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- Hello? - Hello?
- You there? - Yeah, you're looking for
somebody that talks like Mainer.
- I have a strong Miami accent.
- I'm from Owatonna, Minnesota.
- And I'm a native Washingtonian.
- Alabama.
- New York, New York.
- Pflugerville, Texas.
- Los Angeles.
- Brooklyn. - Albuquerque.
- Philadelphia. - Indiana.
- Hohenwald, Tennessee.
- I've lived in the Chicago area
the entire 49 years of my life.
- So,
- What is your generic term
for a sweet carbonated beverage?
- Well, that's a soda /(`sōda)/.
- Soda (/sō`der/). (laughs)
As if it had an "r" in it.
- Pop.
- Coke.
- What do you call the long sandwich
that contains cold cuts, lettuce,
and so on. - Hero?
- Hoagie.
- Oh, hoagie. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.
- Sub?
- Yeah I call it the Subway.
It's generic. I just do that.
- That's a Po' boy down here. (laughs)
- A pecan is a nut.
Pecans... - Well in New York
it used to be pecan (/pēˌkan/),
but in Florida it's pecan (/peˈkän/).
- Okay I say pecan (/pēˌkan/).
- Pecan (/peˈkän/). - Pecan (/peˈkän/).
- [Interviewer] Can you say this word, B-A-G?
- Bag (/bag/). - Bag (/bag/).
- B-A-G, bag (/bag/)?
- Okay, I say it wrong, bag (/bayg/).
Most people in Minnesota do. (laughs)
- A rollie pollie.
- A pill bug!
- Oh, doodle bug.
- Little creatures that roll into a ball...
- I don't know what we're talking about.
What is that? You know what I mean?
You're talkin' about a shrimp?
- ] ...a U-M-B-R-E-L-L-A?
- An umbrella. (/ˌumˈbrela/)
- Umbrella. (/ˌumˈbrela/) What do other people say?
- Umbrella. (/ˌumber-ela`/)
- Umbrella (/ˌumˈbrela/).
- What do you call it when
the rain falls while the sun is shining?
- Sunshower. - Sunshower.
- I went through five of them today. (laughs)
- I'm gonna do it.
"The devil's beating his wife."
(laughs) I don't really say it about it much
but, I always think
"oh yeah the devil's beating his wife."
whenever I see it happening.
- Yeah, I've heard that too.
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- What is your general term
for a rubber soled shoe
worn in gym class?
- I would say sneakers. - Sneaker.
- Them I would call tennis shoes.
- Tennis shoes.
- Gym shoes?
- Route (/ro͞ot/). - A route (/ro͞ot/).
- I know all the Midwest there,
they call it a route (/rout/).
- Route (/rout/). - Route (/rout/).
- A rout (/rout/) is when
we're beatin' the other team in basketball
by 50 points, that's a rout (/rout/).
- And what is you're general term
for a big road that you drive relatively fast on?
- Expressway?
- Freeway.
- I call it a highway.
- So I've been trying to say highway on the easy coast.
- Subway. - Subway.
- The "L".
- But in D.C. you call it the metro.
- The metro.
- The "T".
- My mom works for B.A.R.T., so "bart".
- Standin' in line.
- I'm standing in line.
- Waitin' to get in to somewhere.
- I'm standing in the line.
- I'm on line. - On line.
-What word or words do you use
to address a group of two or more people?
- Two or more people?
- Probably "Hey, you guys."
- You, guys. - Like, "Hey guys."
- Y'all. - Y'all.
- Are y'all comin' with us?
- Y'all come over here. - So if I was in Philly
I'd probably say "Hey, yous."
- Yous
are
the best people I know.
- What do you call the box
you bury a dead person in?
- A coffin.
- A casket.
- Okay.
- [Interviewer] ...M-I-R-A-C-L-E?
- You mean miracle? (/`merikel/)
- A miracle? (/`merikel/)
- Miracle. (/`merikel/) - Miracle. (/'mirekel/)
- Miracle. (/'mirekel/)
- Oh, miracle. (/'mirekel/)
Yeah, you believe in miracles. (/'mirekels/)
Yeah, I do sometimes.
- We're all different and...
- Yup, I guess so.
And this is the last one.
What do you call a point that is purely academic
or that cannot be settled, and isn't worth
discussing any further?
- Call it a moot (/myoot/) point.
- Moot (/myoot/). Oh wait, moot (/moot/). Moot point.
- A moot (/moot/) point.
- (laughs) A waste a' god damn time.
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