Linguistics Meme
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?
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 or sofa, fairly interchangeably
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 and, less commonly, patio
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soda (never, ever "pop", and never, ever "sodey-pop" like my grandfather)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order?
Tidying (cleaning is for causing cleanliness like with a vacuum and dusting spray and other cleaners, not just for order)
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Fireflies
15. The little insect (arthropod) 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?
Teeter-totter or, less commonly seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Point first, then crust, then middle. Sometimes.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale (sometimes garage sale)
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner (or supper on days when the main meal was at noon)
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
And, in response to graygirl's addition...the "bubbler" thing is a Milwaukee (or possibly Wisconsin) thing. We don't say it in Illinois. Folks in Michigan don't say it. Most of us are normal "water fountain" users like you.
Creek
2. What 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 or sofa, fairly interchangeably
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 and, less commonly, patio
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soda (never, ever "pop", and never, ever "sodey-pop" like my grandfather)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order?
Tidying (cleaning is for causing cleanliness like with a vacuum and dusting spray and other cleaners, not just for order)
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Fireflies
15. The little insect (arthropod) 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?
Teeter-totter or, less commonly seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Point first, then crust, then middle. Sometimes.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale (sometimes garage sale)
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner (or supper on days when the main meal was at noon)
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
And, in response to graygirl's addition...the "bubbler" thing is a Milwaukee (or possibly Wisconsin) thing. We don't say it in Illinois. Folks in Michigan don't say it. Most of us are normal "water fountain" users like you.