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Where did you grow up? New Zealand

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

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping trolley or Trolley

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box.

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

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch

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

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

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soft Drink

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

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

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

12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sports shoes, Trainers or sneakers

13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
We don't have them here really.

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?
With hands and mouth.

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

19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.

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

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

Date: 2008-04-06 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silverflight.livejournal.com
Trolleys and togs, I love that. :)

Date: 2008-04-06 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwifruitbat.livejournal.com
heh- made a correction as well.

A long sandwich is a long roll in this country.

Date: 2008-04-08 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dariyan.livejournal.com
"15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
We don't have them here really."

They are called slaters, they are a type of woodlice and there are two main kinds and only one rolls up into a ball, there are much less of that kind than the normal 'flat' kind. I call the rolly ones armadillo slaters.

We don't have fireflies or armadillos.

Date: 2008-04-08 02:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiwifruitbat.livejournal.com
Slaters? heck yes - we've got those. never seen the curling ones though. And we do have fireflies, though they are rare as heck. 's where glow worms come from :D

and yes - I'm willing to be corrected.

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