Do You Wait in Line or on Line?
Sometimes all it takes is a single word to figure out where a person is from. For instance, if they say “soda” they might be from the Northeast, whereas someone who says “pop” is more likely to have grown up in the Midwest. Other regionalisms are less distinct, as they
vary by just a single letter. Such is the case with “wait in line” and “wait on line.” While the former is used by a majority of American English speakers, there’s a part of the country where the latter is far more common — in the Big Apple and its...
