Dialect meme
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Where did you grow up: the Big Thicket, Texas
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek, branch or bayou
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
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.
Coke
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub or po-boy
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimsuit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennies
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Pillbug
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.
Seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Held in hand, flat, point first.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement (extremely rare here)
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain
Well, what do YOU say?
starcat_jewel:Where did you grow up: the Big Thicket, Texas
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek, branch or bayou
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
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.
Coke
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub or po-boy
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimsuit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennies
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Pillbug
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.
Seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Held in hand, flat, point first.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement (extremely rare here)
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain
Well, what do YOU say?
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Date: 2008-04-02 03:27 pm (UTC)8. Soda
10. Just sub
11. Swimsuit or trunks
16. Teeter-totter
21. Bubbler