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by ssoprano
Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:19 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Minnesota-isms...anyone???
Replies: 21
Views: 129969

Minnesota-isms

Watching "Fargo" was like going home to me. I didn't realize til recently that "go with" was a local term. I still catch myself saying "okey-dokey" at work and I haven't lived in Minnesota for 35 years. Does anyone remember: didn't we stand "in line" as oppose...
by ssoprano
Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:04 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Soft Drinks: pop, soda, coke, et al
Replies: 84
Views: 639920

soft drinks, pop, soda, etc

I moved alot as a child; I drank pop. Somewhere along the line I switched to soda, maybe in Florida? Here in NY there's a dividing line somewhere. Central NYers say soda. Western NYers say pop. When my daughter went to college in Fredonia, she couldn't find the soda aisle in the grocery store. That'...

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