Someone Has Some Explaining To Do

Each are used almost interchangeably, but there are differences. Not all highways, for example, are interstates, nor are all Freeways.

Turnpike is an old phrase to denote a toll must be paid. The toll collector/guard would approach the traveler, his like at the ready, to collect the fee. Once paid, he'd turn his Pike aside and let the traveler continue. This lead to non-toll roads to be referred to as the pike, to differentiate it from the toll road, or turnpike.

The phrase is used mostly in the Eastern States.

You don't want to get me started on parkways and driveways

I actually looked all this up after I submitted the meme. It still strikes me as odd why some old names have stuck around for so long. My grandma called a couch a "davenport." :)

Sounds like we had the same grandmother.

XD

That's what we called them when I was a kid. Also. Sofas, and if you were under the influence of the British empire. Chesterfields.

Different regions have different words for the same thing. Around here, everyone drinks pop while I enjoy a soda.

I drank from bubblers when I was younger. And my grandma called root beer floats "black cows." I should look into where she got that from.

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[image deleted]Actually, I've called a couch a davenport in the distant past. :P