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In response to TW's request, here are my answers to some regional questions:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks? Stream

2. The thing you push around the grocery store/supermarket? Cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in? lunch box

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

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? downspout and gutters

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

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages? soda

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

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

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

12. Shoes worn for sports? Sneakers

13. Putting a room in order? Straightening Up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark? lightning bug

15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball? I have no name for that.

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? By the slice pointy end first.

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

19. What's the evening meal? dinner

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

My regions include Massachusetts, Michigan, and Maryland.
K

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TW said:

Hmmm...as much alike as different, I think. And it's not really a stove eye. It's used more like "eyes on the stove". "Turn the eye on, please, and let it get hot." or "Be careful, the eye is still hot."
Thanks for playing my game!

Heather said:

#15 - I always called it a "roly-poly."

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