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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Listening Point - General Discussion :: More regional nomenclature
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| GopherAdventure |
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| fraxinus |
a lotta bass in that lake. |
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| Jackfish |
Milwaukee = Mwah-key Highway 100 (runs north and south thru town) = Highway hunnert Someone mentioned above, but Milwaukee drinking fountains tend to be called bubblers. There are others, but those three came to mind. |
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| Podunk |
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| Podunk |
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| Portage99 |
LarryS48: "Quetico vs. the Quetico LOL! We humans are strange, aren't we? |
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| Podunk |
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| goatroti |
On another note, what were those drive through beer stores called? |
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| okinaw55 |
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| Portage99 |
I have no idea what a gum band is-I'm thinking of a retainer. We only used Miracle Whip as mayo. If you get some other disgusting product on a sandwich, it must have been some horrible mistake. : ) My first college roommate could not understand why I kept calling Miracle Whip the mayo. Honestly, I don't think I tasted regular mayonnaise until I was in college. We say car accident. In Phoenix, they seemed to say car crash (which sounded very strange to me). Some of my favorite slang is instead of saying taking a right or left, my friends and I say, "hang a Louie" or "hang a Ralph". We also are not from the country, we live in The Stix or BFE. |
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| timatkn |
Some off the top of my head. Brown bass—-smallmouth bass. Common in the Southern US. Coke—-means any kind of soda...i.e. did you want a Pepsi coke? Southern US Pop—-means Soda Northern US. Soda—western US Fireflies vs. lightning bugs Garage sale vs. rummage sale vs. yard sale Duck duck goose vs duck duck grey duck Semi vs. eighteen wheeler vs tractor trailer Rods vs. meters...anyone know where rods comes from. I have heard it is what the original surveyors from England and France used when measuring. The original voyageurs just carried it on. It also by chance happens to correlate with the average length of a canoe 16.5 feet...I’ve never seen an official explanation. I like the rods designation since we are entering a wilderness area gives an aura of mystique—when I see Canadian maps with meters...I think dang you messed it up...I know exactly how far that is I want the mystery :) It’s part of the trip conversation trying to figure out har far this 60 rod portage really is :) Biologically speaking...Canadians are simply wrong when they call a walleye a pickerel :) But if that is the regional dialect doesn’t really hurt anything. Sort of funny to me because the Canadian stereotype is trying to be correct and precise...a good stereotype to have if you ask me, just this defies that... Pickerel vs. walleye |
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| Argo |
And if I said I caught a "northern" in southern Ontario, folks would look at you like you had a third eye. They are just pike here. I had never heard of a rod until I participated on another canoe board with Americans years ago. Only engineers would have picked up on that. Any others out there adapt there language in the same manner when communicating on here? The USA is not a homogeneous place. |
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| tumblehome |
Up there it's money, down here it's our el' preseidente Tom |
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| gotwins |
Then there's the bill they pay every month called "hydro" which is electricity! They wear "toques" when it's cold out, instead of stocking cap. We met some Ontarians down in Florida that refered to Twice Baked Potatoes as "double bakes." We loved that one and now refer to them as double bakes at home :) And rods are awesome. 4 of them to a chain, of course, and 320 to a mile. A chain is also 22 yards, or 66 feet, which is the distance between the wickets on a cricket pitch becauase they probably had a surveyor's chain around when setting up the rules. |
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| hexnymph |
Podunk: "Another Pittsburghese is neb or nebby. Which is nebbing into someone else's business. You know you're out there when autocorrect doesn't like your spelling." Don't be a jagoff Podunk! Also originally from western Pennsyltucky. Zelienople/Harmony. If you haven't stumbled upon Pittsburgh Dad on Youtube yet, you might check it out, very nostalgic. Hex |
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| mgraber |
Walleye - Pickerel Northern Pike - Jack Fresh Water Drum - Silver Bass White Bass - Striped Bass Crappie - Calico Bass Burbot - Eelpout |
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| moosedoggie |
The origin of the rod. FYI |
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| rtallent |
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| sedges |
The reason we have vetted scientific names for organisms is well illustrated in the posts above! |
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| 4keys |
Bubbler - drinking fountain Sugar melon - cantaloupe And who and who can forget the port-ig vs por- taahg debate. |
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| Canoearoo |
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| tumblehome |
I can look on a map and see a portage that might be 160 rods and I feel real comfortable understanding its length and approximate time it will take to walk it. Now if you told me the portage was 1000 meters I would really not be sure how long it would take to walk and I would be all frustrated. Bring back the rod for everything! Tom |
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| Duckman |
It basically comes down to what your mom called it. It will always be a buggy to me. |
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| jcheese |
As for food... brats are 'sausages' and any smoked sausages are usually 'smokies'. I think Canadian bacon is 'back bacon' in Canada. Oh yeah- and when you order anything with 'the works'/'everything' it's "all-dressed". Weirdo Canadians. ;-) One of my Canadian friends also make fun of me calling the garbage can "the trash". I guess it's like saying 'rubbish' in the UK. Regional things for sure. Please forgive my quoting wackiness. |
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| Nigal |
Argo: "I tend to adapt some language on this board so that I'm understood. For instance, if I said I caught a pickerel, I bet very few people would know what to which fish I'm referring. In southern Ontario, it's what a walleye is known as. It's just local thing. I'm not sure there's any official book that refers to a walleye as a pickerel. Almost nobody here calls them walleye. The stores and markets call them pickerel too. Most fair-weather anglers here don't know either. After eight years of tripping in Canada going back to Rods this year was tough and always found myself times-ing the rods by 5 to figure iut how many meters a portage (port-awe-j) was. LOL! |
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| Portage99 |
Dare we ignite the soda, sodie, pop debate? I was born into a family where my mother used 'pop' and my dad used 'sodie'. I am still in therapy. ha ha |
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| Argo |
Portage99: "My Dad used to call small catfish 'creek chub', which I loved when I was little! I always used this term, and then, I found out there really is a Creek Chub in IL! You have to admit that this name begs to be reserved for baby catfish. : ) Soda and sneekers when visiting my cousins in NY. They're soft drinks and running shoes here. We're a bit wordy here. |
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| hexnymph |
You may run a vacuum but I run a sweeper. You may clean your room but I just red up. Folks around here call grouse partridge. They also call brook trout speckies. Hex |
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| jhb8426 |
Canoearoo: "mini bears= squirrels and mice" squirrels = tree rats |
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| LarryS48 |
oops: there was a thread with 46 replies on this already. |
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| smoke11 |
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