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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:57 pm
by kerble_Archive
Lazybones wrote:"roger"
yeah, that's a good one.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:00 pm
by galanter_Archive
I like "boffin".
Also possible misunderstandings related to the word "fanny".
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:45 pm
by alex maiolo_Archive
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:56 pm
by rayj_Archive
"Milling Cove"-
Out of an old slang dictionary from 1920.
Correct me if I'm wrong...bare-fisted boxer.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:14 pm
by garble_Archive
"bofus"
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:18 pm
by mrdfnle_Archive
Egads
and
By Jove
Pissing off then
--Doug
P.S. And Roderick
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:44 pm
by Arson Smith_Archive
'ere, 'ang on!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:46 pm
by Arson Smith_Archive
washing-up liquid
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:59 pm
by johnnyshape_Archive
"Dear George Washington.
I offer my surrender as a traitorous buffoon and a disgrace to the British people.
Yours,
General Charles Cornwallis, 19 October 1781."
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:35 pm
by Mr Chimp_Archive
kerble wrote:shouldn't the title be 'favourite'?
I truly do enjoy spelling it that way. I don't do it for color or humor, but favourite is nice. I like.
Don't you mean "....
colour or
humour....?
Bob's yer uncle,
Ta!