I live in Michigan. When we drink Pepsi or Diet Coke, any soft drink, we call it 'pop.' When I travel, I try to remember to ask for 'soda' in restaurants, since most of the country calls it that. I think in Texas it's Coke. As in "what kind of coke do you want? We have Pepsi or Mountain Dew."
In Toronto, once, I ordered 'diet soda.' The response was that they don't carry soda, just pop, and if I wanted a diet Coke they had that. I had no idea that the term 'pop' was used much outside of Michigan and Ohio.
A friend of mine lives in California. We often discuss house stuff online because she is very into her home and I really am trying to convince myself to move. I have mentioned my 'doorwall' a few times over the years. She was totally unfamiliar with the term. She finally asked me last night what it is. She said every room has a wall with a door in it, and if I didn't like it I could maybe paint it or have a company come out and do something about it.
A 'doorwall' is a sliding glass door. One of those big jobbies that slides to the side? I have heard them called 'sliders' also.
Is 'doorwall' a local term? I have asked a few friends who live here and they are all totally familiar with the term. I just looked it up in Merriam-Webster, and they show no such word. After I gave it some thought, it does seem like a strange word, but I have heard it all my life.
Anyone else ever hear of a doorwall? Spell check didn't.
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Never heard of a doorwall myself.
I grew up in the midwest and called it soda. It wasn't until I moved to Oregon that I heard it called pop! I still prefer soda. LOL
Stacy
There's a pop/soda line somewhere in the middle of PA. In Pittsburgh, it's pop....up on the east side of the state, it's definately soda.
Doorwall?? Never heard of it!
Doorwall? Nope. Sliders? Nope. Sliding glass doors, yes. I say POP. When I was in college we called the place we stopped at between classes The DOPE SHOP. Not because we were stupid, although that mght be argued, but because they used to put cocaine in Coca Cola when it was first invented and the student body still liked calling the place where you cold buy pop The DOPE SHOP. Aren't you glad you wrote this entry? Mrs. L
soda here but i have heard it both ways and together:)
Deb
I think it's soft drink here in Florida "What kind of soft drinks do you carry? I did live in Louisiana for a while and it was always called Coke there. "What kind of coke do you have?" doesn't matter if it's a Pepsi product.
I seldom here it called soda unless it's diet soda. What kind of diet soda do you have?
My drink of choice is Dr. Pepper, not quite sure why more establishments don't carry it, especially those that carry Pepsi products only!
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I've never heard of a Doorwall but I've heard of a "Slider".
I live in Maryland now but was born in West Virginia and grew up with knowing soda as pop.
When I moved to Maryland I had to drop that term if I was referring to soda.
ha ha
Niki
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no, in NC they are called coke and sliding glass doors. I had never heard of doorwall before.
Here in sunny Arizona we drink soda and have sliders . . . hhhmm, who'd have thunk these were regional things??? Especially sliding glass doors???
Thanks for the education! <grin>
Cyndy
I've never heard of one....
I have lived all over the country & never heard of sliders or doorwalls -- at least in the context you mention here. I vaguely recall in my college days there was some drinking game that involved 'sliders,' but hat was so long ago, who can remember? <grin>
Was out with friends last night here in Denmark, and one gal asked me "Do you say, 'eee-ther' or 'eye-ther'?" And we got into a discussion of local terms & pronunciations. Roooof or ruf? Creeeek or crick? English is not an easy language to learn, and I suppose we make it worse with all our crazy regionalisms.
I grew up with 'pop' but now I always get a Coke, even if it's really a 7-up :)
I'm in Iowa. Not so far but we say sliding glass door and pop, although occasionally I hear soda or soft drink, and I have heard "slider". But I've never heard of doorwall.
I lived in California for a short time. That is when I realized I said things that they had never heard. For example I said, "I don't know him from a load of hay". I never thought anything of it, but my fellow workers thought it really wierd.
Nope, here in SC we just call it the sliding door or the glass door. We also don't say pop or soda, all carbonated beverages are just "drinks".
hugs,
Kathi
I'm from Mississippi. No door walls here -- just sliding glass doors. However, ordering drinks here is a science. When iI was a child, every soft drink was a "coke" - then you had to know what kind of "coke" i.e., pepsi, Dr. Pepper, etc. Now, a root beer can only mean Barq's root beer here. It is only marketed in a small area of the deep south. Now, people send home for Barq's root beer. Mamas always carry some to their kids at college when they go. It has expanded its market area in the last few years, but I doubt you could find it outside of Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama. Now ordering iced tea - that one's for the books. If you order "tea", that is a glass of sweetened, iced tea or "ice tea". If you want it without sugar, you order "unsweet" tea (not unsweetened tea) But ordering unsweet tea is almost a sin in the south, as tea is supposed to be syrupy sweet. And a cup of hot tea.... Forget about it.... what's that?
Now, to me a toboggin is a sled, but where my husband comes from, it is a knitted cap. And to him, a garden hose is a "hose pipe" And my former Mother-in-law thought it was hilarious when I mentioned something would "draw damp", meaning become moist from humidity. I heard that all of my life. But upon reflection, it does seem like an odd expression. The deep south probably has more odd expressions than any other region of the country.
We have had Barq's in MI for many years! I love it!
It's called an Arcadia Door out here. I have no idea why.
I just had family from Texas over for the holiday and mentioned they could turn off the switch for the fireplace by the doorwall if they were too warm. They couldn't figure out what I meant. They had never heard of a "DOORWALL". They said that must be a "Yankee" term. I know Texas is like a different country but I thought that was a term used everywhere.
Nope never heard of it and I am your neighbor in Illinois, we call them sliding glass doors which seems pretty long for we lazy Illinois folks. While traveling this week seeing my father in Florida he told me how he and my stepmom went out for breafast and ordered milk and iced tea the waitress asked him if he wanted ice in 'it' and he said "yes". She brought him milk with ice in it. My son talks about the weird pop stuff when he was in school at Purdue in Indiana, the kids from Kentucky called everything coke too. But my favorite thing on earth is the "sweet tea" down south! YUM! Oh, oh and the great biscuits and gravey, no such thing in California they look at you like you are weird. And you are right, I did NOT want to come home, my feet are freezing as I write this, and it's 30 degrees here at home, not the 75 I enjoyed in Florida! ~Rose
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