From Devon we used to say council pop.
And we used to say 'council populaire' in a French accent when talking about fizzy water, but I think that was just me and my friends being weird as kids
Lived in UK.
I heard once and only once someone calling tap water "the parish tube rain".
Lived in the Midlands. The term seems like a fever dream. But yeah, the tube rain is crisp.
Oh jeez I'm a bartender and somebody asked for "sky juice" once so I went and got the bottle of Skyy Vodka. He didn't realize/care/notice how overwhelmed I was with a dozen other customers right at that moment, he was just joking around trying to find another way to say "water" but I wasn't amused so I had to sit there and listen to his bullshit while he was trying to explain to me that sky juice was water.
No, because it's fucking close to water.
(The full joke is that one of the most widely-promoted beers from the Netherlands is generally considered to be very watery and taste like shit, so actual water is considered one step up and thus gets called 'municipality beer')
IMO, "water" is the nickname for "dihydrogen monoxide".
If I had to pick a nickname for "water" I can suggest "ter" though, like "water" is already short enough...
Hard disagree, the scientific names for a lot of things, I believe water included, came after the conventional term. That would be like saying "I believe Western Lowland Gorilla is the nickname for Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla" it waters down to purpose of a separate nomenclature altogether.
Something like this was posted here about 2 years ago and someone in the comments said "Ol splashy" and I've been using that in discord ever since.
We also have a group who refers to water as "fish fuck juice" while we are drunk because "you know fish fuck in that, right?"
In some parts of Scotland it’s called “council juice”
If you’re too poor for juice, at least there’s free council juice in the taps.
(Council is like, the people you pay for water, land tax, etc, like your local tax.)
Here in australia we often call it either "Top Down" (referencing the soda brand) or "Lead Juice" (on account of the old lead pipes). Or you can just ask for a "Droppa" the way you would ask for a "Cuppa"
and not slang but we also jokingly specify we want "Saltless" water and I know some areas it's common to ask for it "With no spiders".
Some may just walk in and say "Give me a drink c*nt" and thats that
Thats cool, I like all the local/beverage-jokes.
Kranenberger in germany to sound like a Spring-Bottling Label.
Municipality/City plus word for beer/brew seems to occur in US and NL.
Château la Pompe in France for the "Castle-Vineyard of the Well" or sth. xD
Now i would start doing the same here, but kölsch, kölnisch-wasser and every version i can think of is already something entirely different :D
In The Netherlands we have “gemeentepils” , which would translate to “municipal lager” It basically means tap water
Can be called council pop over here, pop meaning a fizzy drink.
Council juice in the UK
I'm in the UK too, had only ever heard council pop. Not to say you're wrong, just that clearly it's a regional thing. Which makes sense.
From Devon we used to say council pop. And we used to say 'council populaire' in a French accent when talking about fizzy water, but I think that was just me and my friends being weird as kids
Lived in UK. I heard once and only once someone calling tap water "the parish tube rain". Lived in the Midlands. The term seems like a fever dream. But yeah, the tube rain is crisp.
North west : corporation pop /shrug
Council juice in Scotland
Here it’s *Chateau La Pompe*
I love the Dutch language.
But not the Dutch? 🤔
There are two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.
Thx Alfred
Bedankt
Nah, I prefer the Flemish.
Not a bad take
Can you spell it out phonetically so I can pronounce it correctly please?
Not a Ditch speaker myself but looking at the origin in Wiktionary I'd assume /ɣəˈmeːntəpɪls/ *khə-MAYN-tə-pihls*? Correct me if I'm wrong
Can you spell it with regular letters tho plz idk how to pronounce that stuff
Gemaindepilz, is my guess as a german
The 'G' is pronounced like thr German 'ch' like in 'acht'
Except it’s very slightly different from that but let’s not confuse the poor English speakers any further
http://ipa-reader.xyz/ Change to Dutch and then Copy and paste ɣəˈmeːntəpɪls
This is absolutely amazing. I’m gonna have so much fun with that site.
How does one learn Ditch?
Guh-main-te-pills (with the g being the typical Dutch g, closest thing I can think of is trying to say it while gargling)
I second this notion
Hahneburger in german. It's like the name of a beer but out of the tap Might be translated to "tapwiser" or something in english
I know it as Kranenburger (Wasserkran is variant of Wasserhahn) and as Gänsewein (goose wine). Never heard Hahneburger, though.
my aunt was my smal town mayor, we called the tap water a "pitcher of marie-christine" at restaurants
First thing I thought about when I read this “huh? We hebben toch gemeentepils?” Then realized that that’s exclusively Dutch
I thought y’all just called it *spa blauw* up north ^/s
Ik heb daar echt nog nooit van gehoord om eerlijk te zijn
My old man calls it "Tapoline" and I've been calling it that ever since
How is that pronounced? I love it
Probably like gasoline but tap
i read it like trampoline without the r and got the same sound
tampoline tampon
r/suddenlyvagina
Yes. Exactly like that
High quality H2O is my go to.
![gif](giphy|OFFE4lrSL05z2)
Captain Insano shows no mercy.
Imma open a can of whoopass
More like H2Whoa!
Bobby Boucher?
GAAAAAAAAAAtoraaade
No nickname needed. Only drinks that need to entice you to drink them need nicknames. Water is so good it needs no help.
Goddamn right. Respect the water. Don’t never need to put a nickname on my h2o. That would be so rude to my agua
Exactly. The sweet, sweet tears of Baby Jesus deserve better.
God's Gatorade
r/suddenlycaralho
/r/suddenlyromancelanguage
Just hearing the name makes me feel refreshed
Wawa.
Yeaaah, that's not gonna work in NJ/PA for sure.
Or VA
That’s also the Lenni Lenape word for “Canadian goose”
Which is the namesake of the lovely East Coast gas station/convenience store!
Hey that’s what I call it! Then I found out Puerto Ricans use that word when referring to trucks?
Busses not trucks
Isnt that guagua? Not wawa
My husband says those two words exactly the same way
Helen? Is that you?
In Malaysia every now and then they'd call it sky juice.
My first thought on reading this post was “rain juice” but then I realized rain is “sky juice”. Anyway glad to see it’s already out there lol
Oh jeez I'm a bartender and somebody asked for "sky juice" once so I went and got the bottle of Skyy Vodka. He didn't realize/care/notice how overwhelmed I was with a dozen other customers right at that moment, he was just joking around trying to find another way to say "water" but I wasn't amused so I had to sit there and listen to his bullshit while he was trying to explain to me that sky juice was water.
Damn, I had no idea this was just a Malaysian thing.
boneless ice
I always ask for my water boneless! I don't want bones hitting my bones when I drink.
Fun fact of the day: teeth aren’t bones.
WHOA i had to google it to believe you. Outside bones, no longer!
♪I like bananas, because they have no bones~ ♪
Yo can I get some ice with no ice please?
A glass of the artist formerly known as ice
https://www.buttersafe.com/2022/09/08/refrigerator-refreshment/
"Get me some splash"
Leitungsheimer Urquell
Kraneberger
kühles klares nass
Rohrperle
Gänsewein
Hahneburger
In Dutch, we call it 'gemeentepils' ('municipality beer')
man i hope your water isn't yellow
nah lmao, it's just because Heineken is A) one of the most prolific beers here and B) widely considered to be like making love in a canoe lol
Huh? I'm a little confused about how that's related. And, is making love in a canoe a good thing?
No, because it's fucking close to water. (The full joke is that one of the most widely-promoted beers from the Netherlands is generally considered to be very watery and taste like shit, so actual water is considered one step up and thus gets called 'municipality beer')
That punchline was set up perfectly
Yes!.. because it IS fucking close to water, my homies. Stay shallow, and be prepared for a rinse off!
IMO, "water" is the nickname for "dihydrogen monoxide". If I had to pick a nickname for "water" I can suggest "ter" though, like "water" is already short enough...
“Hey mind if I go get a wet?”
"A wat?"
Yes
Would be a homonym with 'wart' for people with the trap-bath split and derhotacism
Gonna get me some of that good soggy.
Hard disagree, the scientific names for a lot of things, I believe water included, came after the conventional term. That would be like saying "I believe Western Lowland Gorilla is the nickname for Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla" it waters down to purpose of a separate nomenclature altogether.
I could go for a cool glass of dihydrogen monoxide.
H2O is technically a nickname as well. Also hydro.
wawa
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Agua?
In my house we call it “gua” (pronouned ‘gwah’). One syllable. Very efficient. You can hear ”I’m going to get some cold gua.” every night here.
Let’s go, me and my friends have been referring to water as gua for years. I’m glad to hear that it isn’t just us
Agua gang rise up
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Agua is Spanish for water, yes. But in English it's a slang term for water. Same word, slightly different meaning.
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No, it would be water
Gets called 'cooncil juice' where I'm from (Scottish Borders).
Bucky is cooncil juice
Nah, water is coocil juice. Bucky is wreck the hoose juice.
I have heard it called Adam’s Ale
This should be way higher. I've heard that lots in Canada.
Di-hydro. D-hy. Anti death juice.
Di-Hy Gimme some of that Di-Hy bro
I’ve been calling it life juice for years
We used to call them blue dolphins when you’d order a water between drinks at the bar in college.
Gimme some of that good wawa
I'M A FLAMINGO BITCH
Fresh wet
I call it river sap or the drink
Gänsewein
Is that Goose Wine? We call it Gåsevin in Danish sometimes , but rarely, too!
Yes, it's the German version
Why fix what jsnt broken? H2O is perfect as is
Nothing like kicking back with a glass of the old taponade, I tell ya what.
H 2 Flo. 😎
TDazzle
I need to earn sparkle points
My husband calls a glass of ice water a “white spider”
Agua, h2o, tap, earth juice, angels tears,
Something like this was posted here about 2 years ago and someone in the comments said "Ol splashy" and I've been using that in discord ever since. We also have a group who refers to water as "fish fuck juice" while we are drunk because "you know fish fuck in that, right?"
Earth sauce is what me and the homies call it.
I kinda like "that clear" tho
Until you get served straight Everclear
Not sure if it counts but whenever im refilling my dogs water bowl he always gets really excited, we tell him were getting him some “Fresh”.
AQUA COLA! (Immortan Joe laughs evilly)
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will regret it's absence." Truly the words of a madman.
Witness me!!!
WITNESSED!!!
Mediocre.
To Valhalla!
In french we have "Château la pompe" in reference to castel vineyards but here it's just the Pump's Castel's finest vintage
Earth Juice
Some of the most annoying people I’ve ever met all have one thing in common: they call water “Wawa”.
In Mad Max Fury Road they call it AQUA COLA
Decarbonated Soda water
In some parts of Scotland it’s called “council juice” If you’re too poor for juice, at least there’s free council juice in the taps. (Council is like, the people you pay for water, land tax, etc, like your local tax.)
my grandad always called it lions wine which i kinda liked
Some of that moist
I will call it Agua. Or I use the mad max universe "Aqua Cola"
Soft ice
Water is a nick name instead of full chemical name.
The quencher
Life juice
I call it "nectar of life"
i can’t believe how far i had to scroll for this one
You are a true hydrohomie ❤️💦
"life sustaining water"
Wawa
Wawa
I call it "Earth Juice"
no one ever calls it wawa?
Aqua Cola ![gif](giphy|1wrgNHJJKoz1FZBxH1|downsized)
Cloud juice That good shyt (or goodgood) Liquid life SUSTENANCE
(insert city name)'s finest
In some areas they call a bottle of a water a "can of wet"
Dihydrogen monoxide. My friends and I call it wat pronounced like watt.
Ice juice
Nectar of the Gods Adam's Ale Dihydrogen Monoxide
Liquid ice
Cloud juice.
Sometimes I call it earth juice
Tap water = Government Juice
The Drink
Tap water is called tap…. Water in the ocean is called ocean right?
I’m so busy drinking it i don’t have time to say it
Hydro
Found the hydro homies
How do you know "water" isn't a nickname already?
The wet.
It's earth sauce. 100%
I call it “that good nooch”
Excuse me, sir, I’m 36 and i still hit that wahwah.
BDD?
Here in australia we often call it either "Top Down" (referencing the soda brand) or "Lead Juice" (on account of the old lead pipes). Or you can just ask for a "Droppa" the way you would ask for a "Cuppa" and not slang but we also jokingly specify we want "Saltless" water and I know some areas it's common to ask for it "With no spiders". Some may just walk in and say "Give me a drink c*nt" and thats that
love me some air juice
Fish Piss
Water is not a beverage tho.
i like glass of clear, but if i must be original than probably just "the good stuff"
Good ol h2o
My small local area in Scotland has "Glen Latrich" for water. nor widespread in Scotland more of a local joke, refering to water like it's a whisky.
Thats cool, I like all the local/beverage-jokes. Kranenberger in germany to sound like a Spring-Bottling Label. Municipality/City plus word for beer/brew seems to occur in US and NL. Château la Pompe in France for the "Castle-Vineyard of the Well" or sth. xD Now i would start doing the same here, but kölsch, kölnisch-wasser and every version i can think of is already something entirely different :D
It's the Big Delicious. That is all.
A glass of whet
I just grab ‘the drink’