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bubbleslayer.
Age: 41
Where did you grow up: Leyland (Lancashire) then Liverpool. Mostly Liverpool.
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.
A trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch-box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan (unless you're grilling the bacon - then that goes in the grill).
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch, sofa, settee.
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.
We don't really have this. It rains a lot in England and it's usually cold as well. If the weather's fine and people are sitting outside, it might be on the patio.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Fizzy drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes. Though they're not breakfast food to me.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Baguette.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks or just 'trunks'.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Uh...haven't a clue what this is.
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?
Using my fingers.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Again, I'm not used to this. Over here, people will go to a car boot sale to sell a lot of stuff.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Another weird thing! *If* there's a room under the house, it'll be the cellar. I've only ever visited one house that had one. And the furnace? That's the boiler.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.
bubbleslayer.Age: 41
Where did you grow up: Leyland (Lancashire) then Liverpool. Mostly Liverpool.
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.
A trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch-box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan (unless you're grilling the bacon - then that goes in the grill).
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch, sofa, settee.
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.
We don't really have this. It rains a lot in England and it's usually cold as well. If the weather's fine and people are sitting outside, it might be on the patio.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Fizzy drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes. Though they're not breakfast food to me.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Baguette.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks or just 'trunks'.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Uh...haven't a clue what this is.
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?
Using my fingers.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Again, I'm not used to this. Over here, people will go to a car boot sale to sell a lot of stuff.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Another weird thing! *If* there's a room under the house, it'll be the cellar. I've only ever visited one house that had one. And the furnace? That's the boiler.
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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Date: 2008-04-07 02:15 am (UTC)You, Katie, and I all use gutter and water fountain.
I'm looking forward to seeing how many others use the same terms...
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Date: 2008-04-08 02:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-07 12:55 pm (UTC)We should probably mention to our US cousins that the boiler tends to be upstairs in the 'airing cupboard', tradionally speaking, though it can be in the kitchen or another part of the house these days. Even if a house has a cellar, you won't tend to find the boiler down there, usually.
And I have no clue what that insect that curls up is either ... I'm wondering if it's the 'infamous' (!) pillbug that I've heard of in some fanfics - and that we don't have over here as far as I know?! Anyone?!
EDIT: Maybe I should go do this meme over on my own lj as well...!
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Date: 2008-04-08 06:42 am (UTC)Er, hope that helps? *g*
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Date: 2008-04-08 12:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-08 02:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-08 03:17 pm (UTC)I confuse a lot of people by calling those alley ways between houses (jitties, ginnels etc) twitchells. That's what they were called where I grew up, and yet ten miles away no one has a clue what I'm talking about!
And sucker - when I was a kid that was an ice lolly (popsicle in the US, I think) - well, you had to suck 'em so they were called suckers! Don't think I could get away with calling them that now ... especially here, all of ten miles away from my home town!!! I live in a foreign land!!! LOL!