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RE: Foreign words ? - 7/20/2009 5:50:31 AM

Lucylastic

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Biscuit= Cookie,
Crisp=Chip
Chips=Fries
Rubbish= Garbage
Pavement=Sidewalk
Gherkin=pickle
Aubergine=eggplant
Anti Clockwise=Counterclockwise
Fortnight=Two weeks
Bum Bag=fanny pack
Pissed as a fart=Drunk as a skunk
cupboard=closet
Bumming a fag= gimme a cigarette

Just a couple I have run into
Lucy
PS...Peon and Philo..

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A joke from the Bush era, from Brit comedian Alexei Sayle:
'You say 'sidewalk', we say 'pavement'; you say 'freeway', we say 'motorway'; you say 'President', we say 'murdering psychopathic bastard'.

Did you know that Margaret Thatcher was an anagram of 'evil nazi bitch'?........give or take a few letters.......

Oh that takes me back to the bad old days:) thanks
Lucy

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RE: Foreign words ? - 7/20/2009 2:55:53 PM

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It's not really Real English, it's a dialect.

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RE: Foreign words ? - 7/20/2009 3:54:44 PM

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I have been wondering about some of the words used to describe things on here, things we call a name, but you Americans have another name for it. Faucet for example, a tap as we know it, Closet, that to us is a cupboard ,trunk on a car, to us, it is the boot, fanny is to us, well, twat and there are others that escape me at the moment.

Now given the American Language is really the English language, why the difference in names used to describe common things. Where did you get your different words from ?

It's really quite simple....since the French had to come in to save the day....we just want to fuck with you.

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