Dialect meme

May 01, 2010 11:38

Stolen from earlgreytea68 .

Age: 27.

Where you grew up: Texas

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Creek. Not pronounced crick.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: A buggy.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in: A lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: A skillet.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: A couch. Or sofa. I think I use both.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: A gutter.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: A porch.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: A coke.

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: A pancake.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: A sub.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Swimming trunks.

12. Shoes worn for sports: Tennis shoes.

13. Putting a room in order: Cleaning.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Lightning bug.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Doodle 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: A see-saw. (what else would this be called?)

17. How do you eat your pizza: Um. With my hands?

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: A garage sale.

19. What's the evening meal?: Dinner.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: A basement.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: A water fountain.

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