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How is washroom ever weird? Most times, unless you're at home or in someone else's home, you're not going to bathe, nor will there be a bath tub present. Bathroom isn't as applicable as washroom.
"Restroom" doesn't really make a lot of sense either, unless there's a hammock in there or something. We should just simplify it to "pooproom".
Or we can just use colloquial phrases "Hey man, where's your shitter, I need to drop a mega deuce."
How is washroom ever weird? Most times, unless you're at home or in someone else's home, you're not going to bathe, nor will there be a bath tub present. Bathroom isn't as applicable as washroom.
"Restroom" doesn't really make a lot of sense either, unless there's a hammock in there or something. We should just simplify it to "pooproom".
Or we can just use colloquial phrases "Hey man, where's your shitter, I need to drop a mega deuce."
Really, that could simply a great deal.
Bathroom is a catchall term for what you need to use (i.e. you don't care what kind of room you're shitting in), but when giving someone the layout of a building, a bathroom must have equipment for bathing, while a room with just a toilet and sink is a powder room. Restroom is short for "public restroom" when it comes to usage.
Also, the Boston pronunciation is something like "foye(r)." Given that the area is strongly nonrhetoric, I doubt that anybody from out of state will notice. The area actually has a lot of these little distinctions, as according to Wikipedia we've taker part in almost every split that has been added to American usage but almost none of the mergers.
Also, it's called a rotary, as in the type of club you use to attack anybody who cuts you off while driving on it.
Oh, and you don't put hot dogs in anything. You throw them away and laugh at them because the only place anyone would ever eat one is at a cinema. Sausages are what you put in rolls when you have a barbecue. Sausage in a roll, burger in a bun.
Who eats hot dogs at the movies? That's absurd.
Man, a good hot dog cooked on a charcoal grill is so awesome. Natural casing all the way. Pops when you bite it!
P.s. it is soda and the distinction between milkshake and frappe is important.
Or hell at the ballpark.
Unless the point was that hot dogs and sausages are the same thing, in which case its just ignorance.
Woo! I ended up finding the one I was looking for through that site - the keyword was "Dialect Survey", which was linked on that page. Glorious.
I do enjoy the idiosyncrasies of the Boston dialect. Its one of the few in the country that is still nearly as bizzah as it was 50 years ago. The best is when you don't even realize that its a regional thing, like basement/cellar
In Boston, a liquor store is a packie. A rubber band is an elastic. A turning signal (and its almost impossible for me to imagine someone not calling it this) is a blinker. A remote control is a clicker. "Bang a uey" is take a U-turn (do other places use Bang a right/hook a left?). And of course wicked means very.
There's really no defense for that one. There's even a goddamned song about it! And it's not Do You Know the Way to San Joes.
At that point you might as well throw out all semblance of proper speech and go with Do You Knows How To Goes To San Jose
That's almost as good as listening to people new to Wisconsin trying to pronounce all the towns with natice american names; Oconomowoc, Menomonee, Nagaunee, Waukesha, Mequon, to name a few. It's hilarious.
We have a few of those in BC as well. Coquitlam, Kelowna, Chemanius, the ever popular Chilliwack, Clayqout Sound, Saanich, and my personal favourite, Skookumchuck.
Hey I live near some of those. The Skookumchuck rapids are just across the ferry from here.
And from the interior of BC there are even more wierd names.
I grew up in Sicamous. Near there is, Celista, Squilax, Spallamacheen, Cragalichie, Malakwa. And we can't forget everyones favorite Spuzzum, or Osoyoos.
And as a West coast BC born and raised girl the difinitive answers are
It a Hot Dog Bun, A just bun is often taken to be a dinner bun or a hamburger bun.
Pizza is just Pizza
Pop is the fizzy sugary drink. Then you get into flavours/brands.
Milkshake has Milk, Ice Cream, flavour or fruit, and is then done in the blender
Either bathroom, washroom or rest room is appropriate, Restroom more often when you are talking about resturants and gas stations.
and Foyer is Foy-eh as the "er" is said as if speaking french.
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In Boston, a liquor store is a packie. A rubber band is an elastic. A turning signal (and its almost impossible for me to imagine someone not calling it this) is a blinker. A remote control is a clicker. "Bang a uey" is take a U-turn (do other places use Bang a right/hook a left?). And of course wicked means very.
blinker, clicker, bang a uey are used regularly in jersey though clicker is less frequent. blinker I assumed was just what it's called.
I've heard and used phrases like "doa left turn." "Hook a left around here."
Never "Bang a uey." though it doesn't seem that weird.
And down here for everyone I know, blinker and turn signal are rather interchangeable, with "turn signal" being the predominant word.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
edited March 2009
"Clicker" gives me the impression that you've just woken from a coma that you got into around the 1960s or something when remotes actually clicked. I knew someone from Pennsylvania who called it the "button," which is even more retarded since there are clearly many buttons on the thing.
She also called water/drinking fountains "bubblers." No.
I tend to use both "blinker" and "turn signal," although if blinker is plural, it means your hazard lights. "Turn your blinkers on."
Clicker and blinker are both used on the west coast, although not really commonly. Uey is used, but I wouldn't say "bang" one. Flip, pull, pop, but not bang.
Also, pizza is just pizza, unless it is deep dish; then you can call it a pizza pie if you want. Hot dogs go in buns.
No one under the age of 50 says powder room, unless they're talking about gunpowder or something. Restroom and bathroom seem pretty interchangeable out here.
And, everyone mispronounces Oregon, despite it not being that hard (there's no E on the end, jerks.)
Eat it You Nasty Pig. on
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
It's not fucking Organ or Oregun it's Oregon. I didn't play Organ Trail, because if I did, I'd probably have been arrested and stuck in a fucking looney bin.
Person I'm being introduced to: "Oh, so you're from Ory-gun?"
Me: *twitch*
Well how the fuck is it pronounced, OR-EE-GONE? Fuck that shit
It's or-ra-gon as far as I'm concerned
2nd one. But the first one is more correct than organ.
Do people actually call it a 'restroom' in real life? I thought it was just one of those words that are only ever written, like 'beverage'. Speaking of beverages, it is not 'pop', nor is it 'soda'. It's called 'soft drink'. And it's not 'blinker' or 'turn signal' but rather 'indicator'. As for the bun/roll conundrum, the correct either is 'a piece of bread that you use to wrap a sausage in, no not a hot dog, an honest-to-god sausage. who the fuck eats hot dogs?'
Australian here, if you were wondering.
edit; if it's soft it's a cookie if it's crunchy it's a biscuit if it's made of bread it's neither
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I... uh... you got me there, the point of view has everything to do with it.
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Written by an American.
I... uh... you got me there, the point of view has everything to do with it.
Well, in that my point of view is right and your point of view is wrong
Do people actually call it a 'restroom' in real life? I thought it was just one of those words that are only ever written, like 'beverage'. Speaking of beverages, it is not 'pop', nor is it 'soda'. It's called 'soft drink'. And it's not 'blinker' or 'turn signal' but rather 'indicator'. As for the bun/roll conundrum, the correct either is 'a piece of bread that you use to wrap a sausage in, no not a hot dog, an honest-to-god sausage. who the fuck eats hot dogs?'
Australian here, if you were wondering.
Don't you guys have some really strange word for beer, too?
Also, no one calls water a soft drink. A soft drink is something with a bunch of suger and water, carbonated or not, and I don't care what wikipedia says.
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hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Do people actually call it a 'restroom' in real life? I thought it was just one of those words that are only ever written, like 'beverage'. Speaking of beverages, it is not 'pop', nor is it 'soda'. It's called 'soft drink'. And it's not 'blinker' or 'turn signal' but rather 'indicator'. As for the bun/roll conundrum, the correct either is 'a piece of bread that you use to wrap a sausage in, no not a hot dog, an honest-to-god sausage. who the fuck eats hot dogs?'
Australian here, if you were wondering.
Don't you guys have some really strange word for beer, too?
Also, no one calls water a soft drink. A soft drink is something with a bunch of suger and water, carbonated or not, and I don't care what wikipedia says.
It's a non-alcoholic drink, normally carbonated. I don't know what else you want to hear about it. The English language as a whole defines it as such, and actually the American term makes it more finite to a drink that has flavor and is non-alcoholic.
Do people actually call it a 'restroom' in real life? I thought it was just one of those words that are only ever written, like 'beverage'. Speaking of beverages, it is not 'pop', nor is it 'soda'. It's called 'soft drink'. And it's not 'blinker' or 'turn signal' but rather 'indicator'. As for the bun/roll conundrum, the correct either is 'a piece of bread that you use to wrap a sausage in, no not a hot dog, an honest-to-god sausage. who the fuck eats hot dogs?'
Australian here, if you were wondering.
Don't you guys have some really strange word for beer, too?
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edited March 2009
I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
After GISing all of those, yes they're all cookies. We have brand-names too, but they all fall under that heading. If i have a plate of assorted cookies at a party and I offer them to people, I'm not going to go "Hi, would you like an Oreo, EL Fudge, Thin Mint, Milano, Fig Newton, or Tagalong?" I'm just going to say, "Hi, want a cookie?"
Should... Should I feel better or worse that, so far, I'm practically with the majority on everything.
At least except for the South, even though I live in Florida.
Flore-i-da.
It means you're a real american. :P
And do you guys refer to Florida as being in the South (note, not south, but South). I don't know if its just me but I always thought of the South and Florida being separate.
As far as Oregon is concerned, I think I flip-flop between saying Or-ee-gun and Or-uh-gun. I'm still not sure which is right.
And seriously, Flore-i-da (ie Flore-eye-da)? I think I always say Flore-ee-da, or wait, maybe I say Flore-uh-da. Dammit, now I'm changing it every time I say it.
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I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
After GISing all of those, yes they're all cookies. We have brand-names too, but they all fall under that heading. If i have a plate of assorted cookies at a party and I offer them to people, I'm not going to go "Hi, would you like an Oreo, EL Fudge, Thin Mint, Milano, Fig Newton, or Tagalong?" I'm just going to say, "Hi, want a cookie?"
You would call them biscuits, on account of how they're biscuits. Cookies are chewy, soft, and fundamentally different in every way.
I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
After GISing all of those, yes they're all cookies. We have brand-names too, but they all fall under that heading. If i have a plate of assorted cookies at a party and I offer them to people, I'm not going to go "Hi, would you like an Oreo, EL Fudge, Thin Mint, Milano, Fig Newton, or Tagalong?" I'm just going to say, "Hi, want a cookie?"
You would call them biscuits, on account of how they're biscuits. Cookies are chewy, soft, and fundamentally different in every way.
So if I leave my chocolate chip cookies in the oven for an extra two minutes, suddenly they become chocolate chip biscuits?
I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
After GISing all of those, yes they're all cookies. We have brand-names too, but they all fall under that heading. If i have a plate of assorted cookies at a party and I offer them to people, I'm not going to go "Hi, would you like an Oreo, EL Fudge, Thin Mint, Milano, Fig Newton, or Tagalong?" I'm just going to say, "Hi, want a cookie?"
Monte Carlo is also a sandwich.
A cookie is just a cookie. Newtons are fruit and cake.
I thought "soft-drink" was just used to mean "not a hard drink (liquor)". Since there's usually a price next to it, it usually doesn't mean water since water is free (not including bottled water).
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
After GISing all of those, yes they're all cookies. We have brand-names too, but they all fall under that heading. If i have a plate of assorted cookies at a party and I offer them to people, I'm not going to go "Hi, would you like an Oreo, EL Fudge, Thin Mint, Milano, Fig Newton, or Tagalong?" I'm just going to say, "Hi, want a cookie?"
Monte Carlo is also a sandwich.
A cookie is just a cookie. Newtons are fruit and cake.
Bitch.
I knew as soon as I posted that that some fucker was going to come in and say that.
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Second its fucking Or-a-gun not Or-a-GONE. As my Midwest relatives tell me.
(I'm from Oregon).
Or we can just use colloquial phrases "Hey man, where's your shitter, I need to drop a mega deuce."
Really, that could simply a great deal.
Bathroom is a catchall term for what you need to use (i.e. you don't care what kind of room you're shitting in), but when giving someone the layout of a building, a bathroom must have equipment for bathing, while a room with just a toilet and sink is a powder room. Restroom is short for "public restroom" when it comes to usage.
Also, the Boston pronunciation is something like "foye(r)." Given that the area is strongly nonrhetoric, I doubt that anybody from out of state will notice. The area actually has a lot of these little distinctions, as according to Wikipedia we've taker part in almost every split that has been added to American usage but almost none of the mergers.
Also, it's called a rotary, as in the type of club you use to attack anybody who cuts you off while driving on it.
"Sorry"? Or hell at the ballpark.
Unless the point was that hot dogs and sausages are the same thing, in which case its just ignorance.
I do enjoy the idiosyncrasies of the Boston dialect. Its one of the few in the country that is still nearly as bizzah as it was 50 years ago. The best is when you don't even realize that its a regional thing, like basement/cellar
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At least except for the South, even though I live in Florida.
Flore-i-da.
In Boston, a liquor store is a packie. A rubber band is an elastic. A turning signal (and its almost impossible for me to imagine someone not calling it this) is a blinker. A remote control is a clicker. "Bang a uey" is take a U-turn (do other places use Bang a right/hook a left?). And of course wicked means very.
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Hey I live near some of those. The Skookumchuck rapids are just across the ferry from here.
And from the interior of BC there are even more wierd names.
I grew up in Sicamous. Near there is, Celista, Squilax, Spallamacheen, Cragalichie, Malakwa. And we can't forget everyones favorite Spuzzum, or Osoyoos.
And as a West coast BC born and raised girl the difinitive answers are
It a Hot Dog Bun, A just bun is often taken to be a dinner bun or a hamburger bun.
Pizza is just Pizza
Pop is the fizzy sugary drink. Then you get into flavours/brands.
Milkshake has Milk, Ice Cream, flavour or fruit, and is then done in the blender
Either bathroom, washroom or rest room is appropriate, Restroom more often when you are talking about resturants and gas stations.
and Foyer is Foy-eh as the "er" is said as if speaking french.
blinker, clicker, bang a uey are used regularly in jersey though clicker is less frequent. blinker I assumed was just what it's called.
Never "Bang a uey." though it doesn't seem that weird.
And down here for everyone I know, blinker and turn signal are rather interchangeable, with "turn signal" being the predominant word.
She also called water/drinking fountains "bubblers." No.
I tend to use both "blinker" and "turn signal," although if blinker is plural, it means your hazard lights. "Turn your blinkers on."
Also, pizza is just pizza, unless it is deep dish; then you can call it a pizza pie if you want. Hot dogs go in buns.
No one under the age of 50 says powder room, unless they're talking about gunpowder or something. Restroom and bathroom seem pretty interchangeable out here.
And, everyone mispronounces Oregon, despite it not being that hard (there's no E on the end, jerks.)
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
2nd one. But the first one is more correct than organ.
Australian here, if you were wondering.
edit; if it's soft it's a cookie if it's crunchy it's a biscuit if it's made of bread it's neither
no, soft drink refers to anything which is carbonated.
First line disagrees:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink
While I said technically, that doesn't mean practically, hence why they're not included.
No, he had it right. Ever hear of hard liquor?
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Written by an American.
I... uh... you got me there, the point of view has everything to do with it.
Well, in that my point of view is right and your point of view is wrong
Don't you guys have some really strange word for beer, too?
Also, no one calls water a soft drink. A soft drink is something with a bunch of suger and water, carbonated or not, and I don't care what wikipedia says.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
It's a non-alcoholic drink, normally carbonated. I don't know what else you want to hear about it. The English language as a whole defines it as such, and actually the American term makes it more finite to a drink that has flavor and is non-alcoholic.
Not really. We call it 'beer'.
Here in God's country, biscuits are buttery, puffy dinner roll things leavened with baking powder instead of yeast that you put butter or gravy on. Cookies are all manner of small sweet flat baked thingies eaten by hand.
gah
What, a Mint Slice is a cookie? A Monte Carlo? A god-damned Tim Tam? That's what you people need, is a fuckload of Tim Tams. Cookies my arse.
After GISing all of those, yes they're all cookies. We have brand-names too, but they all fall under that heading. If i have a plate of assorted cookies at a party and I offer them to people, I'm not going to go "Hi, would you like an Oreo, EL Fudge, Thin Mint, Milano, Fig Newton, or Tagalong?" I'm just going to say, "Hi, want a cookie?"
Monte Carlo is also a sandwich.
It means you're a real american. :P
And do you guys refer to Florida as being in the South (note, not south, but South). I don't know if its just me but I always thought of the South and Florida being separate.
As far as Oregon is concerned, I think I flip-flop between saying Or-ee-gun and Or-uh-gun. I'm still not sure which is right.
And seriously, Flore-i-da (ie Flore-eye-da)? I think I always say Flore-ee-da, or wait, maybe I say Flore-uh-da. Dammit, now I'm changing it every time I say it.
You would call them biscuits, on account of how they're biscuits. Cookies are chewy, soft, and fundamentally different in every way.
Biscut refers to a type of cooked bread here, cookie is a batter based product.
So if I leave my chocolate chip cookies in the oven for an extra two minutes, suddenly they become chocolate chip biscuits?
If they're crunchy all the way through, then maybe so. Though chocolate chip cookies are a special case.
The thing you use to change the channels on your TV is called a Converter.
A circular bit of road is called a Roundabout.
Individually wrapped squares of cheese you make grilled-cheese sandwiches with are called Cheese Flats (this may be my family only).
It's fucking pop.
Also, for unpronounceable names, give Outaouais a try. You will not get it right on your first try.
A cookie is just a cookie. Newtons are fruit and cake.
Bitch.
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I knew as soon as I posted that that some fucker was going to come in and say that.
The remote control?!
Remote or "Clicker"
We don't use Roundabouts, because they are horrible.
And cheese singles are... singles.
And its it pronounced Aught-too-wah?
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