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Dialect terms.

Way too many of these bring nothing to mind. Others (the food ones) need pictures.

1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: Alley? (though actually, that's something that has a "roadway" between. Don't know of one for a footpath)
   
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: skipping
   
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: ???
   
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: dibs
   
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: no such item slip ons were rare when I was a kid and were *never* allowed for sports or PE (and I only know what trainers are because I read a lot of stuff set in the UK)
   
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: pancakes
    
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: don't know of any
    
14. Term of endearment: dear
    
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: don't know of any except "wimp", which is far too generic
    
16. Tourists: tourists
    
17. A field boundary: fenceline
    
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
    
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: ??? (what on earth does the former hare to do with the latter?)
    
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt?: scaredy-cat
    
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewelry is a ____: pimp?
    
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?: thanks?
    
23. Generic friendly greeting: Hello or hi
    
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: pants
    
25. Slang term for left-handed: lefty
    
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? shrews-burr-ee, new castle, glaz-go
    
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich (or handmeal if I'm speaking fannish :-)
    
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: ???
    
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name: only ones I can think of are for the ruder parts of the body.
    
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: ???
    
31. Potatoes: spuds
    
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: English muffin?
    
33. You annoyingly lucky person! lucky stiff, lucky bastard
    

foodie question

I've got a couple of items I bought at Trader Joe's ages back and I really want to use them on something other than plain old bread.

Lemon Curd & Ginger Spread

What would they go well on? Preferrably something that doesn't add en ormous carb count to the already high carb count from them alone.

How *not* to wire networks

http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=6435