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Well,

I always said "pop", not "soda", even when I lived in the DC area. If it annoyed people, and I'm sure it did, so much the better.

No,

Pop is either your father or a priest as in "Popovich- son of a priest". But remember since 1929, this usage is "banned" in North America!

Ungcsertezs

My head is spinning because I don't understand half the words that have been written in this thread!!!!

Logos Teen

Having spent time in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, I'm not surprised! :rolleyes:

Σώσον, Κύριε, καί διαφύλαξον η�άς από τών Βασιλιάνικων τάξεων!

Oh I could add to this from our odd linguistics Teen - suffice it to say that what they are talking about as 'pop' or 'soda' we call 'ginger'

And incredibly I do know about redding up rooms etc

Pop and soda are generically called "coke" in this area. If more info is needed, an actual brand name can be added. I should add that the real old-timers called cokes "dopes" because of the cocaine originally in the recipe.

I took a group of teens from here in good 'ol Alabama up to Steubenville for a conference years ago. They thought it was so funny to see the 'pop' signs at the conference -thankfully most were done on poster board - they set about collecting them and brought them home for souveniers. Needless to say they thought they were halarious.

Growing up in Altoona, which is out in the big "middle" between Pittsburgh and Philly, we had a strange mingling of east/west/south linguistics. (Horseshoe curve was where we went hiking and motorcycling and "four-wheeling.")

I always thought it was "soda pop" and always used "rubber gum bands." Of course, even in Altoona we "read up" our rooms. "Read up" came from the Pennsylvania Dutch expression, to "make ready." It didn't have anything to do with the color "red."

And of course, Pennsylvania Dutch are not "Dutch" at all. They're German. "Dutch Hill" in Altoona was the home of the German parish.

And to the Pennsylvania Dutch (Amish) everyone else is "English" regardless of their ethnic background.

Everything west of Altoona -- from Somerset to Dubois -- was "up the mountain" to us in Altoona. And though Johnstown had a running rivalry with Altoona, all any of us in Altoona knew about Johnstown was that it was a dirty gritty ethnic steel town "up the mountain," and nobody ever really had a reason to go there except to beat them in high school sports.

Of course, now I've lived in Johnstown for 13 years...

...and I'm not sure all those Altoonan ideas were so far off

Johnstown is home to some of the most kind and friendly people in the entire country, and they still know how to make "Hunky" food here! And there are plenty of Ruthenian and Ukrainian churches to choose from "up the mountain."

And if someone really "needs" to go to the "big city" there's Pittsburgh just 75 miles away.

Sadly, my MA thesis was in "Pittsburghese", but I grew up in good old Schuylkill County (Ungcertes: 462!), in the Pottsville Area. You know, home of Yuengling Beer. In fact, the youngest Yuengling girl was at my band's show in Llewellyn, PA last night!

How about this, for those of yous/yinz in Pennsyltucky: The Soda / Pop line runs somewhere in central PA, North to South, and most folks West of that like use Pop, all the way to the midwest, I've heard; while those to the East use Soda. The South, with their "coke" is just being different, I suppose.

the soda and pop line is crooked.
Let's just say, when I go to a courthouse and at the recylcing bins in the hallway say "pop cans" I consider that authoritive.

In college we had to call the sweeper a "sweeper-vaccum" to get it from the resident assitant of our hall.
Seems one half o'the state calls it a vaccum and the other calls it a sweeper.

Another PA (central, real central, not harrisburg central.. to western) is to not use the "to be."
"Hey yinz want to go to the garage, my car needs fixed.
The sweeper doesn't run, it needs fixed. Where it should be said, The sweeper doensn't run it needs to be fixed.
Keller=color
fur=for
Dude from Georgia,
I wasn't sure what the heck pie-lawn was when I was in Georgia (turns out to pollen). So don't feel bad.
PA rocks. But NY state has just as many different regional accents as well.

In your dreams.

Djs,

Ah, the "good old days". Remember when Johnstown had both Cochran, Garfield (down the street from
Christ the Savior ACROD Cathedral) and even Joseph
Johns Junior High Schools? Lets see, Altoona had several Junior High Schools as well; Roosevelt, Keith, not to mention Bishop Gilfoyle!

Ungcsertezs (having pre-1977 flood flashbacks of J-town)

Father Deacon John,

Now I know why I want to visit PA.

Being a master of PA culture you must have graduated summa cum laude from the diaconate school.

Has any of this local dialect PA-ized the Byzantine liturgy?

Paul

LOL! I KNEW that would get a rise out of someone here

I went to Bishop Guilfoyle, graduated in 1984, but I was too busy with cars and motorbikes and being an academic geek to play sports.

OK, here's the Michigan version

You know you are a true Michigander when:


1. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

2. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

3. Your whole family wears hushpuppies and blue and gold shirts to church on Sunday and they yell �Go Blue!� at the end of every prayer.

4. The pastor has to break up fist fights between you and the folks wearing Green and White in the next pew.

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

6. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

8. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

9. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the mall at any given time.

10. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

11. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

12. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

13. You can identify an Ohio accent.

14. You have no problem spelling �Kalamazoo�.

15. You consider the UP exotic.

16. You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

17. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.

18. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

19. Down South to you means Toledo.

20. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.

21. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

22. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

23. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

24. Ya actch'lly unnerstand dese jokes, and den you forward dem to all yer Michiganner friends.