Knob
Wanker
Uni
Mum
Brilliant!
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Knob
Wanker
Uni
Mum
Brilliant!
by Anonymous | reply 523 | May 16, 2021 1:34 AM |
Whilst
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 27, 2021 7:33 PM |
Guv'n.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 27, 2021 7:36 PM |
Favour, flavour, colour
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 27, 2021 7:37 PM |
arse
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 27, 2021 7:41 PM |
jab as in COVID
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 27, 2021 7:41 PM |
antidisestablishmentarianism
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 27, 2021 7:42 PM |
Watah (water)
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 27, 2021 7:42 PM |
OP is a TWAT
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 27, 2021 7:43 PM |
Cunt, used as a term of endearment.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 27, 2021 7:43 PM |
That'll be eight bob to you guvnor.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 27, 2021 7:44 PM |
Wrong OP.
Because of the prevalence of Brits in the EU many english speakers in other countries use those same terms, you sodding wanker.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 27, 2021 7:44 PM |
Dickhead.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 27, 2021 7:44 PM |
Poppycock!
Innit!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 27, 2021 7:44 PM |
Lift
Flat
Pub
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 27, 2021 7:44 PM |
[quote] Because of the prevalence of Brits in the EU
Not anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 27, 2021 7:45 PM |
Whinge
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 27, 2021 7:46 PM |
referring to cake as "pudding".
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 27, 2021 7:47 PM |
attend university
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 27, 2021 7:48 PM |
go to hospital
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 27, 2021 7:51 PM |
r19 and referring to it as "uni".
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 27, 2021 7:51 PM |
attend uni
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 27, 2021 7:53 PM |
A&E; stretcher; courgette; binbag;
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 27, 2021 7:54 PM |
Smeghead
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 27, 2021 7:56 PM |
bellend
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 27, 2021 7:58 PM |
Bob’s your uncle.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 27, 2021 8:01 PM |
In fairness, I'll sometimes use these, but I'm just being pretentious.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 27, 2021 8:02 PM |
“at” the weekend
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 27, 2021 8:04 PM |
Bob's your uncle; "The origins are uncertain, but a common theory is that the expression arose after Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one."
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 27, 2021 8:05 PM |
Maths; arithmetic
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 27, 2021 8:05 PM |
[quote]“at” the weekend
Is that like "an" Only Fans?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 27, 2021 8:05 PM |
Lift instead of elevator
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 27, 2021 8:05 PM |
Quite right.
Put a foot wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 27, 2021 8:06 PM |
Jacket potato
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 27, 2021 8:10 PM |
To me the weirdest: using plural verb forms for collective nouns or corporations:
"Do you know what the government do with the unemployed?"
Ford are planning an announcement".
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 27, 2021 8:18 PM |
"Math" in the plural, "I'm not good at maths".
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 27, 2021 8:19 PM |
Calling Ford 'a firm' and worse, calling it Ford's
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 27, 2021 8:20 PM |
That car has a large BOOT and a long BONNET.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 27, 2021 8:22 PM |
Why are fools like OP unable to distinguish between England and Britain?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 27, 2021 8:23 PM |
R37 -- that is a weird once. Brits don't seem to understand the difference between singular vs plural.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 27, 2021 8:24 PM |
[quote] The words that give away that a poster is actually British
Bri-ish.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 27, 2021 8:24 PM |
[quote] that is a weird once
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 27, 2021 8:24 PM |
Oh dear R42
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 27, 2021 8:26 PM |
Oi oi!
takeaway/kebab.
brilliant jumper!
put on your wellies, it's pouring out there.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 27, 2021 8:36 PM |
Cheers mate!
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 27, 2021 8:37 PM |
Vicar.
Charity shop instead of thrift store.
Biscuits and chips which are anything but what they claim to be.
Crisps and candy floss sound stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 27, 2021 8:37 PM |
he's class!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 27, 2021 8:38 PM |
go to the "loo"
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 27, 2021 8:38 PM |
What are you on about.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 27, 2021 8:44 PM |
FATHER CHRISTMAS instead of
Santa Claus
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 27, 2021 9:07 PM |
TAKE AWAY instead of Take out.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 27, 2021 9:08 PM |
BLOODY HELL!
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 27, 2021 9:09 PM |
I'm watching footy on the telly.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 27, 2021 9:10 PM |
Bloody Nora; blimey
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 27, 2021 9:10 PM |
Petrol
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 27, 2021 9:14 PM |
Some of you are not reading the thread.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 27, 2021 9:15 PM |
[quote]Charity shop instead of thrift store.
Charity shops tend to be high street based where people just dump their clear out stuff in the doorway over night, like Granny Mary's golliwog salt and pepper cruet set, the Friends series 1 box set on VHS or a bag of shoes which may or may not have matching sets in it.
Thrift stores, also known as vintage stores, specialise in second hand clothing and accessories. Some thrift shops will buy second hand clothes and resell.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 27, 2021 9:21 PM |
"pins" for legs
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 27, 2021 9:21 PM |
CARE HOME instead of Nursing Home
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 27, 2021 9:23 PM |
An "off-license" instead of a liquor store.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 27, 2021 9:43 PM |
Porridge
"Teef" (If they have any left)
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 27, 2021 9:44 PM |
Oh dear R63. That's 'off-licence'. FIFY
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 27, 2021 9:47 PM |
Hob
AGA
Hoover (as a verb)
council estate
Eton Mess
caster sugar
Muscovado sugar
self-raising flour
tray bakes
fairy cakes
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 28, 2021 12:01 AM |
petrol
car park
block of flats
lorry
estate car
waistcoat
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 28, 2021 12:11 AM |
Taking the piss.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 28, 2021 12:15 AM |
Pip pip
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 28, 2021 12:15 AM |
Bob’s your uncle
Sweets
Kerfuffle
Chuffed
Blimey
Cock-up
Miffed
Hunky-dory
Anticlockwise
Dressing gown
Candy floss
Knackered
Cuppa
Gutted
Primary school
Skipping Rope
Gobby
Gobsmacked
Off-licence
Coriander
Noughts and crosses
Pavement
Postbox
Aubergine
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 28, 2021 12:21 AM |
“Bum” for butt. Although I use it as well because I’m Canadian.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 28, 2021 12:22 AM |
git, piss-off, sorted, telly, the train
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 28, 2021 12:43 AM |
[quote] the train
?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 28, 2021 12:51 AM |
"Paddy" - Brits use that to refer to trains; it's based on the most famous train station in all the land: Paddington.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 28, 2021 1:02 AM |
Tay-coh for taco.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 28, 2021 1:03 AM |
capsicum
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 28, 2021 1:05 AM |
dentist, but in question form, i.e., "dentist????"
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 28, 2021 1:08 AM |
R3 - that could also be a Canadian.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 28, 2021 1:10 AM |
meek-ro-wah-vay
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 28, 2021 1:11 AM |
Ring me on my mobile.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 28, 2021 1:13 AM |
Tickety-boo!
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 28, 2021 1:14 AM |
Courgettes
Swedes (for rutabagas, not people from Stockholm)
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 28, 2021 1:15 AM |
"Slut", but with a British accent
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 28, 2021 1:16 AM |
Saying “you need to go to Specsavers” when they think you have bad visual taste
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 28, 2021 1:17 AM |
Referring to molasses as treacle and eggplant as aubergine
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 28, 2021 1:19 AM |
Ginger.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 28, 2021 1:22 AM |
Bugger, sod, cottaging, spunk.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 28, 2021 1:26 AM |
toss off are you off your head!
by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 28, 2021 1:44 AM |
Krikey! Oh, wait. Blimey!
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 28, 2021 1:45 AM |
Vest for undershirt
And singlet for tank top
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 28, 2021 1:51 AM |
“Me ass” as in “that bloke fucked me ass”
by Anonymous | reply 91 | March 28, 2021 1:58 AM |
rubbers
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 28, 2021 2:05 AM |
Rubbish bin - garbage can
Bin it - throw it out
Bank Holiday - no US equivalent but usually the Monday of a three day weekend.
Finalise and Realise
by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 28, 2021 2:07 AM |
rubber as in eraser
theatre
spectre
by Anonymous | reply 94 | March 28, 2021 2:14 AM |
have you got a ciggy?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 28, 2021 2:20 AM |
Someone here said "uni" is also Canadian.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 28, 2021 2:21 AM |
Got to have a slash
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 28, 2021 2:25 AM |
beetroot
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 28, 2021 2:34 AM |
OP is a bonkers, fat, yob plonker twat.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 28, 2021 2:37 AM |
r99 - "twat" is pronounced in the same way you pronounce "hat"
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 28, 2021 2:39 AM |
[quote]Charity shops tend to be high street based
High street.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 28, 2021 2:41 AM |
Love (as a term of endearment)
by Anonymous | reply 102 | March 28, 2021 2:42 AM |
right nice geyser, 'e is!
by Anonymous | reply 103 | March 28, 2021 2:46 AM |
Sussed
Manky (Scottish)
Sorted
A bit good
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 28, 2021 2:53 AM |
hospital...not the hospital
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 28, 2021 2:54 AM |
bloody, rubbish, wank. arse
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 28, 2021 2:55 AM |
Hotsie totsie
by Anonymous | reply 108 | March 28, 2021 2:56 AM |
I've heard the expression "flicking my bean" a few too many times from Brits.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 28, 2021 3:00 AM |
"I fancy that lovely bloke, do you think he might fancy the likes of me?"
by Anonymous | reply 110 | March 28, 2021 3:05 AM |
i knocked up some pasta - care for a bit?
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 28, 2021 3:07 AM |
Spaz
Joey Deacon
Klan Granny
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 28, 2021 3:14 AM |
Ah-loo-min-ee-um
by Anonymous | reply 113 | March 28, 2021 3:19 AM |
Umbrella -- brolly Sweatshirt -- jumper
by Anonymous | reply 114 | March 28, 2021 3:20 AM |
OP is a daft knobhead.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | March 28, 2021 3:22 AM |
FUGTASTIC
by Anonymous | reply 116 | March 28, 2021 3:26 AM |
I have an American friend who insists on saying “jab” and I want to push her into a volcano every time she does. She also says “go to hospital.”
by Anonymous | reply 117 | March 28, 2021 3:27 AM |
OP is making a right arse of himself.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | March 28, 2021 3:38 AM |
Using "s" instead of "z" on words like "analyse" vs. "analyze."
by Anonymous | reply 119 | March 28, 2021 3:46 AM |
Pants for underpants.
Pants meaning worthless etc.
Sink estate.
Knickers.
Matron as in Carry On Matron.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | March 28, 2021 3:47 AM |
cheeky snog
banter
gutted
cracking
by Anonymous | reply 121 | March 28, 2021 3:57 AM |
smashing!
by Anonymous | reply 122 | March 28, 2021 4:17 AM |
fanny for vagina
naughty bits for cock and balls
by Anonymous | reply 123 | March 28, 2021 4:28 AM |
Markle and Harry are pieces of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | March 28, 2021 4:37 AM |
You dumb fucks don’t realise that it is Americans who can’t speak the language - pretty much any native English speaker anywhere else uses these words and expressions. It’s you Americans who are responsible for an ongoing assault on the English language.
Which is why we all laugh at you.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | March 28, 2021 4:44 AM |
Buck’s Fizz
by Anonymous | reply 126 | March 28, 2021 4:44 AM |
Nowt
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 28, 2021 4:50 AM |
"Which is why we all laugh at you."
The English do enjoy a good titter.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | March 28, 2021 4:50 AM |
mum
fank you
by Anonymous | reply 129 | March 28, 2021 4:52 AM |
Nappies
Mash
Bakewell
Speciality
Bicarb (for baking soda)
by Anonymous | reply 130 | March 28, 2021 4:53 AM |
Watching a British design/renovation show.
"Ma-CRAH-may" - Macrame
"Tar-PAUL-in" - Tarp
by Anonymous | reply 131 | March 28, 2021 4:55 AM |
some people on this thread have been watching far too much Great British Bakeoff
by Anonymous | reply 132 | March 28, 2021 4:55 AM |
R128 Touché
by Anonymous | reply 133 | March 28, 2021 4:58 AM |
faggots
by Anonymous | reply 134 | March 28, 2021 5:00 AM |
Stupid thread, OP. We learn English from the Brits in Europe so we use their vocabulary as well. As do other English-speaking countries of the world
by Anonymous | reply 135 | March 28, 2021 5:03 AM |
Frock!
Yesterday one of the crazy rightwing American ladies who pretends to be British on the trans, Meghan Markle, and race-baiting threads used "frock" and "sodding" about 400 times in one thread, and then some sockpuppet made sure to call her and her friends "the boys" so we would all totally believe they were Brit gays.
The trolls are so convincing this time of year.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | March 28, 2021 5:12 AM |
[quote]You dumb fucks don’t realise that it is Americans who can’t speak the language
I like how r125 got super upset, just because he didn't catch the reference to "My Fair Lady."
by Anonymous | reply 137 | March 28, 2021 5:16 AM |
al-ewe-min-ee-um *** aluminum
by Anonymous | reply 138 | March 28, 2021 6:22 AM |
[quote] You dumb fucks don’t realise that it is Americans who can’t speak the language
Tail’s wagging the dog now, innit?
by Anonymous | reply 139 | March 28, 2021 6:54 AM |
R139 - “innit”? I don’t use that word, but then, I’m not English.
Of course, being American, you assume that I am.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | March 28, 2021 7:35 AM |
What do Americans say when they go to hospital? Do you say you're going to THE hospital? Can anyone please clarify.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | March 28, 2021 8:42 AM |
R15 yes.
Most countries have made provisions for them to stay . Germany has even offered citizenship.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | March 28, 2021 8:57 AM |
I've been accused of being British, European, Canadian, and Russian. DL detectives suck.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | March 28, 2021 8:58 AM |
Why do Americans get so humpty about Britishisms?
Unless they never left their trailer park at the mouth of the old Turkey Knob Mines, they know exactly what OPs list of words mean. It's no trickier than if I said, "That was very clever/ingenious/resourceful of you". Or if someone mispronounced "dissect." No pausing, no thinking, no contemplation of nuanced meaning required.
Yet they will call out a jab, or a uni, or a dust bin as though it were the most irritating, insulting, ridiculous thing they ever heard.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | March 28, 2021 9:03 AM |
Going to the clubs so I'm going to get all tarted up
by Anonymous | reply 145 | March 28, 2021 9:04 AM |
Frogs (cf. rosbifs).
OAP.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | March 28, 2021 12:38 PM |
R144, neither OP nor anyone else on this thread said Americans didn't know what the Brit words mean, he just said they reveal the poster is British.
And yes, R141, Americans say going to THE hospital, same as going to the store, the park, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | March 28, 2021 12:44 PM |
R144- These things ANNOY us, as does the fact that you Brits drive on the WRONG side of the road.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | March 28, 2021 12:49 PM |
I'm quite aware R147, and yet, still, there you have it, my indirect response on OP's thread.
I'll know to ask you first next time.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | March 28, 2021 12:51 PM |
"18 certificate movie"
by Anonymous | reply 150 | March 28, 2021 12:54 PM |
Sponge = cake
by Anonymous | reply 151 | March 28, 2021 12:58 PM |
Road signs - GIVE WAY instead of Yield.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | March 28, 2021 1:04 PM |
Instead of being Fired from his job he was made REDUNDANT.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | March 28, 2021 1:05 PM |
FIZZY drinks instead of Soda.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | March 28, 2021 1:06 PM |
[quote]And yes, [R141], Americans say going to THE hospital, same as going to the store, the park, etc.
But we say "going to school," "going to work," etc., without the definite article.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | March 28, 2021 1:11 PM |
drinks party
hen party
by Anonymous | reply 156 | March 28, 2021 1:12 PM |
"took a punt" (took a chance)
by Anonymous | reply 157 | March 28, 2021 1:13 PM |
Twat....or is it twat?
by Anonymous | reply 158 | March 28, 2021 1:22 PM |
And of course:
Yanks!
by Anonymous | reply 159 | March 28, 2021 1:42 PM |
She’s up the duff mate
by Anonymous | reply 160 | March 28, 2021 1:54 PM |
Hey R144, as mentioned above, you missed the point of this thread. I was asking for ways we Americans can tell when it's a Brit who's posting by his choice of words. That's all. A bit of detective work.
What is it you funny little people say? Don't get your knickers in a twist, right-o, cheers.... whatever....
by Anonymous | reply 161 | March 28, 2021 2:11 PM |
[quote]"took a punt" (took a chance)
Also "punters." I've never been quite sure what that meant.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | March 28, 2021 2:35 PM |
"meant to" instead of "supposed to"
by Anonymous | reply 163 | March 28, 2021 2:35 PM |
This treacle tart is SMASHING.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | March 28, 2021 2:40 PM |
Arse for Ass
The Chemists for Drugstore
Placing "The" in front of country names as in The Argentine , The Ukraine
by Anonymous | reply 165 | March 28, 2021 4:25 PM |
THE United States
by Anonymous | reply 166 | March 28, 2021 4:27 PM |
We’ll get a pretty penny for that one on the human black market we will!
by Anonymous | reply 167 | March 28, 2021 5:19 PM |
Mind your head!
by Anonymous | reply 168 | March 28, 2021 6:08 PM |
Gosh, that must’ve been too ghastly!
by Anonymous | reply 170 | March 28, 2021 6:16 PM |
it's a bit shit, if i'm being honest
by Anonymous | reply 171 | March 28, 2021 6:20 PM |
I was sat down at the pub.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | March 28, 2021 6:23 PM |
I’m eating me tea!
by Anonymous | reply 173 | March 28, 2021 6:23 PM |
Let’s go around YOURS and do a CURRY for TEA.
(Grew up in a former colony so I do tend to use some of those words/phrases/pronunciations). Wouldn’t the USA be considered a former colony as well? 🤔🤔
by Anonymous | reply 174 | March 28, 2021 6:24 PM |
"Fancy tea at MINE?"
by Anonymous | reply 175 | March 28, 2021 6:28 PM |
Would you prefer crisps or chips? Don't be cheeky!
by Anonymous | reply 176 | March 28, 2021 6:32 PM |
University instead of college
by Anonymous | reply 177 | March 28, 2021 6:40 PM |
Uni, -ou, paki, fag (referring to cigarettes), BAME, xx or x after a sentence, furloughed.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | March 28, 2021 6:55 PM |
telly
celly
by Anonymous | reply 179 | March 28, 2021 6:57 PM |
I’m just taking the piss out of you.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | March 28, 2021 6:59 PM |
Everything Americans say started in the UK FIRST, Americans just kept it and the Brits are the ones that changed. The brits use to eat the same as Americans do, switching hands, then they switched to the continental way. And dont even start about soccer vs football, typical shitty convoluted British way, then bitch about the way Americans say it. Cunts!!!
by Anonymous | reply 181 | March 28, 2021 7:22 PM |
Ugggh god I despise the English and their outdated monarchy and Royal watching.. I refuse to watch English films anymore. They’re useless and boring. And of course they’re ugly with bad teeth. That cliche is 90% accurate.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | March 28, 2021 7:25 PM |
Everything the Americans say the Brits said it first then THEY changed and proceeded to ridicule Americans for it, typical British passive aggressive cunts. They even used to eat by switching hands then they changed to continental style. And dont even start on soccer vs football, another typical convoluted British shitty thing.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | March 28, 2021 7:28 PM |
Everything the Americans say the Brits said it first then THEY changed and proceeded to ridicule Americans for it, typical British passive aggressive cunts. They even used to eat by switching hands then they changed to continental style. And dont even start on soccer vs football, another typical convoluted British shitty thing.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | March 28, 2021 7:30 PM |
Everything the Americans say the Brits said it first then THEY changed and proceeded to ridicule Americans for it, typical British passive aggressive cunts. They even used to eat by switching hands then they changed to continental style. And dont even start on soccer vs football, another typical convoluted British shitty thing.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | March 28, 2021 7:34 PM |
chavs
bloke
mate
have a lie-down
bedsit (I still don't know what that means)
by Anonymous | reply 186 | March 28, 2021 7:37 PM |
R181 “the brits use to”.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | March 28, 2021 7:38 PM |
Squiffy!
Context: I only had a small glass of Jeremy's home brew and god almightly I don't half feel squiffy!
by Anonymous | reply 188 | March 28, 2021 7:41 PM |
Keep banging on about something
Bell me
Hasn’t a patch on her
A bit of alright
Really rubbish at doing this
by Anonymous | reply 189 | March 28, 2021 7:53 PM |
[quote] [R139] - “innit”? I don’t use that word, but then, I’m not English.
[quote]Of course, being American, you assume that I am.
You didn’t need to be British for my retort to work, you mentally slow person.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | March 28, 2021 8:41 PM |
Also only a Brit would say... Chim Chim Cheroo !
by Anonymous | reply 191 | March 28, 2021 8:47 PM |
The one that drives me crazy is "cuppa."
WTF?
by Anonymous | reply 192 | March 28, 2021 9:10 PM |
R192 do you want a cuppa tea me luv? How ‘bout some biscuits to go with that? I’ve been saving me favorite clotted cream to go with your scones.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | March 28, 2021 9:23 PM |
Boris is just using this thread to better disguise himself as an American for his consummate, right-wing propaganda posts.
Stop giving him tips. If he wants to learn to imitate Americans, he can do his own research for years. Let his mask keep slipping in DL posts, it's always hilarious to catch him in fraud.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | March 28, 2021 9:37 PM |
R190 Oh “Bootsy” you never fail to deliver.
At being a silly twat.
Now there’s a Britishism for you, “Bootsy”.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | March 28, 2021 11:03 PM |
“Shiver me timbers!”
by Anonymous | reply 196 | March 29, 2021 1:30 AM |
Garibaldis
Jammy Dodgers
Jaffa Cakes
Spotted Dick
Haggis
Christmas Pudding
Ice Lollies
Kippers
Brown sauce
Bovril
by Anonymous | reply 197 | March 29, 2021 1:33 AM |
r197 = fan of British cooking shows
by Anonymous | reply 198 | March 29, 2021 1:52 AM |
Dozy sod.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | March 29, 2021 1:57 AM |
Hi I'm Benedict Cumberbunch.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | March 29, 2021 1:58 AM |
loo, fag
by Anonymous | reply 201 | March 29, 2021 2:00 AM |
What shade of brown will your baby be?
by Anonymous | reply 202 | March 29, 2021 2:00 AM |
Most DLers are right slappers
by Anonymous | reply 203 | March 29, 2021 8:52 AM |
OP is right common
by Anonymous | reply 204 | March 29, 2021 9:04 AM |
Words aren't the only way to tell whether you're dealing with a Brit or an American. See if you can generate some steam:
-- Express support for the wrong football club.
-- Say something nice about Margaret Thatcher. Or Tony Blair.
-- Remind everyone who really beat the Germans.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | March 29, 2021 10:05 AM |
Sod off!
Chelsea buns
Jam roly-poly
Elevenses
Stork (not the bird)
Panto
Stalls (in a theatre)
by Anonymous | reply 206 | March 29, 2021 1:35 PM |
Train driver for the train engineer.
Engineer for the guy who comes to fix the geyser.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | March 29, 2021 1:54 PM |
Spot on
corner store
chav
pissed (meaning drunk)
by Anonymous | reply 208 | March 29, 2021 2:17 PM |
LOL@ R202
by Anonymous | reply 209 | March 29, 2021 2:18 PM |
[quote]corner store
Literally nobody in Britain has ever said Corner Store.
It's Corner SHOP.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | March 29, 2021 2:28 PM |
R162 it means customers.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | March 29, 2021 2:38 PM |
Skint for penurious.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | March 29, 2021 2:40 PM |
Google’s definition of the word Punter;
noun, British, informal
a person who gambles, places a bet, or makes a risky investment.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | March 29, 2021 3:30 PM |
R213 'punter' can also mean customer. It's a slang term. A prostitute will refer to her 'johns' as 'punters'.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | March 29, 2021 3:51 PM |
I thought punters were public house patrons.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | March 29, 2021 4:25 PM |
I've had many a British gentleman offer to knock me up but all they've done is come by for a visit.
They could have at least tried.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | March 29, 2021 4:28 PM |
Bed sit is a SRO
by Anonymous | reply 217 | March 29, 2021 4:45 PM |
Scally
Cow
by Anonymous | reply 218 | March 29, 2021 5:58 PM |
'Punters' are indeed primarily those who place bets - but also as has been said, more broadly ticket-buyers or consumers of any sort. As in, 'It can't lose, the punters will love it.'
Sometimes a 'dodgy' (Brit word) enterprise will be set up to claim 'mug punters.' A scam. Which blends back to the main meaning in that mug punters are taking a silly gamble, an unwise risk.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | March 29, 2021 6:29 PM |
Scrolled through the whole thing, no one mentioned:
Posh
Common (as a class identifier)
by Anonymous | reply 220 | March 29, 2021 10:22 PM |
Bespoke. On British design shows they always mention bespoke pieces of furniture or decoration which I'm assuming means custom.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | March 29, 2021 10:33 PM |
R221 -- The word bespoke is just as common in America as it is in Britain. It's a class thing, not a Brit thing. My rich male friends always have bespoke suits, usually made when they're in Hong Kong where bespoke is cheap.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | March 29, 2021 11:11 PM |
Cleaner (as a noun, not an adjective)
Builder (as workman, not a developer)
Vicar
Solicitor
Barrister
Councillor
Fete
W.I.
Helter-skelter (as a noun, not an adjective)
tombola
coconut shy/shie
Morris dancing
quid
bob (for money)
agony aunt
bugger
butty
sarnie
carriageway
motorway
cling film
cooker / cookery
drink-driving
lorry
funfair
golden syrup
hold-all
icing sugar
jacket potato
naff
presenter
number plate
Paki
paracetamol
y-fronts
secondment
kitchen roll
zebra crossing
by Anonymous | reply 223 | March 30, 2021 12:42 AM |
r223 solid list. we did have about 7 or more of those already mentioned upthread.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | March 30, 2021 1:32 AM |
And 224 replies show not so much how to identify that a poster is English (or British - most Americans don’t understand that there’s a difference), but that citizens of the USA have been responsible for an ongoing assault on the English language since your independence. The examples that you have all provided up thread are not so much examples of how English English differs from American English, but how Americans have, as always, been oblivious to their slaughtering of the English language that the rest of us Anglophones write and speak.
But you all carry on, Americans, while the rest of us laugh at you. We get lots of practice.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | March 30, 2021 2:00 AM |
R225 sounds like a two-room-flat-dwelling pasty-bodied part-time shop clerk with eczema who weawwy wans to teww Amewicans how wousy their Engwish is. He smells of pee and greasy bedsheets.
And then Mother calls for the fourth time that morning.
American is the Prime English-Speaking nation and has been for 90 years. The British adopt every Americanism that rolls out, while Americans, outside the casual traveler or DL silly boy who thinks using slang from 1950s movies is funny, laughs at the suggestion that there is a qualitative difference between Brummie and RP.
And, of course, whether they know it or not, the UK is just a dying banking center.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | March 30, 2021 3:00 AM |
r225 wow, what a weird reaction to my response about your solid list. i have been participating in this thread since the beginning BECAUSE i love all your British-isms, watch many UK-based shows, etc. I have nothing but respect for your culture.
Maybe go have a cuppa and a scone (pronounced the correct, British way). Tut, tut!
by Anonymous | reply 227 | March 30, 2021 5:54 AM |
R213 it can mean that, in terms of 'taking a punt' meaning to take a gamble, therefore someone who punts is arguably a punter - but it is far more commonly used as just a generic term for customer. A busy pub would describe there being 'a lot of thirsty punters in tonight' for example - and it's also used as a term for the clients of a prostitute.
Please do not come for me and try to school me on the use of British slang, you will only make yourself look like a fool.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | March 30, 2021 8:33 AM |
Would like to add too that I've seen a couple of people use the 'P' word and you should be aware that it is considered a racial slur and is NOT in acceptable use in the UK. It may be used, but it's a racist word akin to the 'N' word.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | March 30, 2021 8:36 AM |
R229 Unless you're Prince Harry.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | March 30, 2021 8:51 AM |
[quote]Would like to add too that I've seen a couple of people use the 'P' word and you should be aware that it is considered a racial slur and is NOT in acceptable use in the UK. It may be used, but it's a racist word akin to the 'N' word.
I'd disagree with you there. It *should* be a term akin to the N word but like in the US, anti Asian racism is treated with far less outrage than anti Black racism.
When I posted above about how no one would ever use the term corner store, it's always corner shop, I nearly wrote "or P* shop depending on your upbringing". I probably last heard the term about 10 years ago when I went to a friend's for dinner - he'd cooked a curry and another friend's new partner announced "I never cook curry at home, it makes the flat smell like a P* shop for days". I didn't go to their wedding.
The term "chinky" meaning a Chinese takeaway is common as well in a "I know I shouldn't say that but whatever LOL" way. When a Labour MP used the term he didn't even get a suspension.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | March 30, 2021 9:57 AM |
What's "bent"?
by Anonymous | reply 232 | March 30, 2021 11:59 AM |
R232 Pretty much like crooked when applied to politicians and the like. .
by Anonymous | reply 233 | March 30, 2021 12:01 PM |
r232 another word for homosexual/bisexual, particularly in the case of effeminate men, just as having a limp wrist. though some also assume it has an association with anal sex.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | March 30, 2021 12:03 PM |
In the case of the Labour MP, he used bent to mean gay. It would expect that kind of word to be used by someone in born in the 30s or 40s. But Gaffney was born in the 60s.
He lost his seat a year later to the Scottish Nationalists, to a man who has fights with his neighbour.
But yes, if a politician is described as bent it usually means corrupt. See also bent coppers in the BBC's Line Of Duty.
Baroness Chakrabarti, of Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth insisted "I'm not bent" after accepting a life peerage (a seat in the House of Lords and the right to vote on laws despite being unelected) and a job in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet in exchange for a whitewash report into Labour's problem with anti Jewish racism. Labour was later found guilty of breaching the law by harassing Jews.
Baroness Chakrabarti is, to coin (LOL) a phrase, as bent as a two bob note.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | March 30, 2021 12:28 PM |
Sorry, the phrase is "as bent as nine bob note". Shame on me!
by Anonymous | reply 236 | March 30, 2021 12:34 PM |
"colour"
by Anonymous | reply 237 | March 30, 2021 12:44 PM |
r227 I am not R225
by Anonymous | reply 238 | March 30, 2021 1:51 PM |
[quote]American is the Prime English-Speaking nation and has been for 90 years.
While this may be true, most of the rest of the world uses British standards in spelling and pronunciation of English. It's what they are taught in school. The BBC and the British Empire had a lot to do with this.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | March 30, 2021 1:55 PM |
In uni I was good at maths but bad at sport.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | March 30, 2021 1:55 PM |
[quote]American is the Prime English-Speaking nation and has been for 90 years. The British adopt every Americanism that rolls out, while Americans, outside the casual traveler or DL silly boy who thinks using slang from 1950s movies is funny, laughs at the suggestion that there is a qualitative difference between Brummie and RP.
[quote]And, of course, whether they know it or not, the UK is just a dying banking center.
What if that were true?
Why do so many Americans have to make every fucking thing a zero sum game — contorting the rules on each occasion to ensure that they "win"? If indeed "America is the Prime English-Speaking nation and has been for 90 years," how does it harm you or OP or anyone else that, in one place, it's aluminum and, in the other, aluminium? How is that too hard a pill for you to swallow, or are you in the perpetually state of a 6-year-old child angry that everywhere the exact same way that you would have it? And why do you have to pull down what you allege is a weak opponent to prop yourself up? What's the fucking point?
by Anonymous | reply 241 | March 30, 2021 2:29 PM |
But then, R241, one could ask why Brits like yourself have to make such a big deal out of every slight slur to your beloved sceptered island? Are you all that sensitive? Has the last century really been that bad?
by Anonymous | reply 242 | March 30, 2021 3:21 PM |
Do Brits say "cock" or "dick" or do have their own word for it? Same question for top vs bottom.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | March 30, 2021 4:12 PM |
R242: Except I'm not a Brit, not a citizen or resident of a sceptred isle. I'm an American citizen by birth, just not one anxious to jump on your bandwagon to lead your team to a stupid victory.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | March 30, 2021 4:21 PM |
[quote]Do Brits say "cock" or "dick" or do have their own word for it? Same question for top vs bottom.
Brits use the phrases "pork sword" and "mister meaty man" in place of openis.
And tops are called "givers" and the bottoms are "takers". Men who do oral only are called "gossips".
by Anonymous | reply 245 | March 30, 2021 4:29 PM |
Toff
by Anonymous | reply 246 | March 30, 2021 4:34 PM |
That MP is probably a fukin' shirt lifter and a turn burglar !
by Anonymous | reply 247 | March 30, 2021 5:33 PM |
^^ turd
by Anonymous | reply 248 | March 30, 2021 5:35 PM |
Sweetie sweetie sweetie darling!
by Anonymous | reply 249 | March 30, 2021 6:06 PM |
238 - so sorry, i shouldn't make assumptions on here! Carry on!
by Anonymous | reply 250 | March 31, 2021 1:34 AM |
r238 I meant! Sorry about that.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | March 31, 2021 1:35 AM |
[quote] Brits use the phrases "pork sword" and "mister meaty man" in place of openis.
There’s possum and opossum. Is "openis" a slightly more formal form of "penis"?
by Anonymous | reply 252 | March 31, 2021 2:16 AM |
No, that's the honorific o, as in o-cha.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | March 31, 2021 2:57 AM |
I always crack up when I read about Brits being “GUTTED” by something they’re disappointed by. It sounds so dramatic to my ears!
by Anonymous | reply 254 | March 31, 2021 3:06 AM |
Sparky.
Chippy.
White van man.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | March 31, 2021 3:20 AM |
R243 yeah we say dick or cock, to describe a hard penis usually rather than flaccid - I would say that cock is probably more common but could be regional - and a flaccid penis is generally called a willy.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | March 31, 2021 3:35 PM |
Bloke Chap Guv' Love (when referring to a person) Wicked!!
by Anonymous | reply 257 | March 31, 2021 3:47 PM |
[quote]yeah we say dick or cock
'Cock' is the go-to in my experience - 'dick' being a bit devalued sexually as it's a mid-range insult. 'He's a total dick', 'Don't be a fucking dick mate', et cetera. No-one ever says, 'He's a total cock.'
by Anonymous | reply 258 | March 31, 2021 4:28 PM |
I'm gobsmacked by how long this thread is.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | March 31, 2021 4:45 PM |
[quote] White van man.
What's that mean?
by Anonymous | reply 260 | April 1, 2021 12:33 AM |
R260 Young aggressive men with small delivery vehicles.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | April 1, 2021 4:41 AM |
scarpered
did a runner
trainers
kept himself to himself
storm in a teacup
by Anonymous | reply 262 | April 1, 2021 4:42 AM |
"Pratt" or "A Right Pratt"
A pratt is basically an idiot.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | April 1, 2021 4:50 AM |
ooo good ones r262!
r260 i had to urban dictionary that one myself.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | April 1, 2021 4:51 AM |
[quote] trainers
DAPS
by Anonymous | reply 265 | April 1, 2021 6:12 AM |
Daps is a Welsh fraise!
by Anonymous | reply 266 | April 1, 2021 4:01 PM |
I don't remember ever hearing the word "whilst" spoken out loud. If I did my brain must have filtered it out.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | April 1, 2021 4:22 PM |
Cash point.
Fortnight.
Travellers.
Caravan.
Maccies.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | April 1, 2021 5:13 PM |
[quote]Daps is a Welsh fraise!
It's a strawberry?
by Anonymous | reply 269 | April 1, 2021 7:24 PM |
the open borders of the internet and the endless list of banned books in the school. brits either sound gay or like chavs.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | April 1, 2021 7:43 PM |
They can't even brush their fucking teeth after eating their garbage food. Their whole identity revolves around worshiping BRF. They think they're gods gift to society and the pinnacle of intelligence. Keep your colonialism to yourselves. Your cuisine sucks, you're hygiene sucks, you live in cramped up squalor.
by Anonymous | reply 271 | April 1, 2021 10:35 PM |
"You're" spelling sucks, r271
by Anonymous | reply 272 | April 2, 2021 12:51 AM |
Me mum's boyfriend made me cum in me trackies...
by Anonymous | reply 273 | April 2, 2021 12:59 AM |
Barley sweets
by Anonymous | reply 274 | April 2, 2021 1:13 AM |
That posh twat has always fancied a bit of rough when he’s cheating behind his hubby
by Anonymous | reply 275 | April 2, 2021 1:17 AM |
Plonkers
by Anonymous | reply 276 | April 2, 2021 1:18 AM |
Sleeping rough
by Anonymous | reply 277 | April 2, 2021 1:19 AM |
Lorry
by Anonymous | reply 278 | April 2, 2021 1:35 AM |
Gaol
by Anonymous | reply 279 | April 2, 2021 1:37 AM |
My courgettes are large and ripe
are my aubergines are quite tasty
by Anonymous | reply 280 | April 2, 2021 2:50 AM |
Me mum's boyfriend has a massive gherkin...
and he likes to show it off
by Anonymous | reply 281 | April 2, 2021 2:58 AM |
I've seen you staring at my big knob
get down on your knees...and be sharpish about it
by Anonymous | reply 282 | April 2, 2021 3:05 AM |
“Carriages at midnight” on an invitation.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | April 2, 2021 3:57 AM |
"dodgy" as an adjective which described a situation as not on the up and up, probably not legal or not at all safe.
upthread, "a dodgy" was referred to as a noun.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | April 2, 2021 6:02 AM |
[quote]gods gift
Oh dear.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | April 2, 2021 6:06 AM |
Shan’t
by Anonymous | reply 286 | April 2, 2021 9:36 AM |
Slag
by Anonymous | reply 287 | April 2, 2021 9:47 AM |
Bullocks
by Anonymous | reply 288 | April 3, 2021 2:52 PM |
"Pip pip, cheerio and all that rot"
by Anonymous | reply 289 | April 3, 2021 3:08 PM |
r288 Bullock's was a department store in southern California. I believe you meant BOLLOCKS.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | April 3, 2021 3:14 PM |
CHIPPY TITS
by Anonymous | reply 291 | April 3, 2021 3:15 PM |
[quote]Bullocks
[quote][R288] Bullock's was a department store in southern California. I believe you meant BOLLOCKS.
When The Beautiful South released Don't Marry Her from their 5th album Welcome To The Beautiful South they had to record the lyrics to make them radio friendly. "Don't Marry Her, Fuck Me" became "Don't Marry Her, Have Me" and "she'll grab your sweaty bollocks and slowly raise the knee" became "she'll grab your Sandra Bullocks and slowly raise her knee.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | April 3, 2021 3:23 PM |
Let's face it: calling someone a knob sounds a lot more classy than "You're a dick".
by Anonymous | reply 293 | April 3, 2021 3:50 PM |
Rissoles(Hamburgers)
by Anonymous | reply 294 | April 3, 2021 4:06 PM |
A pint of ale
by Anonymous | reply 295 | April 3, 2021 4:27 PM |
Quite right, r90
by Anonymous | reply 296 | April 3, 2021 4:45 PM |
R295 Make that a yard of ale, matey.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | April 3, 2021 4:47 PM |
Some of you have very odd ideas about the words us Brits use. We don't live in an Enid Blyton book.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | April 3, 2021 4:52 PM |
Perambulator(Baby Carriage)
by Anonymous | reply 299 | April 3, 2021 5:00 PM |
R298 Crikey, you've got it!
by Anonymous | reply 300 | April 3, 2021 5:03 PM |
PRAWNS instead of shrimp.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | April 3, 2021 5:07 PM |
[quote]Perambulator(Baby Carriage)
Even a fake toff like Jacob Rees Mogg wouldn't say perambulator.
It's pram, buggy or pushchair. Maybe stroller if you have parents born in another country.
But never, ever a perambulator.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | April 3, 2021 5:12 PM |
“Posh” annoys me no end. They act so smug when they say it as if it’s such a clever word to use. Sadly, they all overuse it.
by Anonymous | reply 303 | April 3, 2021 5:17 PM |
R301 “Prawns” just sounds disgusting.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | April 3, 2021 5:18 PM |
I hate when the describe food as “lovely” or “nice.”
by Anonymous | reply 305 | April 3, 2021 5:19 PM |
[quote]Even a fake toff like Jacob Rees Mogg wouldn't say perambulator.
I wouldn't put it past him, such is the depth of his alternate-reality immersion. The names of his children suggest as much. 'Sixtus Dominic Boniface' is but one, to offer a flavour.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | April 3, 2021 5:24 PM |
COOKER instead of stove
by Anonymous | reply 307 | April 3, 2021 5:27 PM |
PASSING WIND instead of farting
Though I suspect this was used mainly by the UPPER CLASS and the Upper Middle Class.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | April 3, 2021 5:29 PM |
R307 Cookers and stoves are different things.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | April 3, 2021 5:31 PM |
Drawing Room instead of living room
by Anonymous | reply 310 | April 3, 2021 5:52 PM |
Lounge instead of living room.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | April 3, 2021 6:02 PM |
JELLY instead of Jell-o
by Anonymous | reply 312 | April 3, 2021 6:08 PM |
We say "prawns" in the US, too.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | April 3, 2021 7:18 PM |
We use both prawns and shrimp in the UK, but they tend to be different ideas.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | April 3, 2021 7:21 PM |
Prawns are large, shrimp are small.
by Anonymous | reply 315 | April 3, 2021 7:23 PM |
Scampi and chips with tartare sauce
by Anonymous | reply 316 | April 3, 2021 8:43 PM |
R308 Read up on U and non-U usage. To quote the relevant Wikipedia article, "the middle classes prefer 'fancy' or fashionable words . . . in attempts to make themselves sound more refined . . while the upper classes in many cases stick to the same plain and traditional words that the working classes also use."
by Anonymous | reply 317 | April 3, 2021 10:06 PM |
r317 maybe dial it down a notch. just speak in a plain fashion.
by Anonymous | reply 318 | April 4, 2021 12:32 AM |
British use "our" to our "or". Example: colour vs. color.
by Anonymous | reply 319 | April 4, 2021 2:06 AM |
Battenberg cake
Tear-and-share
coroner's inquest
fish paste
digestive biscuit
streaky bacon
orange squash
cross (for angry)
Snakes and Ladders (for Chutes and Ladders)
Cluedo (for Clue)
constable
seed cake
jumble sale
by Anonymous | reply 320 | April 4, 2021 1:22 PM |
R298, what words on here are we wrong about Brits using?
by Anonymous | reply 321 | April 4, 2021 1:27 PM |
Bruv. Greengrocer. (Greengrocer's apostrophe). Fishmonger. Proms. Boiled Sweets. Craic.
by Anonymous | reply 322 | April 4, 2021 5:23 PM |
what is the difference between a market and a greengrocer? or do Brits not use the term market for a grocery store?
by Anonymous | reply 323 | April 4, 2021 6:15 PM |
As the name hints, a greengrocer deals in fruit and vegetables.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | April 4, 2021 6:34 PM |
So a greengrocer only has fruits and vegetables, nothing else? that's what people in the US refer to as a farmer's market.
by Anonymous | reply 325 | April 4, 2021 6:42 PM |
No, more a produce market, like those ones run by Koreans in big U.S. cities.
I think of a farmers' market as having stalls run by different "farmers."
by Anonymous | reply 326 | April 4, 2021 7:00 PM |
R307
The real toffs have an Aga, not a cooker.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | April 6, 2021 2:44 AM |
pressurizing for pressuring
phone box
shall/should for will/would
spoilt, learnt, spelt
"talking of" for "speaking of"
interval for intermission
dog's dinner, dog's breakfast (I'm never sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.)
"not at all" instead of "you're welcome."
scullery
"quite" when used by itself as a sentence/response.
"turn-up" (the first time I heard that, I thought they were saying "turnip."
by Anonymous | reply 328 | April 6, 2021 4:14 PM |
[quote]shall/should for will/would
These are as different as "I love" and "I like".
by Anonymous | reply 329 | April 6, 2021 4:24 PM |
[quote]dog's dinner, dog's breakfast (I'm never sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.)
A bad thing - a project which might reasonably have been expected to work but is, when presented, notably inadequate.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | April 6, 2021 4:27 PM |
r329 Perhaps, but in the US, "shall" is rarely used. I agree that "would" and "should" are different.
by Anonymous | reply 331 | April 6, 2021 4:27 PM |
Fizzy drink
by Anonymous | reply 332 | April 6, 2021 4:33 PM |
Speak fucking AMERICAN!. You sound like you are better than me!
by Anonymous | reply 333 | April 6, 2021 4:35 PM |
"gone pear-shaped"
by Anonymous | reply 334 | April 6, 2021 4:44 PM |
IT'S ALL GONE TITS UP!
by Anonymous | reply 335 | April 6, 2021 4:59 PM |
Noughts and Crosses (tic tac toe)
Give Way (yield)
by Anonymous | reply 336 | April 6, 2021 8:27 PM |
A rissole isn't a burger R294 - unless it's some regional terminology I'm not aware of - a rissole is it's own thing.
by Anonymous | reply 337 | April 7, 2021 8:42 AM |
Not convinced of that R307 - to me, the stove top would be the hob, and the hob + oven = cooker.
by Anonymous | reply 338 | April 7, 2021 8:45 AM |
Cor.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | April 7, 2021 1:17 PM |
Flippin' 'eck
by Anonymous | reply 340 | April 7, 2021 1:38 PM |
"Chip Butty". It's just some french fries between two slices of white bread. That's it.
by Anonymous | reply 341 | April 7, 2021 1:46 PM |
R274 not Barley Sweets, Barley Sugar.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | April 7, 2021 2:23 PM |
R341 French fries are what you buy at Maccy Ds. Totally unsuitable for a chip butty.
You need proper chips from a chippy for a chip butty.
Ahhh...that's brings us nicely into what us Brits call this, in our parts of the UK....
Chips between a bread roll is called a....?
I'll start - Chip Cob.
by Anonymous | reply 343 | April 7, 2021 2:30 PM |
Being "poorly" (sick)
by Anonymous | reply 344 | April 7, 2021 2:32 PM |
Where I come from that's a chippy bap, not to be confused with Poison's Unskinny Bop
by Anonymous | reply 345 | April 7, 2021 2:33 PM |
Are you up north R345?
by Anonymous | reply 346 | April 7, 2021 2:37 PM |
Where I come from you eat baps in daps round your bampy's house.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | April 7, 2021 2:41 PM |
Ahhh baps!
by Anonymous | reply 348 | April 7, 2021 11:21 PM |
A sandwich made with potatoes. Weird.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | April 8, 2021 12:18 AM |
“You lot”
by Anonymous | reply 350 | April 8, 2021 1:08 AM |
(in a club)"easy mate, you havin' a good night" "yeah im fuckin' sorted bruv!!"
by Anonymous | reply 351 | April 8, 2021 1:11 AM |
How very dare you!
by Anonymous | reply 352 | April 8, 2021 1:13 AM |
R351 My nephew when he calls me on the phone says more or less exactly that.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | April 8, 2021 6:09 AM |
PRIV-acy, not PRIVE-acy.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | April 8, 2021 7:15 AM |
As an American, I love the word ”wank.” It sounds fun and naughty all at once.
by Anonymous | reply 355 | April 8, 2021 8:30 AM |
“My family cut me off. I was down to my last $30 million.”
by Anonymous | reply 356 | April 8, 2021 8:32 AM |
R355 My boyfriend had a good wank this morning. He wanks quite often. We live apart, so he sent me a pick of the results of his wank this morning.
Have a great day!
by Anonymous | reply 357 | April 8, 2021 9:21 AM |
"I'm British."
by Anonymous | reply 358 | April 8, 2021 11:36 AM |
Calling people: Wanker; Cunt, used as an endearment; Muppet (I don't get this one - does it mean a dumbass?)
by Anonymous | reply 359 | April 8, 2021 1:14 PM |
R359 yes, ‘muppet’ is a soft-edged and sometimes affectionate way of calling someone a fool or an idiot. You can use ‘muppet’ in reference to a friend, family member or colleague, or in a casual but polite debate, and not cause too much offence. It’s a light little rib.
Cf. ‘nugget’, if you’re talking to a Manc.
by Anonymous | reply 360 | April 8, 2021 1:34 PM |
R347 where I come from (Hereford/FOD/South West), we would have a Ploughman’s round Pops/Paps.
by Anonymous | reply 361 | April 8, 2021 1:43 PM |
[quote][R347] where I come from (Hereford/FOD/South West), we would have a Ploughman’s round Pops/Paps.
I'm not going to lie to you but truth be told that sounds tidy like.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | April 8, 2021 1:45 PM |
Terraced house.
Country house.
Surgery.
by Anonymous | reply 363 | April 8, 2021 2:06 PM |
A&E - instead of ER
by Anonymous | reply 364 | April 8, 2021 2:07 PM |
Pull.
Squadie.
Fly-tip.
by Anonymous | reply 365 | April 8, 2021 8:54 PM |
"Continue acting if you'd like, dear. You'll never get anywhere near the throne."
by Anonymous | reply 366 | April 8, 2021 10:12 PM |
Jim-jams or PJs
Pyjamas
by Anonymous | reply 367 | April 8, 2021 10:59 PM |
'flu, with the apostrophe
by Anonymous | reply 368 | April 9, 2021 1:19 AM |
I'm quite keen on the builder. If I can't have him I'll settle for the decorator. I fancy him as well.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | April 9, 2021 1:38 AM |
Lorry driver
Socialise, accessorise, stabilise.....
by Anonymous | reply 370 | April 9, 2021 8:43 PM |
Is "tall poppy syndrome" a thing in the UK - or just Australia?
by Anonymous | reply 371 | April 9, 2021 8:46 PM |
Smiling indulgently when we read “ I could care less”
by Anonymous | reply 372 | April 9, 2021 8:56 PM |
R371 I think people in the UK know it, but it's really meant to describe a particular aspect of Australian culture.
by Anonymous | reply 373 | April 9, 2021 10:26 PM |
[quote]I fancy him as well
I fancy him rotten.
[quote]Is "tall poppy syndrome" a thing in the UK
Known as 'Build 'em up, knock 'em down.' The basic MO of the tabloid press.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | April 10, 2021 6:00 AM |
e's a tosser, he is!
by Anonymous | reply 375 | April 10, 2021 6:18 AM |
Some of these aren’t exclusively British, but they’re not often used in the US as far as I know. I’ve lived outside the US for almost 20 years and know certain words have crept the other way like ginger, queue, ‘gone missing’, etc. I’d say the regional differences within both the UK and US are still greater than the differences between ‘standard’ UK and US tv broadcaster English. It’s hard to generalise.
Treat - as in ‘goes down a treat’ or ‘came up a treat’
Kit - as in a uniform, outfit, any set of tools or equipment.
Punter - as in gambler or general customer...speaking of....
Custom - ‘thank you for your custom’.
Tuck in - start eating especially if you’ve been peckish all day.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | April 10, 2021 9:16 AM |
Stop fannying about.
by Anonymous | reply 377 | April 10, 2021 9:22 AM |
Cunt face.
Knockers.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | April 10, 2021 10:00 AM |
British people use "kip" to mean either a nap or a longer sleep; it can also mean the idea or act of sleeping, as in “Will you be quiet? I'm trying to get some kip in here!” It can also be a verb: “They kipped down for the night”
by Anonymous | reply 379 | April 10, 2021 12:28 PM |
Adding "done" to the end of phrases like "might have," "could have," "should have," etc.
by Anonymous | reply 380 | April 10, 2021 1:07 PM |
"Needs must."
by Anonymous | reply 381 | April 10, 2021 1:07 PM |
R377 my dad likes that one, and he sometimes says it “fanny-annying” (I don’t know why). He uses it interchangeably with “pissballing” and “mithering” (though the latter implies some degree of hopeful pestering on the part of the subject).
by Anonymous | reply 382 | April 10, 2021 1:17 PM |
“Are you [bold]actually[/bold] alright?”
=
“Mate you fucking losing your mind or summat? You’d have to be going round believing bollox like that...”
by Anonymous | reply 383 | April 10, 2021 3:37 PM |
Mental, innit?
by Anonymous | reply 384 | April 10, 2021 4:18 PM |
R379 I thought "kip" referred to "kippered" which I see all the time in E.F. Benson novels and seems to imply being smoked or something.
Someday I'd like to learn British.
by Anonymous | reply 385 | April 10, 2021 4:25 PM |
Wanna go down the pub and eat some tea bruv? Lots of birds down there with massive tits, innit?
by Anonymous | reply 386 | April 10, 2021 4:35 PM |
"He got stitched up like a kipper, stitched up big-time. Got ten years."
by Anonymous | reply 387 | April 10, 2021 4:38 PM |
it's weird that Brits talk about "eating tea" when we think of tea as a drink. i guess tea in that case is a stand-in for dinner? wonder how that came about?
by Anonymous | reply 388 | April 10, 2021 4:41 PM |
[quote]Wanna go down the pub and eat some tea bruv?
No one in Britain has ever eaten their tea in a pub.
by Anonymous | reply 389 | April 10, 2021 4:42 PM |
Just what I think I've pieced together -- long ago, it wasn't dangerous to be out after dark, so the practice of having an earlier time to get together with others started - "tea time." Well, you didn't just go to visit to drink a cup of tea - there was food - cucumber sandwiches or maybe much more - but you couldn't have a dinner party because it was too dangerous to be out on the streets. Maybe this is before police - or bobbies?
by Anonymous | reply 390 | April 10, 2021 4:44 PM |
* it WAS dangerous to be out after dark
by Anonymous | reply 391 | April 10, 2021 4:45 PM |
[quote]it's weird that Brits talk about "eating tea" when we think of tea as a drink. i guess tea in that case is a stand-in for dinner? wonder how that came about?
Tea (food wise) is an informal dinner, early evening.
Dinner can be the evening meals or lunch - school dinners are served at lunchtime.
by Anonymous | reply 392 | April 10, 2021 4:45 PM |
What exactly is (are?) elevenses?
by Anonymous | reply 394 | April 10, 2021 6:59 PM |
Coffee or tea and biscuits or cake taken around 11am.
Either at work, ie on a fag break or when a nosy neighbour pops in for a natter over a Hobnob.
by Anonymous | reply 395 | April 10, 2021 11:53 PM |
^that's what most of us in the US think of as "tea"
by Anonymous | reply 396 | April 10, 2021 11:55 PM |
Joint (something you roast in the kitchen)
Salt beef (careful ordering "corned beef"!)
Oxo (U.S. Scrabble players know this one)
by Anonymous | reply 397 | April 11, 2021 12:14 AM |
r397 the game or the manufacturer of kitchen utensils?
by Anonymous | reply 398 | April 11, 2021 12:18 AM |
R398 The stock cubes.
by Anonymous | reply 399 | April 11, 2021 12:22 AM |
hm, yeah. didn't know about those r399. we call them bouillon cubes. why? don't know.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | April 11, 2021 12:35 AM |
R400 it's the timeless culinary war between French and Anglo Saxon isn't it?
Pigs, Cows, Sheep when slaughtered, suddenly change their language and become pork, beef and mutton.
One man's stock cube is another man's bouillon.
by Anonymous | reply 401 | April 11, 2021 12:53 AM |
r401 completely true. This is why I love threads like this - to find our differences, but still commonalities. Although I will say we don't seem to eat a whole lot of sheep/mutton here. At least, not in my family or many people I know.
by Anonymous | reply 402 | April 11, 2021 12:59 AM |
So do you have elevenses at work, or just a coffee (or tea) break? And when do you eat lunch if you have a snack at 11? Most workplaces have lunch between 11:30 and 1. And then another meal before dinner (afternoon tea)? Why isn't everyone 300 lbs?
by Anonymous | reply 403 | April 11, 2021 1:21 AM |
Elevenses tend to include a biscuit or piece of cake, do they tend to be a prolonged break. Tea break could be just a hurried cuppa tea.
Luncheon, HM The Queen hates the word lunch, is taken between noon and 2pm.
Yes you could have breakfast at 8am, elevenses at 11am, lunch at 1pm, tea at 4pm, then dinner at 7pm, before supper at 10pm and bed.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | April 11, 2021 1:29 AM |
“You all right then?”
“Come off it!”
“Steady on!”
by Anonymous | reply 405 | April 11, 2021 2:10 AM |
Shedule
by Anonymous | reply 406 | April 11, 2021 2:59 AM |
The worst, most bizarre, just away word in British is "cuppa."
WTF? Cuppa???
by Anonymous | reply 407 | April 11, 2021 3:23 AM |
^awful
by Anonymous | reply 408 | April 11, 2021 3:24 AM |
the mento illness, luv
by Anonymous | reply 409 | April 11, 2021 3:41 AM |
The worst, most bizarre, just away word in British is "cuppa." WTF? Cuppa???
Not that weird, it's just short for cup of.
by Anonymous | reply 410 | April 11, 2021 3:44 AM |
seems a llot of food breaks. but then again, we do think have a tendency to think of 6 food breaks a day so maybe...
by Anonymous | reply 411 | April 11, 2021 4:27 AM |
wow. r411. you fucked up royally.
by Anonymous | reply 412 | April 11, 2021 4:32 AM |
R395/R404 elevenses and afternoon tea are very much a thing of the past. My 85-year old grandmother (who eats like a gannet) still takes tea with a hot buttered crumpet or teacake or some digestives at about eleven, but no-one else I know does. Half the time I don’t even eat three-square (I rarely eat lunch, and often take breakfast late), let alone six miniature meals a day.
by Anonymous | reply 413 | April 11, 2021 12:27 PM |
What the hell is a gannet?
by Anonymous | reply 414 | April 11, 2021 1:05 PM |
noun
noun: gannet; plural noun: gannets; noun: northern gannet; plural noun: northern gannets
1. a large seabird with mainly white plumage, known for catching fish by plunge-diving.
2. informal•British a greedy person.
by Anonymous | reply 415 | April 11, 2021 1:39 PM |
Yes Captain Obvious at R410. We know what cuppa means. It's just such an extremely ugly sounding abbreviation. Do you people says "Glassa?" "Mugga?" "Drinka?" "Bottlea?"
Just such an ugly sounding word.
by Anonymous | reply 416 | April 11, 2021 2:34 PM |
r416 Not that much different from the universally used "gonna" and "wanna."
by Anonymous | reply 417 | April 11, 2021 2:40 PM |
Greedy gobble gannet!
by Anonymous | reply 418 | April 11, 2021 2:43 PM |
On the dole.
Ground floor, etc.
My local.
by Anonymous | reply 419 | April 11, 2021 2:57 PM |
Tick (the box)
Block letters.
Brickie.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | April 11, 2021 3:15 PM |
[quote]It's just such an extremely ugly sounding abbreviation.
Sometimes presidents are required to do a 'presser.' In recent times, plenty of ugly sounds have emerged from such a pressing.
by Anonymous | reply 421 | April 11, 2021 3:18 PM |
R417 -- It isn't like wanna or gonna. There are no other abbreviations in the English language where "of" is the final abbreviated word.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | April 11, 2021 3:30 PM |
It's a bloody bad business, this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 423 | April 11, 2021 3:38 PM |
[quote] There are no other abbreviations in the English language where "of" is the final abbreviated word.
That's a kinda ignorant comment.
by Anonymous | reply 424 | April 11, 2021 3:57 PM |
R424 Well, sorta.
by Anonymous | reply 425 | April 11, 2021 4:00 PM |
[quote][R424] Well, sorta.
As the lovely Cilla Black woulda said, there's a lorra lorra words like this.
by Anonymous | reply 426 | April 11, 2021 4:05 PM |
boffin
by Anonymous | reply 427 | April 11, 2021 4:09 PM |
Pickanniny
by Anonymous | reply 428 | April 11, 2021 4:22 PM |
Names like Gaz and Baz.
by Anonymous | reply 429 | April 11, 2021 6:04 PM |
R426 you’ve got a nehv, you ‘ave, la, makin’ fon a’ Cilleh. Yer a fookin’ shitehawk!
by Anonymous | reply 430 | April 11, 2021 6:05 PM |
[quote]It's a bloody bad business, this thread.
A damned bad business all round, old man. How's your glass? Another?
by Anonymous | reply 431 | April 11, 2021 6:20 PM |
R420 you mean Block capitals, not block letters. R380 do Americans really not do this too?
by Anonymous | reply 432 | April 11, 2021 6:24 PM |
r430 that is a fucking foreign language. i can pick out a few words but i can't even determine what the general conversation is about.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | April 11, 2021 6:26 PM |
R433 Oh, you’re not alone, my love. As a Brit I find it difficult to understand both Manc & Scouse, especially when the speakers are arguing or using regional slang.
Then, we can’t expect too much. The people come from a wasteland, so of course it follows they’d speak primitive gibberish.
by Anonymous | reply 434 | April 11, 2021 6:39 PM |
"kinda" and "sorta" aren't words. "Cuppa" is.
by Anonymous | reply 436 | April 11, 2021 6:45 PM |
R436 Not sure what dictionary you use. If any.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | April 11, 2021 6:58 PM |
you're lumped
get shot of (in lieu of "get rid of")
Oh, my giddy aunt!
cockerel
Any joy? (in lieu of "any luck?")
mozzies
turfing
grass up
standing for office/election
by Anonymous | reply 438 | April 12, 2021 4:06 AM |
I always have elevenses, usually a cuppa coffee and I raid the biscuit barrel and find a Hobnob, Rich tea, Jammy Dodger or Garibaldi, and then around 4pm I'll have a cuppa tea and either a tea cake, or crumpet or hot cross bun or slice-a cake. I'm partial to a slice of Battenburg.
by Anonymous | reply 439 | April 12, 2021 4:23 AM |
Curtain twitcher
Footpad
Jobsworth
Plod
by Anonymous | reply 440 | April 12, 2021 4:44 AM |
How are you not all huge as all when you have that many meals/snacks? r439?
by Anonymous | reply 441 | April 12, 2021 5:19 AM |
I am huge R441!
by Anonymous | reply 442 | April 12, 2021 5:28 AM |
Luvvie
by Anonymous | reply 443 | April 12, 2021 12:03 PM |
All-Ooo-Meen-e-Um
by Anonymous | reply 444 | April 12, 2021 12:07 PM |
" You Americans"
by Anonymous | reply 445 | April 12, 2021 12:08 PM |
Knickers in a twist versus panties in a wad!
Some things that aren’t universal.
Schedule. It can be pronounced with SH or SK sound depending on regional dialect.
In some areas of UK like around Birmingham, it’s surprisingly Mom not Mum. Mam exists too in other areas.
Rhotic and non-rhotic R’s vary as well depending on geography.
Scone is pronounced differently as well and is a contentious rift.
You know the differences when it’s a hard or soft g between Minge, Minger and Minging.
There are certain pronunciations like methane, oregano and glacier that are giveaways.
UK adopted French words like mange-tout and aubergine on certain foods and abandoned the English words which Americans kept using. However, UK chose the French courgette whereas Americans and Australians I believe use the Italian zucchini. Coriander is both and herb and a spice in the UK. Cilantro doesn’t exist. There is the arugula and rocket divide as well.
by Anonymous | reply 446 | April 12, 2021 12:10 PM |
Come on, get your arse in gear mate!
by Anonymous | reply 447 | April 12, 2021 12:28 PM |
[quote]There are certain pronunciations like methane, oregano and glacier that are giveaways.
Within one episode of a British TV series, I heard "migraine" pronounced MY-grain and MEE-grain.
by Anonymous | reply 448 | April 12, 2021 1:08 PM |
[quote]You know the differences when it’s a hard or soft g between Minge, Minger and Minging.
Sean Bean is a ginger minger.
Frank Bough came from Slough.
Don't close the door, it's too close and I want fresh air.
My Polish cleaner comes to polish the silver every Tuesday.
by Anonymous | reply 449 | April 12, 2021 1:16 PM |
R433 “ The people come from a wasteland, so of course it follows they’d speak primitive gibberish”. Can you explain what you mean by a wasteland? The people you’re referring to come from an urban area of about 7 million people combined. Where are you from that makes you so qualified to judge millions of people like that?
by Anonymous | reply 450 | April 12, 2021 1:18 PM |
Then there's Van Gogh, another absolute give-away in speech.
by Anonymous | reply 451 | April 12, 2021 2:11 PM |
People who say "shedule" are full of skit.
by Anonymous | reply 452 | April 12, 2021 2:25 PM |
From 1st May all sixth form pupils will be eligible for a jab.
by Anonymous | reply 453 | April 12, 2021 2:31 PM |
[quote] Where are you from that makes you so qualified to judge millions of people like that?
If you have to ask that in earnest, then clearly you don’t understand the Bit and you’re not from the U.K.
by Anonymous | reply 454 | April 12, 2021 2:49 PM |
[quote]the old soap Brookside...
Often referred to as 'Brookie', as Coronation Street was/is 'Corrie.'
Eastenders I've heard called 'Stenders.'
by Anonymous | reply 456 | April 12, 2021 3:13 PM |
I'm not complaining - I think it's charming, but it's interesting that the British seem to love using cutesy terms for things. I can't imagine American men calling football "footy"
by Anonymous | reply 458 | April 12, 2021 5:55 PM |
Better than what the Australians do as they continue to mangle the language -- doggo, convo, boyo, must -- everything gets turned into an -o.
by Anonymous | reply 459 | April 12, 2021 8:59 PM |
Pronouncing route as root, not rowt.
by Anonymous | reply 461 | April 12, 2021 11:17 PM |
[quote]Yes Captain Obvious at [R410]. We know what cuppa means. It's just such an extremely ugly sounding abbreviation. Do you people says "Glassa?" "Mugga?" "Drinka?" "Bottlea?" Just such an ugly sounding word.
R416 Actually I've been promoted to Major, Miss Sensitive. What is it about the word "cuppa" that offends your delicate sensibilities? I think it's a nice-sounding, cute word. I can just hear Megs Jenkins or some actress like that saying it when I go to the pictures. Here she is in a ripping film called The Gay Dog, with Petula Clark. Have another cuppa, luv, and don't get your knickers in a twist.
by Anonymous | reply 462 | April 13, 2021 4:36 AM |
Is Haz a common UK nickname?
Or is it more common in S California?
by Anonymous | reply 463 | April 13, 2021 9:09 PM |
Hazbeen is more popular this side of the pond R463
by Anonymous | reply 464 | April 13, 2021 11:02 PM |
"It's early days"
by Anonymous | reply 465 | April 14, 2021 12:02 AM |
R461, I've always said route as root - and so did Chuck Berry in 1961 (Get your kicks on Route 66)
Unless I misunderstood you and the Brits say route rhyming with "out" ??
I'm aware some Americans say route like "out" but I think it's both in the US - maybe favoring "root"
by Anonymous | reply 466 | April 14, 2021 1:39 AM |
Americans say both ROOT and ROWT. Paper route--either way. Route 66 -- always ROOT. But it's always ROWTING -- wouldn't want to confuse it with ROOTING.
by Anonymous | reply 467 | April 14, 2021 1:50 AM |
Mum gave Uni’s knob a wanker.
Brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 468 | April 14, 2021 1:59 AM |
Tosser
by Anonymous | reply 469 | April 14, 2021 2:07 AM |
fuck all
by Anonymous | reply 471 | April 14, 2021 8:37 AM |
R468 I'm British and have absolutely no idea what "Mum gave Uni’s knob a wanker" is supposed to mean.
by Anonymous | reply 472 | April 14, 2021 8:39 AM |
And "bugger all" - which I still don't quite get.
by Anonymous | reply 473 | April 14, 2021 3:40 PM |
Nail varnish
Pay rise
"talking of" in lieu of "speaking of" (e.g., "talk of the devil")
What is he on about?
spanner
there's no smoke without fire (Americans say "where there's smoke, there's fire")
marquee (for a large outdoor tent thing, not what's on a theater)
mobile (as a noun, for cell phone)
full marks
by Anonymous | reply 474 | April 14, 2021 4:02 PM |
And mo-bile with the second syllable rhyming with mile.
by Anonymous | reply 475 | April 14, 2021 4:11 PM |
[quote][R468] I'm British and have absolutely no idea what "Mum gave Uni’s knob a wanker" is supposed to mean.
I'm guessing the Mum in question gave someone a hand shandy but it's not obvious.
KNOB JOCKEY.
by Anonymous | reply 476 | April 14, 2021 4:43 PM |
R473 You might say it when something's gone tits-up.
by Anonymous | reply 477 | April 14, 2021 5:10 PM |
[quote]And "bugger all" - which I still don't quite get.
It means nowt.
by Anonymous | reply 478 | April 14, 2021 5:17 PM |
Elder Brits: "Freddie Starr ate my hamster"; "Where's the cougar, matey?"
"It's not big and it's not clever"
by Anonymous | reply 479 | April 14, 2021 5:39 PM |
'Er indoors.
Pukka
Chin-wag
Wireless
by Anonymous | reply 480 | April 14, 2021 10:22 PM |
I love a good chin-wag over a pukka pie and a brew in the chippy!
by Anonymous | reply 481 | April 14, 2021 10:31 PM |
chufty
draught excluder
answerphone
dab hand
satnav
by Anonymous | reply 482 | April 15, 2021 5:57 AM |
[quote]I love a good chin-wag over a pukka pie and a brew in the chippy!
This sounds like a clueless posh Tory candidate hopelessly trying to ingratiate himself in a permanent Labour constituency.
He'd be lucky to escape without getting a bloody good hiding.
by Anonymous | reply 483 | April 15, 2021 10:43 AM |
There aren't many of those permanent Labour constituencies left now.
You can tell R483 is British. Note the use of the word Labour.
by Anonymous | reply 484 | April 15, 2021 4:00 PM |
Geordies
Paddies (not nice)
by Anonymous | reply 485 | April 15, 2021 7:16 PM |
[quote]This sounds like a clueless posh Tory candidate hopelessly trying to ingratiate himself in a permanent Labour constituency. He'd be lucky to escape without getting a bloody good hiding.
I don't think it was Harriet Harman, but another pre Blair government Labour feminist made a joke about the Conservatives thinking a creche was something that happened between two landrovers in Sussex.
by Anonymous | reply 486 | April 15, 2021 7:45 PM |
[quote]Conservatives thinking a creche was something that happened between two landrovers in Sussex.
Perfectly normal weekend fun for the late Prince Philip.
by Anonymous | reply 487 | April 15, 2021 7:52 PM |
Pleb (not nice to use if you're posh)
by Anonymous | reply 488 | April 15, 2021 7:58 PM |
Toffee-nosed
by Anonymous | reply 489 | April 15, 2021 8:33 PM |
Hoi polloi
by Anonymous | reply 490 | April 15, 2021 9:16 PM |
Hoi polloi is used in the US, R490.
by Anonymous | reply 491 | April 15, 2021 10:41 PM |
Is it R491?
Tommy opposite then.
by Anonymous | reply 492 | April 15, 2021 11:06 PM |
Bloody American cunts
by Anonymous | reply 493 | April 16, 2021 12:20 AM |
R493 You limey bastard, you.
by Anonymous | reply 494 | April 16, 2021 3:05 AM |
Are you going to the Tarts and Vicars?
by Anonymous | reply 495 | April 16, 2021 3:22 AM |
Wot's all this, then?
Fo Fuck's Sake!
by Anonymous | reply 496 | April 16, 2021 6:53 AM |
Engorged manhood.
by Anonymous | reply 497 | April 28, 2021 6:08 PM |
These JAME BUTTIES are SMASHING.
by Anonymous | reply 498 | April 28, 2021 8:01 PM |
JAM
not
JAME
by Anonymous | reply 499 | April 28, 2021 8:01 PM |
Being uncut.
by Anonymous | reply 500 | April 28, 2021 9:19 PM |
They pronounce the H in herbs, they don't get that the H is silent. Don't get me started on how they pronounce Don Juan.
by Anonymous | reply 501 | May 9, 2021 6:59 AM |
Dun Wan
by Anonymous | reply 502 | May 9, 2021 7:52 AM |
The H is silent in the US (in herb) only because we decided to sorta adopt the French pronunciation -- though that would be closer to "airb" I think.
If you had an Uncle Herbert, would you call him Uncle Erbert?
Not that there's anything wrong with choosing to go the French way -- but it doesn't make sticking with good old English pronunciation wrong.
Do we say o'tel instead of hotel? Or hôpital (silent h) instead of hospital? Nope.
by Anonymous | reply 503 | May 9, 2021 2:22 PM |
Tonne, instead of ton.
The audience are applauding.
Different to, rather than different from.
by Anonymous | reply 504 | May 9, 2021 5:49 PM |
Petrol
by Anonymous | reply 505 | May 10, 2021 1:09 AM |
Knackered
by Anonymous | reply 506 | May 10, 2021 1:11 AM |
Hampton and bristols
by Anonymous | reply 507 | May 10, 2021 1:13 AM |
Calling someone ‘melt’, ‘weapon’, or ‘big man’ as gentle terms of exasperation.
by Anonymous | reply 508 | May 12, 2021 8:50 AM |
Using sport-related idiom and allusion will make you sound much more like a true Brit.
Examples in conversation:
“There are places in Britain in the summertime where nowhere is lovelier. The grass is fresh-cut, the sun’s coming through the trees, and I just think, “that’s Euro ‘96, that is.” “And then we invaded Iraq.” “That was the tournament we did well in.”
“I'll stick to potting the pink rather than the brown, thanks pal.”. “The brown isn’t exclusive, mate.” “Pot my tight brown, you cow!”
“This isn’t a jolly! Stop teeing up jaunts!”
*said with smug victorious approval*’“Back of the net.”
by Anonymous | reply 509 | May 12, 2021 9:05 AM |
[quote]sport-related idiom
"You think you're on a level playing-field, but then they move the goalposts."
by Anonymous | reply 510 | May 12, 2021 12:24 PM |
[quote] “This isn’t a jolly! Stop teeing up jaunts!”
"Jolly" means joke? I don't know what the second part means. (stop teasing me?)
by Anonymous | reply 511 | May 12, 2021 12:33 PM |
R511 in that context, ‘a jolly’ refers to ‘a fun day out’ or a leisurely holiday doing inconsequential things.
“Stop teeing up jaunts” means “stop lining up fun pointless little activities to do”, implying that there is more serious work to be done that isn’t being done. ‘To tee up’ refers to the act of preparation or planning, i.e. positioning a golf-ball on the tee ready for a swing.
by Anonymous | reply 512 | May 12, 2021 12:38 PM |
A 'jolly' is a day or more away from the work environment for fun, often on a dubious premise. A 'jaunt' likewise, though its escapism might not be work-related.
by Anonymous | reply 513 | May 12, 2021 12:40 PM |
Fuck’s it got to do with you?
Fuck-all
Do me a favour
Take a bow, son
He’s alright//are you actually alright?
She gave him a right proper slagging off
Cause your hassle elsewhere
On your bike
Look lively//look alive
Rinsed him
I rate him
Billy-no-mates
That’s madness//mayhem
There’s something a bit off about him
Proper character, knows his stuff
Used to kick lumps out him
They don’t get on
His legs have gone
I’m never gonna stitch him up
by Anonymous | reply 514 | May 12, 2021 1:39 PM |
R456 I have never heard EastEnders be called 'Stenders'. It's either Easties or Enders.
by Anonymous | reply 515 | May 12, 2021 2:02 PM |
R515 my bumpkin father refers derisively and affectionately to EASTENDERS as ‘the Queer Folk’ (I.e. “the Queer Folk are on at 8”). He means ‘queer’ in the archaic colloquial sense of ‘strange, weird, bizarre’.
by Anonymous | reply 516 | May 12, 2021 2:13 PM |
The liberal use of antimacassars.
by Anonymous | reply 517 | May 12, 2021 2:26 PM |
I would have thought Conservatives were more likely to be using them.
by Anonymous | reply 518 | May 12, 2021 2:35 PM |
Cockwomble
by Anonymous | reply 519 | May 12, 2021 3:10 PM |
Crockery
by Anonymous | reply 520 | May 14, 2021 3:51 AM |
"all present and correct" instead of "all present and accounted for."
by Anonymous | reply 521 | May 16, 2021 1:07 AM |
"work it out" instead of "figure it out"
by Anonymous | reply 522 | May 16, 2021 1:10 AM |
Flat
by Anonymous | reply 523 | May 16, 2021 1:34 AM |
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