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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:47 PM
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so do I have to spell "favor" with a "u" now?
Since English is our official langage and everything. I wouldn't want to be a bad American.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:48 PM
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1. How should I colour that?
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:49 PM
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2. Colour too...
And I suppose we'll have to start calling elevators "lifts," trucks "lorries," and flashlights "torches."

Damn it. A whole 'nother dialect to learn. Oh, wait. Is it acceptable to use that contraction?

I'm SO confused. :cry:
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:51 PM
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6. The trunk is really called the boot.
Cookies are biscuits.

Mind the gap, mind the pedestrians, mind your head...
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:52 PM
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8. But think of all the fun we can have when we tell people
to keep their "pecker up." :evilgrin:
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:55 PM
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12. Dare I ask what "pecker" means in the British Isles?
:scared:
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:09 PM
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19. It means "keep your chin up." LOL
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:48 PM
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24. One's your chin and the other
a male appendage. :rofl:

To you The Shag was a 1930's swing dance to us it's screwing. This used to cause considerbable laughter at swing dance camps in the USA during classes although I think most of the teachers have now latched on.

Aside from that both above are really only examples are english slang and slang would differ both sides of the pond anyway.

I guess the main thing is you'd need to put the "i" back in aluminium.:)
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tenshi816 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 04:51 PM
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30. My grandparents always said "boot"
and they lived in Madison County, GA! I never understood that at all.

Don't forget that fries are chips, but chips are crisps...
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:56 PM
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13. Apartments will be "flats" and money will be "pounds," too!
Edited on Fri May-19-06 02:58 PM by Clark2008
Oh - and cigarettes will be, ahem, "fags."
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:14 PM
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20. And for all you mechanical types:
a wrench is a spanner

an adjustable wrench is a shifter
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:49 PM
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3. Yep, and labor is, in the English language, labour, lol n/t
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:49 PM
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4. I'm off to the store to buy some windscreen wipers
Looks like rain.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:50 PM
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5. I believe that's the Kings English spoken in the UK. ;o)
Hey, at least the bill doesn't say "Good English"! There are FEW if any people in the US who really speak proper English. The Shrub is the most serious offender I know!
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:52 PM
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7. Someone WJ this morning! said that * can't speak English! LOL!
It cracked me up! :rofl:
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:09 PM
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18. That's very true! I guess you could say he speaks English, but
very very poorly! I find that the most humorous part of his off the cuff responses. You never know what you'll hear, and he's always making up his own new words.
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:53 PM
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9. Is it theater or theatre?
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:53 PM
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10. You fucked up already - it's "murikan"...
:rofl:
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:54 PM
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11. You people are cracking me up!! Maybe it's because I love
dialog(ue) about linguistics. :rofl:
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:56 PM
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14. You do have to change the way you pronounce 'schedule'
You now must say shed-ule
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:00 PM
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16. What to I do, what do I do? How do I pronounce "herb" now?!?!?!
Oh the humanity. Will I automatically know how to pronounce Staffordshire and Worcester once bu$h signs this into law?
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:16 PM
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22. I alwyas say it that way! It's more fun! Aluminium is a hard one:
Al-u-min-ium instead of A-lu-mi-num. :)
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:52 PM
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26. I forgotten that one
but aside from that surely it's our dialects which differ and broadly speaking they cannot and should not be changed.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 02:58 PM
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15. Now that English is the official language of the USA, will
my co-workers finally "get" Monty Python? :shrug:
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:05 PM
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17. Ooookay, in order to help further the bush admin's goal of
Edited on Fri May-19-06 03:09 PM by Spazito
English being the official language, here are the terms regarding driving that must be learned in order to be in accordance with the law!

You are no longer allowed to say:

Backing up
You are only allowed to say
Reversing

Crosswalk
You Must say
Pedestrian Crossing

Divided Highway
The official term is now
Dual Carriageway


More, much more (and these are only the official English language driving terms need to be learned!)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/visiting%20the%20usa/glossary.htm
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:15 PM
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21. Replace the "o" in "favor" with a "u". Now yu are a freEpER !11!!!!
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:50 PM
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25. Do me a favour -
You don't replace it - you add it !
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 05:10 PM
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32. Oh, let's not have a row...?
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Canadian Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:19 PM
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23. For consultations re: correct spellings
I can be rented by the fortnight. My labour intensive work will, of course, be payable in Canadian dollars, eh.:toast:
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:55 PM
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27. Only if you're on the lift and your knickers are made of aluminium.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:56 PM
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28. I have to go to the LOO now.
Back in a bit!!
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BlueCollar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 04:54 PM
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31. the loo is also known as the "bog"...eom
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patcox2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-19-06 03:57 PM
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29. Thats the rumour. . .
I heard it from Fleetwood Mac
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