Pronunciation of words by Nebraskans

Moiraine said:
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Comfortably Numb said:
I kinda like Do-B-Q.  Could make a song mashup with Susie Q.

And the misuse of seen and saw bugs me too. Don’t get me started on To-Too-Two....
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I've had to bite my tongue many times when my best friend says " I seen Mr Smith yesterday."  But he is the same friend who pronounces aluminum as "Lunimun".  This reminds me to comment about those I have seen spell the word tongue as "tounge".

 
Husker John said:
I always referred to a soft drink as pop ...........is the word soda becoming more frequent?
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I think pop is a more Midwestern thing (for that record, I refer to soft drinks as pop as well).

I have a coworker from Alabama and he says everything down there is 'soda.'

 
It's almost culture shock when i visit the Midwest now and see in the "Pop" aisle in groshery stores.  It's all soda out here in eastern PA.  I have a pretty bad addiction to pop, and it shocks people when I say, "I've never consumed a soda in my life" -- because i only drink pop.  Even tho, as the graphic above shows PA as a dual pop/soda state, i get laughed at when i say pop.

 
Not sure if this belongs here, but the word "combine" is pronounced the way you say it when two things are joined together unless you're talking about a piece of farm equipment.

 
Talking to a retired railroad buddy and he reminded me about how we pronounce Cairo, NE. It's  pronounced like Karo syrup, not like the city in Egypt. 

 
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