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[Jude]

That's supposed to be just a light-hearted riposte, albeit a true one.

I'm a spelling Nazi.

In other news, I hate when people say "this car needs washed" or "this bike needs restored"

People say that?  What the hell... I've certainly never heard it.

It's supposed to be a western PA thing, but I hear it from time to time.

[Lord Dakoth]

Don't fight the urge to be a grammar Nazi. Embrace it. You'll feel much better afterwards.

...Lawful Evil, you know you want to...

[Grakelin]

Stay away from my grandmother.

[bombcar]

You shouldn't've brought it up. Then again, someone may say you shouldn't'ven't.

[Cthulhu]

That's supposed to be just a light-hearted riposte, albeit a true one.

I'm a spelling Nazi.

In other news, I hate when people say "this car needs washed" or "this bike needs restored"

People say that?  What the hell... I've certainly never heard it.

It's supposed to be a western PA thing, but I hear it from time to time.

That's pretty common here in Ohio too.  It's also very common around here to make business names possessive, even when they're not.  Kroger's, Meijer's, if you're really out in the sticks people start calling it Wal-Mart's.  Some places further south (Not south Ohio, south US) call everything Coke. 

We also call soda "pop".  This bothers some people to no end.

[Cheeetar]

You shouldn't've brought it up. Then again, someone may say you shouldn't'ven't.

Should not have not?
I do not see how somebody would say that pertaining to this thread, as this thread is clearly a thread.

[Grakelin]

In Canada, we say that 'soda' is 'pop' as well.

[Cheeetar]

I don't even say soda or pop. I say soft drink.

[Starver]

Ah, now in the UK 'carbonated/fizzy drinks' are "pop".  And soda (except in the import brand-name "Soda-stream", and "soda water" itself) relates to various soaps, washing powders, baking powders and other things related to sodium hydroxide/carbonate/whatever.

And as you know, those pesky people from over your northern border have quite a few cultural things in common with us in the UK.  Apart from those that have more culture in common with them lot in France, anyhow.


Oh, and 'round these parts', the mains water supply is also sometimes called "council pop", for the obvious dry humour reasons.

[Gunner-Chan]

Some places further south (Not south Ohio, south US) call everything Coke. 

I actually do that... If it's soda it's just referred to as Coke.

Imagine my surprise when Milly came back one day with nothing but Coke for soda. Speech mannerisms and shaky grasps on languages don't mix.

[Aqizzar]

Some places further south (Not south Ohio, south US) call everything Coke. 

I actually do that... If it's soda it's just referred to as Coke.

Ya bumpkin.  Giving the South a bad name with such brand association.  When I ask for a Coke I expect a Coke.  Elsewise it's always "soda".

I lived in Michigan when I was a little kid, and even by then, because my parents always talked like southerners, "pop" bugged the Hell out of me, and everyone thought I was an idiot for using words like "ain't".  Which is a word dammit.

[Gunner-Chan]

Funny story about that. I actually got so used to doing that because the only soda I was familiar with for years WAS coke. It sticks with you.

But hey, you want funny ask Milly about fording rivers. That slipped her up bad in grade school when she played Oregon Trail.

[Jreengus]

Ah, now in the UK 'carbonated/fizzy drinks' are "pop".  And soda (except in the import brand-name "Soda-stream", and "soda water" itself) relates to various soaps, washing powders, baking powders and other things related to sodium hydroxide/carbonate/whatever.

I have never referred to or met anyone who referred to fizzy drinks as pop. In fact I don't think ever refer to fizzy drinks as a whole but in the case I did I would just call them fizzy drinks or possibly just drinks.

[Apostolic Nihilist]

I usually use pop and soda interchangeably, but fizzy drinks? That's just ridiculous.

As for general grammar nazism? It tends to annoy me when people write things as they would speak, e.g the aforementioned "should of", but that's the only issue that really annoys me now.

I've taken toward believing that anyone who types badly is doing so in an entirely ironic fashion, which seems to have alleviated my condition.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Has anyone ever come across what I like to term "The Grocers' Comma"?