I do 'crown' and 'wudder' (trying to get rid of that one)
Others - no. But I am from the not-so mean streets of the Philly 'burbs.
I still ask people, "Jeet?" (have you eaten yet?)
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I do 'crown' and 'wudder' (trying to get rid of that one)
Others - no. But I am from the not-so mean streets of the Philly 'burbs.
I still ask people, "Jeet?" (have you eaten yet?)
I couldn't do that, anymore than I could say I was doing math (as opposed to maths) .I felt sick just typing that
Sorry to butt in, but...yes! 'Math' is just wrong! Take the word 'mathematics'. It's inherently plural, so the shortened form is also in the plural, hence 'maths'!
Maybe it's 'supper' because it's suppressing my fast?Yeah, same here. Apart from weighing 12 stone. I remember those days, but...
I don't call a late-night bowl of cereal 'supper' though (or know anyone who does...well, apart from you, now!). No one round here really calls it anything. Weird, eh?
Sigmund: 'Pop' covers pretty much everything, fizzy or still. If we specifically mean still we'll usually say 'squash' or 'cordial'. Though of course we also have juice, which is different.
Soda water is just called soda water, unless it's going in whisky or something. Then we might shorten it to soda. Same applies to tonic water.
'Soda', as champ1966 says, is bicarbonate of soda...though AFAIK most people just shorten that to 'bicarb' rather than 'soda' (at least 'round these parts).
Yeah, it's like that thing when you first enter a prison, so I've heard, and you go up to the biggest guy there and threaten them. Where's that uneducated GNTLGNT when you need him?We've got to stick together, right? Someone's got to educate 'em.
He's eating his supper/dinner of cookies at the moment. Knife and fork.
Reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld
'Hey I got'n ideer, less clean the chimley'I've always been curious when people say the word "idea" as "ideer".
I once heard a Brit say the word '"advertisement" and loved it. I now say the word like this first example.
Southern Indiana hoobilly speaky-speaky
'Okay if'nya-onto'
Wayy back in the holler Kentucky/Tennessee HillBilly talky-talky
Hi!
I'm goofy. I'm not judging at all. I'm curious.
Like your "Please"? When I was a little kid and my Momma or Daddy would call me ? I couldn't say, "What?" or "Que?" It was, "Yes, ma'am/sir?" Or "Mande?" (Mande is a whole different kettle of fish. Some see "mande" as a term of respect others see it as subservient. I walk a thin line.)
Hugs!
My special lovey friend from Ireland "has messages" nearly every day. Took me a while to figure out that her 'messages' are my 'errands'I've always been curious when people say the word "idea" as "ideer".
I once heard a Brit say the word '"advertisement" and loved it. I now say the word like this first example.
....I was cipherin' down by the see-ment pond you international imbecile
....as point of fact, that crap might play well in the movies-but in real life or a reasonable facsimile thereof-all it's gonna do is get yer ass pounded into the concrete.....
Glad to see that international relations course you took wasn't a waste of money.....I was cipherin' down by the see-ment pond you international imbecile
I seemed to have dropped my soap, could you pick it up for me Scott please?
Bless you means f-you in Los Angeles. I'm from there.
Hi all
Here in Australia we have breakfast, lunch and tea. Our barbeques (barbies) we just cook anything and everything on them. We wait in line and I'm sick of hearing Aussies say "FOLKS" as that is definitely not an Aussie saying.
Here in Australia we have breakfast, lunch and tea. Our barbeques (barbies) we just cook anything and everything on them. We wait in line and I'm sick of hearing Aussies say "FOLKS" as that is definitely not an Aussie saying.