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chickenfeet) wrote2008-04-02 06:20 pm
chickenfeet) wrote2008-04-02 06:20 pm
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Vocabulary Meme
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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
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
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They look like little trilobites - very prehistoric-looking little critters.
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15. Slater
17. As was pointed out to me, this is hardly a linguistic matter.
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I don't know anyone with a verandah and only one family with a cellar.
It's not just a language thing is it?
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That's a good way of putting it; I would have to say the same.
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Surely you jest
*iz ded (in sympathy)*
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i got some...
#18- Rummage Sale
#9- Flapjacks also.
#5- Couch
#14- Glow worm