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The dialect meme. St. Louis was a cross-roads of dialects. From childhood I'd say...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A creek or stream. Never a branch
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Grocery cart or shopping cart.
2a. What you bring your grocery purchases home in.
Grocery bags or paper sacks.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A lunchbox. Only industrial workers carried dinner pails.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan or skillet.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch, sofa, or chesterfield.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter. There are none on most houses here in AZ
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
The porch. Some wealthier folks had verandas.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda or Soda pop.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes or flapjacks.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Submarine sandwich or sub. As I told Mamcu it was definitely an import into my area.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks or bathing suit.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers or tennis shoes.
13. Putting a room in order.
Straightening up or Cleaning up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
A lightning bug, occasionally firefly, but never glow worm.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
A pill bug or roly-poly. We knew they were also called sow bugs.
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 except at school where they were called teeter-totters.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands, neither rolled nor folded, point first.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale or yard sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, but my mother occasionally called it supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement, occasionally the cellar, but usually those had one of those slanted cover/doors to the outside like you see in the Wizard of Oz. Cellars were mostly for storage. You might sleep in the basement.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain or water fountain.
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A creek or stream. Never a branch
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Grocery cart or shopping cart.
2a. What you bring your grocery purchases home in.
Grocery bags or paper sacks.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A lunchbox. Only industrial workers carried dinner pails.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan or skillet.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch, sofa, or chesterfield.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter. There are none on most houses here in AZ
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
The porch. Some wealthier folks had verandas.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda or Soda pop.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes or flapjacks.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Submarine sandwich or sub. As I told Mamcu it was definitely an import into my area.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks or bathing suit.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers or tennis shoes.
13. Putting a room in order.
Straightening up or Cleaning up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
A lightning bug, occasionally firefly, but never glow worm.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
A pill bug or roly-poly. We knew they were also called sow bugs.
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 except at school where they were called teeter-totters.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands, neither rolled nor folded, point first.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale or yard sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, but my mother occasionally called it supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement, occasionally the cellar, but usually those had one of those slanted cover/doors to the outside like you see in the Wizard of Oz. Cellars were mostly for storage. You might sleep in the basement.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain or water fountain.