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jlf1961 -> Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:11:01 PM)
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.

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:27:46 PM)
Sorry jlf, we invented the English language [:D] 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.

Missdressed -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:31:10 PM)
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. ;)

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:38:14 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Missdressed 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 [8D] 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.

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

jlf1961 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:47:40 PM)
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.....

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:48:20 PM)
No thanks. I'm a Brit, and English to boot! The thread is about what words we Brits use wrongly - not uber foreigners!! [sm=crop.gif]

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:51:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jlf1961 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!!

mnottertail -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:52:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1 Sorry jlf, we invented the English language [:D] 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.

mnottertail -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:56:06 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1 No thanks. I'm a Brit, and English to boot! You are a bloody car trunk? Vauxhall or what? Bleedin; 'ell, mate.

PeonForHer -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:56:27 PM)
FR Gawd. An Irish friend, and a smoker, went to work in Chicago as an electrician some ten years ago. To this day, whenever he pops out of a given work-site for a cigarette, he still gets co-workers asking, amidst hearty guffaws, 'Hey, Brendan, are you going out to suck on a fag?'

Missdressed -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:56:29 PM)
Now, a lift I can do. But would anyone like a backie?

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 12:56:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail quote: ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1 Sorry jlf, we invented the English language [:D] 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!!

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:01:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail quote: ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1 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.

mnottertail -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:01:51 PM)
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?

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:06:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail 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.

mnottertail -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:08:47 PM)
But you're a Kentish cunt or thereabouts, aren't you? They speak pretty good English, not like some of those cockney gits out on the East End.

freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:10:30 PM)
Yep. Man of Kent, not Kentish Man - and proud of it.

dcnovice -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:24:50 PM)
FR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4Ps55Rx40 "Because there's a fucking H in it." [:)]

dcnovice -> RE: Words the brits are using wrong. (10/7/2013 1:32:32 PM)
FR 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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