what do you drink?

[David Bergdahl]

Some other terms have strong affect: for years Ohio Univ students strongly
preferred {SACK} over {BAG} for the "paper container of groceries" but
starting in the 90s {SACK} and its association with "testicles" started a
preference for {BAG}.  Non-Midland students strongly reject positive
anymore.  Sub, hoagie, hero, grinder sometimes elicit strong preferences.  I
think a lot of students attending college away from home find familiar
dialect items ridiculed and attacked and respond accordingly.  I still
remember the reception of my [U + schwa] in words like "chocholate" when I
was a Syracuse freshman in '58!!!  So, in [self-]righteous indignation I
could attack "Where you at?"
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"Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber Boshaft ist er nicht"
--Albert Einstein