Different names for the same things

[Guest guest]

Then there is my friend from Hoboken NJ and she asked me over for dinner and I

went at 5 pm she was upset, she calls lunch dinner and dinner supper unlike we

Californians. She also asked me to get her pocketbook from the bureau (sp?) I

was looking everywhere for her paperback book, I had never heard of a purse

being called a pocketbook and I don't even know how to spell bureau, that is a

dresser lol.

Then my other friend from the south called her umbrella a bumbershoot, I thought

she was talking about bean sprouts or something and she also calls a faucet a

spicket (sp?) so we Americans don't always understand one another. My Uncle

married a woman from Arkansas and I always told her she had the wrong number

when she would call, I have no idea how she would say Donna, after she said it

again I would realize it was my Aunt lol

Donna

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[Guest guest]

Donna,

Chuckle here.

We also call *dinner* " supper " here in Colorado. Dinner is a formal occasion.

We call the noon meal " lunch " .

 

My granny who was from *back East* also called her purse a " pocketbook " .

 

We call dressers " chests of drawers " unless they have a mirror and many of us no

longer have this piece of furniture.

We think of *dressers* as folks who are all gussied up in their Sunday go to

meeting clothes. LOL Or people who dress up in business clothes like suits.

 

Brother's new wife from the South, informed us that " dressing was something one

put on salad not *stuffing* . "

 

My mom says " warsh " instead of wash, and we all say roof that sounds like a dog

barking.

 

My father-in-law and my daddy often said " bummershoot " instead of umbrella.

Their grandparents were from Europe.

 

 

My granny also said that " picture(she said pickture) should not be pronounced

like pitcher. "

 

When we lived in California for 3 years in the 70's natives often told us that

we had an " accent. " We had no idea that Colorado folks have an accent. We do

know that it is customary to drop the *g* from our words. Example: We're goin'

shoppin',wanna go? Tee hee..

 

Can you imagine trying to learn to speak English if it is not your *native

tongue*? I so admire people who speak a second language.

 

I pride myself in knowing how to say " hello in Spanish and French " . LOL

Deanna in Colorado

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thelilacflower wrote:

(Then there is my friend from Hoboken NJ and she asked me over for dinner and I

went at 5 pm she was upset, she calls lunch dinner and dinner supper....)

[Guest guest]

hehe! I live in the south (Oklahoma) and I have never heard of the word

" bumbershoot! " I bet I will start to notice people saying it now though.

I remember in elementary school I had a teacher who monitored us during lunch

time. She would always say, " quit talking and eat your dinner. " I always

thought it was so weird that she called it " dinner. " I thought, " this is lunch,

not dinner! "

I thought " pocketbook " and " bureau " were kind of old fashioned words...maybe

not??

It's funny how we have different names for the same things, and we pronounce

things differently while we all speak the same language and live in the same

country!

 

, thelilacflower wrote:

>

> Then there is my friend from Hoboken NJ and she asked me over for dinner and I

went at 5 pm she was upset, she calls lunch dinner and dinner supper unlike we

> Californians. She also asked me to get her pocketbook from the bureau (sp?) I

was looking everywhere for her paperback book, I had never heard of a purse

being called a pocketbook and I don't even know how to spell bureau, that is a

dresser lol.

> Then my other friend from the south called her umbrella a bumbershoot, I

thought she was talking about bean sprouts or something and she also calls a

faucet a spicket (sp?) so we Americans don't always understand one another. My

Uncle married a woman from Arkansas and I always told her she had the wrong

number when she would call, I have no idea how she would say Donna, after she

said it again I would realize it was my Aunt lol

> Donna

> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

>

[Guest guest]

Deanna, almost all of your language " eccentricities " apply to my Kansas

family, too (except " bumbershoot, " that's a new one to me!) " Pitcher " as a

pronunciation for " picture " really bothers me, but I am SO guilty of

dropping my g's! My sister missed " wash " on a spelling test in 1st or 2nd

grade -- she spelled it " warsh. "

 

As far as names for meals go, in our family " dinner " is at noon on Sunday.

Evening meals are always " supper. " I think the biggest meal on the farm was

always at noon, so that's why it was called dinner. Not totally sure, my

Grandma is my closest relative who grew up on a farm, but that's what I

gather. Your noon meal the rest of the week is still called lunch.

 

Donna, " spigot " to me is the faucet on the side of the house, where you hook

up your garden hose. (Not the faucet in the kitchen)

 

A little bit of water running through an area of trees is a " crik " (not a

creek) in the " timber. " I think that's just hick language there, though...

 

Audrey

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hey Donna!!!!

 

 

 

its 7 pm here in NC..going to have my supper (since it cost less than $10, so

maybe it is like vases over $10 are called vAsss)...lol? later ...the old

redneck southern country boy

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

having been raised on the farm...u are exactly right...the biggest meal was at

YALLS lunchtime..so it was dinner..at night we always ate a simple meal..its fun

to find out the different ways we all use certain words..my mom always had a

pocket book for every day but her purse went with her to church (she was?

Statesboro,GA farm girl who used " picked " tobacco while my father NC said

" cropped " ..?Yall have fun this weekend with these ...thanks to all