It seems to be making the rounds...
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ambitious_wenchWhat words do you use for...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
ditch, stream or creek (pronounced creeeeek or crick depending on where you're from)
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store?
A shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
lunch box or sometimes a lunch pail.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
A frying or fry pan, or skillet, or sometimes it's just a pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
sofa, or couch, or loveseat if it's three small people. I've heard divan used, too, but not lately, and not on this coast.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutters and down spout is the system.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Lanai, porch, deck, patio, stoop, steps.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soda, soft drink, pop, soda-pop, coke (Any of which is a coke in the South. Even Pepsi, or so I've been told. )
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes, crepes, johnnycakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub(marine), grinder.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Trunks, swimsuit. swim shorts, Speedos (regardless of brand, much like xerox copy and kleenex tissue.)
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Sneakers, walkers.
13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning, straightening, tidying, field day, neatening up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly or lightning bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
sow bugs, pill bugs
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
See-saw, teeter-totter.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With paper napkins and beer.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
It it includes items in a garage, then a garage sale. Otherwise a yard sale, rummage sale, or tag sale, that last one being peculiar to New England, I think. If more than one family, it's a (N)-family yard sale, or if it's on a permanent site, it's a flea market.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, or supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement, cellar, root cellar, storm cellar, downstairs, below stairs.
Oh, and George W. Bush is a miserable failure. (Thank you for the best laugh I've had in a while,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yonmei!)
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
ditch, stream or creek (pronounced creeeeek or crick depending on where you're from)
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store?
A shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
lunch box or sometimes a lunch pail.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
A frying or fry pan, or skillet, or sometimes it's just a pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
sofa, or couch, or loveseat if it's three small people. I've heard divan used, too, but not lately, and not on this coast.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutters and down spout is the system.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Lanai, porch, deck, patio, stoop, steps.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soda, soft drink, pop, soda-pop, coke (Any of which is a coke in the South. Even Pepsi, or so I've been told. )
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes, crepes, johnnycakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub(marine), grinder.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Trunks, swimsuit. swim shorts, Speedos (regardless of brand, much like xerox copy and kleenex tissue.)
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Sneakers, walkers.
13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning, straightening, tidying, field day, neatening up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly or lightning bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
sow bugs, pill bugs
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
See-saw, teeter-totter.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With paper napkins and beer.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
It it includes items in a garage, then a garage sale. Otherwise a yard sale, rummage sale, or tag sale, that last one being peculiar to New England, I think. If more than one family, it's a (N)-family yard sale, or if it's on a permanent site, it's a flea market.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, or supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement, cellar, root cellar, storm cellar, downstairs, below stairs.
Oh, and George W. Bush is a miserable failure. (Thank you for the best laugh I've had in a while,
yonmei!)