Memage: Regional Differences
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madknits I was raised in NY and New England, but have lived in Calif. for nearly 30 years. My language has evolved.
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart or grocery cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
sofa
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes or flapjacks
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
track shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Straightening up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Catterpiller
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.
Teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Folded in half with my hands, unless its Sicilian style. Then it's not folded.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard Sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Supper if it's family only, but usually dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement. However, here in N. California, its more likely to be "the crawl space"!
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain
madknits I was raised in NY and New England, but have lived in Calif. for nearly 30 years. My language has evolved. WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart or grocery cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
sofa
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes or flapjacks
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
track shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Straightening up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Catterpiller
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.
Teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Folded in half with my hands, unless its Sicilian style. Then it's not folded.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard Sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Supper if it's family only, but usually dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement. However, here in N. California, its more likely to be "the crawl space"!
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain
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Date: 2008-04-23 12:26 am (UTC)5. Couch
8. Sodapop
12. Tennis shoes or running shoes
15. Pill bug
17. I don't eat pizza
18. Garage sale
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Date: 2008-04-23 02:58 am (UTC)8. Coke ( it's an El Paso thing) I refuse to drink my father.
12. Tennis shoes or tennies
15. Pill bug
17. No folding thanks.
18. Garage sale
19. Supper
21. Water fountain