What Do You Call It?

[jerryd6818]

Unless you've never been beyond the next holler, you know that folks have different names for the same thing, so take us to school. What do they call the following in your neck of the woods.

Is it a burlap bag, gunnysack, tow sack, tow bag, grass sack or something else?

Is your mid-day meal dinner, lunch or something else?

How about your evening meal. Dinner or supper?

Do you take someone to the store or do you carry them to the store?

Is it a snake doctor or a dragon fly?

Is it a drinking fountain, bubbler, water cooler, scuttle butt or something else

Do you drink Coke, soda, soda pop, pop or something else.

Do you carry something, pack it or tote it?

That's all I can think of at the moment. Add others as you think of them.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I call everything scuttle butt, keeps it simple.

[glennbad]

Do you call it a hoagie, a grinder, or a sub sandwich?

Is it a frappe or a milkshake?

A rubber band, or an elastic?

Up in NH, they call soda "tonic"

[Colonel26]

I love these things. Here we always said:

1) Grass sack or feed sack.
2) We eat dinner around 11:30 am.
3) We eat supper in the evening.
4) Traditionally we said carry. "I've got to carry the car to the mechanic."
5) We always called them snake doctors.
6) COKE!!!! Here we ask what kind of Coke you want. If we don't say Coke we call it a cold drink (pronounced cole drank).
7) Precious and I argue over this one. In the part of TN she is from they say carry as in, "I'm going to carry a pocket knife." Here we say pack. "I'm packing a pocket knife." "I'm packing in the groceries."


Here's a couple that we "discuss" at my house.

Do you say:
1) Hose or Hose Pipe.
2) When something is too high do you say; can you reach that for me or can you reach me that?

[jerryd6818]

Do you call it a hoagie, a grinder, or a sub sandwich?

Is it a frappe or a milkshake?

A rubber band, or an elastic?

Up in NH, they call soda "tonic"

A also known as a (full name) submarine sandwich, wedge, hero, or Italian sandwich.

Frappe? Elastic? Those are new to me. Around here, "tonic" is that nasty bitter stuff you mix with gin to try and disguise the taste. Since when does two nasty's make something appetizing? Anything like two negatives make a positive?

[bestgear]

1. Burlap bag
2. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
3. Take someone to the store
4. Dragon fly
5. Water fountain
6. Soda
7. Carry groceries, pack knives
8. Grinder
9. Milkshake
10. Elastic

Do you shut the light, switch the light or turn off the light?
Do you watch TV on the sofa, couch or davenport?
Is a rainstorm a heavy rain, a frog-strangler or a gully washer?
Are goose bumps chill bumps, duck bumps or goose bumps?

[jerryd6818]

Shut the light off.
Watch TV on the couch but usually from "my chair". My Grandma had a davenport.
It rained like pouring water out of a big mouth pitcher (in polite company). Amongst the guys "it rained like pouring piss our of a high topped boot.
Goose bumps.

[Colonel26]

Do you call it a hoagie, a grinder, or a sub sandwich?

Is it a frappe or a milkshake?

A rubber band, or an elastic?

Up in NH, they call soda "tonic"

1) sub
2) milkshake
3) rubber band

[Colonel26]

1. Burlap bag
2. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
3. Take someone to the store
4. Dragon fly
5. Water fountain
6. Soda
7. Carry groceries, pack knives
8. Grinder
9. Milkshake
10. Elastic

Do you shut the light, switch the light or turn off the light?
Do you watch TV on the sofa, couch or davenport?
Is a rainstorm a heavy rain, a frog-strangler or a gully washer?
Are goose bumps chill bumps, duck bumps or goose bumps?

1) turn off the light.
2) on the couch
3) Gully washer/toad frog strangler
4) Goose bumps

[orvet]

Do you call it a hoagie, a grinder, or a sub sandwich?

Is it a frappe or a milkshake?

A rubber band, or an elastic?

Up in NH, they call soda "tonic"

I don't know are some you people live!

A frappe is a coffee drink you would order at Starbucks, (that is if you wanted to have bad coffee), we have many coffee companies out here, on the Coffee Coast, that have much better coffee than Starbucks!
It can go by different names but a frappe is essentially a blended iced coffee drink.

[orvet]

Do you shut the light, switch the light or turn off the light?
Do you watch TV on the sofa, couch or davenport?
Is a rainstorm a heavy rain, a frog-strangler or a gully washer?
Are goose bumps chill bumps, duck bumps or goose bumps?

1 – Flip off the light
2 – In the recliner
3 – A little shower (I live in Oregon)
4 – Chill bumps, goose bumps or chilblains

Addendum for #3 – My dad would say: "It's raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock."

[carrmillus]

....dale, your dad and my grandfather must be related!!!!....... ..........

[jerryd6818]

Addendum for #3 – My dad would say: "It's raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock."

Forgot that one. Same here.

[Black Lion]

Gunny Sack

Lunch unless it's on "good china" (meaning guests/company) then it's dinner

Supper unless just like above answer

Take

Dragon fly except for the bright colored little guys which are called needle flies

Drinking fountain if you're drinking from a stream of water. Inverted bottle is a water cooler. Scuttle butt is a Navy term; I'm Army.

Coke is always Coke or Coca-Cola no matter what container it's in. Same with RC. Pepsi is always disgusting. All others are pop or soda.

Carry

Sub sandwich

Milkshake...frappe is a Bostonian thing. And who decided a milkshake should have whipped cream and a cherry on it? Blasphemy!!

Rubber band

Hose

Reach that

Turn off

Sofa or couch. I've been to Davenport...does that count?

Downpour

Goose bumps

[dcgm4]

1. Burlap sack
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
4. Take them to the store
5. Dragonfly (I've never even heard the name snake doctor before.)
6. Drinking fountain
7. Soda
8. Carry
9. Sub
10. Milkshake
11. Rubber band

[dcgm4]

Do you shut the light, switch the light or turn off the light?
Do you watch TV on the sofa, couch or davenport?
Is a rainstorm a heavy rain, a frog-strangler or a gully washer?
Are goose bumps chill bumps, duck bumps or goose bumps?

1. Turn off the light
2. Sofa or couch (loveseat if it is only big enough to seat two people)
3. Downpour is there's no lightning; thunderstorm if there is lightning
4. Goose bumps (My cousin once called them goose pimples. Weirdo. )

[CheckSix]

I'm a mixture of Philly East coast and Chicago Midwest...

1. Burlap sack
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
4. Take
5. Dragonfly
6. Drinking fountain
7. Soda or Pop or Cold Drink - depending on who I'm around.
8. Carry
9. Hoagie or Sub Sandwich - depending on who I'm around.
10. Milkshake
11. Rubber band

Old school grocery bags... paper bags? or paper sacks?

[TripleF]

All I know is I have lunch. Never heard of a gunny sack.

[jerryd6818]

Never heard of a gunny sack.

That's because you're from New York.

[TripleF]

Never heard of a gunny sack.

That's because you're from New York.

True dat.

[jmh58]

Burlap Sack
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Take
Dragonfly
Drinking Fountain
Pop
Carry
Hoagie
Milkshake
Gum Band
Turn off the light
Recliner
Heavy Rain
Goose Bumps... John

[espn77]

Is it a crick or creek. I say crick (river)
is it a roof or ruff. I say ruff (top of a building)
is it wash or worsh. I say wash (clean your clothes)

[orvet]

Crick
Ruff
Warsh

DC and the state are Warshington!

[bighomer]

Tow sack, dinners at 12 noon or when mamma rung the dinner bell, supper's at six don't be late or I'll throw to the hogs.carry them to the store. Snake doctor.water fountain. ( your favorite flavor) shake. Coke was a generic term. I tote or carry in the groceries, i tote a bucket of water from the the spring. I tote a knife or more. If I'm packing its my suitcase and I'm going on a trip , I'll tote the suitcase to the car and carry it to the train, bus or plane. Heavy rain can be frog strangler, gully washer in mixed company or turd floater if its just me and the boys. Never heard the terms, sub, hoagy, or grinder growing up or pizza either, we'd have a mater sammige for a snack dressed with Mircle whip if availible. When I went in the army is when I first heard the terms for subs the first one I remember eating was at fort Jackson S.C. off a truck and the guys got in a argument over the names . The guy on the truck called his pore boys. I still think they's just a sammige with a bunch more stuff on'em. I turn off the lights lay on the couch, swim in the creek and get the warsh off'in the line before it comes a turd floater.

[Mumbleypeg]

Tow sack or gunny sack.
Dinner or lunch and noon, supper in the evening.
Carry
Snake Doctor
Water fountain
Soda water, or Coke (Coke being a generic term, as in "what kinda Coke do you want."
Carry or tote
Sub if it's on a roll, otherwise it's just a sammich
Milkshake or just "shake"
Rubber band
Switch off
Couch
Depends on how hard it's raining. In order from lightest rain to hardest, sprinkle, shower, gully warsher, frog strangler, and turd floater (as in a flood that washed away the outhouse)

Here's a few more:

Is it a bag or a sack?
Glove compartment or glove box?
Does your car have a trunk, or a boot?
Is it a drainage ditch, or a "bar ditch" (originated from borrow ditch)
Meadow lark or field lark?
Killdeer or killdee?

Ken