Dialect Meme

[ailbhe]

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

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

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

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox

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

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.
Guttering

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

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Fizzy drink or sometimes soft drink.

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake, and it's not REALLY a breakfast food.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Baguette with filling, filled roll, [fillingname] roll.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Generic: Togs. Male-specific: Trunks.

12. Shoes worn for sports.
Runners.

13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
No idea.

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

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.
See-saw.

17. How do you eat your pizza?
Without cheese :( But also without cutlery, usually.

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

19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, sometimes Tea

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
It's something in the basement - I grew up with a basement containing the kitchen, coal cellar (coal hole), scullery, and playroom.

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