01-26-2009, 12:55 PM
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Likes Cartoons
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Originally Posted by Ducay
Just torch
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They say that, but I've heard torch-light as well. Or maybe it's just the English that adds the "light" at the end. But I have heard many of my friends in Australia say "torchlight"
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01-26-2009, 12:57 PM
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#22
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Likes Cartoons
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnes
Don't drink drive in a coupé or saloon car on the motorway.
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Or a people carrier
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01-26-2009, 01:00 PM
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#23
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Wucka Wocka Wacka
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: East of the Rockies, West of the Rest
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01-26-2009, 01:20 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Everyone should know these:
Fag = cigarette
Root = ######
Loo = toilet
Lorry = Truck (usually transport)
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01-26-2009, 01:26 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash
Anyone ever been to England (maybe this is the same in Australia) and heard someone say "I have to go to hospital" instead of "I have to go to the hospital"? That used to drive me nuts.
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haha, and it's the Casualty Ward for emerge.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagor
Shag = to pleasure
Nappy = diaper
Shaganappi = English people going WDF?
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haha, every time I have family over, that's the one thing they always laugh at. "How can they get away with saying that?" 
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01-26-2009, 01:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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I bet many of us are wearing a "jumper" today.
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01-26-2009, 01:37 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FurnaceFace
I bet many of us are wearing a "jumper" today.
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That drives me insane...I've also heard a sweatshirt referred to as a jersey. I had to show some people what an actual jersey is.
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01-26-2009, 01:49 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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This must be what people from France must think about Quebecois Francais.
I remember some guy from France complaining to me about how Quebecers use 16th century terms like how he would say pull-over and they would say "chandail"
That's like you going to the t-shirt shop and asking to buy a tunic.
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01-26-2009, 01:51 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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I totally didn't get the shaganappi thing.
Until I thought of it as going to another city and they have a main street called f***-a-diaper avenue.
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01-26-2009, 02:06 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Calgary
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Marge: Remember, in England, an elevator is called a lift, a mile is called a kilometer, and botulism is called steak and kidney pie.
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01-26-2009, 02:32 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagor
Shag = to pleasure
Nappy = diaper
Shaganappi = English people going WDF?
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I certainly went WDF when I first saw that one.
The use of fanny over here always gets me too.
Since I've lived here since 1992 I find it hard to keep up on the British slang now. "Pants" means crap or something like that in England now. Weird and I'm English!
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01-26-2009, 02:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: nexus of the universe
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In Commonwealth England, Nappy's shag you.
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01-26-2009, 03:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Chiefs Kingdom, Yankees Universe, C of Red.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagger
I certainly went WDF when I first saw that one.
The use of fanny over here always gets me too.
Since I've lived here since 1992 I find it hard to keep up on the British slang now. "Pants" means crap or something like that in England now. Weird and I'm English!
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When I fist moved to Australia, our office was broken into. When the cops came to take a statement another Canadian that was working there told the cops that his fanny-pack was missing. The cops looked at him like he was crazy. During the following days we realized why they were confused.
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01-26-2009, 03:31 PM
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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I watch Coronation Street and they are always going into the local cafe and ordering a bacon butty.
I didn't know what the hell that was til I looked it up on the internet. It apparently is a very popular sandwich over there... two slices of bread with bacon as the filling.
Apparently butty is their term for sandwich.
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01-26-2009, 03:56 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
They say it in Australia too. They had adds warning about "Drink driving in the bush".
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Sounds like my New Years Eve.... but without the first "r". 
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01-26-2009, 03:57 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: nexus of the universe
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Originally Posted by old-fart
Sounds like my New Years Eve.... but without the first "r". |
You went dink driving in the bush?
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01-31-2009, 01:37 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rerun
I watch Coronation Street and they are always going into the local cafe and ordering a bacon butty.
I didn't know what the hell that was til I looked it up on the internet. It apparently is a very popular sandwich over there... two slices of bread with bacon as the filling.
Apparently butty is their term for sandwich.
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Bacon butties are GOOD! Not good for you but good nonetheless!!
Try a chip butty. There's another English favourite! And that's chips (fries) not potato chips, that would be a crisp butty in England. (Another fav!)
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01-31-2009, 02:31 AM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sainters7
In Australia they also call shades(sunglasses) "sunnies". I actually like that one.
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BBQ = barbie, breakfast = breakie, Australian = aussie... it's a pretty simple dialect to pick up on.
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01-31-2009, 03:46 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagger
Bacon butties are GOOD! Not good for you but good nonetheless!!
Try a chip butty. There's another English favourite! And that's chips (fries) not potato chips, that would be a crisp butty in England. (Another fav!)
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We used to use 'chips' as fries here too, like in fish and chips or a side of chips but since the popularity of potato chips no one seemed ot know hwat I was talikenti avbout anymore.
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01-31-2009, 08:01 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnes
Don't drink drive in a coupé or saloon car on the motorway.
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I cracked up when I looked at my car's handbook and found it was the "saloon" model.
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