The Goat Pen

What do you call a commercial truck? I could've picked several for that one, including Mack truck (which wasn't even a choice), 18-wheeler, semi, and maybe even big rig, but since I've been in the freight business, most people say tractor-trailer around here...

hedge wrote:What do y'all call the sandwich? It's "sub" around here...

my dad would call it "that's not what I'm having for dinner"

Likewise there could've been several choices for yard sale. Also, what are the two different meaning for caramel?

Large wild cat - Mountain lion, cougar or panther? I went with mountain lion, but could also have said cougar just as easily. Panther I think of as more exotic, like a black panther. But who the fuck calls it a mountain screamer?

hedge wrote:What do you call a commercial truck? I could've picked several for that one, including Mack truck (which wasn't even a choice), 18-wheeler, semi, and maybe even big rig, but since I've been in the freight business, most people say tractor-trailer around here...

semi

yard sale

mountain lion

Never heard of any other term for a roly-poly...

Second syllable for pajamas? Definitely rhymes with palm here, but I have heard it rhymed with jam. It lists "other" as well. What other could there be? Rhyming with jaw??

"What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?" I have no word for this...

For the shoes I went with tennis shoes, but I really think of it more (and pronounce it as such) tenny shoes, basically one word. But I also use running shoes or sneakers sometimes...

Definitely pronounce aunt as ant, but in general and particular, but you definitely hear plenty of "aunt" around here rhyming with ain't...

No idea about the drive-thru liquor store, we don't have them here but I wish we did...

Definitely have used the term catty-corner, but not terribly often...

Who calls a water fountain a bubbler?

I use both pronunciations for lawyer, but probably rhyming with flaw more often than with boy...

The distinction b/w supper and dinner has been on that has long vexed me. Country folks around here seem to use it for any meal besides breakfast, but I use lunch and supper. But I'm sure I've said "we had dinner at his house" at some point in my life...

Service road or frontage road are pretty interchangeable, but I'd usually go with the former...

Everything else I've never even heard of the other choices besides the obvious (firefly or lightning bug, etc)...

I started paying attention to that

Supper is used for anything other than breakfast but I went with Dinner is more formal than supper.

but at the same time, in the context of my mom using it - supper is usually the primary meal of the day - regardless of what time (as long as its not breakfast)


I didn't get the shoes question, it probably figured by that point it knew where I was from and I didn't wear them

Montgomery, Mobile, Huntsville.

You call lunch supper?

Lunch is dinner, supper is supper...

I just took it again and put answers that I've either never heard of or would never use (like water bubbler), it placed me in the Worcester/Springfield/Boston area...

hedge wrote:You call lunch supper?

if its the big meal of the day - like a roast on Sunday

we would always say we had dinner at someone's house because that is a "formal' meal

again - that's how I grew up using it.

Jackson, Birmingham, Montgomery

Even if it's at noon or thereabouts?

hedge wrote:Even if it's at noon or thereabouts?

yep - but not if its sandwiches or pizza - unless its really expensive pizza...with a salad

Hoagie

Yard Sale

Semi (or tractor trailer)

Mountain lion

So two of the answers for the supper/dinner question were: "Supper is the evening meal, dinner is eaten earlier" and "Supper is the evening meal, dinner is the main meal". What makes any meal the main meal? I think of supper as the main meal, but mainly b/c I don't eat breakfast and rarely eat lunch...