Dialect meme ganked from marvelgirl

[lady_t_220]

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/supermarket?

Trolley

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?

Lunchbox, though they're usually made of plastic

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?

Frying pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?

Sofa

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?

Gutter and a drainpipe

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?

Not that we get a lot of those around here, but I think it's usually a verrandah (sp?)

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?

Fizz... or Pop depending on who you ask

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?

Scotch pancake

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

Baguette

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?

Trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports?

Trainers

13. Putting a room in order?

Tidy

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?

A whu...? We d'un get any of those so we also don't have a word for them

15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball?

Woodlouse

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?

On its own, by hand. With other things, with a knife and fork

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

Car boot sale

19. What's the evening meal?

Dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?

Basement, though they're usually furnace free in this country...


Man I'm hungry...