A couple of times I have posted questions and explained that I was from England. Some of the answers I got included the words "jolly good" "tally ho" and other such. Surely you dont belive we all talk like that?
2007-11-24 12:48:59 · 20 answers · asked by Yoda 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Jaime that was **** van dyke. An American I belive.
2007-11-24 13:03:57 · update #1
I can't belive I wrote his name, but YA changed it to asterix
2007-11-24 13:08:29 · update #2
Only in movies from the 1930's but we love your accents (which of course are numerous). There's a couple of accents which take me a while to understand---what I think is cockney is one and a thick Irish accents (like in the movie "The Commitments") is the other. If we watch too many Cary Grant movies or like me, "Miss Potter" last night, there are a lot of "jolly goods" et al. (Love your new avatar, btw.)
2007-11-24 13:44:43 · answer #1 · answered by David M 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I was friends with a bloke from England and I do know that they have some off the wall phrases, that we here in USA are not used to hearing. It took a while to understand what he was speaking about or saying. But after a while I got it. He did not seem as strange as I was hearing it all the time. Simple things like calling a trunk of a car a boot. Like put it in the boot. Just words that have different meanings here.
2007-11-25 15:03:19 · answer #2 · answered by Moe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hadn't really thought about it, I think those are just fun sounding expressions we've heard in movies or TV, so folks used them. I know in the USA there are many different accents and people use different expressions depending on where they live. Not everyone here sounds or speaks the same way.
2007-11-24 21:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But from movies, Like Mary Poppins for instance, they use words and phrases like and it takes place in England. But isnt that the way they use to talk?
2007-11-24 20:58:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naa, just its very uncommon to see/hear people say things like that.. so people enjoy those words because they are rarely heard here in America, and if they are heard you can get some strange comebacks (including comments, Glances, etc.)
2007-11-24 20:53:45 · answer #5 · answered by D3V!N 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love your country. My granddaughter spent from January to June of this year at Univ. of London. She managed to retain her American accent and she loves your country also.
2007-11-24 21:18:45 · answer #6 · answered by mydearsie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Shan ! that's a cool costume . Don't let a few yokels get your goat. Wonder when we're going to hear from our country cousins. Now THEY can talk your ear off.
2007-11-24 22:13:49 · answer #7 · answered by Donna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
But that's probably because everyone's read the Harry Potter series. Now, we all think you say stuff like "taking the mickey out on me", "ickle", "signpost", "sod off," and "blimey".
2007-11-24 20:57:48 · answer #8 · answered by Asleep on a Sunbeam 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe it. I live in Utah and many people assume that I am either a Mormon or a polygamist. I'm neither!
2007-11-25 00:41:35 · answer #9 · answered by noonecanne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
y'll bloody well know we jolly well wouldn't tary on such perceived limey slang. Inny mor'n josh about our moonshine countrymen redneck clans.
(B'sides my grandmum would roll over in her grave if she thought I was funnin her kinfolk)
2007-11-25 13:20:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋