Everyday things that have totally different names throughout the US

About the Freeway or Highway, either one is O.K., But My Question is, Why do We Park in the Driveway, and Drive on the Parkway?? L.O.L.

I live in the south and I have never heard anyone call a faucet a spigot. Been here all my life and we either say a faucet or a water hydrant.

LeRoy Johnston, 😂😂😂🤣 really good one 😂😂😂

My neighbor here in Louisiana was from Indiana and she came over to borrow a dust sweep. We had no idea what she needed. It was a dustpan.

Louella Wilson, EXACTLY. BRITISH ENGLISH HERE - ALWAYS CALLED IT "TAP"

Here in New Orleans we use Po Boys for the sandwich and I've always called it a faucet

I'm from S. Texas and we say shopping basket, whether it's one on your arm or with wheels. Also, road on these side of a freeway that is called a frontage road elsewhere, in Houston is called the access road. I say faucet or tap, depending on whether it is outside or inside. Pancakes not flapjacks. It is odd, but most of the time, we know what it means when we travel.

Americans have so many names for things and think we should use their terms. We get water from Taps, so much easier than saying Faucet, we use shopping trolleys, Hundreds and thousands what we use, not sprinkles..

I remember once when I visited Tennessee that I was asked if I wanted my oil checked, but the way the fellow pronounced it, it sounded like all. I've heard different expressions forr corn cakes, ie: hoecakes corn pone and Johnny cakes. Guess it depends on where you are here in the U S A.

In Australia we take reference from America,Canada,Great Britain & our own.We say Sub,Sprinkles/H&T,Soft Drink,Sneakers,Prawns,Lightning Bug,Lounge,Pancake,Tap,Trolley & use Highway & Freeway for different types of roads.

The explanation re pancakes suggests it is an American word. It predates the US.

Interesting how different parts of American use different names for the same thing. To me, a Kiwi, a lot of the words used are longer than we would use eg automobile, we say Car

In Australia, we call those little crustaceons prawns. A tap is a tap and soft drinks fizz. And we sprinkle hundreds and thousands on our cakes.

theotishaynes, hydrant? That’s what we call those red things that dogs pee on and firefighters hook hoses into to fight fires. In our little place in Canada, we call it a tap!

Trolley is our local name for a shopping cart. Lounge, tap, soft drink are some other terms that I am more familiar with cw those given.

theotishaynes, I've always called it a tap!

About the highways: in most states that I’ve driven in the “highways” are referred to only by the number as in “take 80” or “stay on 95 for 10 miles”, etc. But in California people say “take THE 5” or it’s just off THE 10”. I never could figure that out.😳

I’ve always called them running shoes, not tennis shoes or sneakers. And it’s a tap, not a faucet or spigot, always pop, and it’s either a highway (2 lanes usually) or else it’s the four lane highway.