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does anyone actually use the term "po-boy"?

rivrrat said:
I have never in my life heard the term "row home".
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I have heard it on TV and was like huh? The first time I heard it? I honestly thought it was talking about a jailhouse. :)
 
talloulou said:
I never heard soda called "pop" till I moved to CA. In Philly, I don't think they call it that. Philly kids wear sneakers while in CA every sneaker is a tennis shoe. I always hated that. I like the word sneakers. Sounds good. Tennis shoe, very lame. I also prefer bureau to dresser. Dresser is awkward. My grandmom, from Philly, said sofa but I think it was more a generational thing than a geographic dialect. Lots of people don't know what hoagies are. If I went to the foodstore and asked for pork roll they'd have no clue. I have occasionally seen scrapple, twice in CA, but it grosses me out so I don't look for it much. It's pretty hard to find out west though. Back east people call chucks, chucks. They don't so much here. Don't know what's up with that. People also don't say bucks much out west as in, "You owe me 5 bucks." Or Holy Shite, that crap costs $20 bucks!"
Nope, not out west.
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I never heard soda called 'pop' until I moved to Illinois from California.:2razz:

I can't believe in Chicago they have the cojones to call freeways "expressways".
 
Kali said:
Not around here. Boulevard is just a street. :mrgreen:
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Around here it's not like what talloulou describes. A boulevard usually seems LESS congested because it's more like two one way streets with a small park space in the middle, about as wide as another lane, with trees and flowers and grass and sometimes even benches and whole gardens.
 
rivrrat said:
I say tennis shoe, don't think I've ever said "sneaker".
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I have a hilarious story about this. In Massachusetts, we said "sneakers." In Laredo, Texas, they said, "tennis shoes." My sister said something to a guy while we were in Laredo about her "sneakers," and he said, "The last time I heard someone saying sneakers was a Mexican asking for a Snickers bar." :rofl
 
In illinois the terms sub, hoagie, and poor boy are all interchangeable, at least downstate (south of I-80)
 
Being from the north, and marrying a gal from the south, I have been confused about all sorts of things she says. In the southeast, they call shopping or grocery carts, buggys. My wife also refers to the hose, as a hose pipe. Also everything is a coke. My wife would say " I want a coke" and then I get her a coke, and she would get upset because she wanted a Dr. Pepper. :confused:
 
WI Crippler said:
Being from the north, and marrying a gal from the south, I have been confused about all sorts of things she says. In the southeast, they call shopping or grocery carts, buggys. My wife also refers to the hose, as a hose pipe. Also everything is a coke. My wife would say " I want a coke" and then I get her a coke, and she would get upset because she wanted a Dr. Pepper. :confused:
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People from the south also accuse northerners of talking too fast.
 
independent_thinker2002 said:
People from the south also accuse northerners of talking too fast.
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There are few things as annoying as somebody who actually does talk really fast. Not just a perception of fast, but somebody who actually talks in run on sentences and doesn't pause for breath. We had this kid from somewhere in PA in my unit that had to be talking faster than he could think. He would just open his mouth and go. Everybody was always like "WTF did you just say?"

Up here we just sound like wanna be Canadians. If anybody remembers the SNL skits with 'Da Bears fans, thats pretty much what Wisconsin people sound like when 'dey talk. And some do ad "eh" to the end of their sentences as well. The further north you go, the more prevalent it is.
 
1069 said:
Maybe that's why Tallou thinks "sneakers" is cooler. ;)

To me, "sneakers" just sounds childish. Like "jumper". "Toddler". Whatever.
I don't like names for objects that describe the activity you're supposed to be doing with them.
What if you aren't sneaking? Are they still sneakers? What if you're just walking around in a perfectly forthright manner? Are they then "walkers"?

Oh, speaking of which, I sometimes hear "running shoes".
But that describes a very specific type of athletic shoe, those fancy, expensive nikes or reeboks that are specifically meant for running.
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....they're called sneakers because properly made sneakers don't make a sound when you walk also they were the name kids used for tennis shoes like 150 years ago. It's funny how some slang never changes.
 
Along the gulf coast (primarily the far east Texas coast, Louisiana and Mississippi), po-boys and subs are interchangeable, with the older folks using the term po-boys more often than not. I never heard it called anything else until I was older and started traveling around. It can be any kind of meat, although seafood, mostly fried shrimp and oysters, are the most popular. And the way you order a po-boy is 'dressed and pressed', that's everything on it and whole thing is toasted on the grill.

When I was growing up 'coke' was used for everything, now I mostly hear 'soft drink'.
 
independent_thinker2002 said:
People from the south also accuse northerners of talking too fast.
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You should hear Mexicans talk. They talk really fast.
I know a bit of Spanish, but I can't carry on a conversation in it nor understand what someone's saying unless they slow way down.
My dad's fluent; he's lived in Panama, Belize and Saltillo, and was in fact born in Madrid; because he spent more of his formative years with his spanish nanny than with his mother, Spanish was his first language.
 
rivrrat said:
I have never in my life heard the term "row home".
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Well that's the thing, in Philly, lots and lots of people live in row homes. Everyone calls them that. But if you go to another state and see a line of "obvious row homes" and proceed to call them that people get bent out of shape. Elsewhere, outside Philly, row home is some type of insult.
 
talloulou said:
Well that's the thing, in Philly, lots and lots of people live in row homes. Everyone calls them that. But if you go to another state and see a line of "obvious row homes" and proceed to call them that people get bent out of shape. Elsewhere, outside Philly, row home is some type of insult.
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Well, I wouldn't consider it an insult since I've never heard the term. If people are considering it an insult, then they must have heard the term and think it applies to something they consider negative.

To me, it would be neutral because I'd just be like... "Eh? WTH is a 'row home'? Sounds like a British fighting house." :lol:
 
rivrrat said:
Well, I wouldn't consider it an insult since I've never heard the term. If people are considering it an insult, then they must have heard the term and think it applies to something they consider negative.

To me, it would be neutral because I'd just be like... "Eh? WTH is a 'row home'? Sounds like a British fighting house." :lol:
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I thought that (british quarreling) was pronounced differently. Like "rou".
 
rivrrat said:
I dunno.. I just know how it's spelled. They talk funny over there anyway. ;)
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Yeah. When they say "having a row", it rhymes with cow.
At least that's the way I've always heard it.
 
1069 said:
Yeah. When they say "having a row", it rhymes with cow.
At least that's the way I've always heard it.
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Yeah, but they can't pronounce the "h" in words. :mrgreen:
 
jallman said:
When I was further along in college and actually began earning a livable wage, I moved into a neighborhood much like you are describing. It was about 4 square blocks of old Victorian manor houses that were built by war vets with the GI loans that were provided for them after the Great War. The neighborhood, named Mordecai, had gone through a period of degeneration before being settled by "the gays" in the mid eighties. Many of the huge manors were sectioned off into apartments with the most stunning interiors because they were kept as close to original as possible by some "let's save Mordecai from the gays" comittee ostensibly promoted as a historical committee with ridiculous standards. They never counted on the ingenuity and dedication of old queens when tempted with floor to ceiling windows for decorating with god awful window treatments that would make a Persian nauseous.

The point being that these manors converted into apartments were rented out for fairly cheap and only to a certain type of people sought to live there because it was known to be a gay neighborhood. I had the most beautiful apartment with french double doors leading into the bedroom and a grand fireplace in the living room...12 foot ceilings and hardwood floors, crown molding, huge clawfoot tub and the most amazing neighbors. I have never seen another neighborhood with as much character and style.
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There's an amazing book you should read if you're interested in gay gentrification...of course I can't remember the name, but it followed the house prices of one block in Philadelphia's bella vista neighborhood over a period of 30 years. It followed the houses from their lowest depression in the 70s into the 90s when their prices stabilized...at literally about a hundred times their initial value. the basic conclusion of the book was that gay men will at least quadruple the value of property in a neighborhood.

Today Bella Vista is one of Philly's most fashionable and expensive neighborhoods.

If you're interested I can see if I can find the book.
 
talloulou said:
Well that's the thing, in Philly, lots and lots of people live in row homes. Everyone calls them that. But if you go to another state and see a line of "obvious row homes" and proceed to call them that people get bent out of shape. Elsewhere, outside Philly, row home is some type of insult.
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It's not just Philly, in the entire urban Northeast (particularly Baltimore, which has identical houses to Philadelphia) they're the primary housing.

In New York they tend to call them Brownstones, due to some superficial differences. They're the same houses though.
 
WI Crippler said:
Being from the north, and marrying a gal from the south, I have been confused about all sorts of things she says. In the southeast, they call shopping or grocery carts, buggys. My wife also refers to the hose, as a hose pipe. Also everything is a coke. My wife would say " I want a coke" and then I get her a coke, and she would get upset because she wanted a Dr. Pepper. :confused:
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You know I've heard they call everything coke, but I didn't believe it.

I guess it's no different from everyone calling any kind of tissues kleenix.
 
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