I too still say yes ma'am and sir. It's such a habit that I almost say it to everyone young or old that I don't know very well.

soda
grinder
candy bar
water fountain
sprinkles
took (stocking cap)
head (as in 'hit the' and 'slow-')

And it's
Coke (But on occasion call it Cold Drink in reference to the way the black kids at my high school said it)
Po-boy unless it comes from a chain like Subway, then it's a sandwich
Candy bar
Water Fountain

Soft drink
Choccie bar

I came close to a few beatings when i was in the states after i would announce that i am just going outside for a fag.

Me too, though I do prefer to call people by their first names as opposed to "Mr." or "Mrs." with only a very few exceptions.

I even call my dad by his first name sometimes.

When I say yes ma'am and no sir to folks up here they look at me like I'm fucking nuts.

Coke
water fountain (if you say bubbler, kill yourself)
sandwhich
candy bar

I noticed this too. They have found a way to take it as an insult. And that's not easy.

No, Jewels. No!

I said "toboggan" up until 9th grade, when we had to wear "knit hats" for baseball in March.

Such hostility.

Bubbler bubbler bubbler. :p

OK, if you're giving someone directions that involves taking numbered highways, do you say "take 80 to 95" or do you say "take the 80 to the 95"?

Here in Jersey I take 27 to 287, but in L.A. I used to take the 101 to the 405.

most of the roads in philly are called things that they aren't called on actual road signs

such as Schuylkill Expressway (it's actually 76), The Blue Route (476), Delaware Ave (Columbus Bldvd)

and i'm sure there are others i can't think of.

that used to confuse me so much when i was a little kid. "why is it called the blue route?"

now in chicago, we have the stevenson and the kennedy. it took me months to figure out what people were talking about.

We say, 'take 50 to 97', etc. But Route One is route one, not just '1'. And 495 and 95 can be referred to as "the beltway", unless you're referencing anything even remotely close to Baltimore, then it's "the DC beltway".

Only the part of 95 that is also 495 is the beltway.

East coast says highway, west says freeway.

Here in the midwest they just call it the popway.

I've heard people refer to parts both North and South of the beltway as the beltway, and I knew what they meant -- 95.

I long for the days
They used to say
"Ma'am" and "Yes, sir"
For now I'm going to find
Buttons for my
Dad's old used shirt
FITTED SHIRT!
FITTED SHIRT!

I say Coke as a general term but usually say the specific name of the product.

Here is one up North cars get into a "crash" or "crashed"

Down South "wreck" or "wrecked"

I say yes ma'am to nearly any woman older than me that I don't know. People up North don't like it, but they don't seem to like politeness in any form.

Hahahahaha I know where that is. For me, its often something like take 130 to 195 to the Turnpike, or take 130 to 33 to 1.

Otherwise
soda
frosting most of the time (occasionally icing)
water fountain
candy bar
sandwich
apartment (only a sub if you buy it from subway or blimpie)

can't think of many different words for things right now, only strange pronounciations.

Those people are dumb. The beltway is clearly the road that forms a belt around DC. That's why it has an inner loop and an outer loop. 95 goes from Maine to Florida, that's not a belt or a loop.

In the A it is called the perimeter.

OTP=Outside The Perimeter
ITP=Inside The Perimeter

WRECKER or TOW TRUCK

Don't forget about The Downtown Connector (I75/85)

another different one is waiting "in line" or "on line"

this is worse than anything posted so far. people in this area say hamburg instead of hamburger. they dropped an entire syllable. it's even printed on menus that way.

i seriously need to move.

Do they say "supposably", too?