I fit in within most of the maps. Exceptions - corner store, possibly influenced with when I would have referred to this most, being in a fairly french community. It used to be supper as I got older dinner/supper fairly interchangeable and now it's become mostly dinner - probably influenced from others, lots of international students during grad studies. Rubber band = rubber. Elastic band, hair elastic comes to mind too quickly, I would have to clarify what someone was looking for. And as for the Cabin map, Chalet is specific for skiing!
I say elastic, and then specify hair elastic if that's the type I'm talking about. I also say car-mel (car-mel corn) or, maybe in recent years care-mel...I skip over the middle syllable. I think care-a-mel sounds strange, when I say it. It's more American, to me. Like a chocolate bar (candy bar, in U.S.) ad.
We laughed while watching the Olympic events on the half pipe & some aerials to hear the descriptions of the moves being made! I wonder who makes these up? Snowboarding 101: Trick names and terms to know
I think some of them must've come from kids skateboarding, and translated over to the snowboard half pipe. My step brother is a former "skater" and used to talk like that all the time...this town is kind of infamous, apparently, for underground skate culture, that even made its way to the mainland. Snowboarding picked up from skateboarding (which borrowed from surfing) - there was "cultural" crossover, in the earlier days, of the people doing all these sports. And the lingo or, at least, "chill, Westcoast" cadence makes its way into everyday speech. Oh, and I think a jib is a sailing term that became a windsurfing term (my dad and several of my friends were windsurfers when that was big) - maybe the move resembles that?
particularly interesting either.
How about that radical hospitality thing?