Linguistics meme!

[amandac777]

From ataniell93. Meme on word choices.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?

Creek (usually pronounced like the sound of a squeaky door, occasionally like a sore neck). Sometimes a stream.

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?

Shopping cart.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?

You mean my insulated nylon thingie? That's my lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?

Ooh, Mom and I just debated this one over the weekend. It's a frying pan. Unless it stands on its own legs and plugs in, in which case it's an electric skillet, or is flat with no sides, when it's just a skillet.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?

Couch, usually.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?

Gutters.

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

Porch.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?

It's properly pop. Too many friends from other places have corrupted me, though, so it's frequently soda, or soda pop when I catch myself.

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

Pancakes (just one? C'mon!).

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?

Sub, sometimes submarine.

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

Swimsuit.

12. Shoes worn for sports?

Sneakers, tennis shoes.

13. Putting a room in order?

Um, cleaning? Picking up? (There's actually controversy on this one? I suppose I don't do it often enough to know.)

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?

Firefly, most of the time. Occasionally a lightning bug.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?

I grew up calling them roly-polies, and still do frequently. Since Freshman Bio, though, I've started regularly calling them Isopods, or sometimes pillbugs. (And, btw, they're crustaceans, like lobsters and shrimp, not insects.)

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?

Teeter-totter, sometimes see-saw.

17. How do you eat your pizza?

This is a language question? I pick it up once it's cool enough, then munch, primarily from the pointy end, but nibbling at the edges of the rounded end (and there should *always* be a rounded end) so that I'm not stuck with a big piece of dry crust at the end. If it's stuffed pizza or something, there's silverware involved.

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

Used to be a garage sale, but now it's more often a yard sale.

19. What's the evening meal?

Dinner.

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

My bedroom. Also, the basement.

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

Drinking fountain, sometimes water fountain

22. What do you call flashing light on your car that you turn on when you are getting reading to make a turn?

Turn signal.



So what do the rest of you say? pstscrpt, any differences?

Somehow my mood setting has attained a default entry of "discouraged." This concerns me.

Comments

Differences

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2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?
Shopping cart, grocery cart, or just the cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Car


or is flat with no sides, when it's just a skillet.
That would be a griddle.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Couch, sofa, Detroit College of Business. And just three?
And possibly car, again.

12. Shoes worn for sports?
That would depend on the sport, wouldn't it?

17. How do you eat your pizza?
It varies, but most often by eating the crust, except the minimum required to hold onto, then the rest, then the last bite of crust.