Memeory

[linda_joyce]

This is supposed to be answered by voice mail but since lj won't let me and since my answers are likely to be somewhat different to those of tattooedraven from whom I took it  here's my answers.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.  A brook, dingle or stream, In Welsh speaking Wales it's a Nant and we have one Nant here, the Nant Penar
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called. A shopping trolley
3. A metal container to carry a meal in. A Buttie Tin or Buttie Box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in. A frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.  Does it have an arm either end?  If so it is a Settee.  If it only has an arm one end it is a sofa, if it has no arms it is a bench, even if it's padded.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof. Guttering and drain pipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.  A veranda, most houses here don't have one.
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. A sandwich is something between two slices of bread, The nearest we come to what I think your talking about is a roll about half the size of a French Stick and it's called a Torpedo.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach. Depends, if they are designed to go into the water in they are swimming trunks, if not they are shorts.
12. Shoes worn for sports.  Daps, or plimsoles for something you would play most sports in.  That is rapidly being replaced by Trainers, there are of course specialised foot wear like Rugby boots, soccers boots, running shoes, hockey boots ad infinitum.
13. Putting a room in order.  Tidying up or in my case    A Miracle.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.  Glow Worm
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball. Woodlouse or Pill worm.
16. The childrens' playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.  A See Saw
17. How do you eat your pizza? Sliced into triangles about one eighth the size of the piza and picked up like a sandwich
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?  Boot Sale, short for car boot sale or table sale if it is held in doors.  We don't do that individually.
19. What's the evening meal? Which one?  When I was a child we had Tea at about 6:00 pm, sandwiches and Milk or tea for the grown ups and Supper at bedtime, an other glass of milk and some semi sweet biscuits(crackers?)
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are? Very rare in my neck of the woods but they are called cellars where they exist.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?  See question one.%P  Seriously in towns they are called drinking fountains but are very rare now.

Comments

[javahound.livejournal.com]

Neat meme.
A nant - interesting! And now I know what a dingle is, I was wondering what 'dingle' meant.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Well that depends on whether the dingle in question is Irish or Welsh. In Ireland it means fortress.

[javahound.livejournal.com]

Oh good to know! :)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Well, very instructive for me, almost like a crossword, good for my English vocabulary! Thanks:-)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

My pleasure, and you have had a lesson in Wenglish, which is the local English dialect. It can be defined as English spoken with mostly Welsh grammar and some Welsh words.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

And that is even better!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

If you're interested, I did that meme a while back. Even if the terms we use here aren't so useful for you, the comments from round the world may be.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thank you!:-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

The body of water in Yorkshire is usually called a beck.

The whole Yard Sale phenomenom is American,in Britain you have to have a licence to sell things,even if it is from your own backyard. The Carboot organisers have to get permission from the council.

At school the shoes we wore for sports were always called pumps.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten you needed a licence, do jumble sales need one too? That might explain why they have virtually disappeared now.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

No idea if they do or not.The local schools and churches round here regularly hold them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I did that meme a while back; it was fun. :-) But man, the class-distinctions about couches/sofas/settees (and the room they're in) got my goat; one person was quite rude.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

British class distinction can be deeply ingrained, I remember calling the one armed variety that we called a sofa such in a house I was visiting and got firmly told that that was common it was properly called a chaise long or just chaise. These days I don't care what it's called as long as it's comfortable and I can put my feet up.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

How incredibly rude of them! I'd have told them that being impolite to one's guests was much more common.

This is what the person who pissed me off said on my post:

I've always been told sofa is the non-U form, settee is U. It's another of those where the lower classes try to sound posh by using a more exotic term. To me, the word sofa is abominably working class. I have nothing against the working class, but my parents would be as baffled to hear me call it a sofa as they would to hear me call the toilet a lavatory.

What a bitch! I told her what I thought of that, and take consolation in the fact that she's a well known nutter anyway, and not a friend in the LJ or normal sense.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

And she got it wrong, IIRC lavatory is what the old families(Royalty and nobility with family trees that go back to Adam) use when referring to the toilet.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You know, that's what I thought at the time! Ha!