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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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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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