I'm originally from wisconsin, and when I moved to IL....

[Zaitsevs]

These words made people freak out and ask me what I meant....


1. bubbler - water fountain
2. paddle - game controller
3. sneakers - shoes

what other words do you use that people .. aren't familiar with and ask you what you mean


OH and if you think of words, you should post where you are from.

 

[Schadenfreude]

I know what sneakers and paddles are, but WTF is a bubbler? And wtf kind of people would freak out?

/Illinois-dweller

 

[atybimf]

Welcome to the Midwest my friend

Btw, none of those words have alternative meanings I can think of here in Mexico, MO.

 

[TBone48]

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude
I know what sneakers and paddles are, but WTF is a bubbler? And wtf kind of people would freak out?

/Illinois-dweller

 

[Schadenfroh]

What is this strange tounge in which you speak?

 

[daveymark]

4. soda - pop
5. buggy - shopping cart

yuo wacky cheeseheads and your lingo

 

[spidey07]

Yes. Chedder is "ched-err" and is a nice cheese.

not "ched-a" and worshipped complete with human scrifices drawn up for it.

 

[route66]

When I moved from IL to WI, the first day I asked where the nearest water fountain was and they told me "Maybe in the park"

 

[montanafan]

Sprinkles - Jimmies

 

[Chaotic42]

In the Godless snowy midwest, they use the word "sweeper" for a vacuum cleaner.

 

[FoBoT]

never heard of bubbler

 

[George P Burdell]

bubbler and buggy are new words to me.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Buggy is a new one on me, I use all the others. Also I don't drink soda or pop, I drink tonic.

 

[myusername]

Buggy is a southern word

Also "vehicle" southerners don't talk about their car, truck, van .. they say "I took mah vehicle inta tha shawp"

 

[HamburgerBoy]

A paddle is a game controller? lol, here it's something you spank children with.

 

[Zaitsevs]

yeah, I called it a paddle at a lan party and they all gave me sh!t

 

[drinkmorejava]

I lived in kansas for 7 years and we always called them sneakers, and it was soda. In MN now though, it's pop and shoes; I think MN and WI just fail at life because they can't even act like the rest of the midwest. The thing that really bugs me though, it's duck duck goose damnit, wtf is a grey duck.

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
I lived in kansas for 7 years and we always called them sneakers, and it was soda. In MN now though, it's pop and shoes; I think MN and WI just fail at life because they can't even act like the rest of the midwest. The thing that really bugs me though, it's duck duck goose damnit, wtf is a grey duck.

For you

I've never heard of it as duck duck goose.

 

[slayer202]

shoes =! sneakers
fools...

sneakers are a type of shoe, like athetic. shoes are more fancy wear

 

[drinkmorejava]

Originally posted by: Yzzim

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
I lived in kansas for 7 years and we always called them sneakers, and it was soda. In MN now though, it's pop and shoes; I think MN and WI just fail at life because they can't even act like the rest of the midwest. The thing that really bugs me though, it's duck duck goose damnit, wtf is a grey duck.

For you

I've never heard of it as duck duck goose.

lol, I got a chortle out of that, except it still wasn't enough to make me happy about my mild relationship issue which I'll be a man about and just deal with instead of pouring my heart out onto anandtech and being flamed for pics. <- runon FTW

 

[Titan]

Creemee.

Apparently, everywhere else they call is soft serve ice cream. But in VT, the sign clearly states it as "Creemee" a common summer treat. It may be ebcause we have milk and not water in our mix.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

here in mass some people use the word bubbler. not that it comes up much though. NOBODY drinks the tap water.

 

[gabemcg]

.

 

[Eeezee]

Wait a minute, wouldn't we suspect that our dialect is just like everyone else's unless we've moved from someplace with a different dialect? You've pretty much disqualified most of ATOT

 

[Kelemvor]

What's that website that did that HUGE survey with all the different words for the same thing and who says what and where. They had it all on a huge map and you could see what parts of the country called things different words.

Was a cool site.

And a Bubbler is a Drinking Fountain. Not a Water Fountain. A Water Fountain is normally a statue of some naked people in a park or something.

A Paddle is only a very specific type of game controller similar to a spinner on an arcade game. Used on the old Atari for games like Pong and Break Out.

I'v enever used Sneakers. I call them Tennis Shoes.