![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Because I just can't resist
Apr. 6th, 2008 03:57 pmHere's another meme, the inspiration for which was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andrealyn.
Dialect Meme:
Ok, so andrea gave us the Ontarian perspective, so here's the not-so-southern Southerner's perspective.
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, buggy, or grocery 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/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, or possibly a deck.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Coke. I don't really care what brand it is, it's Coke. I'm from Atlanta, people. What is this Pepsi of which you speak? Ok, ok, I do sometimes refer to it as soda. Never pop, never soda pop.
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: Sneakers/tennis shoes if I'm feeling American, trainers if I'm not.
13. Putting a room in order: Cleaning or neatening, depending on the magnitude.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly or lightning 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?: Unless it's too hot to hold or the toppings are all falling in my lap, pizza is strictly finger food.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?: Garage sale/yard 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.
andrealyn.Dialect Meme:
Ok, so andrea gave us the Ontarian perspective, so here's the not-so-southern Southerner's perspective.
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, buggy, or grocery 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/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, or possibly a deck.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Coke. I don't really care what brand it is, it's Coke. I'm from Atlanta, people. What is this Pepsi of which you speak? Ok, ok, I do sometimes refer to it as soda. Never pop, never soda pop.
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: Sneakers/tennis shoes if I'm feeling American, trainers if I'm not.
13. Putting a room in order: Cleaning or neatening, depending on the magnitude.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly or lightning 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?: Unless it's too hot to hold or the toppings are all falling in my lap, pizza is strictly finger food.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?: Garage sale/yard 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.
