language meme
Language Meme
Age: 35
Where did you grow up: St. Louis, Missouri
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
creek or stream
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox
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.
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda, sodie
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.
swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
straightening up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
lightening bug
15. The little insect 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.
See-saw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
with my hands
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?
water fountain
Age: 35
Where did you grow up: St. Louis, Missouri
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
creek or stream
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox
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.
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda, sodie
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.
swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
straightening up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
lightening bug
15. The little insect 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.
See-saw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
with my hands
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?
water fountain