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Linguiphiles will never satisfy their lust for regional data
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Both. They're both alts of @JCM, and so am I, and so are you.
GasBandit
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They're not alts, they're evil twins. And we know which one had a goatee...
I'm special.
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Y'all would never guess that I was born in California and spent my formative years in England... despite still having issues spelling realise/realize and words of that nature... to say nothing of driving my sergeants crazy by putting the word "whilst" in my reports. *chuckles*
Y'all would never guess that I was born in California and spent my formative years in England... despite still having issues spelling realise/realize and words of that nature... to say nothing of driving my sergeants crazy by putting the word "whilst" in my reports. *chuckles*
Strongest roots in Texas, which makes sense. But I've been all over for business over the years, and I guess some of it musta rubbed off 
I'm kind of annoyed that the "strip of grass between lanes on a road" didn't have "esplanade" as a choice, or that the road that runs next to a freeway didn't have "feeder" as a choice.
I'm kind of annoyed that the "strip of grass between lanes on a road" didn't have "esplanade" as a choice, or that the road that runs next to a freeway didn't have "feeder" as a choice.
And you make fun of her right? I'd understand a 4 year old saying it... but an adult? Gonna be PC, sounds LAAAAAAAAME.
They didn't mean the ramp, though.
In my case it's the "service drive" but the only choice they had was "service road."
--Patrick
doomdragon6
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They nailed it. Gave me "Birmingham, Montgomery, or Mobile".
doomdragon6
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I think British speakers call it a bubbler? So it probably came from... there...ish.
No surprise here. In Bermuda, most of the Brits working there were more familiar with east coast Americans (which were the most common ones on the island), so they expected Californians to sound like Bill and/or Ted. "You sound like people reading the news."
It is an option when you take the test though.
Not even remotely, brother.
Bubbler is what some people call a water fountain. I've actually heard it called that up here in Wisconsin.
What you're referring to is soda/pop.
Southern Wisconsin has a lot of underground springs, thanks to the receding glaciers and the Kettle Moraine lakes they created. When someone decided, long long ago, to stick a pipe down into the ground to free some of that water for drinking, it "bubbled" up to the surface. Hence, when people would go to a spring to get water, they would turn on the spigot and it would "bubble" up through the well, and into their jar/bottle/bucket.
Sorry, you're talking to someone from a city known for its springs. (Even if they were highly infused with radium.)
GasBandit
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You mean Kleenex and Advil?
I think Aspirin would be the go to example of a trademark brand name pain killer that is universally used to mean all pain killers.
GasBandit
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Eh, maybe 20+ years ago. It certainly became the naming standard for acetylsalicylic acid.. but these days whenever anybody asks me if I have something for their headache, it's always "Can I borrow some Advil?" They had a REALLY effective marketing campaign in the 90s, and from what I've read, it's much more effective on menstrual pain.
