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Gacked from synaesthete7.

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

   stream or creek
   

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store?
   

   shopping trolley
   

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
   

   ??
   Now, if you'd said "a plastic container to carry a meal in" I might have said "lunch box".
   

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
   

   frying pan
   

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
   

   sofa
   

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

   gutters or guttering
   

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
   

   verandah
   

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
   

   soft drinks
   

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

   pancakes or pikelets (depending on the style)
   

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

    I think Americans call it "sub" or "sub sandwich".
    

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

    swimming togs or bathers
    

12. Shoes worn for sports?
    

    sandshoes or runners
    

13. Putting a room in order?
    

    tidying up
    

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
    

    firefly
    

15. The little insect (arthropod) that curls up into a ball?
    

    slater
    

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 knife and fork, or pick it up
    

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

    garage sale
    

19. What's the evening meal?
    

    tea (or dinner, except on Sundays when the middle meal is dinner)
    

I had to carefully grab the questions without looking at Rebecca's answers, because I tend to get dialectically confused, having been brought up both in the USA and Australia. For example, in the presence of Americans I use the word "garbage", and with Australians I use the word "rubbish", so it can be hard for me to figure out which word I "naturally" use.

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[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Being from Melbourne, some of my answers differ from yours (one of yours is a dead giveaway that you are a northerner):

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
creek

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store?
shopping trolley

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
mess tin

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
frying pan. But we always say "eggs and bacon"

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?
spouting

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
verandah

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
soft drinks

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
pancakes

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

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

12. Shoes worn for sports?
boots

13. Putting a room in order?
tidy up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
firefly

15. The little insect (arthropod) that curls up into a ball?
slater

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 knife and fork

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

19. What's the evening meal?
tea

[kerravonsen]

one of yours is a dead giveaway that you are a northerner

Really? Which one? It's not like I call bags "ports".

And who wears boots for sports? I've never heard that one before!

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Really? Which one?
Guttering. That's like referring to potato cakes as "scallops". To us southerners the guttering is out in the street.

And who wears boots for sports?
Football players. Or in my case, hockey players. We used to wear boots like the footballers but with soft toes. Nowadays they are more like runners with strange soles. But we still call them boots.