Quiz

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 The long, public roads that are main arteries between states and cities --- what do you call them?

What about the vehicles that move on them;  the ones with 18 wheels?

What do you call carbonated beverages?

What do you think my one-word prompt was for this collage?


This one?

Comments

Kim in Oregon said…
1. In the midwest growing up, they were highways. In Boston, they were expressways. In Oregon, they're Interstate Highways (non-interstate ones are highways, or routes, or simply the number).
The longest one from Cali to the Canadian border is I-5 (but if you're in LA, I guess it is 'the 5'.

2. The trucks with 18 wheels? Is there another name other than trucks? I don't know, I really don't talk about them. "18 wheelers" maybe? Semis? I have no idea.

3. What do you call carbonated beverages? Soda, but when I was in college it was 'pop'.

June 29, 2023 at 4:52 PM
kmkat said…
1. Like Kim in Oregon, I grew up in the Midwest, and those roads were called highways. Unless they were 4+ lanes with exit and entrance ramps; then they were freeways.

2. 18-wheelers were called semis.

3. I grew up calling them pop. In my 60s I started calling them sodas because it seemed more descriptive. Pop is a Midwestern term; soda is more East Coast, I think.

4.Death? Mortality?

5. Haunting? Monsters?
July 1, 2023 at 3:35 PM
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