heyy need help with the English lingo...?

Question

I going to london to college..i wanna know the lingo..need some pointers from the English.... Thankxx

Answer 1

My husband is from Houston Tx and lives here. If he can cope then you will be able to as well.

Come have a great time, you will pick it up as you go along. He has.

Answer 2

tap = faucet

f a g = cigarette

toilet, lav, loo = bathroom

bathroom = a room with a bath in it, but not necessarily a john as well. If you ask for the bathroom, they will assume you want to take a bath..which will make you look pretty weird in a restaurant.

bonnet = hood of a car

boot = trunk of a car

petrol = gas

chav = urban white trash

football = soccer. Never, ever, call it "soccer"..it seems to really annoy them.

cricket = way too complicated for most foreigners to understand , but kind of like baseball meets chess. You'll look very classy if you can understand it

sweets = candy ( but the singular "a sweet" means a dessert after a main meal )

bacon = only the thin, rasher strip type is called bacon in the UK. The thicker slices of pork are called "gammon" , but pork is still called pork.

fry-up = large cooked breakfast. Normally includes eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, fried bread, tomatoes, mushrooms, french fries. and a load of other stuff, all on the same plate. Tastes real good, but dont try to eat more than one a month or you will explode.

chips = french fries. The normal British fry is much thicker than a normal french fry, more like a small irregular lump cut off a whole potato. Normally eaten with both salt and malt vinegar shaken on them. Tasty and cheap....be careful you dont end up living on these like a lot of English people do!.

crisps = potato chips. These are way popular in the UK, and are available in about 50 different weird savory flavors. They seem to love potatoes in all forms.

biscuit = like a hard cookie.

scone = biscuit

lager = the normal American type of beer. There is also another type of popular beer in the UK called "bitter"..which is pretty good but maybe an accquired taste because its served at room temperature, not cold.

cheers = standard word used by almost everyone in London to mean "hello", "goodbye", or "thanks", depending on when you say it.

The rest is just common sense and you should be able to work out what they are saying after a couple of weeks! Oh yeah. and theres plenty of telephone booths in the UK!

Answer 3

Don't worry too much about it, London is very cosmo as you probably already know. British dialogue is very regional so people living 20miles apart can have totally different meanings for words thats part of the fun. Doubt people will expect you you to know what they are on about at first, but you will soon pick it up, be yourself and pick and choose what phrases/words suit you is the best way, we understand American since our tv is virtually all US stuff. Imagine Huge Grant trying to copy a New Yorker or a Texan, sound strange you bet. Hope you have a good time and remember to travel around a bit if you get a chance the change in accent may give you a shock but its all good.

Answer 4

You will get a slap if you say any of the stereotypical english stuff, nobody talks like that!
Rubbish- Garbage
Bathroom (restroom) is called a toilet (not just the toilet itself)
Life- Elevator
Pub- A place with beer some food etc
Telly- TV, but you can still call it TV hehe

Don't try to hard, most English people are aware of American words so they might look at you weirdly but still...

My dad got in so much trouble because the two fingers up (like the peace sign backwards) is rude here. So don't say anything like two beers hehe

Answer 5

blower - phone
Boozer - pub
Pint - beer
Footy - soccer
Geeze - mate
Take it easy - see ya
Bowling- Going, as in i'm bowling down the boozer
Tube - underground
The nuts - good, quality
Daaaan - down
having a munch - get some food
grub - food
chips - fries
crisps - potatoe chips
boat race - face
Fit - sexy
Birds - girls
Aint - isn't
Bus - short distance red buses
Coach - long distance
Underground - trains on the underground
Overhead - trains normally going out of London a bit further
Cinema - see films

Half the stereotypical cockney rhyming slang aint used that much

Answer 6

I communicate English, French and Spanish. I definitely have spoken 3 languages all my existence. i think each citizen of america could desire to communicate English, a minimum of nicely sufficient to get via. It merely makes existence much less stressful once you are able to communicate with the people you reside and artwork around. I cam from a trilingual enjoyed ones, i think people could desire to hold directly to their mom tongue yet additionally discover ways to communicate the language this is spoken via maximum folk of people in the rustic the place they stay.

Answer 7

There's no telephone booths in Britain. There are no booths in restaurants either. A telephone box or call box is what we call them.

Don't sweat the small language differences, people will know you are foreign by your accent and will make allowances for the funny names you call things. The UK watches a lot of foreign films.

Answer 8

Johnny or blob = condom
boot = trunk
bonnet = hood
quid = slang for money
crisps = potato chips
sweets = candy
lemonade = 7-up
biscuit = cookie
bangers and mash = sausage and mashed potatoes

Cambridge is LOVELY as is the countryside surrounding.

Answer 9

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml - this is a fun site to check out. I wouldn't go around trying use these words but at least you will know what it means.

Answer 10

Telly=TV, Underground=Subway, Knickers=Women underwear,
Knock you up==when should I wake you up. Bullocks=Balls=Testicles,
Take away=Take out==Motorway==Highway, Telephone Booth==Call booth, fags=cigarettes