>>>> kids' parents in my neighborhood saying "He's going to go by Johnny's" meaning "go to"
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>>>Grandma, is that you?
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>><g> Sound familiar? I never heard anyone say that after I left the old neighborhood, but in Cleveland in the 50s it was so common that changing that pattern was a really priority in English class, since many of the kids had picked it up from parents.
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>Yeah, along with "Frigidaire" instead of refridgerator and "Fords" instead of "Ford" (not sure how much of that was a Detroit thing vs a Polish thing).

In the south it's still common to refer to all types of soft drinks as Coke. Or co-cola.