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Before I get started, there has been a pretty lengthy debate as to whether riding a sled in the snow is termed as sledding or sled riding. Now, I never considered the term sled riding EVER to be incorrect since I’ve grown up in either central/western PA my entire life. As soon as I went to college, though, things changed. For example, here’s a conversation I had with my friend from New Jersey:
Me: “Hey Brian! Do you want to go sled riding with us on Flagstaff Hill?”Brian: “. . . What? You mean sledding.”Me: “No. I definitely meant sled riding.”Brian: “No. Sled riding doesn’t make sense. You meant sledding.”Me: “You ride on a sled… which is why it’s called sled riding. We’re going sled riding.”
After a long-winded discussion and bringing in a few of our friends, it was decided that Western PA people didn’t know what they were talking about and sled riding was incorrect.
So what is it? Are you going sled riding or sledding? |
Since we are all yinzers here – and with all the snow coming our way – we are going sled riding this weekend! (more…)