Regional Dialect Meme (from cindymonkey)

(Some of these are New Orleans terms; some I may have picked up from my mostly-Kentuckian family. Trying to trace such things back is one of the things I love about dialects and idioms.)

What do you call:

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

Bayou

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.

Buggy

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.

Lunchbox

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.

Skillet (a big, heavy one might be a saute pan)

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.

Sofa

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.

Gutter

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

Porch (the smaller, non-covered version is a stoop)

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverage.

Coke (for any brand) or cold drink (pronounced "code rank")

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

Pancakes

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.

Po-boy

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.

Swim trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports.

Sneakers

13. Putting a room in order.

Cleaning up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.

Firefly

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

Doodlebug

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.

Seesaw

17. How do you eat your pizza?

Pick it up, bite off the pointy end, and go from there.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?

Yard sale

19. What's the evening meal?

Dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?

You don't have one of those in New Orleans unless you live in a raised-basement house.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?

Water fountain

22: If something is diagonally located, where is it in relation to you?

Catty-corner

23. What do you call the place where the water comes out of the sink?

Faucet