A poll about pronounciation! [rivers_bend]

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So,

sstevie made a post about the word chunk versus the word chuck. And which of these words is synonymous with 'throw'. I said she should do a poll, cos I'm desperately curious. She said I had lots of friends and that I should do the poll. She has just as many friends as I do, but we have a fair amount of not-crossover, so I'm doing it, as suggested.

so there *g*

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I marked off both "chuck that to me with a c" and "I wouldn't say either". I say "toss that to me" a lot more often than I say "chuck", although I do say it on occasion, and know people who do.

I think I would mostly only use chuck to mean throw if I was chucking something in the garbage. but I can think of a few times I might have said, "chuck that over here when you're done" or whatever.

I am just always so fascinated when things I think are universal turn out to be not so much *g*

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See, I am definitely more likely to say "toss that in the trash" than "chuck that in the garbage". I don't really know if it's a regional thing or a specific me thing or the fact that I am not a native speaker of English. Really could be all of the above.
I completely understand what you mean about the universal concepts thing, though.

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Chuck it is more like THROW IT HARD, BIATCH. Lol. I have NEVER heard "chunk it" unless vomit was involved, and I think that more than likely, those people who actually say it like that must have heard it WRONG as a child, and were never corrected. It's like when I was little and heard a Michael Jackson song with the lyrics "funk with me" or SOMETHING like that, and for YEARS, thought it was "fuck with me" - until my father heard me sing it and hit the roof and informed me that I'd had it wrong. If he hadn't told me, I'd still think it was "fuck".

So... I'm thinking that the people who say "chunk it" went through something similar. And then it spread.

Odd.

My WHOLE family says CHUNK. So I'm thinking it's either a thing we say in East Texas, or it's a family perversion.
I'll poll people at work tomorrow to see if it's just me.

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I don't know how East Seguin would be considered (not much, I guess, it's more south and center LOL), but I lived there for a few months when I was 18, and also lived in Houston and San An for a little bit. I think your family is a bunch of perverts.

I MEAN.

UH.

*grins*

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It's a Texas thing obviously. I say chunk tooooo.

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I just had to know if it was just stevie and her family or if there was a whole segment of the population saying something I've never heard. like people who say wirshrag rather than washcloth. *g*

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It's her family. They're all insane. One time, I saw her Great Gramma Ailene try to ride the goat and milk the horse.

NO LIE.

Omg, let me stop. LMAOOOOOOOOOO I love you sssssssssssstevie.

(Woman, you have to fix the "ssstevie" because it says "sstevie".)

LOL.

I'm snotty today. Why is this?

WIRSHRAG! I think that's more a Pennsylvania inflection. I lived there for 4 years when I was little, and it's familiar. Like water = warter. Sorta. LOL.

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'Round these here parts, we most often use the verb "chuck" to mean "throw out", as in garbage, e.g. "I don't need this anymore -- chuck it."

If that helps :-)

I mostly only use chuck to mean that too. Though on occasion I've used it like "oy! chuck that over here when you're done with it." I think it's something I heard/used more in England than here.

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I've never heard "chunk" being used as a synonym for "throw". It's always and only meant a portion, like a 'small chunk of' material, whatever.
Hmmm.

Yeah, should've put a "to me" after that last part - I'm so not saying that's how it is, period. Just meeee. *g*

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I'm with you! I was like... o_0 ????

How could chunk mean throw? But then I probably say things that confuse people, and I just had to know if I was the only surprised one *g*

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Central Texas. I don't say either - I've heard 'chuck that over here', but never 'Chunk that over.' If I heard that someone "chunked" something, i'd think that they vomited it up.

Which makes stevie's example of her co-worker chunking her a pack of gum particularly delicious *g*

*sneaks a hug while you're here*

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I've never heard of 'chunk' used in the context to throw before. I've always said 'chuck' as in 'chuck it over here', or 'I think I'm going to chuck up'.

also, is amused at self for using Chuck Noblet icon

*giggles at Chuck Noblet icon*

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I checked "chuck" and "I wouldn't say either" because I only use "chuck" when I'm throwing something away. Like, for me, it'd be "toss me that water bottle over there?" or "Ew, that's gross; chuck it."

I'm pretty much with you on the using chuck mostly in the context of throwing something away. and yes, especially if something is gross. Like if mom held up an empty envelope, I'd probably say, 'throw it away' but if she held up moldy cheese, I'd say, 'chuck it'.

I love language. *g*

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Every time I hear the word "chunk" I think of that kid from the Goonies and Chunky Monkey icecream. *lol*

Anyway, yeah "chuck it" to "throw it."

How did I forget about the goonies?

mmm, ice cream. except not chunky monkey. *shudders*

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Although I "say" chuck, I don't believe I've ever used the word. I'd say, throw or toss.

I know just what you mean. *g*

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Chuck is how I say it, but I don't think I've heard anyone else (besides

ssstevie who says chunk.

I'm really hoping stevie gets back to us on what people at her work say *nods*

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I use chuck. Never heard chunk in that context in my part of Australia.
*g*

Though I have on occasion heard chuck, chunk and throw to mean being sick/vomiting. I actually thought that was what you were asking about at first.

it does all sort of seem like a conversation about vomit. *g*

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I say 'chuck' and also 'I'm a moron' because I forgot to fill in the 'what part of the world I live in' section. I'm happy to confirm that I do know where I live and its North West England.

I've never heard anyone say 'Chunk that thing over here will you'. I love how words/phrases change according to region/country :-)

I just have to wonder if it's that part of the world or her family. Though now more people have checked in and there are a few who say 'chunk' in that context.

And I'm glad to know that you know where you live *g* though you are far from the only person who didn't say...

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Chunk? what the hell? who says that?

I've only ever heard of chunk meaning like 'a piece of' like "a chunk of cheese."

that was pretty much my reaction when I heard

sstevie's post about it. What? who uses chunk like that? but despite the odds, it seems she's not the only one *g*

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I grew up in Kansas and I was raised saying "huck" like "huck it in the trash". Just my two cents...

Only way I've heard "chunk" is either beefy, meaty chunks in that dinner (for people or dogs, how depressingly unimaginative the admen are getting) -- OR "blow(ing) chunks" as a term for vomiting.

Haven't heard "chuck" yet except as a part of an electric screwdriver/drill.

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