As students from different areas of the country communicate with one another for the first time, they begin to notice a significant amount of variation between their dialects. For instance, many people disagree about the proper term for carbonated beverages. A majority of students from states such as Pennsylvania and West Virginia believe "pop" is the only correct expression, while students from New Jersey or New York claim it to be nothing else but a "soda." Words like "grinder," as they are dubbed in Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, are referred to as "hoagies" in Pittsburgh and "subs" in Ohio. While the majority of the country adds the finishing touch of "sprinkles" to their ice cream, people from Pittsburgh top it off with "jimmies." Pittsburgh natives have many strange words and phrases in their dialect. For example, while shopping in an office supply store, instead of searching for "rubberbands," which appears on the label, Pittsburghers are on a mission to come across "gumbands." Another odd phrase used throughout the surrounding Pittsburgh area is "red up." Anyone living outside of the vicinity will almost definitely question the expression. The term "red up," is used in place of "tidying up." A Pittsburgh student, Angela Peconi, stated "when my mother wants me to clean up my room without doing a major cleaning job, she simply asks me to 'red up' my room." Other students whom resided in Pittsburgh argue while washing their hands, the water comes out of the "spicket," opposed to a "faucet," which is used elsewhere. While grocery shopping in the city of Pittsburgh, your groceries are put into a "buggy," but in all other parts of the country a "shopping cart" is pushed around the store. In some backyards, there are bushes that have little prickly thorns sticking out of them. Do these bushes actually have a name? In Pittsburgh they do and are termed "jagger-bushes!" Most students that were asked that question replied there was no such name for the bush, and an Ohio student believed they were dubbed "thorn-bushes." Besides the citizens of Pittsburgh having an eccentric dialect, students from Boston also have out of the ordinary terminology. While walking down the hall to class, a Bostonian,

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