Dialectical!
16 years ago
General
Age: 20
Where did you grow up: Michigan, aka The HAND STATE muahaha
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A creek... or stream
2. What is the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
A shopping 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.. not many around here
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop!
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Waffles!
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming shorts or trunks
12. An outer piece of clothing you wear when its cold outside:
Light Cold:Jacket
Cold: Coat
Very Cold: Snow suit or Winter Coat
13. The name for small lobsterlike creatures in bodies of freshwater.
Crawfish?
14. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers less often tennis shoes
15. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning up
16. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
17. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
I say Pillbug, everyone else says Rollie-Pollie
18. 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 sometimes Teeter-Totter
19. How do you eat your pizza?
Pointy-end first, then along the sides, or fold up and mash in narrow end...
20. The season after summer
Fall
21. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard Sale or Garage Sale
22. The room where toilets are.
Bathroom
23. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
24. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement. awesome place
25. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain
Language localisms: There and that become dere and dat, you is often yuh, basically lots of merging for words. Even in Ohio I've been told I have a Michigan accent but I can't tell.
Where did you grow up: Michigan, aka The HAND STATE muahaha
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A creek... or stream
2. What is the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
A shopping 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.. not many around here
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop!
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Waffles!
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming shorts or trunks
12. An outer piece of clothing you wear when its cold outside:
Light Cold:Jacket
Cold: Coat
Very Cold: Snow suit or Winter Coat
13. The name for small lobsterlike creatures in bodies of freshwater.
Crawfish?
14. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers less often tennis shoes
15. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning up
16. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
17. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
I say Pillbug, everyone else says Rollie-Pollie
18. 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 sometimes Teeter-Totter
19. How do you eat your pizza?
Pointy-end first, then along the sides, or fold up and mash in narrow end...
20. The season after summer
Fall
21. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard Sale or Garage Sale
22. The room where toilets are.
Bathroom
23. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
24. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement. awesome place
25. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain
Language localisms: There and that become dere and dat, you is often yuh, basically lots of merging for words. Even in Ohio I've been told I have a Michigan accent but I can't tell.
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