Dialect Meme

[cnoocy]

I'm not certain this is all that useful, but what the hey.



Age: 30
Where did you grow up? Atlanta, GA

Whaddya call:
* 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
creek

* 2. The thing you push around the grocery store?
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?
Coke or soft drink

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

* 10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
sub or sub sandwich

* 11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
bathing suit

* 12. Shoes worn for sports?
tennis shoes

* 13. Putting a room in order?
tidying up

* 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?
when I eat pizza, I start at one side and eat along the side iteratively, gradually reducing the slice of pizza to a wedge of fewer and fewer degrees.

* 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?
basement, or in the house I grew up in, crawlspace.

Comments

[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were from Atlanta...

[cnoocy]

Born (northside hospital) and raised (lenox square/buford highway area).

[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

I skedaddled down this way after Carleton. We appear to have swapped ends of the east coast.