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• Dec 7, 2004

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Its a frequent occurance

 

• Dec 8, 2004

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no worries mate as your british would say

 

• Dec 8, 2004

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wow your british is getting good

 

• Dec 8, 2004

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I cant speak British

 

• Dec 9, 2004

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oh excuse me english english style

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Oh, like Gaol -> Jail?

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Australian English: Matilda=hand bag
British English: fag=cigarette
American (and Canadian) English: fag=fag

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Yeah it shocked me the first time I went to England and my girlfriend's brother asked me if I had a fag!

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Yeah, the same sort of thing happened to me.
I was like: "What did you just say?!"

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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It's a similar story when my friend's wife said that she got drunk once at a party and slipped on her fanny.

There was this long silence, and a piece of tumbleweed blew past.

It don't mean here what it means there!

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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What does it mean there. I know when I was dating that British girl, everytime I said I was going to put my pants on she would laugh because she said that pants were underwear there. Its wierd I guess.

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Urmmm..... Well, put it this way, over here, only the girls have fannys.

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Ah okay

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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Another one I didn't know!

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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DerAdlerIstGelandet said:

What does it mean there. I know when I was dating that British girl, everytime I said I was going to put my pants on she would laugh because she said that pants were underwear there. Its wierd I guess.

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Its even worse
Pants is the term normally given to womens underwear, mens are referred to as underpants

 

• Dec 11, 2004

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My 'Brit' is even rustier than I thought! Oy!

 

• Dec 12, 2004

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Why is this in old threads?

I shall have to move it back.

 

• Dec 12, 2004

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What a thread about Brit English? LOL

 

• Dec 12, 2004

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Urmmm..... Well, put it this way, over here, only the girls have fannys.

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just over here?? what do girls in other parts of the world have??

 

• Dec 12, 2004

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You mean they dont have the same thing we do? OH man my parents lied to me! LOL