Comments on: Sody Pop

By: knittinglizzie

knittinglizzie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:46:21 +0000

As a Columbusite I only knew pop from my friends; at home we called it soda. My mom often called it soda-pop or more importantly sody-pop. I think she likes how funny sody sounds and will often just say sody, dropping the pop all together.

And my last note of importance: one stands in a line not on a line. If you want me to stand on a line, kindly draw one on the ground and I will make myself to stand upon it.

By: knittinglizzie

knittinglizzie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:39:00 +0000

I work for a company based out of Dallas so I’m working with a lot of Texans. They pronounce ‘daily’ more like “delly”.

How do Ohioans differ?

By: knittinglizzie

knittinglizzie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:36:56 +0000

Yes, I was thinking this too. I think it can be a cultural thing as well as colloquial.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:12:44 +0000

“Relish tray” isn’t universal?! I’m appalled.

Apparently, Dan doesn’t know this term, either. He missed out on a lot of Ohio by having parents from New Jersey.

Dan: “But relish is that shit you put on hot dogs that no one likes.”

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:10:14 +0000

Just an observation, but I’ve noticed that in Columbus, African Americans tend to say “ont”, while white people say “ant”. So maybe culture mixes with region for pronunciation.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:05:22 +0000

Some brand names just get embedded. The word “photocopy” is not in my mom’s vocabulary. It will always be “xerox” with a little “x”.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:03:54 +0000

Does everyone in New York say CARA-mel? It’s how Dan says it, too, but I just can’t get behind it.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:01:55 +0000

I knew some northern Ohio-ers who used to brag about how THAT was where they sent the broadcasters to learn to speak, but people from northern Ohio totally have accents! I think you get into country-accent-territory the second you step one foot south of Columbus.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:41:27 +0000

I asked, like, three people at work if they knew what a relish tray is after I read this comment. Like, I can’t imagine a family gathering in which a relish tray didn’t exist. And I can’t imagine it being called anything other than a relish tray.

Someone suggested to me that it may be known as a party tray elsewhere, but that’s just terrible. The party itself is in the other dishes; this is just the relish.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:39:30 +0000

I really wish I said “ont”, actually, but growing up as an “ant” person, it just seems like way too big a change to make now. In Ohio, I only ever heard one person say “ont”, and she was from Maryland. Whereas it’s a toss-up as far as “coo-pon” and “queue-pon” are concerned, so that was a relatively unnoticeable change for me to make.

I have no idea what a regular coffee is, and I think I would deck anyone who said “wicked pissa” to me. Although one of my co-workers sent me the hipster douchebag soundboard the other day, and I say about half of these things, so I don’t have much room to speak. The Departed crack made me laugh, though, so that’s something.

By: nat @ book, line, and sinker

nat @ book, line, and sinker — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:26:57 +0000

ha! pop! my cousin was tricked into moving to ohio with her then-fiance, now husband…and suffered the POP situation for 10 years! the horror! when i visited and went to the local giant eagle (WTF) grocery store..the aisle sign said POP, not soda. weird.

also, my cousin spoke of this thing called a ‘relish tray’…and said peeps in ohio say ‘daily’ weird. i can’t comment on either of those things…i only visited ohio 5 times…and that was enough for me. :)

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:05:32 +0000

You are adorable. And I’m going to reply to this tomorrow when “Top Chef” isn’t on.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:05:04 +0000

As far as I can tell, everyone in St. Louis says “soda.” I mean, not that I’ve met everyone in St. Louis, but I think I’d notice if someone said “pop.”

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:59:54 +0000

Both make sense, but I think I say on.

Which is FINE, because you actually get on a plane when you board it. Unlike a line, which you simply join.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:58:11 +0000

I wish I’d taken one of those quizzes back in, say, 2004 and could take another one now to see how things have changed.

So your family says soda?

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:45:23 +0000

I can’t believe you two don’t even capitalize the word Coke. It’s a brand name, people! As the girlfriend of a soon-to-be lawyer, I’m concerned that this is going to cause trademark problems in the future!

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:13:41 +0000

No, actually, I’m pretty sure I’ll never say, “Whatchoo got?”, but I loved this all the same.

I just have to know: how the hell did that get started?!

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:03:06 +0000

Man, I was totally going to challenge you to a village size-off, but then I remembered that you've actually been to my village. CRAP. I say COO-pon instead of QUEUE-pon and CARA-mel instead of CAR-mull now and am pleased with myself, but I fully support you and your pop.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:32:40 +0000

I assume you’re talking about yourself here.

I always heard that television journalists always went to Ohio University because Ohio’s supposed to have a complete lack of accent. But after not living in Ohio for so long, I notice exactly how country my family sounds every time I go home. And with my sister having lived in Kentucky for, like, seven years? That’s nonsense.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:14:28 +0000

But you’re calling IN to the office to say you’re sick.

You should have some special Polish phrase for this, anyway.