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== Vocabulary ==
{{See also|Regional vocabularies of American English#The North}}
Note that not all of these terms, here compared with their counterparts in other regions, are necessarily unique only to the Inland North, though they appear most strongly in this region:<ref name="The Harvard Dialect Survey"/>
*''boulevard'' as a synonym for ''island'' (in the sense of a [[Refuge island|grassy area in the middle of some streets]])
*''crayfish'' for a freshwater crustacean
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*''pit'' for the seed of a peach (not Southern ''stone'' or ''seed'')
*''pop'' for a [[soft drink|sweet, bubbly soft drink]] (not Eastern and Californian ''soda'', nor Southern ''coke'')
**The "soda/pop line" has been found to run through Western New York State (Buffalo residents say ''pop'', Syracuse residents say ''soda'' now but used to say ''pop'' until sometime in the 1970s, and Rochester residents say either
*''sucker'' for a ''[[lollipop]]'' (hard candy on a stick)
*''teeter totter'' as a synonym for ''[[seesaw]]''
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