English is a foreign language
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vincegamer
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That depends:
To most it means eating a spicy Indian dish.
But if you\'re dating Tim Curry at the time, it could mean something totally different.
vincegamer
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I started this thread and I can go with it where I wish.
Cricket:
UK = a sport played with bat and ball (and Wicket, which I\'m pretty sure is an ewok).
USA = a loud insect.
Jabberwocky
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We have regional variation in the Kansas/Missouri area on what to call the noon meal and the evening meal.
Noon meal: Lunch or Dinner.
Evening meal: Dinner or Supper.
At least in my experience, it comes in two flavors--lunch and dinner or dinner and supper. I don\'t think I have heard someone regularly call them lunch and supper.
Noon meal: Lunch or Dinner.
Evening meal: Dinner or Supper.
At least in my experience, it comes in two flavors--lunch and dinner or dinner and supper. I don\'t think I have heard someone regularly call them lunch and supper.
vincegamer
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That\'s what we called them in Oklahoma when I was a pup.
Dinner is defined as the chief meal of the day. Depending on where you are, that\'s either midday or evening. Or, it could be different from one day to the next.
Want to know some useless but interesting trivia?
The word dinner is from Old French, in turn from Latin, and means litterally to break one\'s fast. Originally, dinner was the first meal of the day! Yet I\'ve never heard anyone use dinner to mean breakfast.
Shawn R. L.
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Blimey - As in: Blimey mate, you just spilled beer on me girl.
I know it\'s an exclamation but does the \'word\' have an older meaning? Or is it short for something?
I know it\'s an exclamation but does the \'word\' have an older meaning? Or is it short for something?
Hieronymus
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Originally posted by supervike
I can\'t recall Scott Baio doing those commercials, but I do remember David Naughton doing them....But the strange part is when I was reading this, the song WEREWOLVES OF LONDON started playing on the radio.....
Coincedence? Well, yeah probably...
When werewolves are involved, I don\'t think there are coincedences.
Hieronymus
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My guess is that \"blimey\" is a contraction of \"bloody me\". This would have been a serious swear way back when because it refers to Jesus\'s blood...
This just in...
I just Googled \"blimey etymology and got this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blimey
It\'s a contraction of \"God blind me.\" People also used to say, \"gorblimey\" too, evidently.
lets see...
thong
UK Skimpy female underwear
Oz Skimpy footwear (sandles, flip flops)
(boy thats a good one... \"Can I see your thong?\")
pants
UK underwear
Oz trousers
chook
UK irritating Cilia Blackism for a person
Oz a chicken
There are quite a few more, but thong is by far the most amusing for me...
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oh and pissed in the UK means drunk, but because of the massive US influence we now use it both ways. 15 years ago though we used to confuse Americans at uni by talking about being pissed.
thong
UK Skimpy female underwear
Oz Skimpy footwear (sandles, flip flops)
(boy thats a good one... \"Can I see your thong?\")
pants
UK underwear
Oz trousers
chook
UK irritating Cilia Blackism for a person
Oz a chicken
There are quite a few more, but thong is by far the most amusing for me...
edit
oh and pissed in the UK means drunk, but because of the massive US influence we now use it both ways. 15 years ago though we used to confuse Americans at uni by talking about being pissed.
Infidel Castro
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That gets confusing even in this house, where I have breakfast, dinner (midday), tea (late afternoon meal) and that\'s it. My lady is used to having breakfast, lunch and then supper, all of which correspond to my definitions timewise. God it freaks me out.
vincegamer
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Trevor reminded me of another one.
Vest:
UK - Not sure, but I think it\'s an undershirt, like a wifebeater.
US - What the Brits call a wastecoat - sleeveless top worn usually over a shirt.
Thong can be either one in the US. It\'s just anything that\'s made from a very thin piece of rope or fabric. Thong is most popularly used to mean the kind of underwear or bathing suit that a woman wears to give the message \"I don\'t need a boyfriend, I\'m dating my bathing suit.\" The shoe type is more often called a flip-flop.
Vest:
UK - Not sure, but I think it\'s an undershirt, like a wifebeater.
US - What the Brits call a wastecoat - sleeveless top worn usually over a shirt.
Thong can be either one in the US. It\'s just anything that\'s made from a very thin piece of rope or fabric. Thong is most popularly used to mean the kind of underwear or bathing suit that a woman wears to give the message \"I don\'t need a boyfriend, I\'m dating my bathing suit.\" The shoe type is more often called a flip-flop.
Originally posted by Jericho
In the US a boot is a type of footwear, in the UK it\'s the trunk of your car, and in Canada aboot is something I\'ve never heard anyone say and it drives me crazy how Americans think it\'s so damn funny to hear us say it!
Although \"booty\" and \"junk in the trunk\" means the same thing....
lol
UK...Garden = yard
US...Garden= a specific area where you plant either flowers or vegetables.
So, then
English \"I got pissed in the garden last evening.\"
American \"Why, did someone steal your roses?\"
Canadian \"What are you talking aboot, eh?\"
Australian\"Pass the beer, mate.\"
vincegamer
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Then there was that German movie about footwear:
\"Das Boot\"
\"Das Boot\"
