Regional variation in words

Northern California, and elementary varies here; at a lot of schools around here it seems to be K-5th, I think (with most middle schools being 6th-8th), but my elementary school went up to 6th, and my junior high/middle school was a combined middle/high school, 7th-12th, which is not unheard of but mostly applies to charter schools (like the one I went to) or private ones afaik.

Idk I might just live in a weird region of the state?

EDIT: Worth noting that I went to a private elementary school, though.

 

Southern US, and it's preschool (3-5 years) (pre-k is specifically the year before kindergarten but it's more commonly just rolled into preschool here), elementary school (kindergarten, 1-5 grade), middle school (6-8 grade), and high school (9-12 grade although my school pretty always called people freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors respectively). Very very occasionally sixth grade will be attached to an elementary school or a standalone school, but this is more common with private/otherwise wealthy schools.

 

This is only loosely related to words, but do y'all do the thing on birthdays where you pin a dollar to your shirt and that means other folks, strangers or not, give you more dollars to pin? If so, what do you call it?

I grew up with a lot of church folks who migrated over after Katrina tore New Orleans up, and that's supposedly where it originated

 

*obligatory Canadian voice* nope, sounds like it'd get pretty heavy

But it does sound neat!

 

I've never heard of it. It sounds cute, yeah. Possibly it's a southern-specific thing?

 

I'm in Georgia and I've never heard of it either, and my best friend's family is from New Orleans on her mom's side. Interesting! It sounds cool tho.

 

Okay so it's warm here and I don't know if it's been done before in this thread but what do you guys call the summer treat that's basically a stick of frozen juice concentrate? Here in the UK I think we called them ice pops?

 

I feel like we called them freezies, or maybe sometimes mr. Freeze because that was the brand name that looks most familiar

(Eta: from southern/eastern Ontario)

 

Freeze pops here.

 

ice pops, or freeze/freezy/freezer pops

 

Northeast US, usually call them popsicles! (Likewise, using a common brand name)

 

see I'd say a popsicle necessarily involves a stick, while a freezy pop is literally just frozen juice (also northeast us)

 

Come to think of it, the nonedible holding part is usually part of the distinction.

 

They're otter pops in my neck of the woods, which is actually a brand name but it's become just the generic term here?

 

Ice poles.

 

WA, otter pops.

 

otter pops, HI

 

Otterpops.