How to be an Ohioan

[tgbwc]

Originally Posted by redjuel

I live in NC now but am originally from Southern Ohio. I still say pop, sweeper, and sucker which people down here thing is so weird. Another one -- okay, when you go to the grocery store, what do you put your groceries in? When I lived in Ohio, we called it a shopping buggy. Dear god, the first time I ever said that in the south, my friends laughed their asses off. It's called a shopping cart here.

Funny. I am from NE Ohio (south of Youngstown) and always called it a buggy. My wife, from NW PA calls it a cart. It pops up now and then, but here in VA it is a cart.

We both say "pop".

[tgbwc]

One other thing I noticed was when I called the orange cone in the parking lot at work a "pylon". People thought that was funny. They envisioned a pylon as only being a large concrete cylinder holding up a bridge or something. It was just a traffic cone here.

[tgbwc]

One more, not food related. In NE Ohio, we would usually be served steak salad with fries on it. It was on the menu that way. Now I have to order a side of fries and add it. Friends think it is gross.

[JR_C]

Originally Posted by chikaranotori

4) and will someone explain to me why in God's name do the people in Dalton, OH call their town "DOW-ton"?!

I've never heard anyone pronounce Dalton as Dow-ton. I've always heard it Dal (rhymes with the "Al" in Albert)-ton. If you say it quickly, it can sound like Dow-ton, I guess.

[chikaranotori]

lol...they actually did a story on it on the Cleveland, OH news. they actually said Dowton...yeah, even the people in Orville, OH (their closest neighbors) don't get it.

[Buckeye-Sunshine]

I find it so funny how every area has it's own slang and it doesn't even matter if it's the same state.
My fiance is from North Carolina. He says youngins, instead of children or kids. We won't even talk about the slaw dogs and burgers. What is it with southerners and mayo? I love mayo, but the man puts mayo on everything. Slang can get one in trouble too. One night we were cuddling and I asked him to spoon me and he wanted to know what I wanted to eat. The look of confusion when I started laughing so hard. Then a few days later same thing and he asked me to hooch him up. I thought he was being vulgar. I can still see the look of confusion on his face when I got a little testy. All we wanted was to hold each other!
My most favorite was when he called a buisness and he reached a person with very broken English skills (we've all been there) and they couldn't understand each other and she asked him to get her someone that spoke English. He said that he thought he was doing the best that he could. lol Southern men rock!