Dialect/Language meme
Stolen from holydread. I almost want to answer it as what words I use at work... speaking to UKers. I'll put that in parenthesis if the mood strikes.
Age: 25
Where you grew up: Dean, Nova Scotia
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A brook.
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.
Frying 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.
Eaves
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.
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers
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.
teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Holding it in my hands? If it's on Pizza corner then I eat it while it's still held on the tiny paper plate
18. What’s it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale, or 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.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.
Age: 25
Where you grew up: Dean, Nova Scotia
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A brook.
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.
Frying 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.
Eaves
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.
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers
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.
teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Holding it in my hands? If it's on Pizza corner then I eat it while it's still held on the tiny paper plate
18. What’s it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale, or 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.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.