Strange American sayings from an English Perspective
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Question for you UK types.
Is the Spotted **** you get in a can any good, or should I hold out for something like someone's mom used to make?
Never eaten it to be honest, but I have to be honest I prefer homemade with things like that. Can give you a recipe if you like0 -
The pudding you buy in the stores here is made with gelatin. I can't ever have it because of that, but it was never a favoite of mine. Except rice pudding, but that doesn't have gelatin.0
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Two come to mind for starters:-
*kitten* hat???
Butt Hurt??
Are you guys really that fixated with your rear ends.
Those are the ones that bother you? I don't even know what those mean. There are so many many ridiculous sayings, I will give you that. But I have never even heard of those two.0 -
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Ohio. Vinegar on fries is good, especially if they're "fair fries," in a cup. lolFair fries are the only thing I put vinegar on. All other fries are either bare, with ketchup, or "fry sauce" (made at eating time, because I live in Ohio, too, and so we have to mix our own ketchup and mayo, because it's not common around here).0
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Jello is not usually for parties,
Unless it's a Jello mold. Those are yummy! And something else I can't have. :frown:
Or if it's a Jello shot.0 -
Do other people use the phrase the *kitten* hole of no where to describe, in somewhat derogratory terms somewhere small/out of the way/no where near anything interesting.
We end the south use the phrase "BFE" or "bum f\/cked eqypt" to describe the middle of nowhere/small town.
For example
"where are you from in Alabama?"
"BFE"
"oh, so a pretty rural place, huh?"
I have no idea where this phrase came from.
I'm originally from the suburbs Atlanta and BFE is defiantly something I use.
And bless you heart can be genuine or an insult. it all in how you say it.
I live in Northern VA now and I don't have a southern accent at all really but I will never give up saying Ya'll or referring to all carbonated sugary beverages as coke. As in person 1 " do you want a coke", person 2: " sure" person 1" what kind?" person 2 "sprite"0 -
I always found people from across the ways saying "Can't be arsed" or CBA on forums pretty funny.
My husband said he worked with a dude named Randy and all the Austrailians thought it was HILARIOUS that you'd name your kid something as racy as Randy.
why is it racy?
My understanding was that in Scotland, "Randy" meant queer. We once put a shipmate up to ordering beer by going to the barkeep, making a upward gesture with his forefinger and middle finger and saying "Two beers Randy."
My understanding was that meant "Up your kilt, *kitten*."
If you think about it, shortening Randall to Randy makes more sense than shortening Richard to D**k. (I just went ahead and censored myself on that one).0 -
Jello is not usually for parties,
Unless it's a Jello mold. Those are yummy! And something else I can't have. :frown:
Or if it's a Jello shot.
And I think I meant mould.0 -
Jello is not usually for parties,
Unless it's a Jello mold. Those are yummy! And something else I can't have. :frown:
Or if it's a Jello shot.
vodka jelly, mmmm!0 -
Sorry but did anyone bring up FUPA yet? That word fascinates me.
Assuming you mean "a socially awkward or tactless act", I think you are saying it wrong. My hubby does that. Its "faux pas" and it's a real word.
That's known as a camel toe over here!!0 -
Question for you UK types.
Is the Spotted **** you get in a can any good, or should I hold out for something like someone's mom used to make?
Never tried the tinned stuff, but I bet what a mum's mate used to make is loads better
see what I did there? Tinned &mum0 -
Question for you UK types.
Is the Spotted **** you get in a can any good, or should I hold out for something like someone's mom used to make?
Never tried the tinned stuff, but I bet what a mum's mate used to make is loads better
see what I did there? Tinned & mum0 -
As someone who works in the correctional system, I hear a lot of phrases that have gone from the joint to the street over the years. I have been hearing "butt-hurt" or "my bad" since the 90's. Pretty sure “home-boy” and a few others are from prison too. I also am literally from BFE so that is not necessarily a southern saying as I am a mid-westerner. My Dad was in the Army so maybe that’s where I got it from? He was also the kind of guy who had sayings for all types of things that used to get on my last nerve as a teen but now I love. For instance: she fell off of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down or it's like two monkeys trying to **** a football. God I miss him.....and now I am saying those same sayings that used to bother and embarrass me so much, lol!0
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THE A& E compared to using the ER in the United States
Accident & Emergency
Emergency Room
(of course, we followed Webster, and i've been told you guys didn't think much of him in the UK :laugh: :laugh: )0 -
As someone who works in the correctional system, I hear a lot of phrases that have gone from the joint to the street over the years. I have been hearing "butt-hurt" or "my bad" since the 90's. Pretty sure “home-boy” and a few others are from prison too. I also am literally from BFE so that is not necessarily a southern saying as I am a mid-westerner. My Dad was in the Army so maybe that’s where I got it from? He was also the kind of guy who had sayings for all types of things that used to get on my last nerve as a teen but now I love. For instance: she fell off of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down or it's like two monkeys trying to **** a football. God I miss him.....and now I am saying those same sayings that used to bother and embarrass me so much, lol!0
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Sorry but did anyone bring up FUPA yet? That word fascinates me.
Assuming you mean "a socially awkward or tactless act", I think you are saying it wrong. My hubby does that. Its "faux pas" and it's a real word.
But I wonder if FUPA is along the lines of SNAFU and FUBAR, in which case I'm not researcing on my work computer!
Boy is my face red, lol. I will def make sure my DH stops saying it now!0 -
Here's one my co-worker just said to me when I asked if she would be at work tomorrow:
"Lord willin' and the creek don't rise!"0 -
Here's another one. The road next to the highway/interstate, do you call it: 1) access road 2)feeder road 3) service road or 4)something completely different?
Outer road, actually.0 -
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OMG! Real Mincemeat is my favorite pie in the universe. I can't find it around here anymore. I like mine with lard and venison.0
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Here's one my co-worker just said to me when I asked if she would be at work tomorrow:
"Lord willin' and the creek don't rise!"0 -
Ahhh some more(not as good):-
"You don't know squat"
"Fanny pack" ..... that ones ssooo funny!!
"I'm doing the math" ....it's "Maths" not "Math"
"Vacation" .... no it's not it's a holiday!
"He was pissed" ..... In England this would mean he was very drunk
see, I never understood calling it "maths" instead of math. Why is it plural? Now, "doing the numbers" that fine. But not maths. It just looks wrong to me.
Maths is short for mathematics
Also, it's Valentines Day not Valentines, and New Years Eve/Day or Hogmanay not New Years0 -
Ahhh some more(not as good):-
"You don't know squat"
"Fanny pack" ..... that ones ssooo funny!!
"I'm doing the math" ....it's "Maths" not "Math"
"Vacation" .... no it's not it's a holiday!
"He was pissed" ..... In England this would mean he was very drunk
see, I never understood calling it "maths" instead of math. Why is it plural? Now, "doing the numbers" that fine. But not maths. It just looks wrong to me.
Maths is short for mathematics
Also, it's Valentines Day not Valentines, and New Years Eve/Day or Hogmanay not New Years0 -
"Fanny pack" ..... that ones ssooo funny!! - No one below the age of 70 would either wear or purchase one of those hideous things, so pretty much not a real staple of American life.
It's not Americans wearing fanny packs that is funny. It's the name fanny pack. A fanny means something completely different in the UK. My Brit friend delicately calls it a "lady's front bottom," and the word fanny is apparently almost as offensive there as the c-word is here. And the c-word is used pretty casually there.
no, the C word is still really offensive even though it's used a lot.0 -
OMG! Real Mincemeat is my favorite pie in the universe. I can't find it around here anymore. I like mine with lard and venison.
I actually have no problem with hunting and people who eat meat. I just can't do it anymore.0 -
Why do a lot of the septics on here WRITE insignificant words in capital letters or *put* them in asterisks. It doesn't add any emphasis, it takes it away.
Why do they describe losing weight as a journey? When you were putting on weight was that a journey too?
Why do some of them boast about being sarcastic?
Why have they replaced thank you very much with thank you so much?
Why did that woman from North Carolina that I was sitting next to on a plane tell me I was going to burn in hell and that my cat didn't go to heaven? I loved that bloody cat.
And what is this, the end of an episode of "Soap"?! :laugh: (really dating myself now!)0 -
"Vacation" .... no it's not it's a holiday!
Holiday for us Americans are days like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween. Not a trip.
We have 8 "Bank Holidays" - New Year's Day; Good Friday; Easter Monday; 1st and last Monday in May; Last Monday in August; Christmas Day, Boxing Day (26th Dec). Valentine's Day and Halloween aren't holidays here and we don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
But we still use the word holiday for what you call vacation. Interestingly though, when I was a student back in the '80s we referred to the breaks as Vacations - don't know if students do that?
BTW school in the UK is where you go between 5 and 16 or 18; college is a further educational (FE) esablishement for 16+ and University is a Higher Educational (HE) establishment for 18+. Universities can offer and validate their own awards, colleges offer awards that are nationally available.0 -
One word: Bollocks.
That's two! :bigsmile:0 -
Do other people use the phrase the *kitten* hole of no where to describe, in somewhat derogratory terms somewhere small/out of the way/no where near anything interesting.
We end the south use the phrase "BFE" or "bum f\/cked eqypt" to describe the middle of nowhere/small town.
For example
"where are you from in Alabama?"
"BFE"
"oh, so a pretty rural place, huh?"
I have no idea where this phrase came from.
I'm from north Idaho and we say it here.0
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