Dialect meme
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llcoolvadWhat do you call:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream or brook. Mostly stream.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart, or just cart. Caaaaaht.
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.
Sofa or couch, interchangeably. Nana, who was very New Englandy, sometimes called it a divan.
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 beverage.
Nana: tonic. Me: tonic when I was a kid, now 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.
Bathing suit — used generically for men and women. I think Nana used swim suit.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
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.
Seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With hands, crust last.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale or garage sale, used interchangeably, having nothing to do with proximity to an actual garage. "Yaaahd sale." "Graaahge sale"
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, sometimes supper (thanks Nana) — "suppah"
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Cellar, basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Fountain, bubbler (Nana strikes again. "BUBB-lah")
22: If something is diagonally located, where is it in relation to you?
Uh. Across from me?
23. What do you call the place where the water comes out of the sink?
Faucet, tap
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream or brook. Mostly stream.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart, or just cart. Caaaaaht.
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.
Sofa or couch, interchangeably. Nana, who was very New Englandy, sometimes called it a divan.
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 beverage.
Nana: tonic. Me: tonic when I was a kid, now 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.
Bathing suit — used generically for men and women. I think Nana used swim suit.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
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.
Seesaw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With hands, crust last.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale or garage sale, used interchangeably, having nothing to do with proximity to an actual garage. "Yaaahd sale." "Graaahge sale"
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, sometimes supper (thanks Nana) — "suppah"
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Cellar, basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Fountain, bubbler (Nana strikes again. "BUBB-lah")
22: If something is diagonally located, where is it in relation to you?
Uh. Across from me?
23. What do you call the place where the water comes out of the sink?
Faucet, tap
