Different terms for the same things.

[scottnshelly]

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

This website is pretty neat. It fits the topic of this thread, so try it out.

By the way, I scored 74% Dixie.

[White Warlock]

48% Yankee here... (barely yankee)

[karatekid1975]

scottnshelly, cool site. I'm originally from NJ, and I live in NY. Here is the differences I got for each:

I got 36% yankee. I was either "common through out US" or "heavily in Northeast US" for NJ talk.

I got 28% yankee for my NY talk LOL.

So I guess I'm a yankee either way LOL

[ninjanurse]

Definitely a Yankee!

[Hitman]

Gotta chime in here...

IT'S POP...as in SODA POP! This subject is really killin me because I lived most of my life in Ohio and 4 years ago moved to Virginia. It was POP in Ohio, Soda down here in Virginia.

OH...as for "down there" or "up to the store"...depends on whether we are talking about going North or South- if we are going North it's up...South is down. From Virginia, it's up to Ohio and down to Florida. Also works in smaller areas..."UP" to the Wawa (have 'em in Virginny too) north of town, and "Down" to the Walmart on Southside.

A hoagie is a "steak sub" (like a slab of meat)...as opposed to a ham and cheese which is a sub.

Finally...now coming from the South...it's the Y'All that KILLS me. Y'all can mean ABSOLUTELY ANY number of people. It can mean one person, "How'd y'all's family like that vacation?" OR it can mean several people, "Are y'all going down to the 7-11?" OR it can mean a HUGE number of people, "Y'all from Ohio talk funny."

[karatekid1975]

You have Wawa there, too? Coolness

I never heard of a "steak sub" being called a hoagie. That's a new one to me. We called it (in NJ) a cheese steak hoagie. Go figure

[Patrick]

I call it a sub.

[ninjanurse]

Definitely a sub!

[karatekid1975]

I say sub now, because I have been in NY for so long. But the other day at work, someone from out of state asked for a hoagie and the person I was working with looked so confused LOL. I said, "It's the same thing as a sub." They asked me later how I knew what a hoagie was and I told them about moving here from NJ and what the "terms" were.

But the look on her face was so funny (you had to be there LOL).

[xdevilmaycry24x]

i just moved to new jersey, and when i walk into a store to get a "pop", they stare at me, expecting me to say soda