Aaron_R wrote: I hated english and didn't care to pay attention to it while in school so most of those maps that are trying to describe the differences between pronunciations of a vowel is lost on me. (I'd so get my butt kicked on smarter than a 5th grader anything english related!)
However when I moved from Milwaukee to Iowa, Soda (pop), Bubbler (fountain) and Bags from a grocer (knapsacks) were all foreign to them. When I moved back to Wisconsin the only thing I changed saying was soda, but I don't refer to it as pop ethier, I call it one combined word now, sodapop.
The map talking about the large sandwich is missing a couple:
Around where I now live it is called a
Wedge--then a few miles east going through various parts of New England it is called a
grinder. A few counties to the wast and you will find pockets where hoagie is heard.
Where I grew up it was called a Sub or hero interchangeably. Some delis would call the bread itself a torpedo.