But I'm a transplanted Yankee, aka carpetbagger...
I feel your pain! Sometimes, I like to take little fun jabs at the southerners and use our strange terms such as "iced tea", "shopping cart" or "toboggan". The latter really confuses people around here, because they use that word for
a specific type of hat rather than the more universal use of referring to the
type of sled.
It always throws me off whenever I'm in a grocery store and I hear someone use the term "buggy" instead of "shopping cart" or "cart." "Buggy" makes me think of the older use of
horse and buggy, which is definitely not what they mean. I remember when I walked into Walmart for the first time, and the greeter said, "Would you like a buggy." I poked my head around, and wondered, "I don't see any horses... oh, he means a shopping cart."