You forgot how do you pronounce Washington...only NY morons call it Warshington....where's the R superstar?

What about package store vs liquor store?? Hero vs grinder vs sub... ok I'm all out of interesting things to say.

paul, take it easy on the residents of the south

New York has a distinctive accent, which differs from others more sharply than does any other North American regional accent. Though it is the dialect of one of the most outstanding cultural centers in the English-speaking world, New York City speech is regarded as socially stigmatized.

The region around the first settlement of English people in America, the coastal area of Virginia round Jamestown (founded 1607), is a bit special, although it is subscribed to the southern dialect zone, too. The "Tidewater accent" is regarded as being closest to Shakespearian English.

What kind of Coke do you want? Pepsi, RC, Sprite?

I'm originally from Louisiana (which is entirely separate from New Orleans) and it has always bugged the hell out of me when New Orleanians call it a "zinc" instead of a "sink".

Now that I'm in Houston, it is equally maddening that Houstonians refer to the city as "Euston" instead of the hard "h" Houston.

But wait a minute Yankee boys, "sodas" and "sneaks" just sounds so gay. Give me my Cokes and tennis shoes any day.

The defense rests!

For a brief period of time when I was in college, "mischief night" was also referred to as "produce awareness night", to mock the whole pc thing...

"Rock, Paper Scissors Strategy Guide."

If you are two good at it you are banned from the casinos.

They have pictures of all the finger counters.

I'm vastly disappointed that the free pop machine is gone from the 24th floor of Time Inc. And for the record, all of yinz got to know it's definitely Devil's Eve.

In Wisconsin, where I have lived since moving from Illinois in 1985, they call water fountains bubblers. Bubblers!
Ridiculous, isn't it?
If you want a drink of water in a public place, you go to the water fountain, don't you? It's water fountain in the rest of the world, isn't it? I know it's not called a bubbler in the rest of the world.

Sneakers, you guys, ant, PJs, the night before Halloween. And I call both Coke and Pepsi what they are, poison (unless they're being used as a vehicle for my adult beverage).

LOL In this part of NY and PA its soda is pop. Why, I ask? I'm southern (Texas) and have never referred to soda as COKE.

Old southerners refer to soda as soda water, soda pop and Dr. Pepper. ;)

There's also the moving pictures (or moving picture show) vs. movies.

Joe, don't be too hard on us Wisconsinites. In the "rilly, rilly" olden days, the bubblers (water fountains) in Milwaukee actually bubbled (the water came out of the middle) over into the basin. We called it like we saw it. Hence, bubbler.

Wisconsinites also say bakery for anything you get at a bakery -- donuts, danish, turnovers, you name it. "Will someone pick up some bakery for the pot luck?"

Paul, gotta agree with you on the soda, but I say pa-jam-as. I believe only tools with names like Buffy and Tad or butlers say pa-jah-mas with that affected air. And after reading your Hedonism report, we know you don't wear pa-jah-mas.

And for the last time, to all you New Yorkers, whom I love and now live among, it's "in line" not "on line."

In, in, in, in, in, goddamit! You're not physically standing on a line. You are forming a line, which you are standing in. In line.

Online is how you got here to read this little rant.

Good post, Rob. I didn't know the origin of calling water fountains Bubblers. I still think it's ridiculous, though!
I'll be seeing some "bubblers" today as Summerfest begins. Can't wait!

let me get this straight, you "ant", but dont say paJAMas? ok.

paul, etc. : I am in fucking Wisconsin right now o na family vacation [not IN a family vacgtoin,ON a family vacation, even though Im not standing ON it]. Have also been throug Chicago and Iowa city. Have had more pop and pa-jam-as than I can stand. On topof that, I live in MA, where the water cooler is the bubbler, pronounced bublah. And some of the entrenched Boston suburbanites refer to soda as tonic, pronunced tawnic.

OK, I hate thi fukcing web tv interface and kyboard. Signing off.

I say potato, you say potahto...

I'm from Milwaukee, it's soda, it's bubbler, and it's GO PACK!!!

In Virginia we call it "Soft-Drink" for the
most part. Although there are so many
Northerners here now, that "soda" is rapidly
replacing that. Also, I have noticed the
expression "You Guys" in the North, can
also be used to include a group of women. How
very strange.