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Regional American English Poll (but I wouldn't mind if you weren't american and filled this out)
Laura
Age: 17
Where did you grow up: Long Island, NY
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
a 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.
A 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.
soda (I don't like the word pop. . . I don't know why. And "soder", which is a comic book brand.)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
pancake (what's the alternative, flapjack? are flapjacks the same as pancakes?)
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
a sub. . . or hero. I guess I think of the really long ones that you get for parties as heroes.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
bathing suit, usually
12. Shoes worn for sports.
sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
cleaning up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
potato bug. they were cute when me and Katie used to call them potato bugs. Katie let them crawl all over her hands, and we liked them. Then I heard them called pill bugs, and suddenly they were kinda icky.
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?
well, I'm not a big pizza fan, but I start at the pointy end. And I usally don't eat the crust--or I pull out the white fluffy inside and leave the, uh, crusty outside. I don't eat bread crusts, usually, either.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale, mainly
19. What's the evening meal?
usually dinner, sometimes supper.
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. (I've never heard "bubbler" before)
I missed Elijah Wood on Leno last night! (I keep a LOTR media appearances tape. Dammit! I was going to start a new one for ROTK. . . shoot. He's going to be on Conan later in the month, though. And Orlando Bloom is on Leno tomorrow. . . hmm. ::sigh:: This and Stargate are why I need cable. I simply can't keep asking my friends to tape these things for me, I'm a nuisance already!
Laura
Age: 17
Where did you grow up: Long Island, NY
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
a 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.
A 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.
soda (I don't like the word pop. . . I don't know why. And "soder", which is a comic book brand.)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
pancake (what's the alternative, flapjack? are flapjacks the same as pancakes?)
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
a sub. . . or hero. I guess I think of the really long ones that you get for parties as heroes.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
bathing suit, usually
12. Shoes worn for sports.
sneakers
13. Putting a room in order.
cleaning up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
potato bug. they were cute when me and Katie used to call them potato bugs. Katie let them crawl all over her hands, and we liked them. Then I heard them called pill bugs, and suddenly they were kinda icky.
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?
well, I'm not a big pizza fan, but I start at the pointy end. And I usally don't eat the crust--or I pull out the white fluffy inside and leave the, uh, crusty outside. I don't eat bread crusts, usually, either.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale, mainly
19. What's the evening meal?
usually dinner, sometimes supper.
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. (I've never heard "bubbler" before)
I missed Elijah Wood on Leno last night! (I keep a LOTR media appearances tape. Dammit! I was going to start a new one for ROTK. . . shoot. He's going to be on Conan later in the month, though. And Orlando Bloom is on Leno tomorrow. . . hmm. ::sigh:: This and Stargate are why I need cable. I simply can't keep asking my friends to tape these things for me, I'm a nuisance already!
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Name: Rachel
Age: 20
Where did you grow up: Harrow/Cheshire/The Home Counties/Cologne... Yes, Europe. >:D
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A brook.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
A shopping trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A refridgerator? Who carries food around in metal boxes? O_O
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
A microwave.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
A setee.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Drainpipes.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
The patio.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soft drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
I'm going to go with pancake, too. But Scotch pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
This some kind of roll, or perhaps a baguette. Or possibly a sandwich made with giant slices of bread.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Cherynobyl Death MothsFireflies.15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Woodlouse, woodlice plural.
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.
A see-saw.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With a very sharp knife.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
A car-boot sale, except that's usually a collection of people, rather than one person just standing there selling cap.
19. What's the evening meal?
Tea. Dinner, if it's the second evening meal and/or served with a pudding.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
What on earth is a rec room? I'm assuming furnance means boiler, which would make the answer "the kitchen", but the question stipulates that this place is under the house, which would make it a cellar.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Unsanitary. ... We just called them water fountains at school. And used to hold our fingers down over the nozzle and drench everybody behind us. >:D
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lunch boxes rock! Now people tend to use cloth ones, but metal lunch boxes (in the 1800s kids brought their lunch to school in metal pails) wwere really big in the 80s, and now a lot of them are kind of, like, collectors items for geeks. Like, you can get ones with people from the 80s on it. Or comic book characters--I have a Hellboy lunch box (http://www.wickedcoolstuff.com/hellunbox2.html) that I love very much and never use. My sister actually uses her Rocky and Bullwinkle lunch box. Every single day, carries it to and from school (in her book bag). I use a brown paper bag. What do people put their lunches in over there?
I've a patio, but it's not covered--it's just this bricked over area in our back yard where the picnic table is. Not that I have a porch. :( I've always wanted one.
scotch pancakes? like, from scotland, or full of scotch?
rec room is short for "recreation room", although I've never used the term. We call ours the family room. The family room is casual, and the living room is formal. (kind of like the 19th century equivalent of a sitting room vs. a parlor. . . sorry, this is what happens when you work at bethpage) But I guess you could say we have a rec room in our basement (or cellar). Half of it is unfinished and has the washing machine and furnace and storage, and the other half has a ping-pong table and bookshelves and a couch, all of which is useless because our crap, and mainly my dad's computer stuff, is completely covering everything. Anyway, all my friends have different things in their basements, several have whole little apartements for subletting or grandparents or something. . . so I think what they wanted is just what you call the space underneath your house.
::cough::
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Tupperware boxes, normally. Although, you could buy plastic square lunch boxes when I was little. Only the sad kids had them, though. I should know, because I had one. XD
But metal is just wrong... Oo Most people eat in refectories anyway.
And Scotch pancakes... I'm not actually sure why they're called that, but they're sweet mini-pancakes, and they're quite thick. Not like normal pancakes.
And you know, I don't know anybody who has a space under their house, which makes the question kinda silly. XD Only big old Victorian houses tend to have cellars/basements where I live.
And I still can't quite get my head round this rec room thing. It sounds like you're expected to have you longue underground... XD
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When I was little there were a lot of plastic lunchboxes. Metal ones are older--50s? 70s? I'm not really sure. But they're coming back amongst nerds XD
ooh, the Scottish pancakes sound good. I'm hungry!
well, having a family room thingie underground gives you more rooms in your house. You get an extra room.
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6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
gutter
drain pipe (a gutter is what runs along the sides of the streets and goes to the sewars)
12. Shoes worn for sports.
sneakers
tennis shoes
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
potato bug. they were cute when me and Katie used to call them potato bugs. Katie let them crawl all over her hands, and we liked them. Then I heard them called pill bugs, and suddenly they were kinda icky.
rollie pollie (here, a potato bug is this huge, UGLY thing that looks like a creature from outerspace and can punch through skin with its pinchers)
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
We don't have basements. I'm sure that if we had them, we'd call them basements, but we don't.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
water fountain. (I've never heard "bubbler" before)
drinking fountain (a water fountain usually has a statue in it and is decorative and you DON'T want to drink the water)
^_^
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eep! rollie pollie I've heard before. . . but I never knew there was something else called a potato bug. ack! ::shivers::
wow. apparently a lot of places don't have basements! OK, so far I've gotten CA and England, but still. I guess I thought basements were everywhere. . .
geez, imagine all the confusion if I called some of these things by my names. ;)
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