Pink Elephant
Well-Known Member
Just finished hanging up the telephone with my sister in law, and she was telling me they just bought a new couch and chair for their downstairs sitting room, and then the bells and whistles went off! Hey, I thought, this will make for a fun topic!
I'll start!
Just a few things I can think of right now where most everybody has their own name for it/them.
- Do you call it a couch, sofa, settee, chesterfield, or Davenport?
- Is it dinner or supper in your home?
- Is it a refrigerator or fridge?
- Is it a deepfreeze or a freezer?
- Do you wear pants, slacks, or trousers?
- Do you wear underwear, underpants, undies, or panties?
- Baby has a soother, pacifier, or binky?
- Is it a telephone or phone?
- Is it a washing machine or washer?
- When you smoke do you have a cigarette, a smoke, or a butt?
- Are you a pop or soda drinker?
- Did you toilet-train or potty-train your children?
- In the winter do you wear long-johns or long-underwear?
- Toilet learning toddlers wear training pants or soakers?
- What are the pants that mothers use over cloth diapers... rubber pants, plastic pants, waterproof pants, baby pants, vinyl pants, or diaper pants?
- When drying dishes, do you use a tea-towel or dishtowel?
- When changing a cloth diaper, do you use safety pins or diaper pins?
- Where do the wet and dirty diapers go, into the diaper pail or into the diaper bucket?
- When your children were bad, did you give them a spanking, a whoopin', a paddling, a tanning, or a lickin?
- Is it a silverware drawer or cutlery drawer in your kitchen?
I'll start!
Just a few things I can think of right now where most everybody has their own name for it/them.
- Do you call it a couch, sofa, settee, chesterfield, or Davenport?
- Is it dinner or supper in your home?
- Is it a refrigerator or fridge?
- Is it a deepfreeze or a freezer?
- Do you wear pants, slacks, or trousers?
- Do you wear underwear, underpants, undies, or panties?
- Baby has a soother, pacifier, or binky?
- Is it a telephone or phone?
- Is it a washing machine or washer?
- When you smoke do you have a cigarette, a smoke, or a butt?
- Are you a pop or soda drinker?
- Did you toilet-train or potty-train your children?
- In the winter do you wear long-johns or long-underwear?
- Toilet learning toddlers wear training pants or soakers?
- What are the pants that mothers use over cloth diapers... rubber pants, plastic pants, waterproof pants, baby pants, vinyl pants, or diaper pants?
- When drying dishes, do you use a tea-towel or dishtowel?
- When changing a cloth diaper, do you use safety pins or diaper pins?
- Where do the wet and dirty diapers go, into the diaper pail or into the diaper bucket?
- When your children were bad, did you give them a spanking, a whoopin', a paddling, a tanning, or a lickin?
- Is it a silverware drawer or cutlery drawer in your kitchen?