'Unleashed'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
When I moved to DC, the big ATM network was MOST. Which, I'm sure led to the following exchange in some places:
DC resident: Does this machine take MOST cards?
Local: No, just [local network].
Also, bow-TEEK, "fountain" (South Central WI), and "pop" turned to "Coke" (Southernism).
BOO-tique.
Grew up with a percolator. Familiar sounds and smells of brewing at 5 am every morning.
Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 15% Dixie 15% Yankee 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern
AND MISSOURI IS CRAZZZY. WE ARE NOT KANSAS, goddammit.
I'm writing an angry letter this weekend. Possibly a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star.
GRRRR. Logic, much?
There are MAC machines in Delaware, too, but I don't know what it stands for. I call them ATMs. I used to call them cash flow machines, because that's what our college campus one was called, and that's when I first started using them.
So, what region is it that calls all soda coke? I know I did that as a kid, and then later switched to soda, but we were in Germany then, and I think when you asked for a coke, you usually got an actual Coke because that's what was there at the time, so...
I usually have a jar of instant in the freezer. For my dad, who actually drinks gallons and gallons of that stuff and likes instant. I need to go get another before he visits again. He polished it off in January.
Coke is a Southern thing. Every soda is a coke.
And I was a "pop" sayer till I went to college.
So, what region is it that calls all soda coke?
I think it's Deep South. That quiz didn't have an option for what I call soda, which is "soft drink". I also heard "cold drink" a lot in New Orleans.
I picked up "Coke" in North Carolina. So it isn't confined entirely to the Deep, Deep South.
OK. My mother is from the South, so that's probably where we got it.
My originally-from-Gulf-Coast-Texas grandmother always says "cold drink," but I always assumed it was because she's a teetotaller (how do you spell that, anyway), and doesn't want anyone to think she's offering a cocktail.
BF has a french press and a Braun grinder for his beans and he ADORES his coffee that way, although he only drinks one cup a day.