Local Terminology Meme

[sid]

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

Comments

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

17. How do you eat your pizza? Hold it flat, and start at the point


Jeeze, does none of my flist eat the crust first to get the boring part out of the way? LOL.

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

When I first got my lj one of our earliest conversations was about the 'soda or pop' question. I told you I called it 'mixer'. *g*

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. :)

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

#10 Hoagie
#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

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else who calls it a teetertotter! :-D

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

4. Frying pan
8. Definitely soda
15. Sowbug, though I also have heard/used pillbug
19. Dinner
21. Water fountain (bubbler?! Wow!)

[inthe-parlance.livejournal.com]

I like your list. The little bug is a rolly polly. :)

[ivorygates]

#1. Stream. #2. Cart. #3. Lunch-pail or bucket. #4. Fry-pan. #5. Sofa. #6. Gutters and downspout. #7. Front porch. #8. Soda. #9. Flapjacks. #10. Sub. #11. Swimsuit. #12. Tennie-rompers. #13. Tidying. #14. Glow-bug. #15. Sow bug. #16. Teetertotter. #17. You fold it over lengthwise and eat it pointy-end first. #18. Yard sale. #19. Dinner. #20. Basement. #21. Drinking fountain.