Look what you lot have done to my language :mad:

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Of course Wein will be along in a moment to point out a four year old thread that's already covered this :embarrassed:
 
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Actually I get a kick out of how people from different parts of the country speak. My brother lives in Rhode Island and there are some strange things they say up there. We are from New York (Brooklyn and Long Island) and our mangling of the language is well documented. I love how Prages says "the lawn needs mowed", too :tongue:
 
Yes, we have enriched that stodgy, old language immensely by adding words from Yiddish, various Native American languages and many others in the rich melting pot that is the US. You are very welcome for the valuable service we have provided by taking a language that hadn't fundamentally improved since the day of Shakespeare and removing it from the effete, inbred backwater that is the UK. No thank yous necessary -- we are always happy to help! :thu:
 
I live in a small sub-section of southern California wherein we call such intersections a "clusterfuck".

However, we still call speed bumps, "speed bumps" and have warning signs written in kind.

Every time I go back to Florida and see giant yellow road signs reading "HUMP", I have to facepalm.
 
My wife laughs that I still call running shoes "sneakers" and the front porch is a "stoop".
 
OGG said:
However, we still call speed bumps, "speed bumps" and have warning signs written in kind.

Every time I go back to Florida and see giant yellow road signs reading "HUMP", I have to facepalm.
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Don't know if they still do, but when I was a kid, they called 'em "sleeping policemen" in Jamaica. :grin:
 
I live in the highest concentration of "traffic circlers" in the nation!

WOOT!

Also - every single one of those is correct for me and other people in my area. My sister and I, for example live about 3 hours away from one another, but we're on opposite sides of the soda/pop divide. And doncha know - I say soda and she says pop.
 
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Oddly I remember reading somewhere that if you want to hear English spoken like it was 200 years ago your best bet is to go to America as in some areas it's hardly evolved at all (I'll let you lot fight that one out amongst yourselves, I'm not naming and shaming)
I enjoy it when I come across a bit of usage I've never encountered before, most differences are pretty familiar but one of my favourite bits of 'No Country for Old Men (in this context) was cattle being referred to as 'beeves'
 
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My wife laughs that I still call running shoes "sneakers" and the front porch is a "stoop".
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That's odd, because running shoes are merely a specific kind of sneaker. There are also basketball, tennis, trail, cross training, walking, and other types of sneakers besides those made for running.

Stoop is mainly a city or urban area term and still applies to those areas. A stoop is too small to be a "porch" as most people think of porches. The house we rent has a stoop.
 
There is no such thing as "a place where several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point." :shrug:

Actually we do have one in Houston that I know of, in the museum district.

And I call 'em "roundabouts" because of the Yes song. :rawk:
 
Mark Wein said:
"the lawn needs mowed" :tongue:
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This is how everyone here says it.

Also the map has most of Ohio saying "traffic circle" which I have never heard in my life. Every time I have heard the term used it has been roundabout.
 
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That's odd, because running shoes are merely a specific kind of sneaker. There are also basketball, tennis, trail, cross training, walking, and other types of sneakers besides those made for running.

Stoop is mainly a city or urban area term and still applies to those areas. A stoop is too small to be a "porch" as most people think of porches. The house we rent has a stoop.
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Agreed and agreed.

I porch is usually covered and takes up a large area. A "stoop" is the urban 3 step area where a group of people will sit and people watch.

Back the OP... I use "roundabout" as a subset of traffic circles that they stick in intersections that used to be a 4 way stop. When they're the full sized ones like in front of airports or downtown Indianapolis I say "traffic circles".
 
OH DEAR LORD...... that traffic circle has stop lights to enter and stop lights around the circle?!?!?!? :facepalm: The whole point of traffic circles is to ELIMINATE stop lights. :embarrassed:
 
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