Soda or pop? Coo-pon or cyu-pon? Maps reveal how America speaks - The Body Odd

Well, I always pronounce the second day of the week as Toos-day, instead of Tews-day.

 

This is really weird. According to the charts, I'm in heavy car-a-mel territory. Nobody says that here. Nobody. IT'S CAR-MEL!

/rant

 

I have a mate from Texas. She calls all 'soda' coke. even if its pepsi?!?

Yet non spirits alcoholic drinks are generic - beer..

She no longer says gee day mate..

 

Yep - that is a particularyity of the South Central US!

"Do you want a COKE?"
- "Sure - that would be great"
"OK - What kind?"
- "Dr Pepper please"

 

WEIRD. That just makes you sound stupid...

 

There are words and phrases that are used all over that sound stupid to others that aren't from there.

 

Like that statement

 

Same in SC. "What kind of Cokes do y'all have?"

 

Now that I didn't remember.
I thought it was just me all those years in SC!
Maybe I had more influence there than I imagined

 

I grew up in New Mexico. Same with the Coke thing. As kids if you wanted an orange Fanta you asked for an "Orange coke". There is a family that lives just down the road from me. They are working class folks from Massachusetts back country the father is a highly talented wood worker and steel fabricator. They are good friends and while I've known them several years they still use some phrases and words that I have never heard before in the English language.

In West Texas once hunting, I heard this phrase, tell me if you know what it means. On a cold windy morning on of the locals mentioned that "it's a bit airish up in them motts!" I hear different words and phrases in almost every section of the country and in fact every place in the world the English is spoken.

For instance in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) when one one says "flip us a loose mate" that means can I please have a cigarette. When one says "let me off at the next robot." That means please let me off at the next stoplight.

Only very ignorant and narrow minded people don't realize that vocal colloquialisms exist all through the world where a common language is spoken. And of course savall has unwittingly admitted much more than he intended about his upbringing, education, and worldly exposure with his comment.