Quote Originally Posted by chickwhorips View Post
The Inland North - You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

dang and i thought i got rid of the accent. see what happens when you live with a yooper! i don't call my carbonated drinks "pop". my grandma did and i thought it was funny. always called it soda. though does anyone know where the bubbler is?
I grew up in Pittsburgh - got the midland accent too - but we always called soda - pop, never soda, heck I think I used to wonder how soda was different from pop. Of course we had a whole lot of very, very regional words that no one else knew anyway - chipped ham anyone? Not to be "nebby" but btw - what's a bubbler??? - one thing I never picked up though was the habit of saying yins (short for you-all, equivalent to yall in the south)

found a good website www.pittsburghese.com
should be a hoot if you didn't grow up there - may just make me nostalgic