What do you call?
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WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks? Beck.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store? Shopping trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in? Lunchbox or baitbox
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in? Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people? Settee or sofa
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof? Gutter/drainpipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening? Porch? Not sure
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages? Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup? Don't do those for breakfast. Personally I'd call them scotch pancakes
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? Tidying up or clearing round
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark? Firefly, but we don't get them this far north in the UK
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball? Woodlouse
15a. The flat scuttling insects that live under stones and eat vegetable matter. If it's got a lot of legs, centipede
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? At home - in slices by hand. At a restaurant - knife and fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff? Car boot sale if a lot of them do it together
19. What's the evening meal? Tea or supper to a northerner, dinner to a southerner!
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are? Cellar, although I've never lived in a house with a furnace or a rec room - boiler,yes
21. That plant that kids throw at each other because it sticks to clothing? Sticklebricks, or goosegrass
22. Those little balls of froth on plants in spring, which contain some moth or other's eggs? Cuckoo-spit
23. Girls' lower-half underwear? Knickers, or undies
24. Boys' lower-half underwear? Pants, but I do like the word trollies
24. The cloth you had when you were little and always slept with, and perhaps sucked your tongue with? Generically, they're security blankets. Mine was called my Blah-blah.
25. Warm knitted top typically made of wool? Jumper
26. Baked in an oven, made of flour, butter, an egg, milk: raised with a chemical baking powder (cream of tartar/bicarbonate of soda) rather than with a yeasty leaven: what do you call it? Scone
27. A single thistledown seed flying free. Fairy
My additions
28. A single-piece item of swimwear worn by women. Cossie
29. Diarrhoea. The Runs
30. A small sliver of wood stuck in your finger. Spelk
yonmeiWHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks? Beck.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store? Shopping trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in? Lunchbox or baitbox
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in? Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people? Settee or sofa
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof? Gutter/drainpipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening? Porch? Not sure
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages? Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup? Don't do those for breakfast. Personally I'd call them scotch pancakes
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? Tidying up or clearing round
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark? Firefly, but we don't get them this far north in the UK
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball? Woodlouse
15a. The flat scuttling insects that live under stones and eat vegetable matter. If it's got a lot of legs, centipede
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? At home - in slices by hand. At a restaurant - knife and fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff? Car boot sale if a lot of them do it together
19. What's the evening meal? Tea or supper to a northerner, dinner to a southerner!
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are? Cellar, although I've never lived in a house with a furnace or a rec room - boiler,yes
21. That plant that kids throw at each other because it sticks to clothing? Sticklebricks, or goosegrass
22. Those little balls of froth on plants in spring, which contain some moth or other's eggs? Cuckoo-spit
23. Girls' lower-half underwear? Knickers, or undies
24. Boys' lower-half underwear? Pants, but I do like the word trollies
24. The cloth you had when you were little and always slept with, and perhaps sucked your tongue with? Generically, they're security blankets. Mine was called my Blah-blah.
25. Warm knitted top typically made of wool? Jumper
26. Baked in an oven, made of flour, butter, an egg, milk: raised with a chemical baking powder (cream of tartar/bicarbonate of soda) rather than with a yeasty leaven: what do you call it? Scone
27. A single thistledown seed flying free. Fairy
My additions
28. A single-piece item of swimwear worn by women. Cossie
29. Diarrhoea. The Runs
30. A small sliver of wood stuck in your finger. Spelk
