More English confusion

[tallyho8]

Rocket, aka arugula, aka eruca. Relative of kale and broccoli...
Eruca vesicaria - Wikipedia
Apparently, it is also called "ruchetta", "rucola", "rucoli", "rugula", "colewort", and "roquette".

Aren't dialects wonderful?

I remember a story about a kidnapper who was located because he used a very local word for the strip of earth between opposite lanes of traffic in a city. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503012/12-regional-idioms-‘highway-median-strip’

All the best,

Peter

We don’t have medians around here, we have neutral grounds.

 

[Oaktree]

They call subs "grinders" where I grew up in Vermont.

After I moved to Florida, one of my friends was looking for ideas for lunch. I said "How about we run out for grinders!!!".

I got a few WTF's for that comment.

I grew up in N.H. next to Vt. and don't think I ever heard subs called grinders, not until many years later when I dated someone who grew up in Conn.
That kind of sandwich seems to vary a LOT from one region in the U.S. to another, both in name and what it consists of. I spent a couple years in the PNW in my mid-20s, and couldn't find a decent sub for anything.

Sadly, a lot of the really good mom & pop shops are long gone with only chains left.

I later got a book for my girlfriend called, “How to Speak Southern” and enjoyed many a laugh hearing her trying to pronounce Southern words with her Boston accent.

Works the other way too, the few companies whose call centers are in the U.S. seem to locate them in the south. Depending on which agent you get, lotsa luck understanding what they're saying and/or getting a resolution to your issue if you're in another part of the country. Do they intentionally hire people with the heaviest regional/ethnic accents they can find?

 

[cqaigy2]

I grew up in N.H. next to Vt. and don't think I ever heard subs called grinders, not until many years later when I dated someone who grew up in Conn.
That kind of sandwich seems to vary a LOT from one region in the U.S. to another, both in name and what it consists of. I spent a couple years in the PNW in my mid-20s, and couldn't find a decent sub for anything.

Sadly, a lot of the really good mom & pop shops are long gone with only chains left.


Works the other way too, the few companies whose call centers are in the U.S. seem to locate them in the south. Depending on which agent you get, lotsa luck understanding what they're saying and/or getting a resolution to your issue if you're in another part of the country. Do they intentionally hire people with the heaviest regional/ethnic accents they can find?

The best Sub/Grinder i ever had was in Ellensburg WA. At the time I didn't know what a grinder was, but it sounded pretty good and the waitress was pretty cute, so there you go. The second best, pretty close to the first, was in Port Angeles i think it was. I don't eat wheat anymore, but i might dig up some gluten enzymes and suffer a bit to eat one of those again. They were Yummy!

 

[kenmbz]

Some areas I went to called a sub a wedge. Trying to remember where maybe Western Mass.?

 

[Frankenkubota]

Some areas I went to called a sub a wedge. Trying to remember where maybe Western Mass.?

you wouldn't want to get that confused with a wedgie!

 

[tallyho8]

I never knew what a sub was until they opened a Subway shop locally. They are always called po-boys here.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Boy was she pissed!

Round here that would mean she was really, really, drunk. In fact so drunk she could be "pissed as a fart"

 

[the old grind]

You can sometimes tell a lady's mood by looking at her hands. If she's holding her carry piece she's pro'ly pretty steamed.