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Dec. 4th, 2003 01:28 pmRegional 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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Date: 2003-12-05 03:38 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2003-12-08 01:21 pm (UTC)