Regional Language meme
Ganked from everyone.
Age: 42
Where you grew up: Southern New England
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 is called: shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: lunch box (usually only kids have metal ones, and I dunno how many even do these days, as everything's gone insulated plastic)
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: Frying pan or skillet.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Couch. Unless it's really fancy, in which case it's a sofa.
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. If it wraps around the house, veranda, but that's more of a Southern thing.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: The stereotypical New England answer is tonic, but that's dying out. Mostly just soda. The other fun but antiquated Southern New-England-ism is to call milkshakes "cabinets" after the milk-dispensing units in places like Newport Creamery. If Newport Creamery is even still in business, that's probably the only place that would still list them as such though.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Grinder or sub. Connecticut leans more towards grinder and Massachusetts towards sub.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports: Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order: I'm not sure I have a word for this. *g* Oh, all right: picking up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: *points @ username*
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Pill bug
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: See-saw.
17. How do you eat your pizza: Pick it up and eat it. Fold in half if the slices are wide and the crust is thin. Except if it's deep-dish, which is rare around here, which kinda has to be fork and knife. (How is that language?)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Yard sale, tag sale, or garage sale, in order from most to least common usage.
19. What's the evening meal?: dinner or supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: cellar if it's done over, basement if it's not
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: bubbler
Age: 42
Where you grew up: Southern New England
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 is called: shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: lunch box (usually only kids have metal ones, and I dunno how many even do these days, as everything's gone insulated plastic)
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: Frying pan or skillet.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Couch. Unless it's really fancy, in which case it's a sofa.
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. If it wraps around the house, veranda, but that's more of a Southern thing.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: The stereotypical New England answer is tonic, but that's dying out. Mostly just soda. The other fun but antiquated Southern New-England-ism is to call milkshakes "cabinets" after the milk-dispensing units in places like Newport Creamery. If Newport Creamery is even still in business, that's probably the only place that would still list them as such though.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Grinder or sub. Connecticut leans more towards grinder and Massachusetts towards sub.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports: Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order: I'm not sure I have a word for this. *g* Oh, all right: picking up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: *points @ username*
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Pill bug
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: See-saw.
17. How do you eat your pizza: Pick it up and eat it. Fold in half if the slices are wide and the crust is thin. Except if it's deep-dish, which is rare around here, which kinda has to be fork and knife. (How is that language?)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Yard sale, tag sale, or garage sale, in order from most to least common usage.
19. What's the evening meal?: dinner or supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: cellar if it's done over, basement if it's not
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: bubbler