10 hours ago, Stick486 said:

care for a wardrobe change???

 

Those are Bloomers.

 

 

These are Drawers

 

 

 

 

 

Just saying,

Herb

Edited January 26, 20197 yr by Dadio

Sounds to me like a New England colloquialism, such as Norm Abram might use.

5 hours ago, Dadio said:

Those are Bloomers.

Nope, these are.

 

On 1/26/2019 at 9:39 AM, John Moody said:

Being from the south this might have been foreign as things were put in a box or sack. Draw must have been a northern word from around Boston.

 

Doan yew be pickin on us.

I am familiar with drawers being the things that slide out of dressers, and undergarments worn below the waist. Of course up heah in Bawston, they both sound like draws.

proper pronunciation: droors

drawers is what you wear under your pants ( or over them, depending)

droor pulls, what you use to open droors to get a new pair (1) of drawers

 

I heard once the Bostonian accent was "non-rhotive" (dropping "r") and "intrusive R".  

 

Such as "Wha's Linder's cah?  It's the yellar one"    Or it could be "the law of conservation of R"

 

 

I have a friend that grew up in South Carolina.  Last week he taught me the protocol:

 

Any explanation that starts with "I'll tell you what..."

Has an appropriate response, "You got that right."

This was actually posted on one of the electronic signs, on the Mass pike,   ‘Use yah blinkah”

4 hours ago, Artie said:

This was actually posted on one of the electronic signs, on the Mass pike,   ‘Use yah blinkah”

Yup! ...and never order a milkshake in Boston...cause that's exactly what you'll get...shaken milk. The proper request is?   @Artie

1 hour ago, schnewj said:

Yup! ...and never order a milkshake in Boston...cause that's exactly what you'll get...shaken milk. The proper request is?   @Artie

I'm not Artie or from Boston nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn last night, but I learned my lesson many many years ago as a first time visitor to Boston.

If'n ya' want a "milkshake" in Bawston, ya' order a "frappe"...odd b/c around here, a frappe is ice, flavoring, milk (product) mixed together but not shaken...

37 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I'm not Artie or from Boston nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn last night, but I learned my lesson many many years ago as a first time visitor to Boston.

If'n ya' want a "milkshake" in Bawston, ya' order a "frappe"...odd b/c around here, a frappe is ice, flavoring, milk (product) mixed together but not shaken...

You get an A+ Gramps.

Edited January 30, 20197 yr by schnewj

20 minutes ago, schnewj said:

You get an A+ Gramps.

That's nice, but what about a milkshake?...never too cold for a good milkshake...even better if malted.

May have to ask a Dour  Scot?    Micks have a terrible time with something that ends in "er".....and, yes, I am a Tough, Auld, Mick...

7 hours ago, schnewj said:

Yup! ...and never order a milkshake in Boston...cause that's exactly what you'll get...shaken milk. The proper request is?   @Artie

Ya want a milkshake ya order a milk shake. Ya want a frappe, ya order a frappe, and it’s pronounced frap, no silly little E sound at the end of it. Ya order a tonic, we know ya mean a soda. Ya want booze, we send ya to a packy (otherwise known as a package store, everywhere else known as a liquor store)

I guess in some places, if you ask what kind of Coke they have, they can respond "We have root beer, 7-up, Dr. Pepper and Pepsi, what kind do you want?"   And it would make perfect sense

Edited January 30, 20197 yr by kmealy

I may have to dispute some of the data...in the south, at least years ago in Middle Tennessee, if you wanted a "soft drink", it was RC Cola, sometimes accompanied by a Moon Pie.

 

Further review of the demographics posted, between @Gene Howe and my part of the state, appears if we order together, it would be a "Soda Pop."

Edited January 30, 20197 yr by Grandpadave52
typo

In January of 19 and 79, I arrived at Chanute AFB, fresh outta boot camp, and on my first visit to the BX asked for a tonic. No-one had any idea what I was talking about. Back home it was just called tonic, unless you were specifying a brand. Submarine sandwiches are called subs. Never heard of a hero, or a hoagie, till after boot camp. When you latched onto the back bumper of a vehicle passing you, during a snow storm, and let it pull you through the snow, it was called slushing (mostly because that was what your boots were full of, afterwards) Course back then vehicles HAD bumpers you could grab a hold of. 

4 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I may have to dispute some of the data...in the south, at least years ago in Middle Tennessee, if you wanted a "soft drink", it was RC Cola, sometimes accompanied by a Moon Pie.

 

Further review of the demographics posted, between @Gene Howe and my part of the state, appears if we order together, it would be a "Soda Pop."

We called them Whoopy pies