Actually it's Americans that have different words by bastardising English and turning it into a foreign language you call American English .
If your ancestors had taken a dictionary with them it wouldn't be a problem.
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Actually it's Americans that have different words by bastardising English and turning it into a foreign language you call American English .
If your ancestors had taken a dictionary with them it wouldn't be a problem.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
but of course...doesn't everybody
To me, the word "quid" always sounded too close to "squid" to make any sense. How many quid for a squid?
A squid was feeling rough, needed to get up near the surface to get some air but was too tired. A passing shark say "you don't look so well, can i take you up for some air?,"
The squid says "oh no, no, no you'll eat me all up"
"I won't, i promise ",says the shark
So the squid struggles onto the sharks back and clutches hold of the dorsal fin, the shark starts to swim to the surface
On the up another shark comes by, the two sharks are friends and start chatting, "oh, by the way" says the first shark, "heres that sick squid i owe you.'
Some of these I've seen used interchangeably, such as "vicious" and "nasty." "Optometrist" and "optician" have different meanings, as I understand it. An Optometrist has a doctorate in optometry, an Optician doesn't have a doctorate, just a license to dispense and fit eyeglasses. And an Ophthalmologist is an MD.
Kid has had a perfect day, until I get a phone call, and then goes immediately into the weird voices and trying to get himself stirred up.
Phone calls became increasingly difficult over the summer; damn near impossible now.
I bought him a carton of ice cream and told him that instead of being troublesome when Mom gets a call, he can go get a bowl of ice cream instead.
Maybe it will work, maybe it won't.
Phone calls became increasingly difficult over the summer; damn near impossible now.
I bought him a carton of ice cream and told him that instead of being troublesome when Mom gets a call, he can go get a bowl of ice cream instead.
Maybe it will work, maybe it won't.
I needed to mentally duct tape my fingers to keep from delving into what is to me an incredibly important point.
George Santos says he'll treat expulsion as a 'badge of honor' as he claims his colleagues are drunkenly having sex with lobbyists 'every night'
The scandal-plagued congressman also called the Ethics Committee chairman a "*****" and said his colleagues miss votes "because they're too hungover."
Sometimes, I wonder how a guy like this can get any kind of job at all.
Shadow Wolf
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1) You English Kuhnigits made it not English by spreading out around the world like a virus and taking in things like the Borg. It's your fault, partly and largely, for making English something that is still Germanic and English is grammar but Frankenstein hacked and pieced on other languages until the lexicon became heavily Latinized by taking in warehouses of words from several of those languages, as well as taking in words from India and Asia.
2) Your ancestors let my ancestors go hungry, and they started bastardizing English way before America had a chance (but not as bad as the Scots).
3) I do agree I haven't really heard the English refer to a smoke as a ***. Probably happens, maybe, maybe something that fell out of practice and it's something Americans became misinformed on, but I can't recall hearing it from someone who's not American.
One I'm surprised hasn't caught on here is bellend, but that just doesn't sound right unless it's coming from English lips.
Does anyone know why cats prefer to vomit on rugs and soft furnishings rather than the tiled floor?
1 That's how language develops.
2 No excuse for that, blame the conservative government and British sense of superiority.
See 1.
3 I've heard *** used on occasion, vary rarely though, perhaps it's a local thing.
Cold rain here, it's 5c (41f)... warmer than yesterday but it's forcast to freeze, tomorrow the roads will be like oiled glass.
Weather here is similar to what you are experiencing. Don't forget the variations of language on your English isles.
I can't understand Scouse and i lived only 30 miles from Liverpool
growing up in Illannoying low these many decades ago, it was not uncommon to refer to cigarettes as the f word...