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Cheapass Survey

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Yes, it is what I thought it was.

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

yup, yup, Colorado

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

Yes
No, I say trail mix
Oklahoma

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

Yes.
No: trail mix.
Oregon.

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

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

Yes. Yes. Kansas City, Missouri.

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