Cheapass Survey

[gfish]

Quick little linguistics survey while I watch over this lab section.

1) Do you know what 'gorp' is?

2) Is it a term you would actually use, should you be talking about the subject in question?

3) Where are you from?

Comments

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

1) I do now.
2) No.
3) Central Jesusland

[loree.livejournal.com]

1. Not without asking Uncle Google.
2. No, mostly because something called 'gorp' doesn't sound like I should allow it willing entrance into my mouth. Exiting, perhaps.
3. Chronologically? Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas again, Portland, and Seattle.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

1) Yes, assuming we're both talking about the same thing.
2) Occasionally, but not as my default choice.
3) Oklahoma.

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

1) I've heard it before but had to look it up to remind myself of what it means.

2) Nope.

3) Here. Or rather, I grew up in Spokane and moved here when I was 21, with a 2-year stint in eastern NC.

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

1. Granola, raisins, peanuts and other goodies as a hiking snack.
2. Not generally a term I would use.
3. Western Washington

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

1) yes

2) yes; I just did, in fact, while discussing an upcoming canoe-camping trip with the other camper.

Interestingly enough, the other camper did not know what I was talking about, and I had to explain.

3) I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, which is where I started hiking and camping, in the company of my parents, who grew up in the Netherlands. I'm not sure my parents used the "gorp" term; I think I may have picked that up from an outdoorsy friend who also grew up in the Pacific Northwest (specifically the Portland area). The camper who didn't know what I was talking about grew up on Long Island in New York; I'm not sure he's done much hiking and camping previously.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

1: I think I do, but it's been a lot of years--I learned the term in the 1970's from brothers who were into wilderness hiking. I'll google after I post to be sure I'm right.

2: Nope. I had forgotten the word existed for the past, uh, 30 years or so.

3: I lived near Kalamazoo in southwestern Michigan when I heard the term, but I suspect it is irrelevant. I strongly suspect the word got there via nationally published hiking books and magazines. Its introduction to me had the feel of specialized hobby jargon that somoene had just picked up.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is what I thought it was.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

1) Yes.
2) Unlikely.
3) Originally, Minnesota, then we moved to Utah, but I've spent the majority of my life in Western WA.

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

yup, yup, Colorado

[spiritdancer]

1) Trail mix/snack

2) Not generally, these days; when in high school (with a Scoutmaster father and Eagle Scout brother, yes)

3) West Virginia (currently in Iowa, but gorp isn't anything I've thought about for years, actually).

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Yes; Probably not; California, although I may have learned it up here.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

1. The first conscious memory I ever have of it was from *you*. There's this nagging little voice telling me that I *may* have heard it somewhere as a child, but I don't honestly remember ever having heard it or used it.

2. Nope.

3. Seattle area, then Southern CA, then Seattle area again.

[ionan.livejournal.com]

1 - No.
2 - No.
3 - Nowadays I say "the internets", but geographically Florida.

[cow.livejournal.com]

1) No (until, well, google)
2) No
3) Detroit and Florida, mainly.

[sar-anon.livejournal.com]

1) Yes
2) It is a term that I have used when talking about the subject in question and will probably use again should the subject come up.
3) Currently: Seattle Originally: Northern Ohio

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should go on the record:

I grew up in Spokane, WA and I don't remember ever not knowing and using that term.

[rollick.livejournal.com]

I do know what it is, but I didn't run across it until I met Cass, who was born and raised in Chicago. I grew up in Maryland, myself.

When I was in college, I noticed at one point that Websters didn't know the derivation of the word, and it suggested that maybe it was onomatopoetic for the noise you made eating it. I spent several weeks trying to figure out how to write in to them and explain.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

What is the word's derivation? Is it an acronym?

[novalis.livejournal.com]

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Philadelphia -- but I mighta learned the term at summer camp in Vermont or maybe ... where was that other camp? Colorado? Wow, I have no memory.

[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Northern AZ, where there's a lot of good hiking trail country.

[zaratyst.livejournal.com]

Yes
No, I say trail mix
Oklahoma

[najalaise.livejournal.com]

Yes
No (Trail Mix: It's always there when you need to.)
North Central Washington

[xiadyn.livejournal.com]

Yes.
No: trail mix.
Oregon.

[dianthus.livejournal.com]

1. yes.
2. I would probably call it trail mix instead, but would easily be influenced by others' language.
3. Eastern Washington/Tri-Cities.

[ivy]

1) Yes.
2) No, I generally say "trail mix" unless someone else has used the term first.
3) Mississippi

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes. Kansas City, Missouri.