OT:"Johnnies"

Nope. And I'm from Ohio, and my mom's family is from deep in Kentucky. I also asked Prairieson, who knows way too much obscure stuff like that, and he's never heard it either.

Never heard it used, and I know a fair number of people from Ohio and Kentucky both. Of course, to balance this, I have to say that it's not a word which would be likely to come up often in everyday conversation.

I used to have a co-worker who called rubber bands "elastics". She swore up and down that everyone she knew did so. I've never heard anyone else say it!

Celine

OK, thank god there's someone else... I was starting to think she was making it up just to mess with me!

I wonder if Jalynne is relared to me? All the people here, and all the people I've asked elsewhere, and she's the only one who's ever heard it before. Hmmmm... Jalynne, you don't have "Hall" or "Stratton" in your family tree anywhere, by chance?

there's a Hall on Dh's side, but he's from Alaska...and Inuit, so i kinda doubt it...LOL.

Cool. Where up here is his village?

Tina

"Johnnies" is one I haven't heard. Elastics, as in elastic bands, is not uncommon.

Tina

I don't know...he was adopted by a "white" family, and he doesn't know anything about his past.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 1:34:52 -0400, Lee S. Billings wrote (in message ):

Boston-ism. Everyone I know calls them elastics. We call those non-alcoholic, carbonated beverages, tonic. Not soda, not pop, not artificially flavored fizzy water, just tonic. Tonic without sugar is diet tonic.

We don't call the heel of the bread "Johnnie," though. DH and Manda use some Italian name which escapes me in the middle of the night. They also call Wonder-type bread "American Bread," and they fight over the heels of any loaf of bread. Me, unless it's good artisan made bread (or homemade), I don't bother with the heel. Gotta root down four or five slices to get to the "good bread."

Kathy N-V

I have read "heel", but we always called it the crust. Of coursed there is crust all around every piece, but the ends are "all" crust.

Now that one I *have* heard. It may be a Southernism -- my mother used it.

Celine

driving me insane.<

Is it set in England? The one that gets me is glove box for glove compartment!

Carol in SLC eBay:

I say "glove box". LOL!

I say "glove compartment"!

-- Free sweets:

I say tuhMAYto....

so Johnny is in the "other" category...LOL. Looking at that map....those spots in TX....i have family from most of them, so I guess that makes more sense. I do still think it's wierd

I say tuhMAHto...

-- Free sweets:

Me neither, and my best friend Xan's dad is a Kentucky boy...

Deirdre