“You Say To-may-toe, I Say To-mah-toe” (sort of)
If there’s such as thing as “California closets” (there is), why can’t there be “Florida ceilings?”
At least, that’s what my now-12 year old daughter used to think.
Geographic Adjectives; “Do-I-Haf-Ta?!?”
It turns out that what she mistook for “Florida” was actually “floor to, presumably as in “floor-to-ceiling windows,” “floor-to-ceiling views,” or some such.
The partial explanation: at least in the Midwest, people — and especially kids — have a tendency to pronounce “to” with an “a” instead of an “o” (“Do I have ta’?”; “I don’t want ta’ be late,” etc.).
P.S.: There’s also “Portland cement” — but I doubt my daughter knows that term . . .
