Vocabulary Meme

[chickenfeet]

From intertext:

I am Northern English by birth and heritage. I have spent much of my life in Southern England and Ontario with odd bits in the USA and Ontario. My vocabulary varies depending on where I am and who I am with.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
a stream, beck, burn or creek.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart or shopping trolley

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Do what now?

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan or skillet

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Drainpipe or downspout

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
??

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
pop, soda

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
sub, baguette, sandwich

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
swimming trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports.
trainers, running shoes, PAs, rugby boots, football boots, tennis shoes... what sport are we talking about?

13. Putting a room in order.
Surely you jest

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.
seesaw

17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale or yard sale

19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain

Comments

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

15. Pill bugs.

They look like little trilobites - very prehistoric-looking little critters.

[nanila]

Huh. I always called them "potato bugs".

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

They are roly-poly bugs!

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

this is a potato bug. They squick me no end. (http://www.potatobugs.com/)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Ugly little sods

[nanila]

Eeewww, that's a dreadful image. The insect that nauseates me most is the silverfish, with that prehistoric shape and horrible soft body.

[ironed_orchid]

7. Verandah, Porch, possibly Pergola

15. Slater

17. As was pointed out to me, this is hardly a linguistic matter.

[nanila]

7. My favorite is the Hawaiian word: lanai. I still use it. Damn the Mainlanders and the Brits! ;-)

[gillo]

Pancakes for breakfast???

I don't know anyone with a verandah and only one family with a cellar.

It's not just a language thing is it?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm Canadian enough to know about pancakes with bacon and maple syrup for breakfast. These are, of course, buttermilk pancakes rather than the crepe like things described as a pancake in England.

[gillo]

Those strange, thick, spongy things they used to serve at Little Chefs? I have to say I'm way to English to contemplate bacon and maple syrup on the same plate with anything like resolve.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Bacon, pancakes and maple syrup are really quite good together

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Mmm. yum. yes they are. But I also like the little thin crispy ones that my mum used to make that we'd have on Shrove Tuesday, eaten with lemon and a little sugar.

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

My vocabulary varies depending on where I am and who I am with.

That's a good way of putting it; I would have to say the same.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

13. Putting a room in order.
Surely you jest

*iz ded (in sympathy)*

[intertext.livejournal.com]

You don't have wood lice? I think, mind you, that wood louse is the English name, because that's what we called the ones that lived in our house on the Isle of Wight. Around here they call them sow bugs. Little grey things that look like extremely miniature armadilloes. They congregate in wood piles.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I guess I would call them wood lice. I haven't seen one for so long that I think I forgot about them.

i got some...

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

#7- Porch
#18- Rummage Sale
#9- Flapjacks also.
#5- Couch
#14- Glow worm