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Hella

Say it hella lot.

Burglarize - eg my house was burglarized. It's burgled.

Directionality - its direction. Some words have -ality added (intentionality or example) and mean different things.

Also mugging... in the UK the crime is robbery.

Phototoxin wrote:
Also mugging... in the UK the crime is robbery.

couldn't that also be "blagged" ?

As to the menu thing... the easiest way to "rename" it, and Britize it, is to call it what the Germans do (at least in my region), fairly well translated, it is a Food Card, or Drink Card. Though that leads to the problem that some places have with credit or charge cards, in that most people refer to them as just Cards, "do you take card?" etc.

One that bothers me, is Bike... As a bicyclist, i HATE it when people dumb down motorcycles to Bike, without the preface of dirt added to it first (dirt bike)... I own a road bike, and a mountain bike.. you people who insist on having a motor on yours need to mention the fact that you have a motor, it is not a fething bike!

Kinda sorta on topic, I hate how people say "cumf tur bul." You especially hear it in music from both sides of the pond. Comfortable =/= cumf tur bul. How do the T and R switch places like that?

It's grammar who cares, as long as people can understnade what I'm tryinmg to say i don't see the porblem.

44. My brother now uses the term "season" for a TV series. Hideous. D Henderson, Edinburgh

...what do they call it in Britain?

Cheesecat wrote:It's grammar who cares, as long as people can understnade what I'm tryinmg to say i don't see the porblem.

i agree with this to a degree.if you have spell check,use it as much as you can.

i didnt even notice understand and problem were misspelled til i as writing this and the red lines showed up :/

lord commissar klimino wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:It's grammar who cares, as long as people can understnade what I'm tryinmg to say i don't see the porblem.

i agree with this to a degree.if you have spell check,use it as much as you can.

i didnt even notice understand and problem were misspelled til i as writing this and the red lines showed up :/

That's the joke.

MandalorynOranj wrote:

44. My brother now uses the term "season" for a TV series. Hideous. D Henderson, Edinburgh

...what do they call it in Britain?

We call it a series, e.g. the new series of Doctor Who.

Yea I hear the brits dislike the french so much they will not even pronounce french sounding words, they britize them.

Like Chevrolet in the US is /ʃɛvrəle/ and the Brits say /ʃɛvrolɛt/

but the have to say Menu, as there is no real way else to say that one.

Blackskullandy wrote:

Yea I hear the brits dislike the french so much they will not even pronounce french sounding words, they britize them.

Like Chevrolet in the US is /ʃɛvrəle/ and the Brits say /ʃɛvrolɛt/

but the have to say Menu, as there is no real way else to say that one.

There are a few that we retain the french pronunciation for... 'chassis' for example, 'sautee' for another.
Most people i know say 'Chevrolet' the exact same way as any American i've heard say it.

heacy hitter wrote:Heres a link to 50 phrases that people over here in Britain that started in America: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796
Now I would like you to draw your attention to number 22-

Train station. My teeth are on edge every time I hear it. Who started it? Have they been punished? Chris Capewell, Queens Park, London

if that person thinks that a train station is the wrong word then what other words are there for it? Train port?

railway station?

Bill of fare.

Phototoxin wrote:Burglarize - eg my house was burglarized. It's burgled.

Directionality - its direction. Some words have -ality added (intentionality or example) and mean different things.

Also mugging... in the UK the crime is robbery.

I swear that all of the media reports say "an old lady in a wheelchair was mugged at knifepoint"?

Mugging is a bit like glassing but it involves tea.

Yeah we call it mugging and mugging is an English term, however the crime itself is called robbery.

I liked the fanny pack one. Teeheehee.

Reminds me a story my parents used to tell me from the late 80's when the American airmen's wives at the US Airbases in England would import the workout tapes that were all the rage. One of their friends got a new one and yelled excitedly to her neighbor across the busy street, "Hey, I got a new tape in we need to try out! 30 Days to a Firmer Fanny!"

Unfortunately, she didn't get the joke.

Kilkrazy wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:It's a railway station.

A police station is a place where there's a lot of police officers who are sent off to do different tasks, a train station is a place where there's lots of trains waiting to be sent to different tasks.

If you call a train station a railroad station is a police station a hallway station?

Yes, and a radio station is a wave station.

[american word for touche]

halonachos wrote:
[american word for touche]

That would be touché.

Zefig wrote:

halonachos wrote:
[american word for touche]

That would be touché.

Excuse me mister 'I can add a dash to the top of the letter 'e''.

Okay, the americanized version of touché is now touche and is pronounced like touch.

I wish I was that good with my keyboard. I just copy/pasted from wikipedia. I think touché is too fun of a word to Americanize anyway. Some deserve it though. Croissant, un-Americanized, inevitably causes spitting when spoken and I prefer my pastries to be without undue amounts of errant spittle.

Gitsplitta wrote:Some of those terms or phrases in incorrect even in American English... it's slang... it's grammatical crap. British slang better? I doubt it. Most of the respondents in the article however, need a life... or a hobby... or a girlfriend.

I think Cockney Rhyming Slang wins in any slang war.

Croyzant.


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Kilkrazy wrote:

MandalorynOranj wrote:

44. My brother now uses the term "season" for a TV series. Hideous. D Henderson, Edinburgh

...what do they call it in Britain?

We call it a series, e.g. the new series of Doctor Who.

Ah.

A season would be the ones that came out in a given year. "This season's Dr. Who is ______. Last season, _____ played him." A series would indicate the show, itself. "There's a new series coming out called Dr. Who. Have you ever heard of that?"

Yeah, the only one of those that bothers me is "could care less".

The rest are fine, language evolves, so we should just chillax.

kronk wrote:A season would be the ones that came out in a given year. "This season's Dr. Who is ______. Last season, _____ played him." A series would indicate the show, itself. "There's a new series coming out called Dr. Who. Have you ever heard of that?"

That's how I use those two words.
A TV series may have many seasons.

All I know is colour is spelled with a u.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:All I know is colour is spelled with a u.

color. thats how its spelled even spell check agrees.

Probably a Seattle based spell-check.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Probably a Seattle based spell-check.

im in texas so...

anyways. i dont get annoyed by most. "gang talk" as some call it annoys me. 'yo dawg'....uhhg,just feels wrong. and colour annoys me to. just seeing it feels wrong.although thats americas fault apparently for changing it :shrug:

Another one that annoys me is proven.

99% of the time it's pronounced prue-vin.

When it's PRO-VEN