1. Turn off - so a combo of the 2

2. Take a shower, have a bath  I don't know why there's a difference for me lol

3. Call

4. Take a nap I think, but I might use both

5. Close probably because this works for curtains, blinds, etc.

Turn out the lights

Have a bath

Phone

Take a na[

Close the curtains

Are the differences, regional, I wonder? 

I turn off the lights (just like Chemgal).

Take a shower or have a bath (just like Chemgal).

Call someone on the phone. 

Have a nap

Shut the drapes but close the curtains. Not sure about blinds . . . we don't have any.. 

Do you wash your hair or......

Do you shampoo you hair

I wash.

Some people warsh their hair....

What she said though now I'll be mindfully monitoring myself to see what I really do say normally.

Mendalla

Wash. "Shampooing my hair" (for me) is the act of adding shampoo during the process of washing.

Mendalla

I knew a woman who said "I have to wash my hair a little bit." Just one side ???? hahahaha

I wash my hair, Crazyheart. But my hair is shampooed at the hairdresser's.

When my brother was a teenager, he did in fact wash different sections of his hair on different days.  He claimed it kept his hair from getting too poofy.  

Hey mists-how's life.

and everybody Do you go "uptown" or "downtown"?

uptown but not very often. Parking is better at the malls.

Here's one. Down East and Out West, Up North and Down South.

Not sure how it is now, but when I lived in Kitchener in the 70s and 80s, Kitchener's core was downtown, Waterloo's was uptown. I think Waterloo pushed that identification for marketing purposes since the two city cores are only about 15 minutes apart so if both were "downtown" it would have been potentially confusing.

Anyhow, since I'm from the Kitchener side of the line, I normally say "Downtown" (and that is how London's core markets itself).

Mendalla

Here in BC, eastern Canada is Back East. And Back East, we in BC are Out West. Up North and Down South denotes northern and southern Canada, and stateside is our neighbour to the south.

When I go downtown, I go downtown. When I go slower, I slow down, not up. When people tell me to slow up, as some of my American friends do, I never know whether they want me to go faster or slower.

I always thought up was higher than down? Don't these Americans know that? Well, maybe not. After all, they still go by the ancient Fahrenheit scale, where above zero is below zero. No wonder they are confused about up and down.

One can't expect much from a nation that doesn't know how to play hockey.

Turn out - lights

Have - shower and bath

Call - a friend

Have - a nap

Close - curtains and drapes

Shampoo - my hair

Uptown or Downtown - depended on where I lived - when I lived south of Main - I went uptown, when I lived north of Main, I went downtown, when I lived "below the hill" I went uptown.

Up North, Down South, Out West, Out East

I aso slow down, Arminius, not up, but when we were kids we used to say "Wait up for me!!!!!"

Do you turn the television off or shut the television off?

Turn the tv off.

Do you go down to the basement or down cellar?

Uptown north and downtown south? Or downtown if you live up on a hill.

I've never been somewhere that I used a term other than downtown.  For a while, my home was 'down south' with my friends.  I called my parents once saying I'd be later as I was dropping someone else off down south and my mom was confused where I was going lol.

Turn off usually, although I'll say shut off too.

Cellar sounds like a quaint word to me, I don't think I've ever heard it in casual conversation IRL.  It the basement, or sometimes just downstairs depending on the floor we're currently on.

Do you cut a cheque or write a cheque?

in a restaurant do you ask for the bill, the tab, or the check?

Pay with a credit card ;)  Write a cheque.

Usually the bill, sometimes the cheque.

One that my ex and his family always used and use to drive me crazy  they would say close the light instead of turn off the light.

Do you ice a cake, or do you frost it?

Ice

My list goes like this -

Turn off the light

Have a bath or shower

Phone a friend

Have a nap

Close the curtains but shut the blinds

Wash hair but usually I do this in the shower so don't actually say it  (see above)

I write a cheque to pay a bill

Don't recall asking for a bill in a restaurant - I just go to the till if it hasn't been brought to the table

I recall being surprised by the expression 'Wait Up'

I asked someone for help when a recipe called for a stick of butter.

Does anyone but me draw a bath?

Uptown in this city is up-the-hill (where the malls are).  Downtown is the area parallel to the river where the older stores are interspersed with restaurants, shops, services (post offce, city hall), businesses.  

I say out west meaning anything west of Ontario, but mainly Alberta and BC.  I never refer to Ontario as east.  The Maritimes and NL are the East.   PEI is `the Island`. 

Up north refers to global direction - anything north of here is ùp`.  Anything south of here is `down`.   But I understand that when you are far enough north that the rivers flow towards Hudson Bay or the Arctic, you refer to `down north`.  

As a school child I couldn`t understand why Ontario was called `Upper Canada` and Quebec was `Lower Canada`.   Any fool looking at a map could see that Quebec was further north than the part of Ontario called `Upper Canada`.   Now I wonder at the caliber of some of the teachers we had who coùldn`t explain it to me.

Does anybody here say ``I`m going to run over to the mall.` and then get in their car and drive over.   How many of us `run over to the neighbours`   Or run anywhere

Down here In Southwestern Ontario, at least in my experience, "out West" means West of us (Manitoba and westwards, including the US West), "down East" is the Maritimes. Quebec is just Quebec. "North" can mean anything from Central Ontario cottage country (Muskoka & Haliburton, as in "We're going up North for the long weekend") to the North Pole. "South" mostly refers to that pesky other country that we share the continent with (since there isn't much of Canada south of us, esp. if you're in one of the Lake Erie ports or the Windsor area).

Mendalla

I run to do errands, I run to the neighbours, I run to the store, I run to the church . . . I run out of money .

We used to say "draw a bath", but haven't said it myself for years.

Do you "catch" "get" or "hitch" a ride with someone?

I get a ride.

I have never "drawn " a bath.

I get a ride and ice a cake. 

In Toronto we go downtown. 

I use  a collander to strain macaroni.

My kids  use a strainer.

I have said drawn to a bath before now I say "run" my bath usually.

I know some people who were raised as Mennonites in a community that is formed mainly by Mennonites.  They say "Plug in (the kettle, iron, vacuum etc".  However they use as the opposite action "Plug out (the kettle, iron, vacuum etc).  

I plug in and shut off

I think that I unplug.

Anyone just learning English must get totally confused!

My wife learned English 30ish years ago (though didn't start speaking it routinely until just before we met 25 years ago) and, yes, she still finds the language confusing even today.

Mendalla

I plug in an appliance and either shut it off or unplug it. I consider shutting off and unplugging to be two different things. 

Say I am vacuuming. I might shut off the vacuum cleaner for a few minutes to take a break. But when I am finished vacuuming, I unplug it and put it back in the closet.

Shut off means to turn off, and I usually use the latter.

Plug In or Out means to remove the source of power

My wife used to say open and close the light (but she got better ).

For me it is turn on and turn off for pretty much anything with electricity (save the computer where I tend to use boot up and shutdown).

Mendalla

I use turn off more often, but sometimes shut off for certain things.  Ie. I would never shut off the lights, but I might shut off the tv.

I unplug things.  Plug in and out sounds ok, but plug out alone sounds odd to me.

English was not Seelerman's mother's first language.  She spoke what is sometimes called Franglais with her Acadian friends living in an English community.  He picked up some words and phrases from her.  

Grocery shopping was sometimes   "Make the groceries".

And he sometimes used the word  "unsew"  or "unsewn"  meaning that he wanted to pick out the stitches in a sleeve or pant leg, so that I could adjust the length.  Or maybe a seam was coming out,    It didn't sound right to me, but I couldn't come up with the proper word.  I pick out stitches - I don't unsew.

hahahahahahah I do neither seeler. Can't sew to save my soul.

Many people say "unthaw" when they actually mean "thaw" - my hubby usually does .

I plug in appliances and unplug appliances.

Living in Alberta, people ask me if I'm from "down east"...  No!  I'm from Ontario!

Down east doesn't include anything west of Montreal for me.

Hilary - I agree!

Many Manitobans refer to Ontario as down East :).