re: NYT regional dialect quiz

I grew up in BR and always referred to it as Neutral Ground because I had family that lived uptown Nola. I always got funny looks though when I said it though.

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youuns”, my SIL from middle Tennessee says this. Great guy, so you’ll have to go thru me.

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Appalachian

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I also consider po' boy and a sub to be similar but different foods. Like if I am ordering a sandwich from Jimmy John's it's definitely a sub. But if I am getting a sandwich on french bread that's filled with fried shrimp or catfish, lettuce, mayo and a tomato...that's po boy.

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Same here.

What they described in the question was more like a sub to me than a poboy.

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I grew up in BR and always referred to it as Neutral Ground because I had family that lived uptown Nola. I always got funny looks though when I said it though.

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Yeh, I had zero clue what the hell the neutral ground was until the first mardi gras I spent with my now wife in Nola

She kept saying "go to the neutral ground", and I was like WTF?

And she was like "everyone calls it that..." I had to explain to her nobody else in the United States calls it that

the term Feeder gives away every Houstonian

My test was surprisingly accurate. It showed Northeast, south and west coast. I lived in all of those regions growing up so I use a weird mix of terms from each of those places.

No one knows where the hell i’m from

Mine said Atlanta, Richmond, and Baton Rouge.

I've lived in Columbia, TX, and now DC. So not bad on the general areas.

I grew up between BR and Houston and always called them service roads.

Frontage Road would have been my second choice.

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What walk of life actually calls a sandwich a "poor boy"

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My FIL says poor boy.

He's close to 70 and lived in New Orleans 20+ years.

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I've been here long enough where it's embedded into my lexicon. Though growing up in LA I don't really recall having these much except in the really rural areas like along I-10. I guess I would have called them Frontage Roads? Is there really a Louisiana name for them? In Shreveport the freeway exits always empty to an intersecting road. You couldn't just drive along parallel to the freeway.

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They're not quite the same. Frontage roads parallel the highway between exits or cross roads, but only meets the cross roads, not the main highway. What Texans call feeders actually have ramps that regularly connect to the main highway and let you get on and off between major interchanges and cross roads. I vividly remember this because we were driving from Houston to Dallas once and there was a wreck, but traffic kept moving because cars just moved off of the main highway onto the feeder ahead of the wreck and then got back on the main highway after the wreck. Since there were multiple on and off ramps to use, you didn't get the huge clusterfrick of an entire highway trying to get off through one exit, through a light, and back onto the highway. Traffic slowed down, sure, but it didn't come to a dead stop like it does in Louisiana. Here, exits are ten miles apart and the blocked traffic backs up to and blocks the closest exit five miles upstream of the wreck. Then the backup just keeps growing.

If you're in Baton Rouge, we kind of have one feeder. It's how I-10 works between Bluebonnet and Siegen. Neither of those roads connects directly to I-10 for that stretch. You get on the feeder and then you can either keep going on the feeder to the next exit or get onto I-10. Just imagine that setup running from the bridge to Gonzales. Then imagine riding down it on a unicorn.

It was a thing of beauty and I'm convinced that Texas has the best way to handle getting onto and off of major highways. Interchanges with single ramps every ten miles is fricking stupid.