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Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:11:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Flat: Type of women's shoe, a perfectly horizontal surface

Lift: Something to put in shoes to give the illusion of being taller, it is also a term for a ride to a destination.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:27:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry jlf, we invented the English language

So whatever words we use are the correct ones.
If the Americans decide to bastardise the language even further, the problem is with them, not the Brits.

Merriam Webster
Flat [2noun]: 5. chiefly British: an apartment on one floor.
Lift [3noun]: 10. an aparatus or machine used for hoisting.


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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:31:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Listen you heuchter teuchters from that side of the pond don't know how to spake English like wot it should be spoke.

Youse are only a bunch of wee weans when it comes to English. ;)

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:38:14 PM   
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Listen you heuchter teuchters from that side of the pond don't know how to spake English like wot it should be spoke.

Youse are only a bunch of wee weans when it comes to English. ;)

Sounds like a typical northerner; who incidentally, can't usually speak or use English properly
The term 'wee weans' is western Scottish who's language roots are in Gaelic, not English.


ETA: to most people who have a vague notion of English, "wee" is a toilet function not used in normal speech.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:43:02 PM   
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I'll see your Gaelic and raise you Ulster Scots ....

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:47:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Excuse me, but the an American invented the Safety Elevator, he named it Elevator so it is not a "Lift"

If I am not mistaken, English is a Germanic language, so.....

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:48:20 PM   
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I'm a Brit, and English to boot!
The thread is about what words we Brits use wrongly - not uber foreigners!!

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:51:08 PM   
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Excuse me, but the an American invented the Safety Elevator, he named it Elevator so it is not a "Lift"

If I am not mistaken, English is a Germanic language, so.....

Who said anything about who invented the safety 'elevator'??
Yes, a yank invented it and he used the wrong word.

Lift, aka Merriam Webster, is 14th century.
America didn't even exist then!!

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:52:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

Sorry jlf, we invented the English language

So whatever words we use are the correct ones.
If the Americans decide to bastardise the language even further, the problem is with them, not the Brits.

Merriam Webster
Flat [2noun]: 5. chiefly British: an apartment on one floor.
Lift [3noun]: 10. an aparatus or machine used for hoisting.





Which will hoist a yank with his own petard. Do you need a lift? (meaning a conveyance from thither to yon) Is common this side of the pond.


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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:56:06 PM   
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No thanks.
I'm a Brit, and English to boot!



You are a bloody car trunk? Vauxhall or what? Bleedin; 'ell, mate.


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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:56:27 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:56:29 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 12:56:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail


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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

Sorry jlf, we invented the English language

So whatever words we use are the correct ones.
If the Americans decide to bastardise the language even further, the problem is with them, not the Brits.

Merriam Webster
Flat [2noun]: 5. chiefly British: an apartment on one floor.
Lift [3noun]: 10. an aparatus or machine used for hoisting.





Which will hoist a yank with his own petard. Do you need a lift? (meaning a conveyance from thither to yon) Is common this side of the pond.


And we use it for that too!!

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:01:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail


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No thanks.
I'm a Brit, and English to boot!



You are a bloody car trunk? Vauxhall or what? Bleedin; 'ell, mate.


Where I wuz dragged up, cars don't have 'trunks'.
Trees and elephants have those.

Thats called the 'boot'.
Where d'ya thunk the yankee phrase 'booty' comes from??
It's the ass-end!! Or should I say, arse-end. lol.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:01:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lift. Much easier than saying 'any various and sundry mechanical apparatus I have at my disposal this instant.'

But we say TV instead of telly, you long winded chaps are fookin last on that one, oi?

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:06:24 PM   
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Much easier than saying 'any various and sundry mechanical apparatus I have at my disposal this instant.'

But we say TV instead of telly, you long winded chaps are fookin last on that one, oi?

I can't ever remember using the term 'telly', even as a kid.
It's always been TV - or 'the box' in recent years.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:08:47 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:10:30 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:24:50 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 1:32:32 PM   
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I spent my junior year at the University of Sussex (outside Brighton), and my favorite example of the Anglo-American linguistic divide was an exchange between a friend and a fellow student in the next bedsitter a few days into the fall term.

Sue popped into Fred's room to ask if she could borrow a rubber.

Fred looked a bit taken aback, at which point Sue, mildly indignant at the Yank's unwillingness to help, said, "Well, I'll bring it back!"

Fred was more than a little relieved to learn that what she actually wanted was an eraser.

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