Follow up to Texas Reb's Yankee thread ! (Houston, Dallas: home, shop)

[Fillmont]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

I've heard "access road" used as well, but I think frontage became more popular at least around Austin. "Service road" sounds very old fashioned to me somehow, like something I heard years and years ago.

I agree that frontage road is the word of choice in Austin - all my native Austinite friends use it.

Not sure why in my mind service and access road are interchangeable. Is it that Dallas/Fort Worth doesn't really have a dominant term for it?

For what it's worth, here is what some anonymous dude on wiki has to say about it:

Originally Posted by Some Anonymous Dude on Wiki

Nicknames for frontage roads vary within the state of Texas. In Houston and East Texas they are called feeders. Dallas and Fort Worth residents call their frontage roads "service roads" or "access roads", and "access roads" is the predominant term used in San Antonio. El Paso residents call their frontage roads "gateways." In Austin, however, they use the state's official term of "frontage roads".

Could our Houstonians, San Antonians, Austinites, Dallasites, Fort Worthians, and, uh, El Pasoers? confirm or deny?

[Spade]

This is what I got on the third test.
36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

[doctorjef]

Advanced test: 31% -- definitely a Yankee. Pretty much same result as the other version.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by Fillmont

I was working at a law firm in Austin as a runner (we ran errands, basically), and I was supposed to take a document to another firm. For instructions, I was told to take 35 south, get off the highway, and turn on the frontage road.

I spent about 20 minutes frantically trying to find "Frontage Road."



Service/access road or bust!

LMAO

Just caught this before logging out so had to share one of my own which makes you look positively brilliant, Fillmont!

I was going down to visit my sister and brother in law deep in the DFW metroplex area and, as they had just recently moved to another suburb, I called my BIL to get the new directions. Anyway, he said take 287 to 35 to (this) and (to that), then exit (here) then (there) and then you will go past a mix-master and etc. etc.

Well, I got to I-35 and to this and to that and properly exited here and there, but dammed if I could find a mix-master!

Uhhhh, as it turned out, having never heard the expression before, I thought my BIL was referring to the name of some large concrete/sand/gravel mixing plant or something similar which would serve as a landmark...

Feel a bit better now, Fillmont?

[Fillmont]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

LMAO

Just caught this before logging out so had to share one of my own which makes you look positively brilliant, Fillmont!

I was going down to visit my sister and brother in law deep in the DFW metroplex area and, as they had just recently moved to another suburb, I called my BIL to get the new directions. Anyway, he said take 287 to 35 to (this) and (to that), then exit (here) then (there) and then you will go past a mix-master and etc. etc.

Well, I got to I-35 and to this and to that and properly exited here and there, but dammed if I could find a mix-master!

Uhhhh, as it turned out, having never heard the expression before, I thought my BIL was referring to the name of some large concrete/sand/gravel mixing plant or something similar which would serve as a landmark...

Feel a bit better now, Fillmont?

I love a good cultural misunderstanding story. Pretty impressive that even within one state we can get so utterly flummoxed by what our fellow Texans are saying!

[doctorjef]

TexasReb, I'm thinking that was the mixmaster in Fort Worth? Now that the highways have been redone so much I'm not even sure it's still there (it would be in a new incarnation, if so).

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

TexasReb, I'm thinking that was the mixmaster in Fort Worth? Now that the highways have been redone so much I'm not even sure it's still there (it would be in a new incarnation, if so).

That sounds right, DocJ. It has been 15 or so years ago, so I can't recall for sure. Next time I talk to them I will ask him about where it was. All I know is I was searching for some huge sign that said MIX-MASTER, INC, or some such! LOL

[Lucidus]

So has anyone else ever heard of a large interchange being called a spaghetti pile, or was that just my family?

[doctorjef]

Yeah, I've heard them called Spaghetti Bowls (sounds like a football stadium that you would have in a high Italian immigrant area).

[Cathy4017]

41% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.

Oh, for crying out loud.....LOL!!

Issues:

1. Beach and coast both.

2. Cart most common, but basket also used.

6. How are you would come before anything for us, but just "Hi" is more common.

9. Definitely rummage. I have NEVER heard "plunder" used like this.

10. Pretty....the others are used only to be funny or for GREAT emphasis!

12. This was one of the stranger ones.....in West Texas, I've only heard "watter" from other WT natives.

I've heard "wattuh" from Yankees.....but I've never heard the last that I ever remember.

13. I've never noticed "oil" pronounced with only one syllable. I say mostly the first choice, 3 syllables, sometimes run together to two.

14. Humdinger and doozie seem to be common in West Texas.

17. I usually hear "mow the lawn", though all are used.