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I've never been to Orlando, but that's interesting that the dialect is pretty much the same.
The way I see it, as you said, everything not "surface street" is called a freeway and using a definite article "the" is perfectly natural in elliptical constructions. That is, instead of the 605 Freeway, the 605. Much like saying take the F (train). The only caution to Southern Californians, and apparently Floridians, is I guess it annoys people. [Shrugs.]
the thing about the freeways always annoyed me when i went to visit people in LA lol
take "the" 405... take "the" 101... whats weird is that it makes sense to use it there.. but when i come back up north it completely changes. its "take 880 south then get on 101"
Here people call I-10 "the I-10" or "the interstate", but all the other interstates with the exception of I-12 are just called the #. Example: Take 610 to the I-10 then take 510 south. or Take the interstate east to I-12.
All none interstates go by their name. i.e. Take the Pontchartrain Expwy to the Westbank Expwy to Jeff Hwy.
I have an interesting vocabulary of my own. I was born in the South(New Orleans specifically, left as a baby). I have lived in the Pacific Northwest, Texas, South Carolina, and currently Georgia. I have lived in Georgia since I was 8(I'm 24 now). I have no Southern accent. In fact, when some people meet me, they ask where I am from because I accent doesn't sound southern at all. I don't say "y'all", I use the term "pop" for carbonated soft drinks rather than the colloquial "coke" I occasionally use terms like lavatory.
I don't know if this is one. I was in class and I asked the people around me if they wanted a sucker everyone said yea except the girl behind me did not know what I was talking about. She says they call it lollipops in new jersey where she was from
^ Yeah we call em lollipops, its funny because I was in NC one time and heard a lot of things I never heard before such as "sucker" and "do what?" means like "say what?" or "huh?" lol
^ Yeah we call em lollipops, its funny because I was in NC one time and heard a lot of things I never heard before such as "sucker" and "do what?" means like "say what?" or "huh?" lol
Haha. I had forgotten about "do what?" Definitely a common thing in NC.
^ Lol, yep, another thing people with southern accents especially in NC tend to do is instead of saying "not yet" they add a ch sound to it "not chet".
...not sure if it's true or not, but I heard that the phrases "oh geez" or "oh man" are primarily Cleveland / Northern Ohio specific. I know I use those phrases quite often but haven't heard any Illinoisans use them...
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