say "wicked" a lot.
I feel like thats more of an old-timey word. I can see some of my grandparents generation calling it that but no one younger really
I live in CA and I must add we also say blinker when referring to the turn signal
Here's one that is a bit obscure. The staples used to hold fence wire on a post are called "steeples" in Southwest Oklahoma. And the creeks here aren't ever called streams because there is only water flowing in them about a month out of the year. Now the water may be a 15 feet deep raging torrent some of those days, but they are usually dry.
Bonnet and boot. That's adorable.
Now we have Tesla's here I guess what user to be the bonnet will be the "Froot" 🤔🇦🇺
"I'm starting to think, New Englanders, that you just want to be different."
HIDE HE FIGURED US OUT
you should do a part two to this Mental Floss
Having recently become a Yooper myself, I'm learning all sorts of interesting words and phrases. My favorite so far is the usage of the word _troll_ to refer to people from lower Michigan (because they live South of (under) the bridge.
I was a Yooper for eleven years in Marquette. Best place in the world!
A few more word facts relating to the UK, if anyone's interested:
"Baltic" meaning "very cold" is also used in parts of, if not all of England.
"Craic" is the Irish spelling of the original English (possible specifically Cumbrian) word spelt "crack".
A "rotary" in the UK is called a "roundabout".
To "knock" something, meaning "criticise" is also the same in the UK (e.g. "Don't knock it till you've tried it").
What's called a "faucet" in the US is called a "tap" in most other English-speaking countries.
"Shopping carts" are "trolleys" in the UK.
"Loo" for "toilet" I always associated more with Southern England, although it can be heard in other parts of the UK.
The US "turn signal" is called an "indicator" in the UK, and I think South Africa too.
"Icing sugar" is used in the UK as well.
"Flat" meaning "apartment" in the UK isn't actually slang, it's a standard word derived from Scots and Old English meaning "dwelling".
What about highways and byways? Are those terms used in the UK?
@@leonessity No, we have motorways, not highways. I'm not too sure what byways are, but maybe our equivalents are B-roads.
In PA we name some streams "Such-and-such Run" but we all call them creeks (but pronounced "crick" in some regions like mine)
+MrC0MPUT3R we call them creek and crick too in michigN
Was quite disappointed that that wasn't mentioned.
@@rowynnecrowley1689 ditto!
You're blowing my mind about these New England terms.
In Canada, a doughnut hole is called a doughnut hole UNLESS it was made in Tim Horton's, a very popular establishment in Canada. Also, we spell it "doughnut".
Exactly. Timbits are a brand-specific name made up by Tim Horton's, however, all doughnut holes seem to commonly be referred to as timbits here, whether they're from tim horton's or not.
+Julia Lapena You do have a point. Furthermore, there aren't many places other than Tim Horton's where you can get doughnut holes, at least where I live in Canada.
+Morgan F.K. Timbits are made form a specialised cutter at Tim Horton's, they aint no doughnut holes!
We do that in New England with the Dunkin Donuts version - they’re all munchkins
Hey hey hey, Canada isn’t the only one with Tim Hortons! We have em in Buffalo too!
I live in pennsylvania, and I did NOT know that only a tiny part of the US uses the word "Hoagies". I always use that word. PS I never heard anyone use gum band
I'm also from PA and have never heard the term gum band. Garage sales are also usually yard sales. We hear hoagie most of the time because they were invented in PA on Hog Island near Philly and were originally called hoggies, which changed into hoagies or so the story goes.
I am from Pa and that is not called a gum band lol
It's called a 'gumband' in western PA. I never heard it in NEPA, where I'm from.
When I was growing up (in rural Texas), we always called those sandwiches "po'boys". When I got a little older and moved to Houston, most people called it a hoagie or a sub. I was a bit disappointed that po'boy wasn't mentioned, because I've never heard it referred with that term except in certain parts of the South.
In florida we call it a Sub sandwich
Wait... Doesn't everybody call them fireflies? Maybe it's gets more consistent when you go more to the north. In Canada it's just called firefly, and I don't think I've ever heard the term lightning bug, ever.
I grew up calling them lightning bugs, but have mostly switched to fireflys so people know wtf I am talking about.
I have never called them fireflies. They have always been lightning bugs to me
Canadian for the win! I never would've known what lightning bugs were until I had an american friend refer to them as such
I've never heard them called lightning bugs, I've always said fireflies and I'm from Florida
From Arizona and we all use the term firefly, even though we don't have them here.
More please!
I've heard a "traffic circle" called a "roundabout" everywhere I've been. Even my UK English-speaking navigation app calls it a roundabout.
Also, I don't think "flat" just a British thing. Here in the US, I hear "flat" and "loft" used interchangeably, both referring to a certain kind of apartment: usually somewhat ritzy, always in an urban center, often in a high-rise building.
In England "What's the craic" isn't really used at all - It's more commonly used in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. Sometimes in Scotland. (I'm from N.I and the English people who come here for university are all clueless about the slang most of the time.)
Yeah, and in Northern Ireland a can of Dr. Pepper would be referred to as a "Fizzy Drink".
Aye. Dr Pepper isn't even that common over here. They're either "fizzy drinks" or "soft drinks". We don't say soda. Cause Soda is a type of bread.
"Jimmies" is only used to refer to chocolate sprinkles in Boston. Rainbow sprinkles are still sprinkles.
Well, that really rustled my jimmies.
Nice. You said wooder ice. I loved this video
I appreciate that you said water ice as "wooder ice" because that's actually how we say it.
If you were wondering we Canadians call one dollar coins loonies because there's a loon on said coin and toonies are called such because it rhymes with loonie and it's two dollars. Also I've never heard someone call the garbage disposal garburator and I've been in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.
PIG IN A POKE. *overwhelmed by Supernatural*
That's the first thing I thought when he said it xD
Whoever does you guy's motion graphics is a genius
As a New Englander, I have never heard the word grinder. I like that there are so many Boston-specific ones. We are wicked weird.
Wait, most of the US calls it a traffic circle? What?!
I've always referred to them as Round-abouts. **
GotSnowedIn Yeah where I live everyone either calls it a rotary or a round-about, I've never heard anyone say traffic circle.
Here in my central Louisiana town, we have one that is a 1/4 mile in diameter and everyone calls it the traffic circle (even though it’s square with rounded corners. I’m not from here, so you can’t blame me).
I live in the Midwest and I have never heard a green bell pepper being called a Mango.
I love john green!!!!!
I’m from Eastern Massachusetts and when I lived in western Massachusetts I was surprised to learn that they call yard sales tag sales. Sometimes these regional expressions can be different less than 100 miles away.
Being raised in the south, I can accurately say that no one calls a beanie a toboggan, as I have never heard that in my entire life.
My dad, who is from east Tennessee, does!
Well then it might be a Tennessee thing, 'cause no one in Georgia or Florida says that haha.
Same here. I'm from Wisconsin but I've never heard anyone call a water fountain a bubbler. But I'm sure a lot of people do
Guy Name
We do down under.
Tyler Armbruster actually I have several family members who live in Florida Mississippi Tennessee and Alabama, ALL call it a toboggan
I think everyone except Americans call icing sugar icing sugar. In the UK we sure do.
We commonly call it confectioner's sugar or powdered sugar here in the US.
It's called icing sugar because its the type of sugar used to make ... cake icing.
bill bixly Exactly! I dunno why Americans make it more difficult for themselves :p
rossb654 Because 'MURICA.
coastersplus Perhaps it's because you can't even spell your own continent's name correctly.
Oh John you caught us, us new englanders do want to be different. And the rest of you will never know how damn annoying leaf peepers are.
Love from Connecticut
Leaf peepers visit the southeast a lot too (fall leaves AND mountains) but we just call them tourists and make assumptions that people from (insert license plate locations) don’t know how to drive. Tbf most Tennesseans will say that people from Georgia can’t drive for crap anyway.
I always heard them called Leafers too.
I would just like to clarify: I am from Boston and there is a difference between Jimmies and sprinkles. chocolate sprinkles are Jimmies. rainbow sprinkles or anything else are sprinkles.
Born and raised in Wisconsin, never used the term "bubbler" for a drinking fountain in my life.
And in the midwest streams are also called "Creeks"
Definitely have always used bubbler, but agree on Creeks. Always used that.
Or ‘cricks’.
in pennsyltucky streams are called criks
A common term for a stream in Australia is billabong. I'm surprised that one didn't make it into the clip.
Pennsyltucky? Did Pennsylvania and Kentucky merge into one state?
+BillyBob 125 pennsyltucky is the region of central PA that is full of the huntin' n' fishin' type a folk that have the pittsburgh accent with a little but of country. I don't have it but my dad and his friends do.
Absolutely. I was born and raised in Turtle Crick, a suburb of Picksburgh
I mean, a lot of places call them cricks not creeks. It's not just a Pennsyltucky thing
Wow, he even pronounced wooder ice correctly too.
Traffic circles are roundabouts in Oregon. We also have bubblers and use directionals.
In England we call a 'shopping cart' a trolley
and you call Garbage or Trash, Rubbish.
18aidanme And we also call a "trash can" a bin. We also say potatoes, we sometimes say taters but as slang or as a joke.
James Cuttell tatties or spud are other names for potatoes in Ireland and Scotland
Paul McKee Or perdies too
Mental Floss Can you just do, "All the weird things in Cincinnati"
Such as
1) Fascination with pigs
2) Fascination with beer
3) Fascination with Chili
4) Unique slang words Like "salty"
5) The way all the towns are set up
6) Fascination with Cincinnatus
7) Lack of willingness to let go of William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh
in jersey the turnpike is a specific road. the nj turnpike is one of two roads used to denote where you are when describing your town's location to someone (you say the exit number).
A few of those Massachusetts ones I've never heard of. Like those seesaw ones
I live in New England, and donut holes are usually called "munchkins"
It wasn't until I was about 12 and said "toboggan" (referring to a hat) that someone got really confused. I thought toboggan meant a hat everywhere. From Tennessee btw.
I refer to a hat by just "cap"
What part of Tennessee east, west or central? I'm also from tennesee
Really? Where I'm from Toboggan is a synonym for sled.
crazyjohnb22 west
Same here in Australia (yes there's snow in aus)
i'm from central-ish USA. i've definitely used knock to mean criticize, e.g. "don't knock it till you try it." also, i grew up saying spigot but only for the (often red?) outdoor ones with the c-shaped handles. usually they were threaded at the end so you could connect a hose. the inside sink things were faucets. ALSO the remote control for the tv was a remote, but the thing to open a garage door was a clicker. also also, in an independently conducted research project, i have found that blinker is the predominant (or runner-up) term for a turn signal pretty much everywhere in the united states. alsoalsoalso, i didn't know lightning bug was a term until i was in my early teens.
flamshiz Early Zenith TV remote controls were called the 'Space Commander' They had between 2 or 4 buttons and when you pressed them; it made a distinctive clicking sound, so everybody started calling them clickers. You will still find old timers call a remote a clicker.
I just learned about the Parlor thing today. It comes from the French word Parlé meaning talk.
Where I'm from, a "traffic circle" is a RoundaBout.
I'm a Bostonian! Whenever we're away and people here us say wicked they look at us like we're strange. Haha we're just strange people.
Also you neglected "creek" being used for what might be a small stream except it might be still or dry during the driest part of the year. I'm not sure if this is just the southeast but it's very regularly used here.
Arizona often uses "wash" as a term for a bit of barren desert within a neighborhood or building area.
Thanks Tim Hortons for changing our language.
I live in Connecticut and I never heard of a snow shelf
I've never heard traffic circle or rotary before, in Oregon everyone calls them roundabouts.
It was kind of nostalgic to hear bubbler. My whole family is from Wisconsin but i moved ten years ago.
This is wrong XD
In Britain we refer to the toilet, as the loo only when being very, very informal and use it and class it as a slang word.
You will most commonly hear the whole bathroom/restroom as the toilet, though the toilet is referred to that too.
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I'm from Southern England, and we don't consider the term 'loo' that informal. Sure, you probably wouldn't use it in a job application, but I would happily talk about the 'loo' in front of my head teacher :)
Sure, but there are regional words there too. They do research on this show by the way. It's whatever the general consensus is you will hear. We use bucket on the west coast for a large pail, lol. You know the size you might put water in to mop the floor and clean with. A pail is usually thought of as a kids thing they take to the beach to play in the sand or what someone who keeps a few cows and hand milks into. They are usually smaller than a bucket and silver. Some even plant flowers in them, lol. He didn't mention that what the water comes out of in the west we call a faucet, not either of the two words he mentioned although I have heard spicket but more commonly by transplanted people. I was born and raised in California. In some areas the spicket is the faucet on the outside of the house. Depends on where one lives. Supposedly for the British it is most often called toilet, lavatory or toilet. Here you won't see any of these words on a public one. It will always say restroom. Most in the US say bathroom and when wanting to be polite say restroom. Occasionally I have heard toilet but that is usually what you go into and not the room. We don't use bidets here unless someone specifically had one put in because they thought it was cool or more hygienic for some reason because they had seen them on trips to Europe or something like that.
Fact 87 about timbits is not because Canadians are just dumb, it is because the donut company Tim Hortons that dominates the industry first introduced them under the brand name Timbits so similarly to how tissues are often called kleenex despite not all coming from the same brand, all donut holes are called Timbits.
It's like vacuum cleaners called "hoovers".
It's similar in Pennsylvania. We call them munchkins because that's what Dunkin Donuts calls them
It's not even all donut holes, if it's not from Tim Horton's it's not a timbit.
John Green is great!
I just love how I called everything in the video its original name
Yes, we really do say all that stuff in Boston. I did not know rotaries are actually "traffic circles"
Over here in the Midwest we call them Round-a-bouts. Go figure
OwlCityMerlinZelda
We do in the South, too.
And the UK, though it's "roundabout", without the hyphens. (Weren't they invented in Europe?)
In truth I actually don't know if it has hyphens or not. It's probably me just being hyphen happy. (like comma happy but, heh heh yeah)
OwlCityMerlinZelda same as here in australia
I've never heard garburator and I live in Canada....
(but I do love timbits)
Homestuck. Homestuck everywhere.
Really? I didn't know that it was called something other than a garburator
In New York, Donut holes can be called Timbits (if purchased at Tim Horton's, more in the northern and western parts of the state), Munchkins (if purchased at Dunkin Donuts, more in the southern or eastern parts of the state), or donut holes if bought at a grocery store or some other general place
I'm from Connecticut and I didn't even know that it was called a snow shelf. But i guess it makes sense because that's the area where all the snow goes when they plow the streets.
its called a Timbit cause they come from Tim Horton's
Just like it's called a Loonie because there's a loon on it. Canadian slang just makes sense.
Anisa Cowan
To Canadians.
i didnt even know they had a different name for timbits until was 13
I didn't know until I was about 15
Well, New England had some of the first colonies, so maybe everybody else is trying to be different from us.
In the southwest we call creeks creeks and dry riverbeds or creekbeds washes.
"Parlor" is still the word they use for living room in England, I've got LOTS of English friends lol. Also "the garden" is the yard. When our friends were visiting the 7 year old daughter started asking if she could play "in the front yard" with my daughter, her mother would look at her and say "Don't you mean 'the front garden'? No one will understand you when we get home if you start speaking American!" 😂😂😂
OctJean I've never heard that 😂
Didn't know firefly was uncommon
It's not really uncommon. It's usually just used interchangeably with lightning bug. For instance, here in Ohio, I use both all the time. Kind of just depends on what pops into your head or what mood you're in.
I always say firefly and I've talked to someone before and said firefly and they had no idea what I was talking about
I don't think it is. I'm in the South and although lightning bug is what most people say, everyone's familiar with "firefly" and wouldn't find it odd to hear it used instead of lightning bug.
I live in Scotland but I thought people said baltic everywhere XD
and in Scotland instead of spring break we say the easter holidays
we use Baltic in Ireland also
Do you say Burn for river/creek? and what do you call soda? I'm from Ayrshire region and I was brought up calling it Ginger lol
yeah we usually call it ginger and I have heard some people say burn :)
We say it in Ireland
Garburator is just the best word. It makes me smile every time I hear it. 😂
OO! I know one you forgot! I know traffic circles as "roundabouts". I'm from TN.