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Mechanosapience ([personal profile] mechanosapience) wrote2010-05-04 12:21 am

Regional Linguistics Meme

Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] ladybird97

Age: 21
Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): Stamford, CT, USA

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: stream

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

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

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: 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: bathing 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: rolypoly

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 a knife and fork until it cools, then cheese-side up, point first, on a horizontal plane.

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 from which you can drink water in public places: water fountain

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