regional dialect meme (OOOOO!!!!!)
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emchyRegional Dialect Meme
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.
grocery cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
couch
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
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
sub sandwich
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
bathing suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
clean up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
pill bug
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?
half folded in my hands pointy end facing my mouth OR with a knife and fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
crawlspace or basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
water fountain
22: If something is diagonally located, where is it in relation to you?
across the way or over there
23. What do you call the place where the water comes out of the sink?
faucet
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.
grocery cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
couch
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
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
sub sandwich
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
bathing suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
clean up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
pill bug
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?
half folded in my hands pointy end facing my mouth OR with a knife and fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
crawlspace or basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
water fountain
22: If something is diagonally located, where is it in relation to you?
across the way or over there
23. What do you call the place where the water comes out of the sink?
faucet
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Date: 2008-04-10 06:03 am (UTC)8. soda
10. sub (adding "sandwich" is repetitive)
15. ... an insect that does what??
16. see-saw
18. yard sale
22. over there
Not bad... I thought New Hampshire and Michigan would have more differences...
who knew NY would be SO different?
Date: 2008-04-11 02:52 am (UTC)1. stream
2. cart
7. stoop
8. soda
10. gyro
11. trunks
14. lightning bug
15. potato bug
16. see-saw
17. half folded in my hands pointy end facing my mouth
18. garage sale or yard sale or white elephant sale
20. basement
21. water fountain or drinking fountain
22: cattycorner (sp?)
23. tap