OT: Linguistic hoops regionalization(s)

[NUCat320]

I have been a resident of Metro Atlanta for approaching eight years. The neighborhood Facebook group is in a furious debate over whether or not the HOA board should approve the installation of a basketball...goal. 100 comments deep, and there's not been a single reference to a "hoop".

I've been a basketball fan since MJ made his foul-line hanger over Ehlo, and I can comfortably say that I've never uttered the phrase "basketball goal", nor do I think I've heard it.

Is this a strange southern thing? Or do I just have weird neighbors? Is it possible that they refer to "the lane" as "the pit", or that they call the top of the key "Job's spot"? (They're mostly "turn down the music" and "quit driving so fast" and "someone ding-dong ditched me" and "Did anyone else see poop in the pool" obsessed, so this is a nice diversion, regardless.)

 

[blockm2]

weird neighbors, and I live south of the Mason Dixon line

 

[NURoseBowl]

I'll guess it's referred to as "the goal" in the official rulebook, but you really don't hear announcers using that term in any part of the country. Interesting irony, though, that an illegally blocked shot is never called "hooptending".

 

[ubercat]

Regional differences. In Wisconsin they call a drinking fountain a "bubbler." Even worse, none of the bartenders knows what a whiskey sour is. "So is that, like, a whiskey and sours?" Uh, make it a manhattan.

 

[CappyNU]

"The amazing thing is, that basketball ring in Indiana, it's the same height as it is New York City and every other place in this country,"
https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...-basketball-ring-and-twitter-erupts/83573574/

 

[hdhntr1]

I have been a resident of Metro Atlanta for approaching eight years. The neighborhood Facebook group is in a furious debate over whether or not the HOA board should approve the installation of a basketball...goal. 100 comments deep, and there's not been a single reference to a "hoop".

I've been a basketball fan since MJ made his foul-line hanger over Ehlo, and I can comfortably say that I've never uttered the phrase "basketball goal", nor do I think I've heard it.

Is this a strange southern thing? Or do I just have weird neighbors? Is it possible that they refer to "the lane" as "the pit", or that they call the top of the key "Job's spot"? (They're mostly "turn down the music" and "quit driving so fast" and "someone ding-dong ditched me" and "Did anyone else see poop in the pool" obsessed, so this is a nice diversion, regardless.)

Actually it is them that has the weird neighbor

 

[Medill90]

"The amazing thing is, that basketball ring in Indiana, it's the same height as it is New York City and every other place in this country,"
https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...-basketball-ring-and-twitter-erupts/83573574/

we used to practice with what we called "Loyola-hoops": a metal ring that attached to the rim and reduced the circumference so that you needed a nice arc and better accuracy to convert a shot

 

[ricko6543211]

I have been a resident of Metro Atlanta for approaching eight years. The neighborhood Facebook group is in a furious debate over whether or not the HOA board should approve the installation of a basketball...goal. 100 comments deep, and there's not been a single reference to a "hoop".

I've been a basketball fan since MJ made his foul-line hanger over Ehlo, and I can comfortably say that I've never uttered the phrase "basketball goal", nor do I think I've heard it.

Is this a strange southern thing? Or do I just have weird neighbors? Is it possible that they refer to "the lane" as "the pit", or that they call the top of the key "Job's spot"? (They're mostly "turn down the music" and "quit driving so fast" and "someone ding-dong ditched me" and "Did anyone else see poop in the pool" obsessed, so this is a nice diversion, regardless.)

I've never heard basketball goal before either, at least not from anyone that I would consider to be a halfway knowledgeable basketball person. Only from people who are generally ignorant about sports.

 

[MTobin_rivals79497]

I'll guess it's referred to as "the goal" in the official rulebook, but you really don't hear announcers using that term in any part of the country. Interesting irony, though, that an illegally blocked shot is never called "hooptending".

No, but neither has anyone inquired about a player's "field hoop percentage".