Oh, you weirdos.

[paksetti]

Few questions, just for shits and giggles:

What do you call this?
http://i.eho.st/pjxsy9af.jpg

So, what do you call these?
http://i.eho.st/pjcrcq5x.jpg

What are these then?
http://i.eho.st/pj4a83kw.jpg
These?
http://i.eho.st/pjptxzmv.jpg

What would you be drinking out of this?
http://i.eho.st/pjnz1xjh.jpg

What are these called?
http://i.eho.st/pjs1cp23.jpg

There's plenty more I could add, but I don't want to break the page. I'm entrusting you people to do that. Text is fine too:

How do you pronounce "z"?
What do you call that meal at the end of the day?

[unalisaa]

1) I can't tell what that is.
2) Biscuits
3) Chips
4) French fries
5) Looks like a coffee cup, but I'd say tea.
6) Cigarettes

I've recently started pronouncing it "zee", but "zed" is the non-repulsive alternative. Dinner.

Why do you ask?

[missy harries]

M'kay...... So we have a......
1. Scone? (Is that what it's meant to be? It looks dubious)
2. Biscuits
3. Crisps
4. Chips
5. A cup for tea
Annnnd 6. Cigarettes
I say Zee, in the UK it's meant to be Zed but Zee just goes so much better in the alphabet song and thats what I blame!

This list should give a pretty good idea of where everyone from.

[Honeywell]

Hotlinking. :p

But I'm American so... biscuit (although I had no idea what it was supposed to be from the pic), cookies, potato chips, french fries, tea, and cigarettes. Z is "zee". I never even heard of an alternative pronunciation and the meal at the end of the day is dinner.

[unalisaa]

This list should give a pretty good idea of where everyone from.
Interesting assumption. Can you tell from my list where I'm from?

[SimsLover50]

In Answer:

1. Biscuits
2. Cookies
3. Potato Chips
4. Fries
5. Tea
6. Cigarettes
7. Zee
8. Dinner

[Robodl95]

1. Biscuit (took me a while to figure that out)
2. cookies
3. chips
4. fries
5. I don't drink coffee or tea... so hot chocolate?
6. cigarettes
7. zee
8. dinner

[paksetti]

It's supposed to be an American biscuit. Any pictures I could find are either giant or really weird looking.

(hotlinking because lazy.)


Add your own, people. Mine are boring.

[missy harries]

Interesting assumption. Can you tell from my list where I'm from?

Haaaa not exactly but somewhere in Europe not including the UK.

I've noticed Europeans use a mix of American and British words which is why I'd call you European.

British would use the same list as myself so I should know a British!

American words are -
2.Cookies
3. Potato Chips
4. Fries
Which would pin SimsLover and Rob as American. [EDIT: zee is another Americanism]

I'd find Austrailians hard to place since they use a lot of Americanisms so I'd probably mistake them, if something like 'snag's' were on the list though then I could recognize Ausies! [EDIT: Ausies seem to name both 2. and 3.as Chips making them recognisable now!]
Rest of the world though........

I'm no expert , thats just my interpretation :)


EDIT: It's supposed to be an American biscuit. Any pictures I could find are either giant or really weird looking.

I googled and it is a scone! Calling a scone a biscuit is just too freakily weird too me :wtf:

[coltraz]

1. Tea biscuit
2. Cookie
3. Chips
4. Fries
5. Tea. Or coffee - but given the size of the cup and the fact it has a saucer, I'd guess tea.
6. Cigarettes. Or specific to that picture, filters. Lol.

I pronouce "Z" as, "Zed". The meal at the end of the day is supper. Occasionally I'll refer to it as dinner. I never call lunch dinner, however.

I'm Canadian.

[Riptide651]

1. Chicken patty, at least thats what it looks like, cmon people bread doesn't look like that.
2. Cookies
3. Potato Chips
4. Fires
5. Tea
6. Cigarettes

I pronounce "z" zee

Desert, or maybe that midnight snack of cookies, fresh from the oven.

[crocobaura]

1. Macaroon
2. Biscuits
3. Corn flakes (it looks like corn flakes to me)
4. French fries
5. Tea
6. Cigarettes
7. zed
8. Dinner (sometimes it's midnight snack)

[Robodl95]

I googled and it is a scone! Calling a scone a biscuit is just too freakily weird too me
I think calling a cookie a biscuit is more freakish, is Cookie Monster called the Biscuit Monster? (assuming that they show Sesame Street in the UK)

[ElementMK]

Easy-E strikes again (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21186908/Easy_E_Strikes_Again_wma.MP3). I am woefully unmanly and non-gangster today, but there you go. :(

[Elexis]

1. I dunno what that is, I don't eat such things.
2. Cookies.
3. Chips.
4. Fries.
5. Tea.
6. Ciggies (lol) :D
7. Zed.
Aaaanndd. The last one is Epic Meal Time (it's all day meal actually, no breakfast, no lunch, no dinner) :lol:

So, am I more American or British? Because I can't tell myself :D

And OMG ElementLeaf, you just killed me mentally :alarm:

[missy harries]

Corn flakes (it looks like corn flakes to me)
Are we looking at the same picture lol :)


I think calling a cookie a biscuit is more freakish, is Cookie Monster called the Biscuit Monster then?
No, he's the cookie monster but he is American! We do have Cookies over here which is what we call one specific type of biscuit.

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/7/8/7/9/3/0/MTS_missyharries-1247200-1010672.large.jpg
Mmmm, choc chip cookies.....


I've always wondered why some American words deviate so much away from british since it was the British colonizating of the Americas. It's always puzzled me :)

So, am I more American or British? Because I can't tell myself :D
Ahhh it makes you Lithuanian ;) Seriously though I wouldn't be sure otherwise.

[kristie91]

1.Biscuit
2.I dunno what they are... perhaps some type of cookie? lol opps I see that they are cookies!
3.Chips
4. French Fries or just fries
5.tea or coffee.. tea for me.. don't like coffee
6.cancer sticks I mean cigarettes..
7.zee
Supper.. but sometimes called dinner..

[rubberdukiey]

1. Scone
2. Biscuit
3. Chips
4. Chips
5. Tea cup
6. Cigarettes
7. Zed
8. Dinner

:)

[Elexis]

Ahhh it makes you Lithuanian ;) Seriously though I wouldn't be sure otherwise.

Ah, you little cheater, you shouldn't look in to my profile :rofl:
Oh well, I'm gonna pretend that was a lucky guess :beer:

[~Dee~]

1. Looks like a hamburger bun from MacDonald's without the horrible filling.
2. Biscuit
3. Chips
4. Chips
5. Tea cup or coffee.
6. Ciggies
7. Zed
8. Dinner

[simsample]

pare321, I removed the hotlinks from your post- please upload them to a file host or MTS to post them inline. :)

My answers:
1) Scone (to rhyme with gone, not to rhyme with Joan.)
2) Biccies!!!
3) Crisps (they had better be plain)
4) Chips, although they are FAKE chips from McDonalds or somewhere. Real chips look like this:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/2/18/1266502280139/Chips-001.jpg
5) Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
6) Fags, although those look like they are only mild ones. Plus they are factory rolled which is cheating.
7) Zed.
8) Supper. Unless you are referring to Tea, which I have at 4pm with scones, Earl Grey and china teacups.

[DrowningFishy]

Buiscit (doesn't look like a scone)
Cookies or Crackers maybe both.
potader (not a sp) chips.
Fries
Coffee cup
Ciggeretes (sp?)

Here is two that got me traveling from state to state in the United States.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i59/Apple__Ro/whatyoucall.png

First I call a bubbler, second I call soda.

[VerDeTerre]

pare321, I removed the hotlinks from your post- please upload them to a file host or MTS to post them inline. :)

My answers:
1) Scone (to rhyme with gone, not to rhyme with Joan.)
Really? I had noooo idea! Is that true for all of England or just where you are from? Now I'm wondering what your "gone" sounds like ;)

[simsample]

Really? I had noooo idea! Is that true for all of England or just where you are from? Now I'm wondering what your "gone" sounds like ;)
Perhaps I'm posh! :P My Grandmother was Welsh and she pronounced it to rhyme with 'Joan', she said 'sos-pan' instead of 'saucepan', too! So it's definitely a local dialect thing.

[missy harries]

Really? I had noooo idea! Is that true for all of England or just where you are from? Now I'm wondering what your "gone" sounds like ;)

Britan is more than England!!!!!
But it depends on how posh you are. Scone to rhyme with gone is not as posh as sounding like Joan.

Playing it up to the British stereotype there simsample (though I did agree to most of that!) ;) but teacups.......

EDIT: Thinking of sos-pan, I think I'm not sure I sound like like that......

[simsample]

So really I'm a chav? Good! :lol:

I am stereotypically English though, if someone steps on my toe on the tube I will apologise profusely to them.

[VerDeTerre]

Britan is more than England!!!!!
But it depends on how posh you are. Scone to rhyme with gone is not as posh as sounding like Joan.

Playing it up to the British stereotype there simsample (though I did agree to most of that!) ;) but teacups....... My apologies, of course it is.


Perhaps I'm posh! My Grandmother was Welsh and she pronounced it to rhyme with 'Joan', she said 'sos-pan' instead of 'saucepan', too! So it's definitely a local dialect thing. Thanks for sharing - I love this kind of stuff (cultures, language differences, etc...).

[missy harries]

My apologies, of course it is. Which part of Britain rhymes scone with gone? And thanks for letting me know that in some places or with some Brits it would rhyme with Joan.

Thanks for sharing - I love this kind of stuff (cultures, language differences, etc...).

Lol, Poor Wales always gets overlooked so I wouldn't worry, I'm Welsh so your looking at the Welsh Scone/Joan as being posh :anime: I'm a gone girl myself :)
Don't forget Scotland too!


EDIT: Thanks for sharing - I love this kind of stuff (cultures, language differences, etc...).
Me too, that's why I starting to spam the thread up *sorry*

[VerDeTerre]

Lol, Poor Wales always gets overlooked so I wouldn't worry, I'm Welsh so your looking at the Welsh Scone/Joan as being posh :anime: I'm a gone girl myself :) It's awesome. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around "scone" and "gone" rhyming. I mean, cognitively, yes, I can accept it, but ....how do you make that sound? :blink: I end up giving it somewhat of a Bronx accent whenever I try.

[simsample]

VerDeTerre, listen to these- the first sounds like Gone, the second like Joan.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/scone

[DrowningFishy]

It's awesome. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around "scone" and "gone" rhyming. I mean, cognitively, yes, I can accept it, but ....how do you make that sound? :blink: I end up giving it somewhat of a Bronx accent whenever I try.

I have a Wisconsin accent (and German/Welsh grandmother none-the-less), and scone and gone rhyme thought it did for everyone. XD Except differnt sounding letters they are said the same way with the mouth. Say gone how you say scone.

[VerDeTerre]

Heh - that's great! Now I'll know what I'm hearing if I ever hear it.

It's curious how the "o" isn't long in either gone or scone as pronounced in the first example.

[AngryBunny.]

I'm Aussie (We say 'Ozz-ey', Americans say 'Aw-see')

1. Scone (I pronounce it ‘scon’)
2. Biscuits
3. Chips
4. Chips (That's right. Aussie’s say ‘Chips’ for both crisps and fries. So whenever one of us says to our friend “I feel like some chips”, the friend needs to ask “Which chips, hot chips or cold chips?” Yep, we just love to confuse ourselves.)
5. Coffee (We don't drink much tea here. Unless you're old.)
6. Cigarettes
7. I say zed (the proper English way!), although it depends on your level of education. I've heard some Aussie's saying zee.
8. Dinner

[paksetti]

It took like 2-3 seconds to get "scone" to sounde like "gone" in my head. It just didn't want to work.

Also, EL, was that a reference to the voice thread you made before? Because I totally thought of it when I made this one. You rascal!

Also, to DrowningFishie's, water fountain and soda (though most people here say coke, regardless of the brand)

[Riptide651]

The link to the picture says buttered biscuit ha ha

[alayaya]

1) Biscuits
2) Cookies
3) Chips
4) French fries
5) Tea
6) Cigarettes

"zee" and "dinner"

[Robodl95]

One of the main reasons that American and uk English differ so much is because of immigration, the word cookie comes from the dutch word koekie which dutch settlers brought. There was also a phase where America wanted to cleanse themselves of all things Britsh so they edited a lot of spellings.

[Riptide651]

A lot of american is just a blend of French, Dutch, Russian, and Latin. (hopefully I didn't leave anything out.) Edit: Err. English sorry.... Too patriotic....

[VerDeTerre]

One of the main reasons that American and uk English differ so much is because of immigration, the word cookie comes from the dutch word koekie which dutch settlers brought. There was also a phase where America wanted to cleanse themselves of all things Britsh so they edited a lot of spellings. One of the main reasons is that the languages split somewhat when the English colonized America. Then each took a different direction with the addition of words and pronunciation. Now that you bring up the influence of words of foreign origins, I am curious how much each one picked up in those years.

[Riptide651]

Over time, english became more and more detached for british english, and soon enough the americans had their own variation of the english language.

[VerDeTerre]

Over time, english became more and more detached for british english, and soon enough the americans had their own variation of the english language. Funny that we were posting the same thought at the same time :)

There was a wonderful documentary mini-series several years ago by McNeil/Lehrer on the history of the English Language. In one segment, they talked about how the pronunciation of Shakespearean English was similar to the Maine accent. Try wrapping your head around that one. I think you have to take out the "ay-uh" and stick to the way the vowels are so roundly and richly pronounced by the old-timers in Maine.

[ElementMK]

Also, EL, was that a reference to the voice thread you made before? Because I totally thought of it when I made this one. You rascal!It didn't come to me until you mentioned the Z question. At that point, I did what had to be done.

[kiwi_tea]

Food
Food
Food
Food
Food receptacle
Cancer sticks
Zee
Food

[Riptide651]

Funny that we were posting the same thought at the same time

Wow what a coinky dink

Maine and Shakespeare? "chuckle" I pretty sure Shakespeare never had giant lobsters in HIS harbor...

[MimiSim]

1. scone
2. biscuits
3. crips
4. chips
5. tea
6. fags
7. zee
8. dinner

So, where am I from! :)

[Rawra]

Uhh...
1. Biscuits
2. Crackers
3. Chips
4. French fries
5. Tea or coffee
6. Cigars.

I pronounce the letter "zee". It sounds better to my weird mind. However, in Romanian we say "zed", but... Meh... Whatever.

The meal at the end of the day? It's lunch for me, but if I'm talking about anyone else... Supper.

[AngryBunny.]

Uhh...
1. Biscuits
2. Crackers
3. Chips
4. French fries
5. Tea or coffee
6. Cigars.

I pronounce the letter "zee". It sounds better to my weird mind. However, in Romanian we say "zed", but... Meh... Whatever.

The meal at the end of the day? It's lunch for me, but if I'm talking about anyone else... Supper.

Woah. Lunch for dinner? That's weird haha. What do you the meal in the middle of the day? Breakfast?

[Rawra]

^Yes. My mother is too lazy to cook during the day, so she starts cooking at 8 pm. As for the breakfast, though, I have it at 8 am... 12 hours with only a couple of snacks... not cool. But what can you do? I don't know how to cook anything else than fried eggs and French fries, so I depend on my mother.

[sandymdh]

1. Scone - like gone (hope it's a cheese one)
2. Biscuits
3. crisps
4. Fries - a poor imitation of proper chips (which are best eaten out of paper wrapping at the seaside)
5. Tea, cup of tea, cuppa, brew - though I am uncouth and drink from mugs not cups.
6. fags/cigarettes
7. Zed
8. Dinner - I don't think many people in England have stuck with the Breakfast-dinner-tea-supper routine as if you're working it's unlikely you'd get a chance to grab much more than a sandwich during the day. It's quite rural here though and a lot of people still refer to the evening meal as 'tea' even though it's a proper cooked meal.

I'm obviously not as 'English' as Simsample though as if someone stands on my toe I'll probably hop on one foot while swearing at them. Maybe that's the half French part of me showing through!

[Lance]

Zed? ZED? I always knew 'em teachers at my school were 'tards. As a result, I've been calling the letter "zet" through all my life until today.

[simbalena]

1. I have no idea, the only thing it vaguely resembles is a burger bun.
2. Biscuit
3. Chips
4. Chips
5. Coffee
6. Cigarettes
7. Both (I watched a lot of sesame street as a kid)
8. Dinner (although most people I know say tea)
9. Water Fountain or Drinking Fountain
10. Soft Drink

[maxon]

To original post:

1. scone (pronounced skon not sk-own - tsk). Also cheese, I believe
2. bourbons and custard creams - alright, biccies then
3. Crisps
4. French fries (if you were going for chips, you missed by a mile)
5. Coffee - I'm sorry that is NOT a tea cup. This is a tea cup:
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&q=tea+cup&gs_upl=2784l3568l0l3823l7l6l0l0l0l0l333l1479l2-2.3l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=873&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=10898276573093294012&sa=X&ei=O7C5TpnUGcix8QPdtsG_Bw&ved=0CE0Q8wIwAg
and this one with a saucer:
http://www.sharejewellers.com/catalogue/556400-02400/index.html
Dammit - why did you make me go and look at tea cups? I've come over all covetous now (I have a thing for china).
6. Cigarettes, fags or cigs

zed and supper

I never call lunch dinner, however.
And I do (at least sometimes).


So where am I from then? Answer needs to be within 20 miles to be convincing.


Hey Simsample and Missy Harries - how about the word lorry? ("Lurry", BTW. Sos-pan indeed).

Mmmm, choc chip cookies......
Stop that immediately.

[Riptide651]

Hooray For Biscuits!!!!!!!!!!

[Shoosh Malooka]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Office-pink-erasers.jpg/300px-Office-pink-erasers.jpg
http://feministsforchoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/condoms111-300x300.jpg

[ElementMK]

Those are both rubber mistake-avoiders.

[kiwi_tea]

Both CaNDIES.

[Riptide651]

Without one you can't erase mistakes, without the other, you can't avoid them.

[simsample]

In one segment, they talked about how the pronunciation of Shakespearean English was similar to the Maine accent. Try wrapping your head around that one. I think you have to take out the "ay-uh" and stick to the way the vowels are so roundly and richly pronounced by the old-timers in Maine.
I heard it was similar to a Birmingham (UK) accent, so that words like 'qualities' and 'eyes' rhymed.
http://dialectblog.com/2011/02/12/dialect-profiles-the-brummie-accent/
Is that what a Maine accent sounds like? Imagine hearing 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' read by Geezer Butler! :D

[VerDeTerre]

I heard it was similar to a Birmingham (UK) accent, so that words like 'qualities' and 'eyes' rhymed.
http://dialectblog.com/2011/02/12/dialect-profiles-the-brummie-accent/
Is that what a Maine accent sounds like? Imagine hearing 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' read by Geezer Butler! :D That was interesting - and no, it didn't quite sound like the Maine accent I was thinking of exactly, although somewhat. It sounded like a mix of things I've heard from different sources. I started looking into this more on the net and fell into a rabbit hole. There's a lot out there to explore. BTW - your comments on this thread came up in a Google search. Google now tracks comments made on public forums :(

Here's some "classic" Maine accents collected at a country fair, although from my search I learned that there are many:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VE2f-dg7qI&feature=related I hear some similarities to the link you provided.

[HarVee]

1) Biscuit
2) Cookies
3) Potato Chips
4) French Fries
5) Tea
6) Cigs
7) Zee
8) Chow Time

[RedSneakers]

Don't know what that is..
Biscuits
French Potatoes... Or just chips
French Fries
Coffee. Or I wouldn't. I don't like coffee. And I would use a larger cup for tea.
Cigarettes

Zed, though I think I as a kid learned that it should be zee. But I like zed better.
Dinner.

[Kathwynn]

Looks like some sort of biscuit?
the second looks to be a mix of of biscuit and cookies.
Potato chips
French fries
most likely coffee
cigarettes
zee though for a character I played in high school I learned to pronounce it as zed. I still some times do that to this day.
Supper or dinner.

Shoosh Malooka
I call the first one an eraser and the second condom/raincoat/rubber.

DrowningFishy
A three d viewer. Used to be big when I was a boy of 13. ( I just dated myself)
The juice of life. The Dr. pepper is called soda.

[lethifold]

1. Scone (I think...)
2. Biscuit
3. Chips
4. Chips (Occasionally, I'll put a 'hot' in front of it)
5. Coffee. I need a much larger cup for my tea :3
6. Cigarettes
7. Zed
8. Dinner

As far as the condoms go, in year four, when I lived in Japan and we were all super mature, it was the most embarrassing thing if you slipped up and asked a teacher for a rubber rather than an eraser. I'm not even sure how/why we knew what a condom was when we were eight/nine, but since then I've been very careful when saying rubber instead of eraser.

[Riptide651]

8. I say dessert, or that little snack at midnight.

[Elexis]

Lol, we call the first one "eraser" here :D

The second one is "gummy" :rofl:
I remembered when one summer night me and my best friend suddenly wanted gummy bears. It was late, so we got to the 24/7 and asked for "strawberry flavored gummies". The cashier gave us a pack of strawberry flavored condoms instead :rofl:
Well, 2 grown up chicks in a middle of the night asking for "gummies" is not something you can relate to candies :heyhey:
So, from that moment we call them gummies.

[Myskilla]

1. Scones.
2. Biccies.
3. Crisps.
4. Chips.
5. Tea.
6. Cigarettes.

And I say zee, which is probably the wrong thing. :s But it's nicer to say! Zeeee!

[Rock Chick]

Mine are

1) Scone (rhyming with Joan for me, I'm from the South West and you need loads of clotted cream and jam for mine!)
2) Biscuits/Biccies
3) Crisps
4) Fries (as opposed to proper chips which are chunkier)
5) Looks like a coffee cup from a cafe (what no mug of tea/coffee ?)
6) Fags/cigs
7) Zed.
8) Dinner or Tea (always call the everyday evening meal "tea" ...eg what's for tea? Or "dinner" if we're having something special or people over to dinner)

As for erasers , always known them as rubbers
and condoms, er...condoms or johnnies

[gulhare]

Bröd
Kakor
Chips
Pommes
Kaffe or te
Cigaretter
Zäta
Kvällsmat

[SuicidiaParasidia]

(did there use to be something before the biscuit? i dont see a picture above it, but ive noticed a few answers list something.)
1) biscuit o_o
2) cookies
3) potato chips
4) french fries
5) coffee (my one true love)
6) cigarettes

Z = "zee"

last meal = dinner. :3

...damnit, you made me hungry and i need to go to the store before i can eat ._.

[Johnny_Bravo]

1. Dunno
2. Cookies (myam)
3. Chips
4. French fries
5. Coffee/ tea cup?
6. Cigarettes

In Germany(where I currently live -.-) we prenounce ''Z'' as ''Tzet". Oh thos weird Germans... In my mothercountry called the Netherlands we prenounce it as ''Zet''

[TheScribbler]

In reply to the original post,
1) Scones (pronounced sc-ohns not sc-owns)
2) Biscuits
3) Crisps
4) Chips
5) Tea
6) Cigarettes
7) Zed
8) Tea