Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/15/17 - Where You From?

Episode Date: July 15, 2017

Survey shows the differences in regional dialects in America, how do you pronounce the words in this study? Are you a soda or pop person?Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. We've talked about this story on a couple different shows on this network. And it still is fascinating to me, even though we've talked about it already. But it's the way and what we call different things around the country.

Right? So what we call, it says if you answer these nine questions, they can tell what part of the country you're from. Right. I'll tell you where you grew up. So the first question is what we call insects that glow at night. Fireflies or lightning bugs. Weird. I mean, they're fireflies, right?

They're fireflies. That's what they are. And they're actually really cool. and in some places in the country, you don't see them. When we were living in Pennsylvania, we saw a bunch of them in Pennsylvania. And they're just fascinating to watch. And kids have fun running around.

Looking at fireflies, not lightning bugs. All right. So what do you call, and this one is fascinating to me because I forgot about one. What do you call a sale of household items? Now, most of the country, garage sale. A good chunk of the east, southeast, and way up northeast, call it a yard sale.

There's a little sliver up in Connecticut that call it a tag sale. And there's a little sliver in Wisconsin and maybe bleeding into Michigan a little bit that call it a rummage sale. I remember my mom calling it a rummage sale. I grew up in Michigan. I remember her calling it a rummage sale. a rummage sale for a number of years, but it's always a, it was a garage sale until there was stupid country song came out in the 90s or whenever, whenever I was, whenever I was working country

music station, spending country records back in the 90s. And what's his face came out with his yard sale song, became a yard sale. Classic yard sale prices. All right. So how do we address a group of people. You guys, y'all, many people in the Pittsburgh area say yins. That's just dumb. If you're from Pittsburgh and you say yin's, stop it. And some parts of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania use. And yes, I am well aware of the Pennsylvania use, use guys.

Stop it. I don't know why. And a lot of people that are the people who from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania who say, use, use guys, are the same people who get mad when somebody says, y'all, y'all come on in. Y'all sit down, how y'all do it? They don't like that, but they're okay with you's. Use guys, okay?

How's used guys? So they're in Baltimore. Baltimore says that all the time, too. what do you call carbonated beverages? Carbonated beverages. Now, when I grew up in Michigan, a lot of times it was called the pop. But I spent a bunch of years in Florida, and it became a soda. And then it was been soda forever now.

There's still plenty of areas in the country that call it pop. And there's plenty of places in the country that call it Coke. All carbonated beverages is Coke. Would you like a Coke? Oak? Yes. What kind? You know, 7-up. Or whatever it is. But, you know, the carbonated beverage is just a Coke. And that's just because, you know, that's like, you know,

there's plenty of, there's plenty of items that take the name of what they are, right? Q-tips, you know, the, the, the, uh, cute-tips of snowmobiles. There's a long laundry list of things that are just one name is the spot. It's not a real snowmobile. Those are official titles. Yeah, okay. Coke is an official kind of carbonated beverage. Yes, we know, but we're just calling all carbonated beverages Coke.

Would you like a Coke? Yes, what kind? Soda? What kind? Pop, what kind? Same thing. Where we throw our trash? Where do you put your trash?

in a garbage can or a trash can. That's fascinating. Most of the north, and it dips a little bit down into the west, into the northwest, say garbage can. And almost the entire south, bottom half of the U.S., say trash can. That's fascinating. Now, there is some,

there's, you know, some cloudy areas around the country that kind of mix it in a little bit, but for the most part, garbage can along the top, trash can along the bottom of the U.S. That's fascinating. What we haul freight in. What do you haul freight in? Do you haul it in a semi or a semi-truck? Do you haul it in a 18-wheeler?

Or do you haul it in a tractor-trailer? Most of the country is semi-truck. Up in the northeast, you get the tractor trailers, and down in the far south, it looks like a little bit of Mississippi, Louisiana, a little bit of Alabama 18 Wheeler. It's funny. I've lived in all these places around the country. I've heard it all. This is amazing.

Except that I hadn't heard this before. What we drink from in public places, do you call it a drinking fountain? Do you call it a water fountain? Now, there are a couple of places. It looks like a little Wisconsin might bleed into Michigan a little, but for sure that's Wisconsin and in part of Connecticut. They have here, it's called a bubbler. I have never.

I never heard that. I never heard of a water fountain called a bubler. Heard of a drinking fountain. Water fountain is pretty much what. what I've always heard it as, but I've never heard it called a bubler. Now, I would consider if something called a bubler would be something else,

possible. What we call athletic footwear, tennis shoes, sneakers, gym shoes. Now, I remember at one point, a little bit in the, a little bit in the Midwest, looks like,

Indiana, a little bit of Ohio, maybe Illinois, sneaking into Michigan a little bit. They used to call them gym shoes. And then, for the most part, it's mostly tennis shoes. There's a few up, way up in the northeast, and then down to the tip of Florida, they say they still call them sneakers.

But it's pretty much tennis shoes. I mean, they're tennis shoes. That's what they are. Athletic footwear, tennis shoes. And how many syllables in Carmel? Is it Caramel? Or Carmel. Most of the country.

Carmel. Down south, in the southwest, I mean, southeast, you get the three syllables in Carmel. Caramel. Caramel? Carmel. Carmel. Carmel mix on that. Please.

So I'll tweet this out where you're from. The phrases that can tell where you're from. It was kind of fascinating to remember what things were. I've completely forgotten about rummage sales. They're either, you know, they're either a yard sale or a garage sale. But, you know, did you see it? Did you go, yeah. There were people that were calling them rummage sales.

Kind of funny. And get me a caramel over here. I need some caramel. Caramel shake and be fine.