(12-16-2022 09:07 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  The guy who raled about all soda being "coke" probably uses the term "Kleenex."

I get the analogy, but it's kind of different. If you ask for a Kleenex and get a different brand, you don't really care. If you want a Sprite, ask for a Coke, and get a Coca Cola, that would be a problem.

Would someone ever ask for a Kleenex and get upset when they got a real Kleenex because they really wanted a Puffs?

(12-14-2022 02:31 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(12-14-2022 01:01 PM)GreenBison Wrote:  In WV we live in a Holler. I'm sure JMU and App State fans also live in a Holler.

I've lived in NC 98% of my life and literally have never heard someone use the word "holler". I have family that lives in urban and rural areas too. Dang, yes. But holler, no.

I'm guessing you didn't live in the mountains outside of the App State area. My dad's family settled Beach Mountain and Banner Elk area and a Great (x7) grandfather worked with Daniel Boone... Holler is very common on that side of the family.

(12-17-2022 11:25 PM)Appvette Wrote:  

(12-15-2022 11:23 AM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  I've never heard of anyone in real life doing the "all sodas are cokes" thing, but every time I see it mentioned online, I get irrationally annoyed. You know Coke exists, why make the other person ask another question/possibly bring you the wrong drink?

I grew up (near App State campus) calling everything a coke but switched to "soda" around 16 when I realized how silly and confusing it was to call them all cokes.

I grew up saying pop. I moved to southern Indiana after college and the everything is a Coke was real there in every restaurant I went to. There are some really good migration studies for the US based solely on certain words and where they are used. I remember one was lightning bug versus firefly.

Lightening bug here. Never heard firefly until read it in a book.

(12-14-2022 02:31 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(12-14-2022 01:01 PM)GreenBison Wrote:  In WV we live in a Holler. I'm sure JMU and App State fans also live in a Holler.

I've lived in NC 98% of my life and literally have never heard someone use the word "holler". I have family that lives in urban and rural areas too. Dang, yes. But holler, no.

I have heard that term "holler" as an area used out in the country a few times over here in the Tri-state area. It's pretty rare though. Use that term in Dothan, and you'll get some strange looks. More prevalent in like smaller towns like Ashford or Gordon.

My Dad owned a sawmill. I spent several summers in a holler with no wind cutting down my shade. Man that is hot. A job I got away from as soon as I could. It was always a holler. An area between two hills.

(12-18-2022 11:15 AM)OsageJ Wrote:  My Dad owned a sawmill. I spent several summers in a holler with no wind cutting down my shade. Man that is hot. A job I got away from as soon as I could. It was always a holler. An area between two hills.

Around here we may holler at someone cuz they deaf, but seeings our highest elevation is 56 ft that is the only use for it.

https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=21993

Wait….I forgot all about Prospect Mound at Moncus Park, which at 60 ft is now the tallest spot in LFT parish. Although it is man-made:

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/travel/...lafayette/

(12-18-2022 11:28 AM)FrankyP Wrote:  Wait….I forgot all about Prospect Mound at Moncus Park, which at 60 ft is now the tallest spot in LFT parish. Although it is man-made:

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/travel/...lafayette/

It will always be The Horse Farm to me.