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Local Terms meme
Jul. 16th, 2007 05:54 pmLocal Terminology meme
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(Taking into account 3 things:
1) 99% of the locals speak Spanish, and I have no idea what they'd call these things.
2) My parents came from NY & being quite an isolated kid, I picked up all my idioms from them.
3) A number of the food items are things which I cannot eat, so am speaking hypothetically.)
What do you call:
1. a flowing body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: canal (if I ever saw a natural one, I'd call it a stream)
2. the thing you push around the grocery store: cart
3. a metal container to carry a meal in: a collector's item. The few lunch boxes I've seen in years have all been plastic.
4. the thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: fry pan
5. the piece of furniture that seats three people: couch or sofa or love seat (for a menage a trois)
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 (we also have a round waffle maker)
10. a long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: sub/submarine
11. the piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: bathing suit
12. shoes worn for sports: sneakers (in my long ago youth, they were made with plain canvas tops and called tennis shoes)
13. putting a room in order. Excavation/Exploration/Exhumation/Extermination...erm... tidying.
14. a flying insect that glows in the dark. firefly (I'd have to be out in non-urban areas to see one, though)
15. the little insect that curls up into a ball: Pillbug or Tumblebug (and it's a crustaceon, not an insect. LOTS more legs) EDIT:astrogirl2 reminded me of the term 'roly-poly' which was all I called them when I was a child.
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? Pick up in hands, roll it slightly and bite.
18. when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: yard sale (very few people have garages here)
19. the evening meal: dinner/supper (fairly interchangeable, I know some places one is an earlier meal, but I don't know which is which)
20. the thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: a mythological creature (supposedly due to our high water table we have NO rooms under a house. Except once when someone sneakily dug out an area in which to hydroponically grow marijuana. People came to stare in awe, before it was declared upsafe and filled in. If one did exist, I'd call it a basement.)
21. the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: water fountain EDIT:jaxomsride reminded me that while the upward flowing fountain is what I think of as being in public places, there are also water dispensers, which are mainly in business places, not really publically accessible, unless you have a reason to be in the business office/waiting room.
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vilakins (Taking into account 3 things:
1) 99% of the locals speak Spanish, and I have no idea what they'd call these things.
2) My parents came from NY & being quite an isolated kid, I picked up all my idioms from them.
3) A number of the food items are things which I cannot eat, so am speaking hypothetically.)
What do you call:
1. a flowing body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: canal (if I ever saw a natural one, I'd call it a stream)
2. the thing you push around the grocery store: cart
3. a metal container to carry a meal in: a collector's item. The few lunch boxes I've seen in years have all been plastic.
4. the thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: fry pan
5. the piece of furniture that seats three people: couch or sofa or love seat (for a menage a trois)
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 (we also have a round waffle maker)
10. a long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: sub/submarine
11. the piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: bathing suit
12. shoes worn for sports: sneakers (in my long ago youth, they were made with plain canvas tops and called tennis shoes)
13. putting a room in order. Excavation/Exploration/Exhumation/Extermination...erm... tidying.
14. a flying insect that glows in the dark. firefly (I'd have to be out in non-urban areas to see one, though)
15. the little insect that curls up into a ball: Pillbug or Tumblebug (and it's a crustaceon, not an insect. LOTS more legs) EDIT:
astrogirl2 reminded me of the term 'roly-poly' which was all I called them when I was a child.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? Pick up in hands, roll it slightly and bite.
18. when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: yard sale (very few people have garages here)
19. the evening meal: dinner/supper (fairly interchangeable, I know some places one is an earlier meal, but I don't know which is which)
20. the thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: a mythological creature (supposedly due to our high water table we have NO rooms under a house. Except once when someone sneakily dug out an area in which to hydroponically grow marijuana. People came to stare in awe, before it was declared upsafe and filled in. If one did exist, I'd call it a basement.)
21. the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: water fountain EDIT:
jaxomsride reminded me that while the upward flowing fountain is what I think of as being in public places, there are also water dispensers, which are mainly in business places, not really publically accessible, unless you have a reason to be in the business office/waiting room.
