Shopping Cart or Shopping Buggy?

[Yanagi-sen]

While we're on the subject, do say "pop" or "soda"? "trash" or "garbage"? "bag" or "sack"?

I can always tell which side of NY State someone is from... here on the western side it is 'pop'... those weird eastern people call it 'soda'. ^_~

Trash or garbage is interchangeable around here and 'bag' or 'sack' depends on what you have in it... a 'bag of apples', or a 'sack of potatoes'.

Oh, and a 'crick' is a smaller size 'creek'. ^_~

[Vetinari]

While we're on the subject, do say "pop" or "soda"? "trash" or "garbage"? "bag" or "sack"?

this is fascinating - and fun!

1) fizzy drink
2) rubbish
3) depends on context - generally sacks are for large volumes of vegetables and stories containing grimness with rivers and kittens/puppies

[Linteia]

Everywhere I've ever lived in NW America it's been called a cart, except when I worked retail it was a bascart. >.O They just had to be difficult. Baskets are the handheld ones most often.

This is one of my favorite parts of linguistics; all the little vernacular changes.

[Linteia]

Oh, and a 'crick' is a smaller size 'creek'. ^_~

Yes! It took me forever to explain that to my husband, because he was taught they were synonyms.

Coke is a brand, cola is a specific drink, and pop is a noise. The fizzy beverage is soda (S-O-D-A SOOOOOODAA!), but hubby calls it pop. We usually calling it trash but garbage works too. Bags are disposable, sacks are reusable.

[OkamiKodomo]

In the catskills of New York, we called it a cart. My boss, who is from NJ, calls them buggies when referring to the tags we have to put on them to mark them as holding our product, but otherwise also calls them carts. I call the baskets "fuckit buckets"

The only person I now that calls a soft drink "pop" is my bestie from Pittsburgh.

I say 'trash pail" for a garbage receptacle, which apparently isn't common...? I don't even remember where I picked up the term.

My friend from South NJ says "hoagies" while I grew up saying "subs"... Bag and sack are interchangeable for me as well, depending on the items in it. If it's trash, it's a trash bag. If it's produce, it's a sack.

Crick is the pain you get in your neck from sitting a certain way too long, whereas a brook is smaller than a creek, but larger than a stream.

Junkyard is a no-man's land where there may have been a building or parking lot, but now is a collecting place for old car parts, giant plastic buckets, and other odds and ends, where a dump is a place for household waste, (aka landfill).

[kiki-chan78]

While we're on the subject, do say "pop" or "soda"? "trash" or "garbage"? "bag" or "sack"?

Depends on the language I'm speaking... in english, it's soda, when I speak spanish, all sodas are 'Coka'. Trash is office type refuse, while garbage is from the kitchen. Bag and sack are two different things. ^.~

Amusingly enough regardless of what it actually is, all breakfast cereals are 'Corn Flakes' in Puerto Rico. XD

<3

-Kiki-chan78.

[coloredimage]

It's a trolley for me, but for everyone around me it's a cart. My vernacular is all messed up thanks to living all over lol

[britbrat18]

While we're on the subject, do say "pop" or "soda"? "trash" or "garbage"? "bag" or "sack"?

1.) Soda, or just calling it by it's brand name.
2.) Garbage for stuff inside the house, trash for things outside the house(like trash on the side of the street, or stuff that doesn't fit in garabge cans. Though this could just be my family.
3.) Bag like garbage bag or plastic shopping bags. I think I've heard some people call them sacks, but usually just bag.


Crick and Creek seem to be interchangeable here depending on who is talking. Some of us pronounce it creek, others crick(I say creek). Honestly I always that crick was a pain, and creek was a body of water, I never knew that a crick was a smaller creek.

[yarwel]

I've always said pop, but my high-school English teacher told me that in Alabama, where she grew up, they say "coke." For example, someone may ask, "What kind of coke do you want?" and the response could be, "Pepsi."

[Lamia of the Dark]

I've always said pop, but my high-school English teacher told me that in Alabama, where she grew up, they say "coke." For example, someone may ask, "What kind of coke do you want?" and the response could be, "Pepsi."

That made me laugh pretty hard