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affrecaWhat do you call?
Where did you grow up: Great Plains midwest (half in Kansas/half in South Dakota)
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream. Sometimes a creek or crick. A kill if I'm being silly (but isn't natural word choice).
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Pan (specifically frying pan)
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch or futon (for ones that have mattress on frame).
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda or pop, pretty much interchangeably.
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.
Shorts, swim shorts, maybe swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes. Maybe sneakers if I'm being logical.
13. Putting a room in order.
Picking up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly or lightning bug.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Rollypolly. Though I understand what is a pill bug, or potato bug. I mostly prefer saying rollypolly.
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 or teetertotter.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Hands, without curling/folding.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale, maybe yard sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner. Supper if I think about it, and want to be clear (I've known enough people for which dinner is at noon, so it is clearer to say supper).
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain. Scuttlebutt if I'm being obnoxious.
Where did you grow up: Great Plains midwest (half in Kansas/half in South Dakota)
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream. Sometimes a creek or crick. A kill if I'm being silly (but isn't natural word choice).
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Pan (specifically frying pan)
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch or futon (for ones that have mattress on frame).
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda or pop, pretty much interchangeably.
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.
Shorts, swim shorts, maybe swim trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes. Maybe sneakers if I'm being logical.
13. Putting a room in order.
Picking up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly or lightning bug.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Rollypolly. Though I understand what is a pill bug, or potato bug. I mostly prefer saying rollypolly.
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 or teetertotter.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Hands, without curling/folding.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale, maybe yard sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner. Supper if I think about it, and want to be clear (I've known enough people for which dinner is at noon, so it is clearer to say supper).
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain. Scuttlebutt if I'm being obnoxious.
