Regional differences

[Lokie]

Finding this picture, it reminded my of the supposed regional differences we have in this country.

I was always told that Candlepin bowling was a primarily New England game (although, I hear it’s getting popular in FL). In New England, when we say we are going bowling, we mean we are playing candlepin. Ten-pin does exist here, but it’s termed as “Ten-pin” to differentiate it from our regular bowling and it isn’t as popular (the lanes for it are usually in back rooms or on separate floors).

Anyone else in other regions candlepin bowl? Or know of other regional differences or supposed differences that we can break the myths of?

I always thought “wicked” was a New England term, but Arlla keeps using it, so I guess that was just a fallacy 😆

And yes, that super hot, sexy chick in that photo is me! 😛

[Lokie]

[Jasmine]

We have ten-pin and six-pin bowling here. Canadians say “pop” instead of “soda” according to my cousin from California. And up here, if you ask for iced tea, it’s always pre-sweetened, think “Nestea”. I was told that no one down south knows what a “Ceasar” is…kinda like a “Bloody Mary” with a dash of Tabasco.

[lamortefille]

That’s so interesting…I’ve never heard of Candlepin bowling. Don’t you say “grinder” and we (NJ) say “hoagie” or “sub”? I thought “wicked” was New England, too. People said it briefly down here in the 80’s. They added “bad” to it, though…

[Maripikka]

lamortefille wrote:

That’s so interesting…I’ve never heard of Candlepin bowling.

I have never heard of it either. I don’t think we have Candlepin bowling here in Finland at all, though, so it’s no wonder if I haven’t heard of it.

[Bob]

I have never heard of any kind of bowling except for the 10 pins and the large heavy balls.
I have not really been bowling fo r20 years since I broke my right thimb and now it’s too big to fit the holes for the weight of balls I can use

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lamortefille wrote:

That’s so interesting…I’ve never heard of Candlepin bowling.

Ditto. When I saw the pic I thought it was something in Europe. (We don’t get out much here in the Pacific Northwest – we’re too busy trying to stop the flooding.) 😆

[Tina]

We do say pop 🙂 also toque 8) and we have 5 pin bowling.

This sums it up quite well 😆
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg

[Elena]

Canadians spell it Cheque in stead of Check, Mum and Mom are both acceptable as right spellings. Anyone in the states know what a ‘Chesterfield’ is? 😉

[Bob]

Cigarette??

[Maebnus]

I’ve never heard of candlepin bowling… I wanna play! And the only Chesterfield I know is a style of furniture.
Wicked was used in AZ when I lived there (11 yrs ago), though I don’t think it ever really caught on here in Nebraska. Though it probably will in the next year… I swear these folks are a decade behind :roll:. I’m a “soda” girl, but I’m pretty much alone in that here in the Midwest. Most ppl I know say “pop”… and then “Coke” seems to be the universal name for soda (cola or not) in some parts of the South.

[Jennifer]

I was born and raised in Western NY state, near the PA border/lake Erie.

I have also lived in TX and GA.

In the part of NY I’m from, ‘bowling’ means the 10-pin kind. Never heard of candlepin before!

We also said “Pop” in reference to sodas (Coke, Pepri, Sprite etc).

In Houston TX, bowling = 10 pin.
Soda was called “Coke”. I was so confused when people would ask me what kind of Coke I wanted. Coke=soda to them!

Here in Atlanta GA, bowling = 10 pin.
Soda is either called soda or sometimes Coke though not as much as they did in TX.

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[Starbreeze]

Never heard of candlepin in my part of Florida and we say “coke” for any type of soda. 😉

[pipsxlch]

I never saw or heard of candlepin here in Florida, although when my family moved up to Maine (from south Florida) when I was in high school, the alley in town was candlepin. I don’t even remeber seeing tenpin in that alley.
I never heard of ‘wicked’ as anything but evil except in Maine. Took me awhile to figure out they meant ‘very’, not evil!
I call the drinks ‘soda’, although I use ‘Coke’ as a generic for all the colas. My fiance, from Michigan, calls it ‘pop’. As for tea, my Mainer grandmother always had a hard time getting restaurants down here to understand she wanted hot tea, not iced!
The sandwiches are ‘subs’ to me, although i’ve heard them called ‘hoagies’ They didn’t even have them in Maine- they had a similar type of sandwich called an Italian, which I’ve never heard of outside Maine. Isn’t a grinder also a similar type of sandwich, not a sub?

[Skigod377]

I think we have it in Germany. The pins are suspended from strings, though.

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