Preliminary Chicago Checklist 



The Regional Vocabulary 



DIRECTIONS: 



1 . Please put a circle around the word in each group you ordinarily use. 



2. If you ordinarily use more than one word in a group, put a circle around each of the words you use. 



3. Don't put a circle around any word you don't actually use, even though you may be familiar with it. 



4. If the word you ordinarily use is not listed in the group, please write it in the space below the item. 



5. If you never use any word in the group, because you never need to refer to the thing described, don't mark the word. 



6. The material in italics is explanatory only. 



Example: Town Officer: alderman, selectman, trustee, councilman. 



1 . Small front porch: porch, front porch, stoop, step, front steps, landing. 



2. Protective boarded covering on the sides (not the roof) of a house: clapboards, siding, shingles, facerboards, brick siding. 



3. Suspended, or built-in horizontal open piping for draining rain from a roof: eaves trough, gutters, drain pipe, rain pipe, rain trough. 



4. Small collection of hay in the field at harvest: hay cock, pile of hay, hay pile, bale, bale of hay, shock, hay shock, bundle of hay, 

 bundle, hay mound, small stack, small hay stack, bunch, rick. 



5. Shelter and enclosure for hogs and pigs: pig sty, sty, pig pen, pen, hog shed, shed, hog barn, pig barn, barn, barn pen, hog pen, 

 hog stable. 



6. Fence or wall made of loose rock or stone: stone fence, stone wall, cobble fence, cobblestone fence, brick wall, barrier, drywall fence, 

 rock abutment, rubble, rock fence. 



7. Wooden container for carrying liquid: bucket, pail. 



8. Metal or plastic container for carrying liquid: pail, bucket. 



9. Table scraps as refuse: garbage, slop, swill. 



10. Utensil for frying eggs: frying pan, skillet, spider. 



1 1 . Water outlet at the kitchen sink: faucet, tap. 



12. Similar device on a barrel: spigot, tap, faucet, spout, bung, bunghole, spicket, pipe. 



13. Outdoor water outlet at the side of a house: faucet, sprinkling faucet, hose cock, sill cock, square cock, water cock, cock, hydrant, 

 spicket, water line. 



14. Bag or sack made of rough, loosely woven cloth: burlap, burlap bag, burlap sack, gunny sack, crocker sack, jute bag. 



15. Small, reed wind-instrument: mouth organ, harmonica, harp, mouth harp. 



16. Parallel harness poles on a buggy: fills, thills, shafts. 



17. Crossbar on a wagon for an individual draft animal: whippletree, whiffletree. 



18. Vehicle without wheels for transporting rocks and stones from a field: dray, sled, stoneboat, cart, wheelbarrow. 



19. Cultivating implement used after plowing: harrow, farrow, disc, drag, cultivator, tiller, tractor. 



20. Small container for coal near a stove: coal scuttle, scuttle, coal bucket, bucket, coal hod, basket, pail. 



2 1 . Balanced plank on which two children ride up and down: teeter totter, teeter, teeters , see saw , see horse . 



22. Liquid burned in lamps: kerosene, oil, coal oil, lamp oil. 



23. Thick, cotton-padded cover for a bed: quilt, comforter, comfort. 



24. Makeshift bed on a floor: cot, pallet, bunk, bed roll, pad, floor bed, mattress. 



25. Small freshwater stream: creek, brook, stream, rill, inlet, riverlet. 



26. Game with metal rings which are tossed at a stake or peg: horseshoes, quoits. 



27. Call to a cow at feeding time: boss, bossie, hey, cow, woo-ah. 



28. Gentle, contented noise made by a horse, especially at feeding time: neigh, whinny, bray, sigh, snort. 



29. Forked chicken bone which children like to pull: wishbone, pulley bone. 



30. wTieatbread made of bleached flour and baked in loaves: white bread, bread, wheat bread, bakery bread, light bread, loaf of bread, 

 Weissbrot. 



31. Bread made of com meal: corn bread, johnnycake, cornmeal bread. 



32. Round fried cake with hole in the center, made of soda-leavened dough: doughnut, fried cake, sinker. 



33. Loaf of jellied pressed-meat made of flesh from the head of a hog: headcheese, souse, hogsouse, hog head cheese, hog's head cheese, 

 Sulze, sylte, sylteflesk, sulc. 



34. Thick, sour milk: lobbered milk, loppered milk, sour milk, sour cream, curdled milk, clabbered milk, clabber. 



