Wednesday, July 16, 2008

He Says She Says


When Dirk and I started dating (a million years ago) I noticed there were some terms that he used that were different from the ones I grew up using. Some of these I’ve adopted. Some are still the same.

Glove box or glove compartment?
Commode, stool, pot or toilet?
Ice box or refrigerator?
Foot-feed or accelerator?
Turn signal or blinker?

And that doesn’t even count the bodily function terms that I don’t dare go into.

How about you? Which of these terms do you use?

Have any term discrepancies in your own home or relationships?

15 comments:

  1. Wow. I can't remember any except for coke. You know how in Oklahoma coke is all soda? Yeah. It's not in New Mexico. That caused some friction. Nothing big though.

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  2. glove compartment
    toilet
    refrigerator
    neither...I say "gas"
    blinker

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  3. Ha! I remeber when Sam and I were dating, his mom told me to put the lettuce on the drain board. I stood there, lettuce in hand, wondering, "what is a drain board?" I started looking for maybe a cutting board that you could place next to the sink so that it could drain into it...no dice. Since I couldn't see anything else that fit the description, i just placed the lettuce kinda close to the sink on the counter top! For future reference: drain board = counter top. :) - Jayme

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  4. Dressing vs. stuffing? That's a regional one that always comes up at the ol' Thanksgiving table.

    David sometimes calls our entryway the foyer. That makes me laugh. Then I call it the lobby. Aren't we halarious?

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  5. I say . . .
    glove box
    toilet
    fridge
    accelerator
    blinker

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  6. glove compartment
    toilet
    refrigerator
    "gas" with Cindy
    blinker

    Term discrepancies in my world: sofa/divan (I correctly say sofa)
    lotion/cream

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  7. remote or clicker?
    Supper or dinner?

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  8. Glove box
    Toilet
    fridge
    gas pedal
    blinker

    Shelly and I have different pronunciations like I say syrup with an "I" sound and she says it with "ER" SERUP. I say wolf with the "L" sound and she says "woof"
    Cracks me up and we both laugh about it

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  9. I grew up calling a flower bed a garden. I have been corrected....a flower bed is for flowers, a garden is for growing food-mainly veggies.

    glove compartment
    potty
    fridge
    gas pedal
    blinker.

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  10. "Dinner" or "supper" is a big one around here. Guess that shows we are truly from the south!

    Oh, and I still say "I'm going to town" or "to the city"...ha ha

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  11. Both!
    Toilet (LOU) :)
    Refrigerator/Freezer
    Gas
    Blinker

    And, I know it wasn't a MILLION years ago!

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  12. glove box
    toilet
    ice box
    gas
    blinker

    tinny shoes, or tennis shoes
    (i say tinny and JT makes fun)

    yep, coke for everything

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  13. we have more pronunciation diffrences than actual words... Syrup is actually one of our big ones, He says it 'SURP'...He's from Guthrie :) I say Sur-UP.

    He says 'Valentimes' Day...notice the M. It drives me NUTS!

    I say Tenna Shoes...He says Sneakers.

    These are actually the things we used to fight about! Thank you Jesus for your healing power!

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  14. Having lived in GA during college, the ones I remember varying the most were at the grocery store: coke, of course, but also: shopping cart/basket/buggy and bag/sack. One time I told the cashier, "I don't need my milk in a sack, please." and she looked at me like she'd never heard the word 'sack' before!

    My family has funny nicknames for lots of things, too. We've NEVER called it the 'dining room'; to this day, it's "the-where-we-eat". See 2/11-08 post. :)

    I'll have to start paying attention to the words Andrew and I vary on. I'll get back to you.

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