Meme
Linguistics Meme
To keep it real, it should be answered as your childhood, local terms.
Welsh valleys, late 80's/early nineties
1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: Gulley
2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: Jumper.
3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: ??
4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.": Tag
5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games: Time out
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: Taxed!
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: Daps
8. Small round bread: Roll
9. Sweet course that follows the main course: Afters
10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": Gone
11. Generic term for a bird: Bird?
12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: Pancake
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: Errrr, no idea
14. Term of endearment: Luv, Darling
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: Fragile
16. Tourists: ??
17. A field boundary: Fence
18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" Cows; barn
19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: I'm starving, it's freezing.
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: Dare
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a: Poseur, Chav
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?: Ta, Cheers
23. Generic friendly greeting: Alright?
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: Trews
25. Slang term for left-handed person: Lefty
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? Shrewsburry, Newcastle, Glasgow
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: You're out of order butt/luv lol
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face - and, indeed, for any other body parts - Mitts, lugholes
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: Face like a slapped arse
31. Potatoes: Potatoes
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: Crumpet
To keep it real, it should be answered as your childhood, local terms.
Welsh valleys, late 80's/early nineties
1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: Gulley
2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: Jumper.
3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: ??
4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.": Tag
5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games: Time out
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: Taxed!
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: Daps
8. Small round bread: Roll
9. Sweet course that follows the main course: Afters
10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": Gone
11. Generic term for a bird: Bird?
12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: Pancake
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: Errrr, no idea
14. Term of endearment: Luv, Darling
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: Fragile
16. Tourists: ??
17. A field boundary: Fence
18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" Cows; barn
19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: I'm starving, it's freezing.
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: Dare
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a: Poseur, Chav
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?: Ta, Cheers
23. Generic friendly greeting: Alright?
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: Trews
25. Slang term for left-handed person: Lefty
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? Shrewsburry, Newcastle, Glasgow
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: You're out of order butt/luv lol
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face - and, indeed, for any other body parts - Mitts, lugholes
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: Face like a slapped arse
31. Potatoes: Potatoes
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: Crumpet