Posted by Jost on September 6, 2006, at 17:53:37
In reply to Re: OK, folks -- SURVEY TIME!!!, posted by James K on September 6, 2006, at 14:38:07
1. pail (sometimes bucket)
2. faucet (sometimes spigot, never tap)
3. semi (sometimes tracker-trailer)
4. couch (often with potato) ---davenport???? that's truly dialect-- from the maybe 1920's ?? --otherwise, I thought it was a College at Yale??
5. soda (unless it is a coke, in which case coke)
6. to-may-to
7. dinner
8. whatya'ma'callit, 'it," "that"(or "that thing") etc, occasionally "thingamagiggit"
9. blah, blah, blah; yada, yada, yada (definitely obsolete), "whatever"
10. elevator
11. bus, taxi (cab, rarely), "that damn thing" (meaning SUV, pickup truck, or large car blocking the street), "now what?" (meaning, Firetruck, lights turning red out-of-sync, police car going slowly with many cars behind it, also going slowly, EMS vehicle)
Jost
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