Do you say Po-tay-to or Po-tah-to?

[percysunshine]

I came across this interesting article about the regional pronunciations of, and choices of, words. It comes with color coded maps which makes it fun to ponder.

Soda or pop? Coo-pon or cyu-pon? Maps reveal how America speaks - The Body Odd

For example, when asking for one of those fizzy drink thingies, which term do you use?

For the record I use:

- soft drink

- Car-ml

- Coopon

- Loyer

- pick-AN

- and words that rhyme with "food"


Any guesses where I grew up?

Anyone use different pronunciations?

(btw, What is with eastern Missouri???)

 

[JakeStarkey]

You are a yooper.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I say po tah toe and to mah toe and auhntee

 

[percysunshine]

I say po tah toe and to mah toe and auhntee

New England?

btw, what is a 'yooper'?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Michigan northern peninsula. That mixture of Finnish and frontier American woodsman patois is very interesting to listen to.

 

[percysunshine]

Michigan northern peninsula. That mixture of Finnish and frontier American woodsman patois is very interesting to listen to.

Ok, you get a close point. I was born in Michigan, but moved away when I was two. Grew up in Colorado.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Michigan northern peninsula. That mixture of Finnish and frontier American woodsman patois is very interesting to listen to.

Ok, you get a close point. I was born in Michigan, but moved away when I was two. Grew up in Colorado.

I say coke, but they say pop where I learned to talk, and soda where I grew up.

 

[rightwinger]

I say Taters

 

[percysunshine]

Aha! I figured out Missouri and Wisconsin. Guess where the largest canners and bottlers of soft drinks were, historically? Yup, at beer breweries; Anheuser-Busch in St. Lois Mo, and Pabst/Schlitz in Milwaukee Wi. Fascinating. 'Soda' bottlers were a significant employment in the local community.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

There seems to be a couple of states missing.

 

[Sherry]

It will always be pop to me...I will not conform and call it that "s" word.

 

[anya]

Soda.

I'm not a conformist, everyone else in my state is copying me.

 

[Unkotare]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/general-discussion/297539-american-dialect-maps.html#post7348358

 

[asaratis]

...puh-tay-duh

 

[Noomi]

Its called fizzy drink over here, and we call em spuds, not potatoes.

 

[tipofthespear]

Call 'em what ya want, just don't call me late for supper!

Fried Chicken livers, mashed taters with sawmill gravy and cathead biskits.....

Now that is a FEAST!