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It's a simple question that most people don't really think about, when referring to a plastic grocery bag, do you call it a "bag" or a "sack?" ... I seem to hear about an even mix of both here in Eastern Iowa, however I rarely heard "sack" used in the Chicagoland area when I was living there. My thoughts were that maybe "sack" was more of a rural type of thing, or just a local thing. I was looking for a map on this, sort of like the ones that you see on "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke" - maybe one of you have seen one.
Feel free to post your thoughts and experiences with this, and maybe tell us where you have experienced different vocabulary uses.
*and if there was already a poll created on this topic, I searched and did not find it, so now maybe we have two!
Look at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...map.html?_r=1&
For me (born/raised in NYC, now living in Philly), it was eerily correct, placing my vocabulary and dialect in NY, Philly and Yonkers (just north of NYC).
It's a simple question that most people don't really think about, when referring to a plastic grocery bag, do you call it a "bag" or a "sack?" ... I seem to hear about an even mix of both here in Eastern Iowa, however I rarely heard "sack" used in the Chicagoland area when I was living there. My thoughts were that maybe "sack" was more of a rural type of thing, or just a local thing. I was looking for a map on this, sort of like the ones that you see on "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke" - maybe one of you have seen one.
Feel free to post your thoughts and experiences with this, and maybe tell us where you have experienced different vocabulary uses.
*and if there was already a poll created on this topic, I searched and did not find it, so now maybe we have two!
Here it's almost always called a bag. Sack is more of an Appalachian usage. I remember a long time ago, in rural areas it was called a "poke".
I've lived in New York City, Long Island, the Chicago suburbs and now Rhode Island, plus a brief stint in Los Angeles, and it's been "bag" everywhere -- but I may not have been in L.A. long enough to notice.
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