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'What do you call the game wherein the participants see who can throw a knife closest to the other person?'
I call that out-of-state crackheads. What the hell kind of game is that?
In Michigan, we say "pop" for sweetened carbonated beverages like Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, root beer, etc.
We also say "Flore-i-da", "cray-ahn", "flurr-ish", and "groshery", pronounce "Mary", "merry" and "marry" the same and pronounce the I in "cauliflower" like the I in "sit". We say "tennis shoes", "roly-poly", "kitty-corner", "oil and vinegar", "by accident", "mow the lawn", "basement", "drinking fountain" and "goose bumps". I am somehow a mutant for my state, though, and say neither "car-ml" nor "carra-mel", but rather "care-a-ml".
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srah - Sunday, 26 October 2003 - 9:40 AM
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› How do you say...? from swirlspice - October 26, 2003 10:09 PM
- I grew up in Michigan, so I developed the corresponding dialect. Looks like pronunciations show stronger correlation to a region than terminology does, except in a few well-known cases like carbonated beverages, long skinny sandwiches from the deli, an... [Read More]
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php
All I gotta say.