What do you call this, where are you from, and how old are you?

[Anonymous]

Slide, 44, grew up in Illinois/ Missouri. Never heard something board before! But yes, many burns. And also gashes along my leg from raggedy ones.

[Anonymous]

Interesting blog post about exactly this same dialiectic difference.

http://www.debgod.com/2011/10/13/sliding-board-v-slide-some-notes-on-the-mid-atlantic-dialect/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I grew up in Maryland (outside Baltimore) calling them "sliding boards," and I'm 40. At some point that transitioned to "slides." Live in DC now.

I’m roughly the same age as you, from Baltimore City, and called them sliding boards until my MoCo native children forced me to stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's called "Get a hobby loser".

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/740686.page

OP here. I may be a loser and I may need to get a hobby, but I didn't do that one! Maybe I should have clarified s/o in the title.

BTW it's clearly called yellow cake, not chocolate cake.

People are just hostile to anything associated with the old Baltimore rather than the trendy hipsterish one. Like it didn’t have a culture before 2014, let alone a distinct vocabulary and accent.

[Anonymous]

A slide.

I am 39 & from northern NJ (about 15 miles north of Manhattan).

[Anonymous]

lawsuit waiting to happen. 47, California.

[Anonymous]

MoCo, MD and it was a sliding board and/or slide.

[Anonymous]

Slide, 47 NY

[Anonymous]

43, western Pa, sliding board

[Anonymous]

Canada. 33. Slide.

[Anonymous]

Slide. 38, Philadelphia. Never heard of sliding board!

[Anonymous]

- Slide
- Snakes and Ladders

Toronto, 40

[Anonymous]

Sliding board. 38, eastern PA

[Anonymous]

Sliding board/slide
48
NC

[Anonymous]

Slide, Mississippi, 58.