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taylweaverAh, peer pressure...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Um... a ziploc baggie? Oh, wait. not metal. A lunch box, then.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
a treif frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
couch.
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.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Food I don't eat. So I don't generally talk about it unless someone else mentions it first, at which point I generally use the word they use - usually sub or hero.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
bathing suit. Hopefully not a speedo.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers.
13. Putting a room in order.
straightening up or cleaning, depending on what's going on.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
What?
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?
Not a dialect question. I usually pick it up and bite into it. Unless I am recovering from oral surgery, in which case I eat very small bites with a fork and knife.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale. Unless it's manhattan, where no one has a garage, so it is called a tag sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
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.
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Um... a ziploc baggie? Oh, wait. not metal. A lunch box, then.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
a treif frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
couch.
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.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Food I don't eat. So I don't generally talk about it unless someone else mentions it first, at which point I generally use the word they use - usually sub or hero.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
bathing suit. Hopefully not a speedo.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers.
13. Putting a room in order.
straightening up or cleaning, depending on what's going on.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
What?
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?
Not a dialect question. I usually pick it up and bite into it. Unless I am recovering from oral surgery, in which case I eat very small bites with a fork and knife.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale. Unless it's manhattan, where no one has a garage, so it is called a tag sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
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.
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