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

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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.
 
Welcome to the Midwest my friend 😀

Btw, none of those words have alternative meanings I can think of here in Mexico, MO.
 
Yes. Chedder is "ched-err" and is a nice cheese.

not "ched-a" and worshipped complete with human scrifices drawn up for it.
 
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"
 
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"
 
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.
 
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.
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I've never heard of it as duck duck goose.
 
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.
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I've never heard of it as duck duck goose.
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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