The Maps and Geography Thread

[wuapinmon]

Opposite of me. I grew up outside of Utah and call it roly poly. I heard my kids call it a potato bug once and freaked out.

I've been out to dinner with my wife and kids, and the waiter didn't understand any of them when they wanted car-mel on their ice cream. I had to say, "care-uh-mel" and he was like, "OH!" Of course, when I lived in Utah 20 years ago, people would always ask me to "Say something" to hear my accent. I don't have a thick Southern accent, naturally, since my mission. When I came home, I had more of a bland-trending-to-Southern accent in English. However, I can turn it on when needed, or it'll come out of me without affecting it if I get really tired, really pissed off, or talk with someone with whom I went to school. In Utah, I would just say, curtly, "sumthun.'"

Now, I can do a variety of accents. Appalachian, Northern Alabaman, North Georgian, Low Country, Middle Georgia, Pee Dee. The Pee Dee one might be my favorite SWVE accent. It has two variations. One is super-fast and high pitched. The other is low-pitched and involves never separating the top and bottom teeth from one another while speaking. Both accents use the word cut with on or off to shut off electricity, for example, "Cut on the lights/cut off the lights." Both use "whenever" to mean a specific point in time: "Whenever I bought those potato chips yesterday at Piggly Wiggly they were on sale," though the second variation (I call it Mushmouth) would say "Whenever I bought them potato chips yesterday at Piggly Wiggly, they was on sale." To gloss it using regular letters, it'd sound like this, (capital letter shows stress): winEver I bauwt dem patAtuh chI-ips yEssirday et pIdli wIdli, dey wuz awn sA-el."

[myboynoah]

Like many of our quirks in Utah, it may have begun and migrated here from upstate New York.

Made me laugh.

[jay santos]

I call it a potato bug. My kids call it a roly poly. It's a point of contention in the home. It's similar to that basketball game where you have two basketballs and shoot from teh foul line and have to make a shot before the guy behind you scores. I call that game "lightning" and my kids call it "knock out"

Opposite of me. I grew up outside of Utah and call it roly poly. I heard my kids call it a potato bug once and freaked out.

[All-American]

Technically, its "grease" lightening.

Keep talking. Woah, keep talking.

[creekster]

Technically, its "grease" lightening.

I'm a knock out/potato bug guy.

[falafel]

I call it a potato bug. My kids call it a roly poly. It's a point of contention in the home. It's similar to that basketball game where you have two basketballs and shoot from teh foul line and have to make a shot before the guy behind you scores. I call that game "lightning" and my kids call it "knock out"

Technically, its "grease" lightening.

[wuapinmon]

Your wife agrees with me.

Well, you can't have her.

[Donuthole]

That game is called "gotcha."

That game is called “speed”. Your wife agrees with me.

[wuapinmon]

I call it a potato bug. My kids call it a roly poly. It's a point of contention in the home. It's similar to that basketball game where you have two basketballs and shoot from teh foul line and have to make a shot before the guy behind you scores. I call that game "lightning" and my kids call it "knock out"

That game is called "gotcha." As for kids' word choices...my wife is from Washington County, Utah. My kids say "car-mel" with a Southern accent.

[Moliere]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ameri...of-frosting-27

What's with "potato bug" in Utah? You tryin' to besmirch the 208's favorite food?

I call it a potato bug. My kids call it a roly poly. It's a point of contention in the home. It's similar to that basketball game where you have two basketballs and shoot from teh foul line and have to make a shot before the guy behind you scores. I call that game "lightning" and my kids call it "knock out"

[chrisrenrut]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ameri...of-frosting-27

What's with "potato bug" in Utah? You tryin' to besmirch the 208's favorite food?
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Like many of our quirks in Utah, it may have begun and migrated here from upstate New York.

[Lost Student]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ameri...of-frosting-27

What's with "potato bug" in Utah? You tryin' to besmirch the 208's favorite food?
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[Northwestcoug]

I thought of Funk when I saw this:



http://flowingdata.com/2015/10/26/to...gorithmically/

Please don't drink and drive.

I just saw this. Nice to see my town with a disproportionately thick black path

[tooblue]

This is cool:

[beefytee]

I thought of Funk when I saw this:



http://flowingdata.com/2015/10/26/to...gorithmically/

Please don't drink and drive.