I have been wondering for a while why americans/america call and spell stuff differently from the UK.
For example GREY=GRAY and SOCCER=FOOTBALL...so why do you/americans spell and name stuff differently?
America passed legislation to simplify the spellings of some words. Hence "color" rather than colour. This means that legally speaking, neither American nor British English are wrong on some words.
4oursword wrote: America passed legislation to simplify the spellings of some words. Hence "color" rather than colour. This means that legally speaking, neither American nor British English are wrong on some words.
Legislation for spelling? Thats absurd even for us.... it was the original webster dictionary that simplified many of the words into their now"american" spelling
Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
Krellnus wrote: Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
This.
Also Webster was an Anglophobe apparently, so he just spelt stuff differently for the sake of it.
I'll get more information when I'm within reach of the book I have which details this, but I believe it was legislation. Might just have been a standarised agreement.
4oursword wrote: I'll get more information when I'm within reach of the book I have which details this, but I believe it was legislation. Might just have been a standarised agreement.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't legislation, at least on our side of the pond. It wouldn't make sense, as we have no official language.
If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be interested in seeing it though.
Krellnus wrote: Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
This.
Also Webster was an Anglophobe apparently, so he just spelt stuff differently for the sake of it.
Was it Webster that was the American one? It has been a while since I read up on this.
Krellnus wrote: Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
This.
Also Webster was an Anglophobe apparently, so he just spelt stuff differently for the sake of it.
Was it Webster that was the American one? It has been a while since I read up on this.
Krellnus wrote: Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
This.
Also Webster was an Anglophobe apparently, so he just spelt stuff differently for the sake of it.
Was it Webster that was the American one? It has been a while since I read up on this.
Yep, Noah Webster.
Thought so, you wouldn't happen to recall who the English one was would you? I believe it was Oxford, but I'm not 100% on that.
Krellnus wrote: Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
This.
Also Webster was an Anglophobe apparently, so he just spelt stuff differently for the sake of it.
Was it Webster that was the American one? It has been a while since I read up on this.
Yep, Noah Webster.
Thought so, you wouldn't happen to recall who the English one was would you? I believe it was Oxford, but I'm not 100% on that.
Webster was an anglophobe, but he was also a American utopian. This led him to arguing that words and their proper spelling shouldn't be derived from an obscure understanding of latin and greek roots, but should be straightforward, and a source of empowerment to the people through simpler education. So, over the course of many editions he basically just changed the spellings of words to get rid of the silly, fussy little rules, like c being used even though the sound is a soft s, like in defence/defense, and the silent you that sometimes sits between o and r, like in colour/color.
And what's really funny is that on the face of it, I'd have to say I'm completely on Webster's side, because there's nothing to be gained by filling language up with obscure contradictions based on root languages that hardly any native speakers are versed in at all. And yet I still get a little annoyed everytime I see 'color', 'defense' etc
That reminds me of the Shaw Alphabet, where George Bernarnd Shaw attempted to create a new alphabet that assigned each unique sound, shame the idea never really caught on, maybe then, we wouldn't have all of these endless flame wars over spelling on youtube...
Languages develop over time and aquire words of indigunous people to suit, so Australian and American english have words that are not english.
When a country is colonized (by white europeans) and when it breaks from the mother country to a certain degree dictates the language variations. American english starts with 16th century english and ends with 18th century english. After then it starts to develop in its own direction, while the mother tongue develops in a different way, changing some words, developing different meanings or dropping words.
Originally many of the american words are the old english ones with the original meanings.
Besides it would spoil the fun of telling an American you've been out in to town in your shorts, and there be a different mental image
In the English speaking world, the fanny is the 'front bum'.
Pants v trousers. Loudspeaker v Tannoy (more of a generic v trademark product name than anything else - like 'kleenex' v 'tissue' or 'esky' v 'cooler').
The only one that really riles me up is
'potato chips' to mean 'crisps' (as in cheetos, pringles, walkers ready salted etc)
Mainly because when I was 6 I went to Disneyworld in Orlando, and upon arriving in the airport stateside, being hungry, my family found (what I think was a bar) in the airport, and I asked with rumbling stomach and childlike enthusiam for a plate of chips (bear in mind that my parents at no point bothered to explain to me the different us/uk lingo, and thought it best just to sit back and enjoy the situation). With a look of bamboozlement upon his face, the guy behind the bar did dutifully fulfil my request, and provided me with an unopened bag of crisps.
In the English speaking world, the fanny is the 'front bum'.
Pants v trousers.
Loudspeaker v Tannoy (more of a generic v trademark product name than anything else - like 'kleenex' v 'tissue' or 'esky' v 'cooler').
Rubber is another one. Our rubbers in the uk are american erasers. I'm told rubber means something quite different over the pond.
In the English speaking world, the fanny is the 'front bum'.
Pants v trousers.
Loudspeaker v Tannoy (more of a generic v trademark product name than anything else - like 'kleenex' v 'tissue' or 'esky' v 'cooler').
Rubber is another one. Our rubbers in the uk are american erasers. I'm told rubber means something quite different over the pond.
And aaaall the way over the pond, they mean both! How interesting
Saying America won the war, is kind of like me drinking 3/4 of a beer, an American turning up and necking the rest. And then claiming that he drank that beer.
Let's not get hung up on world wars...we BOTH won those.
What's that quote again? Something like - the English language doesn't borrow from other languages. It mugs them in a dark alley then rifles through their pockets for loose grammar...
Trying to make sense of thr language as a whole quickly ends in headaches...the best you can hope for is tracing back the origins of individual words. With that said - you Americans are still wrong dammit.
Krellnus wrote: Was really only that recently? That's surprising.
I mean if you think about it, English itself as a language really only started to become standardized to an extent with the production of the King James bible. And even that, as it was pointed out by another poster (through use of someone else's more standard work) had discrepancies. I believe King James said, "At any price Herr Doktor!"* when referring to the production quality of the King James bible.
* - This is actually a quote from Hitler about the volkswagon, or at least the book I have on the car's history says this, but ya know us yanks, always misquoting folks
Because if you look at the history of the game, the actual, proper name for soccer is soccer football. Just like you then have Rugby Football, Gaelic football, Canadian Football, American Football etc. They are all derived from the same root game (which sadly, because the rules were never written down, hence so many variants have popped up, has disappeared in the mists of time), and eventually codified into their respective sports.
Fun Fact: the first ever FA cup (which is now one of the larger soccer tourneys right?), was actually played under Rugby School rules
The problems with the countries that use English as their first language probably come from a huge amount of their populations coming from elsewhere.
The English (and other Brits) are made up of people from all over. The Angles, Saxons, Romans, Vikings, all the way through to the British Empire.
America had all sorts of Europeans, with the French, Germans, Dutch, Spanish, and British, with lots of others.
It appears as though, ignoring the attempts to standardise spelling, the way the language was taught changed after certain points.
Trousers vs pants. It was probably Pantaloons to begin with, but trousers became a popular term somewhere. It gets taken up in the media, maybe, and there you go.
Just yesterday, we were counting up terms for a bacon roll. Around Britain, we had:
Bun,
Bap (our favourite)
Barn,
Batch,
Cob,
Stotty
It goes on...
Because if you look at the history of the game, the actual, proper name for soccer is soccer football. Just like you then have Rugby Football, Gaelic football, Canadian Football, American Football etc.
Not quite.
It's actual full/original name was Association Football -- to duly differentiate it from Rugby Football et al -- soccer being an abbreviation or shorthand for Association.
That's why some of the older football clubs have A.F.C as part of their name.
Skinnereal wrote: The problems with the countries that use English as their first language probably come from a huge amount of their populations coming from elsewhere. The English (and other Brits) are made up of people from all over. The Angles, Saxons, Romans, Vikings, all the way through to the British Empire. America had all sorts of Europeans, with the French, Germans, Dutch, Spanish, and British, with lots of others.
It appears as though, ignoring the attempts to standardise spelling, the way the language was taught changed after certain points. Trousers vs pants. It was probably Pantaloons to begin with, but trousers became a popular term somewhere. It gets taken up in the media, maybe, and there you go.
Just yesterday, we were counting up terms for a bacon roll. Around Britain, we had: Bun, Bap (our favourite) Barn, Batch, Cob, Stotty It goes on...
You missed out barmcake
The only true bread product for bacon is cob. Which is also the best word in the english language.
Cob = Bread roll Cob = Small Horse Cob = Male swan To Cob = Throw To have a cob on - To sulk
We make our words do some work.
My other favourite word is disgruntled. To Gruntle means to moan in the old english - so dis (being a negative prefix) should mean disgrunlted = happy. But no, we just made the word longer and kept the meaning the same...
Because if you look at the history of the game, the actual, proper name for soccer is soccer football. Just like you then have Rugby Football, Gaelic football, Canadian Football, American Football etc.
Not quite.
It's actual full/original name was Association Football -- to duly differentiate it from Rugby Football et al -- soccer being an abbreviation or shorthand for Association.
That's why some of the older football clubs have A.F.C as part of their name.
I work near the town of Rugby, where Rugby Football supposedly started.
It's confusing to see the Rugby Golf Club, Rugby Tennis Club, etc
Soccer is derived from Association Football, and the US isn't the only one who says it. In fact, the only English speaking country who doesn't say Soccer is Britain iirc.
In addition to using different words there are your various accents as well, so that spoken "english" can lead to some confusion. A few years back I was in London for a bit and we had some hilarity regarding the word 'khaki" (as in the light tan colored cloth) and "cocky" (as in arrogant).
My mistake- it was going to be legislation but Congress rejected it. Nonetheless, most of the changes caught on, like color, defense, mold, and (my personal hate) sulfate. Others which never caught on were the spellings profest, mixt, and altho (professed, mixed, and although).
"Taking the piss" instead of "Making fun"
"Mind the gap" instead of "Don't fall off the fething ledge onto the train tracks, dumbass"
"Keep calm and carry on" instead of "STFU!"
" Heavens.. have you met Sebastians' new paramour ? One really doesn't know what he sees in her."
" Quite, mind you saying that bear in mind rumour has it that she's well Alamo."
If you guys would have minded your own business then everybody in Europe could be speaking the Fuehrer's German and the US could have laid sole claim to English!
"Taking the piss" instead of "Making fun"
"Mind the gap" instead of "Don't fall off the fething ledge onto the train tracks, dumbass"
"Keep calm and carry on" instead of "STFU!"
Those, and the never ending selection of words to say how drunk you were
d-usa wrote: If you guys would have minded your own business then everybody in Europe could be speaking the Fuehrer's German and the US could have laid sole claim to English!
It's little gems like this that make me love Dakka all the more
" Heavens.. have you met Sebastians' new paramour ? One really doesn't know what he sees in her."
" Quite, mind you saying that bear in mind rumour has it that she's well Alamo."
" Heavens.. have you met Sebastians' new paramour ? One really doesn't know what he sees in her."
" Quite, mind you saying that bear in mind rumour has it that she's well Alamo."
Yes you seem to have a terrible track record with those "troubles" of any sort.
In the annuals of British military history, it's down as a minor skirmish
Same way Dunkirk was a "minor setback" as opposed to a "disastrous defeat" right? Ah well the British military has always preferred vastly inferior foes, preferably armed with slices of fruit eh Blackadder?
KalashnikovMarine wrote: Same way Dunkirk was a "minor setback" as opposed to a "disastrous defeat" right? Ah well the British military has always preferred vastly inferior foes, preferably armed with slices of fruit eh Blackadder?
Seems they've gone a little bit reverse 'Dad's Army'
Yes you seem to have a terrible track record with those "troubles" of any sort.
In the annuals of British military history, it's down as a minor skirmish
Same way Dunkirk was a "minor setback" as opposed to a "disastrous defeat" right? Ah well the British military has always preferred vastly inferior foes, preferably armed with slices of fruit eh Blackadder?
Actually at the time the US was the arse end of nowhere and the Empire was more interested in keeping control of the Caribbean islands or fighting one of the bunch of other global superpowers that was fighting them at the time...
I think most of the words with a 'silent' p were greek in origin.
I know that in the original greek, the 'p's were pronounced - so psalm was pronounced as is, with a 'ps'. This is because they would be written with the first letter being 'psi' which was pronounced "psi" (short 'i', as in sit, fit, etc).
Now, language is a curious beast. When you filter greek through latin and french to get to English, you end up with letters all over the place and some of them no longer voiced.
Krellnus wrote: That reminds me of the Shaw Alphabet, where George Bernarnd Shaw attempted to create a new alphabet that assigned each unique sound, shame the idea never really caught on, maybe then, we wouldn't have all of these endless flame wars over spelling on youtube...
Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?
Because everything is your fault! The troubles around Israel, the deaths of the Aborigines in Australia, the....etc etc. Seriously I pity British kids in primary school here, often you here things like 'the British settlers then killed all the Aborigines, it was horrible'. And as a 7 year old you think 'of course, it all makes sense, those settlers are different to Australians right? Because...we came later. Oh, and it must be that one British kid in 2B's fault!' then they suffer for a week or two till you learn something else. At least by higher primary/secondary we just rip on them for their accents/during the Ashes, but in lower primary we don't know any better!
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?
No no, Britain is to blame for the fall of Rome. Had only you been a supportive ally, they'd still be around. They were relying on you!
PredaKhaine wrote: We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.
Why? What did he say?
it's more his use and pronunciation of various words (like saying nuke-you-leer, instead of nuclear), and also how he could apparently make up words, which then comedians have since made up even more words for impersonations of him.
PredaKhaine wrote: We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.
Why? What did he say?
Here's a list of the better known ones.
George Bush wrote:
Spoiler:
General[edit]I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.[10]
"They misunderestimated me."[11] — Bentonville, Arkansas; November 6, 2000
"I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."[12] -January 18, 2001
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."[13] — Saginaw, Michigan; September 29, 2000
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.'"[14] — Nashville, Tennessee; September 17, 2002
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."[15] — Poplar Bluff, Missouri; September 6, 2004
"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." --Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 2001 [16]
"One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps." - CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo, October 24, 2006.[17]
"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened."[18] (Announcing he would write a book about "the 12 toughest decisions" he had to make. Presumably "authoritative" was intended.)
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." (dreams take wing) —La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 18, 2000[19]
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other." Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 3, 2003 [20]
Human cloning[edit]"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."[21]
Spoonerisms[edit]"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." —January 2000[19]
Foreign affairs[edit]"I'm the commander, see. I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."[22]
"Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction. Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit." — Addressing then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard at the APEC Summit, September 7, 2007. (Neither the USA nor Australia is a member of OPEC.)[23]
"Yesterday, you made note of my—the lack of my talent when it came to dancing. But nevertheless, I want you to know I danced with joy. And no question Liberia has gone through very difficult times"- Speaking with the president of Liberia, Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 2008 [24]
"Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso (who described himself as "slightly mulatto"), Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001 [25]
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." (missile launches?)[26]
Terrorism[edit]"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." - Washington, D.C., January 12, 2009[27]
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - Washington, D.C., August 5, 2004[28]
"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001[29]
Economics[edit]"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk—that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras—it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments." — Speaking at a private fundraiser and surreptitiously recorded by a reporter with the footage subsequently leaked on various news outlets, Houston, Texas, July 18, 2008[30]
"You bet I cut the taxes at the top. That encourages entrepreneurship. What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher."[31]
In January 2000, just before the New Hampshire primary, Bush challenged the members of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce to imagine themselves as a single mother "working hard to put food on your family."[32]
Education[edit]"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"[5] — Florence, South Carolina; January 11, 2000
"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." — On the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C.; September 26, 2007[12]
"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are [sic] appalling." —Washington, D.C.; January 23,
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France.
...we do? Last I checked, the blame lay with the French. Given their reputation, I wouldn't have blamed us for not even bothering and just waiting until the Germans turned up at our place instead.
Saying America won the war, is kind of like me drinking 3/4 of a beer, an American turning up and necking the rest. And then claiming that he drank that beer.
But we are getting into a whole other topic now
yup,
at least us canucks crossed the pond right away.
Not to mention inventing the garand for you yanks, your welcome!
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?
Because everything is your fault! The troubles around Israel, the deaths of the Aborigines in Australia, the....etc etc. Seriously I pity British kids in primary school here, often you here things like 'the British settlers then killed all the Aborigines, it was horrible'. And as a 7 year old you think 'of course, it all makes sense, those settlers are different to Australians right? Because...we came later. Oh, and it must be that one British kid in 2B's fault!' then they suffer for a week or two till you learn something else. At least by higher primary/secondary we just rip on them for their accents/during the Ashes, but in lower primary we don't know any better!
That got OT fast.
"During the ashes" what-what, How so...... normaly it's the victor doing the ribbing.
Savagecoyote wrote: Not too pour fuel on the fire but technically you didn't win the Revolution !!!! You were one of our colonies, so we one that one too
We fought for our independence, we walked away from that with our independence, you lost a colony and a valuable source of tobacco... how did you win as well?
Also back to back world war champs! Suck it world!
Whaaa...? You know we're talking about the *Football* World Cup, right...? (Soccer, yes, yes, whatever.) The one the US gets to take part in?
...and hasn't won yet...?
Admittedly the "two world wars and one world cup" thing is usually aimed at those dastardly Germans. ...who've won the World Cup many more times than us. Still...!!
Super Ready wrote: Whaaa...? You know we're talking about the *Football* World Cup, right...? (Soccer, yes, yes, whatever.) The one the US gets to take part in?
...and hasn't won yet...?
Admittedly the "two world wars and one world cup" thing is usually aimed at those dastardly Germans. ...who've won the World Cup many more times than us. Still...!!
Wow you're like so wrong its not funny. Twice champions not like like those British manly girls!
...damn. I'm gonna get Melissia on my back for saying this, no doubt, but - nobody ever talks about who won the women's World Cup. (Which, yes, I know, is shameful.)
Super Ready wrote: ...damn. I'm gonna get Melissia on my back for saying this, no doubt, but - nobody ever talks about who won the women's World Cup. (Which, yes, I know, is shameful.)
its cool, no one in america ever talks about who won the world cup either.
Super Ready wrote: ...damn. I'm gonna get Melissia on my back for saying this, no doubt, but - nobody ever talks about who won the women's World Cup. (Which, yes, I know, is shameful.)
its cool, no one in america ever talks about who won the world cup either.
That is because Soccer is nothing more than good practice for real sports that require crotch protection...
PredaKhaine wrote: We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.
Why? What did he say?
it's more his use and pronunciation of various words (like saying nuke-you-leer, instead of nuclear), and also how he could apparently make up words, which then comedians have since made up even more words for impersonations of him.
Super Ready wrote: Whaaa...? You know we're talking about the *Football* World Cup, right...? (Soccer, yes, yes, whatever.) The one the US gets to take part in?
...and hasn't won yet...?
Admittedly the "two world wars and one world cup" thing is usually aimed at those dastardly Germans. ...who've won the World Cup many more times than us. Still...!!
We also have more Olympic Medals that you in your own invented sport: Rugby Union
Alfndrate wrote: Nah, it's like Miss Universe, where we say we've got the hottest women in the universe, but we haven't invited the rest of the universe.
Funnily enough, I have yet to find any of those women attractive. I dunno what it is, but they all seem...off. Probably something to do with the fact that they're in a beauty contest, which is really ridiculous as beauty is entirely subjective.
Alfndrate wrote: Nah, it's like Miss Universe, where we say we've got the hottest women in the universe, but we haven't invited the rest of the universe.
Funnily enough, I have yet to find any of those women attractive. I dunno what it is, but they all seem...off. Probably something to do with the fact that they're in a beauty contest, which is really ridiculous as beauty is entirely subjective.
Super Ready wrote: Whaaa...? You know we're talking about the *Football* World Cup, right...? (Soccer, yes, yes, whatever.) The one the US gets to take part in?
...and hasn't won yet...?
Admittedly the "two world wars and one world cup" thing is usually aimed at those dastardly Germans. ...who've won the World Cup many more times than us. Still...!!
We also have more Olympic Medals that you in your own invented sport: Rugby Union
How many World Championship Games for proper football?
'Murica
As an American, I feel that I must correct you, Rugby Union IS proper football.. If we ever really got serious about the game, we get as many RWC trophies as we felt like
Krellnus wrote: Apparently it has to do with the two big dictionaries published at the time, due to spelling not being standardised back in the day
So it goes, the one in England spelt one the way it is now for England and Commonwealth countries and the one in America spelt it the way Americans do now.
How many World Championship Games for proper football?
'Murica
As an American, I feel that I must correct you, Rugby Union IS proper football.. If we ever really got serious about the game, we get as many RWC trophies as we felt like
Lint wrote: Obviously it's because our beer is better.
Oh, you did NOT just bring better beer into the equation and manage to misspell it straight off... It's spelt: A L E
he spelled it correct...the superior product which is served cold is beer, the inferior product which is served warm is ale!
That scraped up donkey p*ss you call beer, would have to be served cold.
America where people dress up in body Armour to play rugby.
As a British person who plays American Football at Uni and has played rugby throughout secondary school I feel qualified in saying the difference between American Football and Rugby is that Rugby is a contact sport while American Football is a collision sport. There's also lots of rules in rugby dictating where you can hit someone whilst there isn't in american football. And, the best thing is? The pads and the helmet aren't to stop you being hurt. they're to stop you being 'seriously hurt or killed'.
Lint wrote: Obviously it's because our beer is better.
Oh, you did NOT just bring better beer into the equation and manage to misspell it straight off... It's spelt: A L E
he spelled it correct...the superior product which is served cold is beer, the inferior product which is served warm is ale!
That scraped up donkey p*ss you call beer, would have to be served cold.
America where people dress up in body Armour to play rugby.
As a British person who plays American Football at Uni and has played rugby throughout secondary school I feel qualified in saying the difference between American Football and Rugby is that Rugby is a contact sport while American Football is a collision sport. There's also lots of rules in rugby dictating where you can hit someone whilst there isn't in american football. And, the best thing is? The pads and the helmet aren't to stop you being hurt. they're to stop you being 'seriously hurt or killed'.
Lint wrote: Obviously it's because our beer is better.
Oh, you did NOT just bring better beer into the equation and manage to misspell it straight off... It's spelt: A L E
he spelled it correct...the superior product which is served cold is beer, the inferior product which is served warm is ale!
That scraped up donkey p*ss you call beer, would have to be served cold.
I hail from Northern California, where we stand in line for 2 hours just to get a sample cup of "Pliney" and we make beer so good Jesus himself goes home with the ugly chick. And also, the rest of America can't stand us.
Lint wrote: Obviously it's because our beer is better.
Oh, you did NOT just bring better beer into the equation and manage to misspell it straight off... It's spelt: A L E
he spelled it correct...the superior product which is served cold is beer, the inferior product which is served warm is ale!
That scraped up donkey p*ss you call beer, would have to be served cold.
I hail from Northern California, where we stand in line for 2 hours just to get a sample cup of "Pliney" and we make beer so good Jesus himself goes home with the ugly chick. And also, the rest of America can't stand us.
We can't stand you because of that haughty attitude .
In Cleveland we've got a beer known simply as "Christmas Ale"... That gak sells out so fast it's not even funny...
Lint wrote: Obviously it's because our beer is better.
Oh, you did NOT just bring better beer into the equation and manage to misspell it straight off... It's spelt: A L E
he spelled it correct...the superior product which is served cold is beer, the inferior product which is served warm is ale!
That scraped up donkey p*ss you call beer, would have to be served cold.
I hail from Northern California, where we stand in line for 2 hours just to get a sample cup of "Pliney" and we make beer so good Jesus himself goes home with the ugly chick. And also, the rest of America can't stand us.
We can't stand you because of that haughty attitude .
In Cleveland we've got a beer known simply as "Christmas Ale"... That gak sells out so fast it's not even funny...
We have a drink here called newcastle brown ale.
It'll put hairs on yer chest, an scorch marks on yer rectum.
We have a drink here called newcastle brown ale. It'll put hairs on yer chest, an scorch marks on yer rectum.
This?
It's okay... it certainly doesn't put hair on my chest (as I had started growing hairs there before I started drinking), nor does my rectum have scorch marks.
Nope, definitely not the only one, I keep a mini-keg in my fridge at all times (it's better than bottled Newcastle) I also love the summer ale, Bombshell
Nope, definitely not the only one, I keep a mini-keg in my fridge at all times (it's better than bottled Newcastle) I also love the summer ale, Bombshell
Nope, definitely not the only one, I keep a mini-keg in my fridge at all times (it's better than bottled Newcastle) I also love the summer ale, Bombshell
Nope, definitely not the only one, I keep a mini-keg in my fridge at all times (it's better than bottled Newcastle) I also love the summer ale, Bombshell
Nope, definitely not the only one, I keep a mini-keg in my fridge at all times (it's better than bottled Newcastle) I also love the summer ale, Bombshell
I thought he was talking about the place...
I'm sure it's just lovely in the spring time too
It's not, it's gak.
It really isn't. I love Newcastle with a passion as it is my #1 stag doo destination.
The reasons for this are twofold.
1. The booze is cheap.
2. The local lasses are cheaper.
I found this out when having ordered a round of 10 large Vodkas and Redbull the bar keep warned me that this would cost £30 before pouring anything. On producing the whip (everyone puts in £50) for the group to assure the barkeep I was surrounded by ladies for the rest of the evening. I played up my Jonny big bananas part and pretending to be a fireman helped too.
Also they have a fething cross channel ferry parked up there as a 6 floor night club!
cincydooley wrote: I need to make it up there to the brewery sometime. I like so many of theirs. Edmund Fitxgerald and Burning River are two of my favorites.
But then again, I need a reason to come to Cleveland ;-).
Well considering we were in the same hotel for a weekend and you didn't visit me, there ain't no reason for you to come up... Unless you're a Bengals fan, we play them opening day here in Cleveland
(Also good call on the Edmund Fitzgerald, have you tried the Blackout Stout?)
cincydooley wrote: I need to make it up there to the brewery sometime. I like so many of theirs. Edmund Fitxgerald and Burning River are two of my favorites.
But then again, I need a reason to come to Cleveland ;-).
Well considering we were in the same hotel for a weekend and you didn't visit me, there ain't no reason for you to come up... Unless you're a Bengals fan, we play them opening day here in Cleveland
(Also good call on the Edmund Fitzgerald, have you tried the Blackout Stout?)
