Wednesday, February 27, 2008

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

1-The level of a building that is underground is called the:
Cellar
Basement
2-What do you call the night before Halloween?
Nothing
Devil's night
Mischeif night
3-You bring back your groceries in a...
Sack
Bag
4-The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called...
Toilet papering
Rolling
TP'ing
5-You call sweetened, carbonated beverages:
Soda
Pop
Coke
6-You drink from:
A water fountain
A drinking fountain
7-You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:
Icing
Frosting
Both
8-Do you use the word cruller?
Yes
No
9-What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?
Rotary
Something else like a circle, traffic circle, or roundabout
10- What do you call an easy class?
A crip course
A gut
A blow off
11- If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it:
The Devil is Beating His Wife
A sunshower
You have no term for it
12-What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
Kitty corner
Diagonal
Catty corner
13-What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in?
Buggy
Carriage
Shopping / grocery cart
14-You work out in...
Tennis shoes
Sneakers
15- "Y'all"...
Just rolls off your tongue
Is not sometihng you say
16-The second syllable in pajamas sounds like:
The A in jam
The A in father
17-Does "caramel" have two or three syllables?
Two
Three
You say it both ways
18-Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
Yes
No
19-"Route" rhymes with...
Boot
Out
20-Mary / marry / merry...
Are pronounced differently
Are pronounced the same

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