Someone called them “airplane bottles”.
Other Names: Pop or coke.
This one’s a doozy, so there is a whole map that breaks down the soda debate.
Other Names: Shopping cart, buggy, or carriage.
Carriage is used mostly by people in the Northeast and buggy in the South and Midwest.
Other Names: Lightning bugs, firebugs, glowworms, or June bugs.
Other Names: Hoagie, submarine, hero, or po boy.
Other Names: Ponytail holder, hair band, elastic, bobble, or rubber band.
Other Names: Water fountain or bubbler.
You’ll hear the word bubbler most often in Wisconsin and Rhode Island.
Other Names: Sucker
Lollipop appears mostly in the Northeast, while sucker is more of a term in the South and Midwest.
Other Names: Frappe
This one’s for you, New England.
Other Names: Traffic circle or rotary.
Northeasterners use rotary most often.
Other Names: Tennis shoes
Tennis shoes is commonly used across most of the U.S.
Specifically for the end piece of a loaf of bread.
Other Names: Heel, end, or butt.
Heel is used most commonly throughout the U.S.
Other Names: Jimmies
Jimmies is a colorful term mostly used by those in New England.
Other Names: Carry-in dinner
Midwestern states including Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan call it a carry-in dinner rather than a potluck.
Other Names: Icing
Frosting and icing are used interchangeably by many.
Other Names: Crayfish or crawdad.
Crayfish is the word of choice for Northerners while crawdad is typically used in parts of the Midwest.
Other Names: August fly
Parts of the Midwest and Northeast tend to use August fly because the creatures make so much noise in the month of August.
Other Names: Tractor trailer or eighteen-wheeler
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When looking for a specific kind of shoe, people state what kind, for example: you want to go skate boarding, you buy skateboarding shoes,
You want to go running, you buy running shoes.
Hiking, hiking shoes.
You get the idea.
If someone said to me "I need to go buy tennis shoes" my first response would be
"when did you start to play tennis?"
Tennis shoes are tennis shoes.
This just shows that people who run this site don't do actual research before posting things that are incorrect.