From Connecticut:
First let me tell you; I now reside in Utah, and people out here quite often think I am speaking another language. (-think "Jerry Seinfeld meets Elvis") You really don't have to leave the country to feel like a foreigner! I will post some of the differences I've heard between the two if I can think of them.
CT=soda UT=pop or coke
CT=seltzer (they sell MANY flavors and fill 1/2 an aisle in the supermarket) UT=sodawater (and most places don't sell it, so most people don't even know what it is.)
CT=water fountain UT=drinking fountain
CT=baby stroller UT=carriage
CT=shopping carriage UT=cart or shopping cart
CT=highway UT=freeway
CT=route UT=highway
CT=cellar UT=basement
CT=root cellar UT=cellar
CT=hairstyle UT=do
CT="bought for next to nothing" UT="bought for cheap"
CT="all the way out there" UT="clear out there"
CT=supermarket UT=market or grocery store
CT scone=the english type; dry, biscuit-type, not very sweet, perhaps with currants or chocolate-chips, looks basically like a blob of baked biscuit dough.
UT scone=deep-fried pizza-type dough (like what you get back East at carnivals), to which they spread honey-butter or jam. They actually have scone shops out here!
CT foods I grew up with, that are unheard of in most of Utah=Perogies, Stromboli, Egg Cream, Bacon-Egg-&-Cheese-On-A-Hard-Roll (-weirdly enough, they don't even understand what I'm asking for!!!), Keiser Rolls, Matzah Ball Soup, Potato Latkes, Fasalatta, Most Italian Pastries (like a Neopolitan, Cannoli, Baba Rum -or "rum cake", Anisette Biscotto, Panettone, or a Sfogliatella -or "clam shell pastry") I may truly love this Rocky Mountain state, but I really miss my access to so many foods!
P.S....We could really use a decent New York style pizza parlor (or 10) out here if there are any entrepaneurs out there looking to cash in on a lucrative business! No joke.
Finally, a true language barrier story:
When we were building our home out here in Utah, I noticed our neighbor's home had a HUGE hole in the ground. I asked if they were putting in a pool. They replied "Nope, It's to bury the tramp." Bewildered, I very sheepishly asked, "What'd she do?" I had no idea Utahns called a trampolean a "tramp", and even HAD I known this, if you dig a hole in CT, due to the level of rainfall, it would quickly become a "pool" whether you intended it to or not, so I could not picture a trampolean or really anything else but a swimming pool or a dead body going into a hole in the ground. Yes, you can laugh. It WAS pretty ignorant of me. All's I know is I'm grateful that some naughty girl out there is still alive and my neighbors aren't her killers! ;)
First let me tell you; I now reside in Utah, and people out here quite often think I am speaking another language. (-think "Jerry Seinfeld meets Elvis") You really don't have to leave the country to feel like a foreigner! I will post some of the differences I've heard between the two if I can think of them.
CT=soda UT=pop or coke
CT=seltzer (they sell MANY flavors and fill 1/2 an aisle in the supermarket) UT=sodawater (and most places don't sell it, so most people don't even know what it is.)
CT=water fountain UT=drinking fountain
CT=baby stroller UT=carriage
CT=shopping carriage UT=cart or shopping cart
CT=highway UT=freeway
CT=route UT=highway
CT=cellar UT=basement
CT=root cellar UT=cellar
CT=hairstyle UT=do
CT="bought for next to nothing" UT="bought for cheap"
CT="all the way out there" UT="clear out there"
CT=supermarket UT=market or grocery store
CT scone=the english type; dry, biscuit-type, not very sweet, perhaps with currants or chocolate-chips, looks basically like a blob of baked biscuit dough.
UT scone=deep-fried pizza-type dough (like what you get back East at carnivals), to which they spread honey-butter or jam. They actually have scone shops out here!
CT foods I grew up with, that are unheard of in most of Utah=Perogies, Stromboli, Egg Cream, Bacon-Egg-&-Cheese-On-A-Hard-Roll (-weirdly enough, they don't even understand what I'm asking for!!!), Keiser Rolls, Matzah Ball Soup, Potato Latkes, Fasalatta, Most Italian Pastries (like a Neopolitan, Cannoli, Baba Rum -or "rum cake", Anisette Biscotto, Panettone, or a Sfogliatella -or "clam shell pastry") I may truly love this Rocky Mountain state, but I really miss my access to so many foods!
P.S....We could really use a decent New York style pizza parlor (or 10) out here if there are any entrepaneurs out there looking to cash in on a lucrative business! No joke.
Finally, a true language barrier story:
When we were building our home out here in Utah, I noticed our neighbor's home had a HUGE hole in the ground. I asked if they were putting in a pool. They replied "Nope, It's to bury the tramp." Bewildered, I very sheepishly asked, "What'd she do?" I had no idea Utahns called a trampolean a "tramp", and even HAD I known this, if you dig a hole in CT, due to the level of rainfall, it would quickly become a "pool" whether you intended it to or not, so I could not picture a trampolean or really anything else but a swimming pool or a dead body going into a hole in the ground. Yes, you can laugh. It WAS pretty ignorant of me. All's I know is I'm grateful that some naughty girl out there is still alive and my neighbors aren't her killers! ;)