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Where did you grow up: Michigan and upstate NY
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream or creek
(I knew lots of people who pronounced creek as crick in NY)
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
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter or storm drain
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
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.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swim suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers or tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Straighten up or tidy
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Lightning bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Pill/sow bug or rolly polly
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 (although I think I maybe said see saw as a kid, too)
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Usually with a knife and fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
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?
Drinking fountain
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream or creek
(I knew lots of people who pronounced creek as crick in NY)
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
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter or storm drain
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
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.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swim suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers or tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Straighten up or tidy
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Lightning bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Pill/sow bug or rolly polly
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 (although I think I maybe said see saw as a kid, too)
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Usually with a knife and fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
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?
Drinking fountain