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rosa_acicularis ([personal profile] rosa_acicularis) wrote2010-05-01 01:37 am
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regionalisms, yay!

Stolen from everyone.

Age: 25.

Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): north of Baltimore, Maryland.

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

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: A grocery cart.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in: A lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: A frying pan.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: A sofa.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: A gargoyle.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: A porch.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: A Coke.

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: A pancake.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: A sub.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: A hat.

12. Shoes worn for sports: Tennis shoes.

13. Putting a room in order: Straightening up.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Lightning bug.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: Rolly polly.

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: A see-saw.

17. How do you eat your pizza: With my mouth.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: A garage sale.

19. What's the evening meal?: Dinner.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: A basement.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: A water fountain.