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Coming from Canada (and now being in the USA) if I wanted to ask you in to sit down I'd say come on in and rest the bones on the "chesterfield".......chesterfield in the USA means a pack of cigarettes......
I put on my "toque which is my ski hat"........and if I was play hide and seek in the trees I'd "deke" about the bushes.
The twins give 'nuggies,' eat 'anamanas' and Carson is called "Coquhar" by his brother who can't say his name.
Horus wrote:I can understand 'Jock' Kiya we have a West Highland terrier
I am taking lessons in 'Jock' at the present time.....I just read responses to Kiyas posts from her friends on Facebook
I can't think of anything off the cuff but the youngsters have a language of their own. I remember when I was young words like 'mush' a man, 'chav or chavvy' a young male, 'bint' a young girl. These came from the gypsy fraternity; and also 'scrump' to steal, like scrumping apples. 'pester me' give me... etc
Horus wrote:Ah doot it lassie, ye ken a’ve spent mair tame wi ma muckers fra the Kigdom o Fife an ye ken what they say, it tacks a lang spoon tae sup wi’ a Fifer.
Yer dein weel Horus, noo & again a spik ti English relatives on i phone & aften efter a file forgit am still spikin Scottish & a'll ere em sayin "fit ye sayin quin -(lassie)" afore I hiv ti revert ti bein Englandfied........erm is Englandfied a word
Grandad oh me!! if your trying to read some of that on FB you must be struggling.........I do sometimes
I came across these videos the other day and thought I would share it with you all especially as our LLL will probable appreciate the differences. You may need to run it through a couple of times as...
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I often get asked if I am from Australia. Maybe the South East accent has some similarity.
My brother when in his mid 20's met and married a young lady in Staffordshire. He worked in Burton and in no...
Recently been reading the crime novels of Australian crime writer Peter Temple and find myself stumped on one of the descriptions. Who or what is a branchstacker . Perhaps WI can come to my rescue....
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@H - Kindle was the last hold out here re: Kindle and libraries but about 3 months ago they finally caved in and now you can get library books on your Kindle. Mind this might also be because Kindle...
There is language and then there is the language that we actually speak. New phrases and catch phrases and buzz words are happening every day but how many of them do we actually incorporate into what...
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When I do not translate correctly I get a nononononono however when I get it right I get either a resounding yeah or yeayeah ......be fluent soon.