What Do You Call It?

[earlgreytea68]

Stolen from

aibhinn.

What do you call it?

 

 

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

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

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. 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 Grinder (I know this is a Rhode Island thing, so I try to call it "sub" to be generic.) 

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach. Bathing suit. (Yeah. We don't use different terms for men/women. Unless you're wearing a bikini.)

12. Shoes worn for sports. Sneakers (I think that's what they're getting at, but I'm such a baseball person, I automatically thought cleats.)

13. Putting a room in order. Clean.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark. Firefly

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball. I don't know what this is. You know why? Because I live in New England, a magical place where you come into contact with VERY FEW BUGS. One of the reasons I love it here...

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? With my hands, point-first, and I leave the crust. But I actually really love to eat that first piece with a fork and knife. I'm not sure why.

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

19. What's the evening meal? Dinner or supper (used pretty interchangeably. Unless I'm referring to our Sunday dinner at 2 p.m. That is ALWAYS dinner.)

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are? Basement or cellar (again, interchangeable)

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places? Bubbler. I know this is another Rhode Island thing. I try to say "water fountain" instead now, but it sounds so ridiculous to me, since to me that's, you know, a public statue that spouts water into the air in dramatic, decidedly not-to-be-drunk arcs. So this is one of those terms I tend to avoid saying out loud ever. Unless I'm talking to another Rhode Islander.