I'm from America and I was just wondering what words or phrases you use that we don't say in America.
2007-06-18 10:08:50 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
'CHEERS MATE"
"would you like some fish and chips?"
2007-06-18 10:22:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I said 'dodgy' once to an American and he didn't know what I was on about (it means something is not quite right with something like, 'that car looks a bit dodgy'. I was in Virginia a little while ago, I went into a restaurant and asked the waitress for some Cranberry juice. She looked horrified and then said 'we don't have any of that, but we do have Cranberry juice'. It's a different language out there, or maybe she was just 'thick' (stupid)?
2007-06-19 16:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by Julia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandparent's always used to say: "Ee tha's a tyke lad".
I'll tell you the Tyke motto,
Hear all, see all, say nowt,
eyt all, sup all, pay nowt,
an' if ever tha does owt for nowt,
allus do it for thysen.
I'll let you work out the meaning for yourself, but over here it's quite easy to follow.
A tyke is a young troublesome Yorkshire lad, a small Yorkshire dog or, supposedly, a mildly offencive name for an older Yorkshire person. Post modernism may have just started preaching that the modern man has individualistic tendencies, with a desire to break away from the communal life of yesteryear, but we in Yorkshire have been saying stuff you all for centuries. (Which might not be entirely accurate)
2007-06-18 18:25:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Glory Hole (regional) - cupboard under the stairs
The Dog and Bone (london) - phone
Bloody Nora - Oh hell
Nappy - Diaper
Trousers (or trews) - Pants
Dales - valleys
Apple and Pears (london) - stairs
Pinafore (pinny) (regional) - apron
Post Code - Zip Code
Crisps - Chips
Chips - Fries
2007-06-18 17:39:08 · answer #4 · answered by morning star 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Celia G's answers are very boring. One word that confuses every American that I know is 'queue' (pronounced like the letter 'q') it means a line. We say lift instead of elevator, a freeway is a motorway, fanny means vagina here...jerk is w@nk(er). A TV can be a telly in some places. There are many more, can't think of them now.
2007-06-18 17:47:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend in SC and lets just say Shag has a different meaning when she goes Shagging on the Beach she means dancing where as i would get sand in an uncomfortable place.
2007-06-18 17:20:18 · answer #6 · answered by rand1812 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bog (toilet) - also translates to bog off meaning go away.
Bloody hell (sounds funny with an American accent)
Fanny (this means a ladies personal bits NOT a bottom)
Bum (you would call it a fanny!)
Knickers - do you say this?
Ooh, I'll probably think of loads of them later. This will bug me like crazy.
2007-06-18 17:21:04 · answer #7 · answered by Rachael H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flip flops (jandles in Oz)
cling film (glad wrap)
Loo (Toilet) or Dunny in Oz
Dim Sim, Yum Cha, Chinese Banquet
Shark and Tattie or fish and chips
2007-06-18 17:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by Jewel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say "taking the piss" (p-i-s-s) which I think means to make fun of someone, and some of them call sandwiches "butties" (the "u" sounds like euh). And sometimes they say "it was pants" meaning it was bad.
2007-06-18 20:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I'm just going outside to smoke a ***"
This means one thing to Brits and a completely different thing to Yanks!
2007-06-19 06:24:48 · answer #10 · answered by Peter E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I'm Scottish and therefore my English is pretty poor!
2007-06-18 17:13:18 · answer #11 · answered by ALLEN B 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋