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ric
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Party store? What's a party store?
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Jan 10 17:56 UTC 2006 |
So naturally, all you Michigan folks know that you can't really say "pop"
outside of the state.... most everywhere else it's called "Soda"
I never thought about this, but Adrienne's step-sister Erin, who is also from
Michigan, is living with us now and the other day she was at work and someone
asked where you could go to cash a check and she said something about a "party
store"
They had NO idea what she was talking about.
Nobody around here knows what a party store is.
For that matter, we don't have the equivalent of party stores, really.
Mostly because:
#1 - we have no lottery
#2 - hard liquor is sold by government run ABC stores
stand-alone convenience stores don't exist here. They're always part of a
gas station.
There is a "mini-grocery" that I pass on the way to/from work every day which
looks like it might qualify as a convenience store - but it's a mexican mini
grocery.
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mcnally
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response 1 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:00 UTC 2006 |
If you know what's good for you, don't ask anyone where you can find pasties.
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tod
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response 2 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:04 UTC 2006 |
I remember buying Pete's Wild Irish Rose on weekends at the Jim Dandy party
stores in NC. Its truth about the booze though..you gotta hit the ABC store.
You can get beer at Piggly Wiggly or IGA, though.
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twenex
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response 3 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:05 UTC 2006 |
Re: #1. Hey! Just because YOU'RE a card-carrying member of the American
Anti-Pasty League doesn't mean we ALL have to be!
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keesan
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response 4 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:14 UTC 2006 |
Tonic.
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ric
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response 5 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:21 UTC 2006 |
re 2 - Piggly Wiggly and IGA can only be found in very small towns. I'm sure
sure if there are any of either within 30 miles of Raleigh! :)
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tod
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response 6 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:31 UTC 2006 |
<blank stare>
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scholar
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response 7 of 96:
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Jan 10 19:00 UTC 2006 |
in canada, a party store... is a store where you go to buy silly party gags
and flowers and costumes and junk.
no alcohol. :(
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marcvh
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response 8 of 96:
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Jan 10 19:29 UTC 2006 |
It's untrue that Michigan is the only place where it's called "pop."
See www.popvssoda.com for statistics; briefly, it's called "pop" across most
of the northern US from Buffalo to Portland, "soda" in the Northeast,
Southwest, and around St Louis, and "coke" in the south.
It's always seemed kind of silly that they call it a "party store"
instead of what it is, liquor store. I remember that Meijer used to
call it the "Party Pantry" which seemed even more nondescriptive. I
suppose that if hard drugs were legalized they would come up with some
nicer phrase for "crack store."
IGA stands for I Get Annoyed.
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tod
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response 9 of 96:
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Jan 10 19:34 UTC 2006 |
We always said party store and that would mean a place that sold snacks,
booze, magazines, lottery, and sometimes grocery items.
I've got several friends where I grew up that are still running some.
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marcvh
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response 10 of 96:
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Jan 10 19:42 UTC 2006 |
So what do you call a store that sells hats, streamers, noisemakers and
the like? A "party supply store"?
Another regional variation I haven't seen studied as much is how people
refer to freeway names in casual conversation. If you're talking about
Interstate 17, what do you call it?
Michigan: "Eye 17"
Washington: "17"
Southern California: "The 17"
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kingjon
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response 11 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:15 UTC 2006 |
I'd be interested in knowing what all the other classes of roads are called. As
I learned (in Michigan), a United States Highway would be "You-Ess-17", while a
Michigan state highway would be just "17."
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gull
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response 12 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:19 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:8: To me, the term "liquor store" suggests a store that sells
*only* liquor, like the state-run "LIQUOR & WINE" stores here in
Washington. A party store is more like a cross between a liquor store
and a convenience store.
Re resp:11: A state highway in Michigan is usually referred to with its
M-prefex, such as "M-17". I sometimes heard major highways of all
classes truncated to just the number, but not very often. Detroit
seems to be unique in the state in referring to highways by name
instead of number. ("The Fisher," "The Lodge," etc.) I don't think I
ever heard "the" used before a number, though. Californians refer to
"the 5" but I don't think I ever heard a Michigander refer to "the 75"
or "the 696".
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edina
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response 13 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:23 UTC 2006 |
Hmmm..I refer to Loop 202 as "The 202". Same way as I referred to "The
Beltway" - not 95/495.
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mcnally
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response 14 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:47 UTC 2006 |
re #11, 12: I'm used to using the "M" before Michigan highway names,
too, e.g. "M-120"
Yet another regional linguistic signifier -- how one talks about businesses
that share people's surnames. For some reason it never seemed odd to me to
go shopping at Meijers (or is that "Meijer's"?) but it was very weird to hear
my co-workers at the auto company talk about working "at Fords" (or perhaps
"at Ford's")
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tod
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response 15 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:51 UTC 2006 |
re #10
So what do you call a store that sells hats, streamers, noisemakers and
the like? A "party supply store"?
Brokeback Mountain KnickKnack Shack
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jadecat
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response 16 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:55 UTC 2006 |
There's a whole website devoted to how people from Michigan talk:
http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml
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tod
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response 17 of 96:
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Jan 10 21:05 UTC 2006 |
That's an awesome website. Love it ta death!
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marcvh
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response 18 of 96:
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Jan 10 21:10 UTC 2006 |
Re #11: I think that "route" is more common. Nobody sings "Get your kicks
on you ess sixty-six."
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tod
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response 19 of 96:
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Jan 10 21:19 UTC 2006 |
We were always taught to say the name of the road rather than the number
unless it was an Interstate which was built during Eisenhower.
You didn't say M3, you said Gratiot.
And with Interstate, you'd say just the number: 696, 75..exception being I-94
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naftee
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response 20 of 96:
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Jan 10 21:32 UTC 2006 |
it's called 'pop' in canada.
god damnit. don't you guys know canadian english is the only english that
counts ?!
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kingjon
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response 21 of 96:
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Jan 10 21:46 UTC 2006 |
Re: 12, 14:
Perhaps I'm just thinking of a particular highway, or just mis-remembering.
Re #18: I've heard of Rte. 66 as that, but nothing else. (And "you ess" is just
"U.S." spelled out to make it clear.)
Re #19: Most numbered roads I know of I don't know of any name for. And with
Interstates the only time I *wouldn't* say the "I" is with three-digit ones,
maybe.
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marcvh
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response 22 of 96:
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Jan 10 22:00 UTC 2006 |
There are some places where "Route" doesn't distinguish between a U.S. route
and a state route, true.
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bhoward
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response 23 of 96:
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Jan 11 02:18 UTC 2006 |
Re#16 Jadecat, thanks for the link. That site is soooo funny. I've
always had a bit of a confused accent and vocab from moving around
so much but I didn't realize how much the effect Michigan and the
midwest had had on it.
I recently was listening through some old tapes from my radio shows
(WCBN) recorded just before I moved from Ann Arbor and I couldn't
believe how strong a midwest accent I had picked up by then. I
compared it to a more recent recording and it seems much of the
accent is gone but a lot of the regional vocabulary lingers on.
Caught myself using frigerraider and GROSHries this morning.
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rcurl
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response 24 of 96:
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Jan 11 05:41 UTC 2006 |
Even though I've lived in Michigan for some time I still don't know the names
for the Interstates through Detroit. I visualize them as I-94, 96, 75,
375...etc. How far out from Detroit do the names get dropped? (Is there a sign
saying "you are now leaving the Dodge freeway"? - if there is a Dodge.)
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