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16 Aug 14
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the sh1tter - the bathroom
almighty f$ck up - mission accomplished
police brutality - the black dude had a gun
almighty f$ck up - mission accomplished
police brutality - the black dude had a gun
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The obvious one relating to cigarettes?
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Wan't it Churchill who said that we were two great nations seperated by a language? If it wasn't it should have been.
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F@g, f@nny, pants
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Shirt--vest. Tap--faucet. Pavement--sidewalk. Aluminium--aluminum. Jam--jello.
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petrol-gas, tactical retreat-we got our butt kicked
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train station-subway
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Braces - suspenders
Lift - elevator Trousers - pants Ground floor - first floor Garden - yard |
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Big - grossly overweight
Smart - Thick Red haired beauty - ginger and ugly Cute - Ugly, especially small child with a ribbon thing round its head like an Easter egg Dude - gay Boys - old men Guys - morons Firefighters - fat men with hose pipes Rocket scientists - either hillbillies with matches or German immigrants Americans - very intellectually challenged people Veterans - unlucky people who got shot and are now living on the street or lucky people who had well connected parents and hid behind a desk the list is endless, it's (dare I say it) Awesome (sorry!) I used to live there, I know. |
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Fortnight = pardon?
Penultimate = come again? Rest of the World = where? |
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Eeternaloptimist 16 Aug 14 01:50 Joined: 28 Jun 10 | Topic/replies: 26,439 | Blogger: Eeternaloptimist's blog
Wan't it Churchill who said that we were two great nations seperated by a language? If it wasn't it should have been. A couple of Freudian slips there Eo?  |
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Drawing Pin.....Thumb Tac Plaster (as in Elastoplast)....Band Aid Tights.....Pantyhose Dummy.....Pacifier Dust Bin.....Trash Can/Garbage Can Panties.....Underpants Autumn.....Fall Biscuit.....Cookie Crisps.....Potato Chips Bonnet (car).....Hood Boot (car).....Trunk Chemists.....Drug Store Chips.....Fries/French Fries Estate Car.....Station Wagon Lift.....Elevator Holiday.....Vacation Windscreen.....Wind Shield Trousers.....Pants Sweets.....Candy Carry Cot.....Bassinet Duvet.....Comforter |
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F@nny = bum.
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Gemma went into a chemists (sorry, Drug Store) in Maryland and asked for a "Blister Plaster".
After some time explaining he said "you mean a "Band-Aid Cushion"!!! |
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Then again...I went into a chip shop in Chester and asked for a chip butty...
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Tramp
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Frying pan.....Skillet
Spring Onions.....Scallions Mobile Phone.....Cell Phone Give Way.....Yield Bunker.....Trap/Sand Trap Happy Xmas.....Happy Holidays |
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Spring Onions.....Scallions
wife uses that along with Turnip for Swede she's from Ireland so maybe that taken over from here |
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if she calls a swede a turnip, what does she call a norwegian?
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11/9.....9/11
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Harvest Festival......Thanksgiving
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@rse.....@ss
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wenger-arse
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The Yanks call swedes rutabagas and courgettes zucchini.
Not a different word, but they call a bouy a 'boo ee' |
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Whitsuntide over here - don't know wht you're talking about over there
Hotel and restaurants decorated in pastel colours generally over here - drab brown and green generally over there sexy slim secretary who might be able to type a bit over here - overweight p.a. in crimpeline trouser suit who is very efficient over there (generally) (but usually quite good teeth) |
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Manual transmission = stick shift!
Wig = toupee |
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Football (a game where you spend most of the 90 minutes kicking a ball with your foot) = soccer
American football (a game where you spend 99.99% of it with the ball in your hands and hardly ever facking kick it) = football |
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...but, does it matters as their football is fantatsic, ours is, ah well.........
 As a matter of interest, contrary to what people think...much of the vocabulary and phrases used in US are more rooted in older English, which they brought with them....(e.g. Fall (old English). For a couple of hundred years English changed more dynamically in England than it did in the US......initially they changed the language very little.....of course that changed in the 20th century where the language changed more dynamically and independently on both sides of the ocean)......It seems to me to be less independently now with such a shared culture. |
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Accident - $400 million lawsuit
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.....by the way.....in the example it was the English (upper classes I suspect) who began to use and prefer the French word L'automne to their traditional Old English (i.e Geramnic) word "Fall"
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...and it was a British scientist (Humphrey Davy, I think) who suggested the name aluminum, as opposed to aluminium.
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P*ssy (cat) - P*ssy (not a cat)
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For a mild English swear word the americans think they hadn't heard until about the mid 1990s, watch this Hollywood movie from 1939 from about 11 mins 30secs to 11m 40s.
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iXg0PR2pg |
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Crocodile Clips - Heard Columbo call them Alligator Clamps on tv tonight.
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angry - pissed
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bumper - fender
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Indians - Native Americans
Native Americans' former homeland - National Parks night out window shopping in St Louis - looting & rioting |
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Prom = school disco
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chemistry -- iirc the internationally-agreed official name/spelling is aluminium but the Americans won on sulfur.
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