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Back in the day, Hardees had a ham and cheese sandwich called a Yumbo. I couldn't bring myself to ask for that by name, either.
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<li class="internal send-email">Burger King is going back in time. The fast food chain is re-launching the Yumbo, a hot ham and cheese sandwich, 40 years after it was removed from the menu in 1974.
When the Yumbo was last sold, “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas topped the Billboard charts and “Blazing Saddles” was in theaters.
I remember it well, ate a ton of them on Spring Break in Ft. Lauderdale back in the 70's.
Example: You're outside and drop something on the ground, or sidewalk, parking lot, or whatever and say : I dropped something on the floor. Shouldn't floor only be used for inside and ground be used for outside?
Is this some regional thing that's more common now or generational thing?
Example: You're outside and drop something on the ground, or sidewalk, parking lot, or whatever and say : I dropped something on the floor. Shouldn't floor only be used for inside and ground be used for outside?
Is this some regional thing that's more common now or generational thing?
I can't say for sure whether this is a "regional thing", but I can tell you that it definitely isn't a "generational thing".
Why do I say that?
I say that because when I was a very young child in the early 1950s, a mother of one of my playmates would consistently use the word "floor" when "ground" would have been appropriate. This ran counter to what I had been taught, but, because I was only about 5 years of age, I thought that I must have been mistaken... until I asked my mother to clarify the issue for me.
My mother didn't want to openly criticize this other mother, but she did let me know in a diplomatic way that my playmate's mother was wrong and that I should not attempt to correct her language problems because "nice people" did not do such things.
For the record, these incidents took place in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, circa 1953-55, but I have also heard people from other areas in The Northeast use the word "floor" when "ground" would have been the appropriate word.
I can't say for sure whether this is a "regional thing", but I can tell you that it definitely isn't a "generational thing".
Why do I say that?
I say that because when I was a very young child in the early 1950s, a mother of one of my playmates would consistently use the word "floor" when "ground" would have been appropriate. This ran counter to what I had been taught, but, because I was only about 5 years of age, I thought that I must have been mistaken... until I asked my mother to clarify the issue for me.
My mother didn't want to openly criticize this other mother, but she did let me know in a diplomatic way that my playmate's mother was wrong and that I should not attempt to correct her language problems because "nice people" did not do such things.
For the record, these incidents took place in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, circa 1953-55, but I have also heard people from other areas in The Northeast use the word "floor" when "ground" would have been the appropriate word.
Regional?
Possibly
Generational?
Definitely not!
I haven't heard that one, and I've lived in the northeast my entire life, so it's not regional, at least not widely so The only time I think "floor" would be used correctly for the outdoors is in reference to the floor of the ocean, the floor of a canyon, etc.
I haven't heard that one, and I've lived in the northeast my entire life, so it's not regional, at least not widely so The only time I think "floor" would be used correctly for the outdoors is in reference to the floor of the ocean, the floor of a canyon, etc.
Well, I haven't heard that type of usage used extensively in this area, so I have to agree with you that it probably isn't regional. Instead, I think that it is more likely to be related to... let's just say... the level of sophistication of a person and/or his/her parents. The woman who used the word "floor" incorrectly in the early '50s was probably just not very sophisticated.
Similarly, I went to college with a guy who would reverse the usage of "make" and "let". Instead of asking, "Will you let me do that?", he would say, "Will you make me do that?", and he would further confuse everyone by using those words incorrectly in reverse situations. In his case, he was the first person in his family to attend college, but he was always surrounded by members of his family who were of the "dese, demz, and doze" type. I think that the early language patterns to which he had been exposed were simply indelible.
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