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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... read more

There's a dialect meme ( what do I call things ) doing the rounds that I'm finding quite interesting, I've seen answers in Aussie, New Orleans, Yorksher, London and Real Places (ie Devon). So I thought I'd compile the common answers into a poll (linguistic shifts interest me). As always, if you don't have a Livejournal account you can login and vote with any OpenID, which everyone's got these days . So, without further ado... View Poll: Dialect meme: What do you call things? Huge bunch of sources...