<p>Oh, that word test thing includes word originations for all parts of the US, not specifically the North and the South, btw.</p>
<p>Everyone from my area (New Orleans) calls them soft drinks. Actually a lot of people in the south call them that.</p>
<p>I always thought soft drinks was the most generic term, not commonly used on a casual basis. Where did the term "soft" drink come from anyway? I think I've pondered that since I was four.</p>
<p>Searches Wikipedia...</p>
<p>"The name "soft drink" specifies a lack of alcohol by way of contrast to the term "hard drink"."</p>
<p>Ah.</p>
<p>AULostchick- I'm in New Orleans.</p>
<p>And 'y'all' is only hickish if the person speaking has a southern accent.</p>
<p>So what about sandwiches? Here they're Po-Boys, but I call them Hero's or Subs (I'm a NY'er). Hoagie just annoyed me completely when I lived in Delaware...</p>
<p>English has "thou," "thee," and "you," but no plural form--kind of stupid. English makes "vosotros" look like sheer genius.</p>
<p>I was talking to someone from Chicago once and he mentioned pop. For a couple of minutes, I thought he was talking about popcicles lol.</p>
<p>Well, I live an hour and a half north of Chicago here in Wisconsin, and it's soda. No questions.</p>
<p>Is Oklahoma considered part of the south? I've heard that it is the midwest, but we seem more southern.</p>
<p>It is so annoying when someone calls a shopping cart a "buggy". I call it a cart. I also say tennis shoes because sneakers just sounds weird.</p>
<p>How exactly would you use "hella"? If I use it I say, I've got a hella lot of homework to do, which can't be right because it is repetitive.</p>
<p>I've got another one: Porch vs. Patio</p>
<p>Isn't porch just for the front of the house and patio usually referring to the back? Anyway, porches are usually small and patios can vary widely in size and there's usually patio furniture.</p>
<p>And Po-boys? ***, now that's one I never heard of before.</p>
<p>Whenever I hear "pop", it means popsicle or lollipop. Soda means Sprite or 7-Up. Coke means almost any colored carbonated drink.</p>
<p>The Midwest is generally considered to be Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Oklahoma doesn't really have a clear geographic labelling, but I guess I personally tend to think of it being more with the Southwest than the South.</p>
<p>I think porch and patio are two words for different things:</p>
<p>"A porch is a structure attached to a building, forming a covered entrance to a vestibule or doorway. It is external to the walls of the main building proper, but may be enclosed by screen, latticework, broad windows, or other light frame walls extending from the main structure." -wiki</p>
<p>"A patio (from the Spanish: patio meaning 'back garden' or 'backyard) is an outdoor space generally used for dining or recreation that often adjoins a residence and is typically paved. It may refer to a roofless inner courtyard of the sort found in Spanish-style dwellings or a paved area between a residence and the garden." - also wiki</p>
<p>My house had both, and they were always referred to as the porch and the patio.</p>
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And Po-boys? ***, now that's one I never heard of before.
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It's short for poor-boy, after strikers who were given free sandwiches during a strike against the street car company.
It really is a New Orleans/ Louisiana name for a hero, although technically the bread is typically french bread as opposed to anything else (but people call any type of sub a po'boy anyway).</p>
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<p>Culturally, I count Oklahoma's culture as a mix between Southern and Midwestern. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>Y'all isn't hickish because everyone I know says it. Y'at is sort of the same way but slightly more hickish. I have never heard anyone call a shopping cart a buggy. We call them tennis shoes because sneakers sounds weird to us. Another one that is unique to New Orleans is calling a median a "neutral ground." Po-boys are the **** if they are on French bread. One word I like that is never used around here is chill.</p>
<p>Okay, some people say "Soda" and some people say "Pop". But... What about the people who call it "Soda Pop"?</p>
<p>And if you're having any problems with people who don't call it the same thing you do, or if it bothers you, just call it a "carbonated beverage". That seems to work if you're around people who're smart enough. :P</p>
<p>Pramirez- do people at your school use to' up? It's rampant at mine.</p>
<p>Any of y'all use 'soda pop' - one of my teachers from Baltimore does...</p>
<p>No, honestly I really don't know what that means</p>
<p>Christine-- I have no idea, but my grandmother used to have cases of them when we were little. I seem to recall her getting them at Piggly Wiggly although I could've just made that up. I'm in mid-eastern AL (near auburn). </p>
<p>I've heard them called po-boys, but they are a specific type of sandwich only found in Louisiana (I guess because the bread is different?). I've never ever heard them referred to as heros. I would know what a hoagie was if someone called it that, but I call them subs. For me, we call everything a "porch": front porch and back porch. A patio to me would see more like a flat (not raised, like a porch) area on the back of a house where there's a table and chairs and a place to barbecue. Porches are most often, but not always, screened in. Usually the only furniture on a porch is rocking chairs or a swing. I don't really consider Oklahoma to be part of the south, but neither do I consider texas to be either, which most (non-southern) people do. To me, OK and TX are kind of their separate entity together, possibly with Arkansas thrown in with them (though they would be more than TX and OK are). The south, to most of us here in the Deep South, is- MS, AL, TN, GA, NORTHERN Florida (panhandle, NOT the peninsula), S. and N Carolina, Louisiana, and maybe SOUTHERN Virginia. Northern Virginia is definitely not. Generally, it's if you have a football team in the SEC.</p>
<p>Johnson, do you mean "to' up" as in to' up from the flo' up?</p>
<p>Also, the brand Coca-cola is MUCH more popular in the south than the Pepsi brand is (more restaurants carry coke products, etc). That may be where it comes from that we call everything "coke", because I mean, what else is there?? ;) (I really don't like pepsi at all, but I do like sierra mist and mountain dew)</p>
<p>"That seems to work if you're around people who're smart enough."</p>
<p>Well, if people were that smart, they'd recognize the difference between a species and genus. </p>
<p>Coca-Cola could be the only producer of cola and it would still be a misnomer to call soda/pop "Coke," because cola is a species of the genus soda/pop; cola is just a kind of soda.</p>
<p>Johnson: Do you mean to' up as in like tore up because if you do then yes people do use it A LOT</p>