I never quite gave it much thought till this afternoon when someone tried to correct me. I left it at home and said to someone that I felt a bit chilly and wished that I hadn't forgotten my "Bunny Hug". I guess to most people out there they know it as a hoodie am I right????? I never thought that it would be a thing typical to the Province of Saskatchewan, and by saying it I was telling the world where I was from. I went digging and found a couple things to give some idea how it came about. Now I'm curious what other names for things I have grown to refer too, but the rest of the world sees it differently.

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?i...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bunnyhug

http://uofsbookstore.posterous.com/bunnyhug-heritage

What terms do you use that tell the world where you're from??????:wee: :wee:

Found another that was interesting (at least for me anyway) when I was in elementary school, we referred to Chocolate Milk as Vi-co. Now I know that it was only in Saskatchewan as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi-Co

I've always found this map to be terribly interesting. Such an interconnected world, yet we can't be consistent with a word for soda/pop/coke.

The only Philadelphia unique thing I can think of is order cheese steaks is simplified to 'wit/witout' or 'wiz/provolone'. Example, I always order 'witout wiz.' No other format is accepted. You'll be sent to the back of the line for messing up. (That being said, if you are in Philly, it is PATS, NOT GENOS.)

I used to date a girl from Chicago who wore "gym shoes" and not "sneakers". She did all her shopping at the "grocery store" not the "supermarket" and also drank "pop" not "soda".... Oooohhhh the debates we would have....

I was about to say, I HATE it when people say pop.
I accept all ethnicities/lifestyles but you say "I just went and got a pop" .... I cannot handle it.

They should have squeezed that into the bible.

"Thou shalt not say pop"

Good stuff here. For whatever reason this stuff is interesting to me.

I shop in a grocery store, drink soda, and oddly enough the only time I have ever been to Philly....I had a cheese steak without wiz at Pat's.

Oh yeah, they are subs, not hoagies, po boys, grinders, etc. :frog:

hey y'all not sure if it is spelled right but. im not really from here. also boise, idaho. not boize, idaho.

Coke is generic in East TN where I grew up. Ironically, Pepsi sells almost 80% of "soft drinks" there. Yes it's a "sub" sandwich. And I wear "tennis shoes" no matter what they are made for. Grocery store is normal for me. I can't say "supermarket". And tea is sweet by default. Unsweetened is a mistake. I lost it once when I ordered sweet tea at the Chilis restaurant in the Charlotte, NC airport and was told they didn't have sweet tea. I said, "are you serious? We're in North Carolina!" When you ask if they have sweet tea out west they reply with "No" and then tell you they have this flavor or that flavor that is sweet. Why start with no if they have a yes?

Never ever heard of a "buggy hug". It's a hoodie or even more likely a "sweatshirt".

Over here we call sweaters and hoodies Jumpers

soda is soft drink

Gas is petrol

Cookies are biscuits

Trucks are utilities also known as utes

I hate the word pop too. I'd sometimes stay with my cousins in northern England as a kid and they would ask if I would like some pop or fizzy pop. wtf! Nah, I'll have a Coke.

I travelled around the US in 97. It was a great trip racking up 15,000 miles in 3 months in a hire car.
Met many interesting people. Fanny! In the UK fanny is....well it's not your bum. lol.

I was offered some tea from an old couple camping next to me at KOA. Yeah I'll have a cup of tea, Thanks for the offer!
Wait a minute! What's this! No milk! lol I didn't actually say that but I did have to sit there and politely finish my boiling hot water with a hint of tea.

My VW Camper broke down in the Austrlian outback, so I start walking 20k back to the roadhouse I passed earlier.
An escorted road-train carrying a gearbox for a ship and taking up the entire road saw me walking up the road and stopped to pick me up. I climb in. Big lorry you have. LORRY! LORRY! A lorry is what you bloody pommies drive, this is a truck mate. Luckily he didn't boot me out.

Yee Haw ! ( Calgary )

Eh! ( Canada )

For the boozers out there.

Regina is the only place in the universe where you order a vodka special and get vodka, 7-up and lime juice... the rest of the world its a vodka slime.

while on the topic. when you order drinks do you order a vodka and seven (7-up) and a rye and Coke?

Funny thing is most bars only carry one brand (coke over pepsi) and 7-up is a Pepsi brand (vs Sprite which is coke); yet we never order vodka and sprite.

One more thing.

http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/canisms.html

Red sky .... up here in NW Canada, big lorrie is a girl I dated in highschool

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Originally posted by nocando Over here we call sweaters and hoodies Jumpers soda is soft drink Gas is petrol Cookies are biscuits Trucks are utilities also known as utes

Correct me if I'm wrong:

Babies - Bubbies
Passing - overtaking
Missing - gone walkabout
Out on the town - on the tear
Cookies - also bickies
Awesome - bonzer

Trying to remember what mom (mum) taught me. She was born in Brisbane

Have family there and in Chelsea

Mougl maybe this may help

http://www.aussieslang.org/strine/a.php

Too cool! Going to have some fun with mom with new vocabulary


Love this one:

Woop Woop : A fictitious name for any small out-of-place, unimportant town - "he lives somewhere out in the Woop Woop"

bags are sacks
toques are beanies

I enjoy the eclectic nature of this group.

I grew up Dutchified myself. My grandfather always switched to german when he was yelling at us 1) we didn’t want to know what he was saying and 2) he always made a point that we (kids these days) were “uneducated”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_English

I found this persons write-up is as good an explanation as I could write.

http://mypage.siu.edu/rae50/Dutchified.html

Our high school mascot is the “Little Dutchmen” and I went thru the same “cleansing process” in college. It was quite a shock.

Of course you never get away from your roots. When we made my son pick a foreign language, he picked (insisted on really) German. Now I am working on it myself. Should have done that when grandpa was alive, Huh?

I grew up in Memphis, TN, and other than having an ingrown ability to talk like Elvis and snarl my lip, as well as a strange mother-like affection toward figures such as Jerry the King Lawler amongst other professional wrestling stars, my vernacular goes as follows:

Bob is right, its all Coke, no matter who made it (even though east TN is like a separate country from west TN)
Its not a tissue, its a Kleenex
Supermarket??? its a grocery store! What's more... Its Kroger "...Let's go krogering!"
It's a sub, not a hoagy,... they call it SUBway sandwiches not hoagyway
Lorrie? what the cr@p... she's the girl who sat in the corner eating glue, then grew up to be the biggest Bon Jovi fan ever... It's called a TRUCK.
Oh, and my sweatshirt over time evolved into my hoodie.

It's mostly the same here in Atlanta, only the necks are even more red!!!!

This is fun, LOL!

It's amazing how in such a connected world, we are still greatly impressioned by our roots. Wonder if any of that is gonna change in the next few decades, as computers become more and more than they already are. Many of the generations today are still from a world without home computers, as such the new generations that will not know what it's like without computers might be different that way. It's really interesting reading those posts above. Funny how diverse things are, even just within different regions of a single country. Can't wait to hear more from you guys and gals.

Speaking of Canada though, here's something funny; My next door neighbor was born in Canada, (not sure where). His mother was of Jamaican decent, his father was of Chinese decent, ...

So here in Atlanta, I live next to a 6 foot tall Chinese Jamaican Canadian,...
Sounds like a bad joke about to happen eh?

He's a cool guy,... loves Starwars Legos.

I love getting on 5 or 101 driving to L.A. from Norcal and getting off THE 5 or THE 101 when I get there. Easiest way to tell where someone is from in CA.

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Originally posted by cheezycheese I used to date a girl from Chicago who wore "gym shoes" and not "sneakers". She did all her shopping at the "grocery store" not the "supermarket" and also drank "pop" not "soda".... Oooohhhh the debates we would have....

everyone in ohio talks like that--must be a midwest thing...... when we were kids growing up, we were told to "red up"our room, clearly, a reference to get it cleaned up......