"The only other oddity I found was if I was at a restaurant and I asked the server is there was a beer brand at a discounted price that night I asked 'what beer is on sale?' She replied 'all our beer is on sale, do you mean special?'."
hmmmmm. I've never consciously thought about that before, but that *is* an American linguistics oddity. I guess the guiding rule is if you're shopping in a store, discounted items are "on sale"...but if you're in a restaurant/bar, discounted items are "tonight's special".
I may be oversimplifying it, if only because this is the first time in my life I've ever considered it.
(oh...and when your waitress told you "all our beer is on sale", she was just being a smart-ass. Probably another American idiosyncrasy. :) )
Doug Fields
Tampa, FL
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Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] TV orNotTV] NOTTV: Harvard Dialect Survey in
NYT
From: Doug Eastick <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, December 23, 2013 10:44 pm
To: [email protected]
I tried this survey on my android phone and had no luck.
I just tried it now on Chrome on windows and it worked.
I have lived in Sudbury Ontario Canada (3 hrs east of Sault Sainte
Marie, MI; 4 hours north of Toronto) for pretty much all my life (46
years) except for 5 years in Toronto (college/university). I was
curious what the results would give.
Tacoma WA, Spokane WA, Minneapolis. apparently the strong correlation
was my use of the _expression_ "kitty-corner" meaning diagonally across
and intersection.
Least similar was: Jackson Mississippi, Lubbock Texas, and New Orleans.
I have traveled 90% of the time for the past 13 months, working in
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Toronto, Scottsdale AZ. English is still
English, but asking for a soda/pop I just use brands (pepsi, coke).
The only other oddity I found was if I was at a restaurant and I asked
the server is there was a beer brand at a discounted price that night I
asked "what beer is on sale?" She replied "all our beer is on sale, do
you mean special?".
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