Assorted nouns.

[vakkotaur]

Via bronxelf_ag001

Age: 36
Grew up in & around Merrill, WI.

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

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

2. The thing you push around the grocery store?
Shopping cart.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunchbox (Grandpa would call it a lunchpail.)

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan. (Grandpa called it a skillet.)

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Couch. Sofa would be understood, and Grandma would call it a davenport.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutter(s)

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

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Pop

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

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

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Now: swimsuit Childhood: trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports?
Sneakers

13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning (tidying might work, but assumes no dusting or mopping - just clearing the clutter)

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

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

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?
Teeter-totter

17. How do you eat your pizza?
Hot. Held by the crust edge for a piece that has it. Held by thumb underneath and finger on a bit of sausage for a non-edge piece if the pizza is cut well and the sausage is placed well. (I find that local non-chain places that cut crosswise tend to make better pizza than places, chain or not, that cut pie style.)

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale, or maybe rummage sale. (Which Pa would say were 'garbage' and 'rumpage' sales. For most of the stuff, he was right.)

19. What's the evening meal?
Supper. (Dinner, is around noon unless it's rather simple, then it's lunch. Dinner in the evening only happens on holidays.)

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement. A cellar isn't quite the same thing. My grandparents went to the basement to get to the cellar - the room with canned goods and preserves.

21. A window covering on rollers that pulls down?
Shade.

22. A new, limited access, multi-lane road?
Highway, or maybe freeway (due to signage 'freeway ends') Highway is rather broad definition. I consider any good country road a highway if it can used safely at speeds well above those in town.

23. Heavy garments worn for work?
Work clothes.

24. The highest grade of gasoline?
Premium.