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todayiamadaisy) wrote2013-06-24 11:46 am
todayiamadaisy) wrote2013-06-24 11:46 am
Who Can Deny Love?
There was a magazine on the lunch table at work today, featuring an advice column. Make sure you build a relation-SHIP, it advised, not a relation-CANOE. Which made me laugh more than I think the writer intended.
The What Do You Call It meme that has swept my f-list:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
That's either a stream or a creek. It depends. On what, I don't know. Maybe creeks have names, streams don't?
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
That's a (shopping) trolley, and the supermarket employee who collects them from the car park is a trolley jockey.
3. A container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox (or maybe a thermos, if it's a flask for keeping soup warm)
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
A (frying) pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch. I wouldn't look blank if I heard someone talking about a settee, but it's not a common term. (Or, it occurs to me, another piece of furniture that seats three people is a bench, if it's outside or made of wood.)
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Guttering. Would you call that a device, though? It's more a... facility. Or part of the structure. A device would be, say, the mesh you put over the guttering to stop leaves going in it (the gutter guard, in other words).
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
A verandah. A porch is either (a) a little room just inside the door where you keep coats and boots and such or (b) the space immediately in front of the front door, where the mat goes.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soft drink, or the trade name of the particular beverage.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
That's a pancake (or a pikelet if it's small), but it's a dessert, not a breakfast.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A... sandwich? If it was made with a bread roll, I might call it a (salad or chicken or beef or whatever) roll, to distinguish it from something made with sliced bread.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Generally, bathers or togs. Specifically, they could be board shorts or Speedos, depending on the type of garment.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers/runners/sneakers, unless it refers to a specific sport (as in, running shoes, tennis shoes, etc).
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up
14. What you have on your bed in winter to keep your warm sometimes with feathers in it?
If it's got feathers in it, it's a doona. I would also understand duvet, although I wouldn't say it myself. A quilt doesn't have feathers; it's two layers of fabric with a kind of woollen batting sandwiched between them. A blanket is a single layer of some sort of woollen fabric.
15. What do you call women's skimpy underwear?
Lingerie for the posh stuff. Everyday underwear, knickers. Underclothes in general. Or does 'skimpy' in the question mean it's asking about G-strings? If so: G-string. Thongs go on your feet.
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?
Does this mean, with my fingers or a knife and fork? With my fingers. I suppose if I had pizza in a fancy restaurant I'd use a knife and fork... but then, I probably wouldn't have pizza in a fancy restaurant.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Tea or dinner. But then, dinner can also mean lunch. It's an all purpose word for a main meal that's not breakfast.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
One little question, so much to unpack. A room under a house is called a basement or a cellar. In general, I would say a basement is a proper room that might be used as part of the house; a cellar is an area under the house for storing things. But then, my mother's house has such a thing and we just call it 'under the house'. Neither basements nor cellars are particularly common round here.
I don't know what a furnace is (or rather, I do, but what I would call a furnace is not something that a house would have, unless the householder is a blacksmith working from home). Is it what I would call the hot water service? That's a person-sized box on the outside of my bathroom wall; in other houses I've lived in, it's been in a cupboard in the laundry.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain or drinking fountain.
22. What do you call the front of your car? what do you call the back of the car?
The front is the bonnet and the back is the boot.
23. What do you call the thing the kids carry their books to school in?
School bag or, increasingly, a backpack (since that's what they tend to be these days).
24. What do you call the thing you keep your money in? What do you call the bag you keep that thing in?
If it's just for coins, it's a (coin) purse. Something for coins and notes and cards is a wallet. They can be carried in a (hand-)bag.
The What Do You Call It meme that has swept my f-list:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
That's either a stream or a creek. It depends. On what, I don't know. Maybe creeks have names, streams don't?
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
That's a (shopping) trolley, and the supermarket employee who collects them from the car park is a trolley jockey.
3. A container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox (or maybe a thermos, if it's a flask for keeping soup warm)
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
A (frying) pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch. I wouldn't look blank if I heard someone talking about a settee, but it's not a common term. (Or, it occurs to me, another piece of furniture that seats three people is a bench, if it's outside or made of wood.)
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Guttering. Would you call that a device, though? It's more a... facility. Or part of the structure. A device would be, say, the mesh you put over the guttering to stop leaves going in it (the gutter guard, in other words).
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
A verandah. A porch is either (a) a little room just inside the door where you keep coats and boots and such or (b) the space immediately in front of the front door, where the mat goes.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soft drink, or the trade name of the particular beverage.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
That's a pancake (or a pikelet if it's small), but it's a dessert, not a breakfast.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A... sandwich? If it was made with a bread roll, I might call it a (salad or chicken or beef or whatever) roll, to distinguish it from something made with sliced bread.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Generally, bathers or togs. Specifically, they could be board shorts or Speedos, depending on the type of garment.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers/runners/sneakers, unless it refers to a specific sport (as in, running shoes, tennis shoes, etc).
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying up
14. What you have on your bed in winter to keep your warm sometimes with feathers in it?
If it's got feathers in it, it's a doona. I would also understand duvet, although I wouldn't say it myself. A quilt doesn't have feathers; it's two layers of fabric with a kind of woollen batting sandwiched between them. A blanket is a single layer of some sort of woollen fabric.
15. What do you call women's skimpy underwear?
Lingerie for the posh stuff. Everyday underwear, knickers. Underclothes in general. Or does 'skimpy' in the question mean it's asking about G-strings? If so: G-string. Thongs go on your feet.
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?
Does this mean, with my fingers or a knife and fork? With my fingers. I suppose if I had pizza in a fancy restaurant I'd use a knife and fork... but then, I probably wouldn't have pizza in a fancy restaurant.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Tea or dinner. But then, dinner can also mean lunch. It's an all purpose word for a main meal that's not breakfast.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
One little question, so much to unpack. A room under a house is called a basement or a cellar. In general, I would say a basement is a proper room that might be used as part of the house; a cellar is an area under the house for storing things. But then, my mother's house has such a thing and we just call it 'under the house'. Neither basements nor cellars are particularly common round here.
I don't know what a furnace is (or rather, I do, but what I would call a furnace is not something that a house would have, unless the householder is a blacksmith working from home). Is it what I would call the hot water service? That's a person-sized box on the outside of my bathroom wall; in other houses I've lived in, it's been in a cupboard in the laundry.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain or drinking fountain.
22. What do you call the front of your car? what do you call the back of the car?
The front is the bonnet and the back is the boot.
23. What do you call the thing the kids carry their books to school in?
School bag or, increasingly, a backpack (since that's what they tend to be these days).
24. What do you call the thing you keep your money in? What do you call the bag you keep that thing in?
If it's just for coins, it's a (coin) purse. Something for coins and notes and cards is a wallet. They can be carried in a (hand-)bag.