Born 1943, grew up in Ulster County, NY, US. (Note: A US county is equivalent to an English parish, I believe.) 1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: alley 2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: sweater 3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: School: playing hookey 4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.": tag 5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games Can't recall anything specific 6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: 7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: 8. Small round bread: 9. Sweet course that follows the main course: dessert 10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": moan. 11. Generic term for a bird: bird 12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: pancake 13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: None that I know of. The next county (equivalent to an English parish) has spiedies 14. Term of endearment: 15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: wimp 16. Tourists: city people 17. A field boundary: wall or hedge or fence depending entirely on what it's made of. (mostly dry stone walls here) Same. Almost all stone walls -- had to do something with the ones which turned up every spring 18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" Cows, barn, cowbarn 19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: cold and hungry 20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? scairdicat, I think 21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____: 22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change? Thank you 23. Generic friendly greeting: hello, hi 24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: 25. Slang term for left-handed: 26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? Spelling pronunciations 27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich 28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: Order in the courtroom, the monkey wants to speak. 29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face 30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: 31. Potatoes: spuds. taties 32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter:
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Date: Apr. 5th, 2008 12:28 am (UTC)1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: alley
2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: sweater
3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: School: playing hookey
4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.": tag
5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games Can't recall anything specific
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something:
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers:
8. Small round bread:
9. Sweet course that follows the main course: dessert
10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": moan.
11. Generic term for a bird: bird
12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: pancake
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: None that I know of. The next county (equivalent to an English parish) has spiedies
14. Term of endearment:
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: wimp
16. Tourists: city people
17. A field boundary: wall or hedge or fence depending entirely on what it's made of. (mostly dry stone walls here) Same. Almost all stone walls -- had to do something with the ones which turned up every spring
18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" Cows, barn, cowbarn
19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: cold and hungry
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? scairdicat, I think
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____:
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change? Thank you
23. Generic friendly greeting: hello, hi
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers:
25. Slang term for left-handed:
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? Spelling pronunciations
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: Order in the courtroom, the monkey wants to speak.
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable:
31. Potatoes: spuds. taties
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: