Just don’t call them extinct!
Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains “bubblers”. They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn’t know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.
Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.
Massachusetts (Boston) also calls them bubblers. Or, “bubblah’s”
Here’s another article that doesn’t require a sign-in.
Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies “bunny hugs” and no one knows why.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965
Thank you. I didn’t have that requirement.
re: “no one knows why” i’ve heard it was like department store catalogue regional marketing copy. i know that doesn’t fully explain “why” but it’s at least a bit of an explanation.
I’ve heard so many explanations I’m pretty sure Saskatchewan is like the Joker, coming up with a different lie every time someone asks.
Also like the Joker, Saskatchewan is fictional
I’ve only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that…
Just them. We all think it’s super weird.
The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”
Hell yeah I love regional pegging
I love looking at accent maps of the US, it’s interesting to see how batshit bad at the language some of my countrymen are
Nukular
my favorite is the tiny area in mississippi/alabama that says “the devil’s beating his wife” when there’s a sunshower.
My buddy is from South Carolina, and I distinctly remember the first time he said this. We were hanging out in his living room with some other friends, and it started to storm. He dropped the “devil’s beating his wife with a frying pan” line, and I swear it was a record scratch moment for everyone in the room. Every single person instantly stopped what they were doing, trying to process what he had just said.
I heard that plenty in East Texas too.
Glitter BUTTS makes more sense
Me moving to the South:
“Red bugs.”
“Chiggers?”
“Yes. Red bugs.”
“Are we talking about the same thing?!”
Just find me the place where ‘u’ is still relevant, like they’re using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won’t continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.
Nevermind. They’re a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.
Back where I come from we call mirrors ‘leaks’.
This is lovely. I really like the quirks of language.
Makes me think of the jibberish that my dialect makes when simply pointing out a direction.
Peenie wallie! 🇯🇲
