The Return Of The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1213832]

All this week TMIQOTD will be brought to you by celticmom1967, who has given me a dozen or more ideas.

Comments

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

I'm actually surprised at the numbers. Pop seems to be such a midwestern thing with the coasts using Soda. I assume that most of your readers/responders are midwestern natives, yet the number saying Soda is surprising.

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

It varies by state. MN is pop (real minnesotans, not city folk and imports) Wisconsin says soda. They also say Bubbler for drinking fountain, which is shorter, but wierd.

Oddly, I can't think what they say in North Dakota.


This is related to the Duck Duck Grey duck vs Duck Duck Goose conversation. I got one in Northern MN and the other in western Nebraska. For the life of me I can't remember which is which.

I think it would be cool if the US broke up into dialects as distinct as they have in Great Britain.

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

Another debate we're having in my house is

See Saw vs. Teeter Totter

[celticmom1967.livejournal.com]

I grew up in the South (AL) and we used See Saw more often than not. I have also used teeter totter as well. I don't see them often these days but when I have I have used see saw.

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

I grew up in NJ and also used See Saw. My wife grew up mostly in TX, KS, and OK and she's insisting on Teeter Totter.

Several of the playgrounds we frequent with player_3 have variation on see saws and so the topic came up.

[celticmom1967.livejournal.com]

I spent from age 3 through second grade in Witchita Falls TX so that explains my vague rememberance of using teeter totter. I agree the multiperson versions today do muck up the argument.

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

I'll add my two cent towards teeter totter. Born in MI, moved to OH, then IL, now TX - and see saw wasn't prevalent in any of them.