Regional Dialect Meme
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oritsu_luvAge: 28
Where you grew up (0-18): A suburb outside of Boston, then Connecticut
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A stream?
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
A [shopping] cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A lunch box?
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
A skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
A couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
The gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
A porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes
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.
A bathing suit?
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
Uh...? Cleaning up a room?
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
A firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
What???
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other
A seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands...
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
A yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
A basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
A water fountain
Where you grew up (0-18): A suburb outside of Boston, then Connecticut
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A stream?
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
A [shopping] cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A lunch box?
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
A skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
A couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
The gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
A porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes
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.
A bathing suit?
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
Uh...? Cleaning up a room?
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
A firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
What???
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other
A seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands...
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
A yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
A basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
A water fountain
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Date: 2010-04-30 10:00 pm (UTC)#1 - Creek
#4 - Frying Pan
#5 - I sometimes say sofa instead, but that might be not a regional thing, but a living with international people thing. xD
#8 - Coke
#11 - Trunks
#12 - I sometimes say trainers, but same as #5.
#13 - I sometimes say tidying up, but same as above. xD;
#15 - Rolly-polly
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Date: 2010-04-30 10:21 pm (UTC)13= straightening up
15= a doodle bug! (or pill bug)
18= tag sale
meme
Date: 2010-05-01 01:56 am (UTC)yard sale garage sale is CHANGING when I was a kid it was Garge sale NOW it's Yard
I eat pizza with my FINGERS not my hands it's the same thing though.
was I the only kid that ever had to explain that every soda was not COKE?
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