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helflaed
Apr. 2nd, 2008 03:30 pm1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A burn. Unless, of course, it's a canal. (Or unless I'm in the North-west of England, in which case I tend to start calling it a beck)
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping trolley
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Um- I've never actually seen one. I've seen pictures of them in India, so I'd probably either call them a tiffin tin, because I vaguely remember that that's what they're called there, or just describe them. I put sandwiches in a lunchbox, if that's any help, but they're usually made of plastic. Plastic boxes for food I tend to call tupperware, regardless of their actual provenance.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan. Although actually I cook bacon under the grill, but I know what's meant :)
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Settee. Or sofa. If it's wooden and highbacked, it's a settle (which is my Lancastrian side coming out...)
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Drainpipe. Although the horizontal pipe directly below the eaves I'd call the rhoan, unless, of course, I was talking to an English person, in which case I'd say 'gutter'.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Veranda, I suppose. But I don't think I know anyone who has one of these - they're generally open (and are terraces or patios).
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Fizzy drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Baguette if it's the French type of bread, otherwise hoagy (a term I believe to be pretty exclusively East Coast Scots, and possibly just Fifish)
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
I assume we're talking about trunks, here.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Glow worm
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
A slater. I assume that's what's meant (woodlice, as the standard English term goes), anyway, as it would also fit pillbugs, but they are longer, thinner, blacker, and a good deal less loveable.
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?
Usually I chop it into slightly thinner slices, then fold them over and eat them with my fingers (unless the base is too thick, of course)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Not a British concept - you might take them to a car-boot (sale), though, or donate them to a charity shop.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, or tea, depending on how early or elaborate it is (if it's before six o'clock, or not the main meal of the day, it isn't dinner).
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
A cellar, not that I've got one. Modern British houses generally don't. A shame, actually.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain if it's the kind you have to stoop over and drink directly from; water cooler if you mean the American sort that come with paper or plastic cups and chill the water too hard...
Am: educated twenty-something Lowland Scot, more precisely Edinburgh but strongly influenced by my mother's Berwickshire tendencies and weakly by the fact that my father is originally from urban Lancashire; also somewhat by a period living in Fife.
A burn. Unless, of course, it's a canal. (Or unless I'm in the North-west of England, in which case I tend to start calling it a beck)
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping trolley
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Um- I've never actually seen one. I've seen pictures of them in India, so I'd probably either call them a tiffin tin, because I vaguely remember that that's what they're called there, or just describe them. I put sandwiches in a lunchbox, if that's any help, but they're usually made of plastic. Plastic boxes for food I tend to call tupperware, regardless of their actual provenance.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan. Although actually I cook bacon under the grill, but I know what's meant :)
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Settee. Or sofa. If it's wooden and highbacked, it's a settle (which is my Lancastrian side coming out...)
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Drainpipe. Although the horizontal pipe directly below the eaves I'd call the rhoan, unless, of course, I was talking to an English person, in which case I'd say 'gutter'.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Veranda, I suppose. But I don't think I know anyone who has one of these - they're generally open (and are terraces or patios).
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Fizzy drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Baguette if it's the French type of bread, otherwise hoagy (a term I believe to be pretty exclusively East Coast Scots, and possibly just Fifish)
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
I assume we're talking about trunks, here.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Glow worm
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
A slater. I assume that's what's meant (woodlice, as the standard English term goes), anyway, as it would also fit pillbugs, but they are longer, thinner, blacker, and a good deal less loveable.
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?
Usually I chop it into slightly thinner slices, then fold them over and eat them with my fingers (unless the base is too thick, of course)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Not a British concept - you might take them to a car-boot (sale), though, or donate them to a charity shop.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner, or tea, depending on how early or elaborate it is (if it's before six o'clock, or not the main meal of the day, it isn't dinner).
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
A cellar, not that I've got one. Modern British houses generally don't. A shame, actually.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain if it's the kind you have to stoop over and drink directly from; water cooler if you mean the American sort that come with paper or plastic cups and chill the water too hard...
Am: educated twenty-something Lowland Scot, more precisely Edinburgh but strongly influenced by my mother's Berwickshire tendencies and weakly by the fact that my father is originally from urban Lancashire; also somewhat by a period living in Fife.