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Local Terminology Meme
After comparing the lists of people from Scotland, Louisiana and Canada, I had to give it a go. Should be a mish-mosh of New York state (where my mother grew up), Wisconsin (where I grew up) and Indiana (where I've lived for 25 years):
1. A flowing body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Creek (NOT pronounced "crick". I remember having that fight with my mother when we were visiting her parents *g*)
2. The thing you push around the grocery store: Cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: Skillet
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: Rain gutters and downspout
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: Front porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Pop (but when I put it on my shopping list, it's "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: Swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports: Tennies
13. Putting a room in order: Picking up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: -----
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: Teetertotter
17. How do you eat your pizza? Hold it flat, and start at the point
18. When private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Garage sale
19. The evening meal: Supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: Basement
21. The thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: Bubbler
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: Rain gutters and downspout
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: Front porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Pop (but when I put it on my shopping list, it's "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: Swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports: Tennies
13. Putting a room in order: Picking up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: -----
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: Teetertotter
17. How do you eat your pizza? Hold it flat, and start at the point
18. When private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Garage sale
19. The evening meal: Supper
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: Basement
21. The thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: Bubbler
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Jeeze, does none of my flist eat the crust first to get the boring part out of the way? LOL.
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That little bug? We call potato bugs. I have no idea why.
I've never heard the term 'bubbler'! And I've never understood 'supper'. What's does 'dinner' mean, then? But I'm with you on most of the rest. :)
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Breakfast, lunch, supper. No dinner. *g*
(I remember the "mixer" conversation!)
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I flip flop between saying soda, pop, and coke. But I don't drink it that often anymore so it's hard to say what I use the most.
When I was growing up we used both supper and dinner. Generally, if it was an earlier evening meal, and light fixings, it was called supper. If it was later, and usually a heavy meal like pot roast, meatloaf, or some-such, then it was called dinner.
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I just looked up the difference and apparently dinner means a big, full meal, whether eaten at noon or in the evening. If you had a sandwich for lunch, you probably follow it up with dinner, and if you had a big dinner at noon, you follow up with a light supper in the evening.
Supposedly. :-)
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Pass the mixer -- and something to mix it with -- and you can call them whatever you want. :D
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Also, due to same region, for me growing up it was a coke. Yeah, no matter what brand of soda it was. Now, as you see, it is soda. But mixer totally works. ;)
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As I recall, I've only seen (wherever I've traveled) breakfast, lunch and dinner. I've only heard/read the term 'supper' in movies, TV or books (and now on lj). Really! :)
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Lots of things that seem fictional really do exist in the South. Like supper, ghosts, and fried green tomatoes for example. ;)
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But in my family it's always been "what's for supper?" :-)
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It's what I grew up saying, but I left it behind when I got all cosmopolitan. *g* Lots of folks around here still say dinner/supper, including my sister.
Here, a poem for you involving "supper". Kinda.
"Off to bed," said Sleepy Head.
"Let's wait a while," said Slow.
"Put on the pot," said Greedy Gut, "We'll sup before we go."
*takes a bow*
That's something my mama used to recite. :)
Also- roly poly. I would turn over the big flat rocks of our flower garden to find them, and if you touched them (they are hard, not icky) they would roll into a perfect little ball. Very fun when you are 6 and have little entertainment but imagination. *g*
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#12 Sneakers
#15 Rollie Pollie (sure I am spelling that wrong)
#16 SeeSaw
#18 Reallocation of OPUS (other peoples unwanted shit) - ok, that's just me, not regional
#21 Water Fountain
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#18 = Hee!
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8. Definitely soda
15. Sowbug, though I also have heard/used pillbug
19. Dinner
21. Water fountain (bubbler?! Wow!)
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Bubbler = Wisconsin, I have no idea why! And although we had lots of bubblers, if we had little bugs that curl up, I don't remember ever seeing one.
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Not a bug fan. *shudder*
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http://www.whatsthatbug.com/Pill.html
Scroll down to the one of several bugs next to a penny. They're called rolly polly because they roll up in a little ball when threatened (or when mean kids poke at them). :)
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#12. Tennie-rompers! How frivolous they sound!
#9. I think you're the first person I've seen who didn't answer "pancakes".
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*g* Frivolous, yes. I only report the news.
I remember being really confused by the "International House of Pancakes." Because they were FLAPJACKS, goddammit. Or griddlecakes, if you were an effete whacko. We were all pretty sure that the only place you ate pancakes was in *Europe*....
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My family went every year when I was growing up. A couple of years ago, someone gave me a couple of free tickets when I was up there visiting, and my Dad and I went. It was all very nostalgic, even though the venue had changed.
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