Regional Dialecticisms
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Katja
4 Dec 2003
Odds and Ends
- A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
- Creek or stream
- What is the thing you push around the grocery store?
- Grocery cart
- A metal container to carry a meal in?
- Lunchbox
- The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
- Frying pan
- The piece of furniture that seats three people?
- Sofa
- The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
- Drainspout
- The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
- Porch
- Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
- Soda
- A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
- Pancakes
- A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
- Sub
- The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
- Trunks
- Shoes worn for sports?
- Sneakers (but not anymore)
- Putting a room in order?
- Cleaning
- A flying insect that glows in the dark?
- Firefly
- The little insect that curls up into a ball?
- Sowbug
- 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?
- Teeter-totter
- How do you eat your pizza?
- With a knife and fork (or point first, with the hands, if no one is watching)
- What’s it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
- Garage Sale
- What’s the evening meal?
- Dinner (unless I’m in Germany, in which case it’s Vesper)
- An area of trees, greater than an acre?
- Woods
