Dialects & Accents (Was Re: Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
 I remember being
> asked when I lived (briefly) in North Carolina what kind of "co-cola"
> I wanted. As far as I was concerned, there was only one kind of Coca
> Cola. I think I asked the person whether she meant Coke vs. Pepsi (or
> RC, which, IIRC, was the cola of choice in NC at that time), and she
> explained that she was asking whether I wanted an orange "co-cola" or
> a grape. I ended up with a "rootbeer cocola." I also discovered that
> "bobacue" was "poke." No barbecued chicken or beef on the menu. And
> then there's Southern food that doesn't even exist in other regions,
> such as grits and "chitlins."
> 

> Carol, who felt throughout her year in NC that she had somehow stepped
> inside the pages of "to Kill a Mockingbird"
>


MusicalBetsy here:
Oh my gosh, I'm reliving my youth!!  I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia
with many relatives in Florida, and in Atlanta, everything is a Coke!
 Of course, Coca Cola is headquarted in Atlanta, so it's
understandable, but I grew up with these type of conversations at
restaurants:

Me:  I'd like a coke.
Waitress:  What type of coke?
Me:  Hmm, I guess a Sprite.

When I moved to Michigan 17 years ago, I taught at a school where
there was a sign over the doors to the gym that read "No pop in gym."
 I had NO idea what that meant!!  I found it hilarious when I
discovered that it meant soda - the other word of course for "coke." 
I thought "pop" referred to a father!  I still can't bring myself to
order a "pop."

MusicalBetsy, with her laugh for the day at her lovely southern roots
(and who misses grits tremendously, because she still can't find them
in the UP of Michigan...)