Regional Dialect Meme (from cindymonkey ) (Some of these are New Orleans terms; some I may have picked up from my mostly-Kentuckian family. Trying to trace such things back is one of the things I love about dialects and idioms.) What do you call: 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks. Bayou 2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called. Buggy 3. A metal container to carry a meal in. Lunchbox 4. The thing that you cook... read more