Dialect meme!
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From
greenlily.
Age: 33
Where did you grow up? Boulder, Colorado
Whaddya call:
* 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
A creek or stream, depending. Depending on what, I'm not exactly sure, except that if it has high banks I'm more likely to call it a creek.
* 2. The thing you push around the grocery store?
Shopping cart
* 3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunchbox
* 4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Skillet
* 5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Couch, usually. Once in a while "sofa" comes out instead.
* 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?
If it's covered, it's a porch. Unless it's on an upper floor, when it might be a balcony.
* 8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Grew up saying "pop." Now usually say "soda" because it's what people around here use. Can't say either one and have it feel natural anymore.
* 9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake
* 10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub, usually
* 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?
Cleaning up, I think.
* 14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly
* 15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
Roly-poly
* 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?
I think I called it a teeter-totter as a child, though I might say seesaw now.
* 17. How do you eat your pizza?
Unless it's unduly messy (in which case I'd use a fork), I pick it up and bite the point.
* 18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
A garage sale. Except that sometimes it's a yard sale.
* 19. What's the evening meal?
I've used both "dinner" and "supper," with a vaguely more formal connotation to "dinner."
* 20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement
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Age: 33
Where did you grow up? Boulder, Colorado
Whaddya call:
* 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
A creek or stream, depending. Depending on what, I'm not exactly sure, except that if it has high banks I'm more likely to call it a creek.
* 2. The thing you push around the grocery store?
Shopping cart
* 3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunchbox
* 4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Skillet
* 5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Couch, usually. Once in a while "sofa" comes out instead.
* 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?
If it's covered, it's a porch. Unless it's on an upper floor, when it might be a balcony.
* 8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Grew up saying "pop." Now usually say "soda" because it's what people around here use. Can't say either one and have it feel natural anymore.
* 9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake
* 10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub, usually
* 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?
Cleaning up, I think.
* 14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly
* 15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
Roly-poly
* 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?
I think I called it a teeter-totter as a child, though I might say seesaw now.
* 17. How do you eat your pizza?
Unless it's unduly messy (in which case I'd use a fork), I pick it up and bite the point.
* 18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
A garage sale. Except that sometimes it's a yard sale.
* 19. What's the evening meal?
I've used both "dinner" and "supper," with a vaguely more formal connotation to "dinner."
* 20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement