Yup. Regional lingo is all over the world. Since ya happened to bring it up...
Just for example, Sled, ahkio, pulk, etc.. depending on the location, all basically mean the same thing. So, with them layers ya make when stacking things, & the sticks ya put between them, I can vouch for my area, at least the carpenters though, that we call them , "sleepers". I have been in construction around here since the late 70's, (except for 6 years in the Corps.) & never heard anyone call them "stickers". Always "sleepers", from the ground up.
Just to fill ya in on why I think that is, is fairly easy to understand, if ya go about it right...
We do use the word "stickers" around here for a couple of things. Sometimes labels that stick on things. like for selling items in stores,and flea markets... Kids of all ages over the years have collected them to put on book folders, sometimes they even came in Cracker Jack boxes, IIRC... even the car/truck salesmen use "stickers" to sell their cars... & let us not forget the other type of "stickers" , which I usually call "hitch hikers" that live and grow out along the woods & in fields & sometimes to the detriment & frustration of gardeners or homeowners everywhere around here, that come off of various types of Thistles. ( although there is one insidious mean plant that has these mini hitchhikers that are the most annoying lil B-tards to get rid of. Particularly in dogs hair that is long....) Burdock is notorious for having "stickers" , but they are pretty large. easy to pull for the most part, most of the time. But sometimes they leave the doggone lil seed thingies stuck to ya & they are a b=itch.. But, gotta mention, that your Bull, Cow & Milk thistles, just to mention a few more, have plenty of mean "stickers" also...
Man o man, we have all kinds of "stickers" around here...All kinds...
So anyway, around here, and in at least this part of the country, ya got to be mighty specific about your use of the word "stickers", or you could have the whole area up in arms about what you are talking about..... Men arguing, women upset & worried & children running around crying.. But, ya won't confuse anyone into thinking "stickers" is the "sleepers" that hold stuff off the ground or sit in between boards & other materials for air drying... nope, ya sure wont..... Not even the people sleeping would be called "sleepers" if they figured you were talking about those spacers we call "sleepers" around here... No sirree Bob....
Although, it comes to mind that when ya mention "stickers" you gotta pronounce it right...Since we do have a little minnow like fish that we get sometimes in our minnow buckets & traps that we don't use for fishing that has sticklers all up and down its body & we like to call them "sticklers" or their real name, "sticklebacks".
So if a feller had a chaw of tobacco in, or was trying to talk when eating, or maybe a kid with some bubble gum candy was talking to ya, ya might get confused & think that they were saying "sticklers" instead of "stickers", but of course if you were fishing or talking about fishing, which can happen anytime day or night, instead of standing around, or looking at where something needed to be stacked, you would think right off that the person was saying, "sticklers" instead of "stickers". But of course, if the fishing was good while you talking about it & were catching so many fish that ya might have to "stack em up!". Well then, you might get some of the folks around here a bit confused for a minute thinking you weren't saying "sticklers" & since "stickers" would not apply, because they stick to things, they would likely think you were talking about "sleepers" to put between the layers of the fish you were catching or had caught.... Not the people that might be asleep, but the sticks ya put in between wood that needs drying & that sort of thing...
There is a variant of the word "stickler" used around here, that can only really be used in the context of someone who has to be picky about things, and it really isn't related to the "stickler" minnow like fish. It is used in a sentence like, "Ya better get them sleepers in that stack real evenly layed out, cuz the boss is a real "stickler" about that." Now the folks doing the stacking would know right off that the person warning them wasn't talking about fishing & the "stickler" that sometimes get into minnow buckets & traps... Of course not. But if the one talking had a chaw in, or the like, might cause a bit of confusion for a short while. But I think I already kinda went into that before... No reason to repeat it, right? But, seriously, around here, People can be "sticklers" too. But it is more about being something" like "nit picky", not the little minnow fish.. Really... they can be "sticklers" around here on occasion....
Now, while I was thinking about it here...it occurs to me to mention that those "sticklers", the little minnow ones, don't really ever seem to catch any fish, so we generally cull them out as useless. I suppose a feller might want to save them up for some reason, but around here we don't.
This all could be just a regional thing possibly, but I don't really want to get into that too far tonite. This post is long enough now about that... I will save it for later on, OK?
Anyway, I could probably elaborate about this for a bit longer but I am getting tired of typing & it is after 1 AM in the morning. So,I might have to go join the rest of my family who happen to be "sleepers" right now... not to be confused with those sticks that go between boards & such , ya know...
Ya.. You betcha...
Oh, and By the way...
What was this topic about?
P.S. - Moe M.? Ya still with me? Just pulling my own weight here, don't cha know...
