suby_speed5

I don't understand half the words you guys use.

Its funny as ****, but I can't follow half the threads...

TopBanana

What?

suby_speed5

Geddon

I think you mean an English to american dictionary?
I think you'll find we had English already- it was you guuuuuuuys that invented the *******isation

suby_speed5

Probably. Quick look into wikipedia...... and... you are correct sir. I was going to ask for a UK to English translation, but that didnt seem quite right.

little-ginge

Out of interest, which words are befuddling you?

FlightMan

Methinks he's bamboozled by the vernacular of our olde language

suby_speed5

Befuddling for one . A quick browse through thread titles... tenant, airgunner, compomotives, gurney, etc. Slang maybe? I can usually figure it out if I read back and forth a few times, but some things don't make any sense to me.

edit... vernacular

Sbradley

He'll be puzzled by:

Smoking a *** (apparently that's illegal in San Francisco...unless the *** asks you to, of course)

Running around with your bum on fire. That's illegal everywhere.

Walking on the pavement (that'll get you killed in a lot of the US...and arrested in Beverley Hills)

Putting the hood up on your convertible if it rains. (But won't the engine get wet?)

There are probably many more...

SB

Sbradley

For clarification:

*** = cigarette in the UK

Bum = backside/***

Pavement = Sidewalk

Hood = Roof on a convertible (or the part of a jacket which goes over your head)

HTH

SB

suby_speed5

To me, a *** is an insult meaning homosexual. I know bum from what channels PBS shows from the BBC, pavement to me is not the sidewalk but the road, and the hood... is over the engine. Learn something new everyday.

Don't mean to be rude, but I have to go to work. I'll be back on in a few hours if you guys have anymore.

Enigma

http://english2american.com/dictionary/wholelot.html

Stiff

That'll work! Could do with a bit more color though.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

My most peritanacious contrafibularities to you good sir.

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Air gun, a rifle that uses air instead of gunpowder to propel the projectile.

What language is the empire teaching in the colonies these days?

suby_speed5

wayne9t9

Air gun = B-B gun ...Just to make it more confusing some words change in different areas of the states, like soda being called pop on the west coast.

suby_speed5

Eastern Pennsylvania, its Soda. Get out near Pittsburg and its Pop. My college is right smack in the middle, and many have lost a life in the on going battle of this carbonated beverage.

r32

I bet he wouldnt eat a ****** ..........

XRS

Look up Dan Gurney - he's one of yours

Jerome

Also be aware that we queue for things here rather than "get in line" or "join a line up". We, the British, are masters in the art of queuing.

Sport160

Be very cautious with the word "fanny" as well. Make an unguarded observation about a ladies fanny over here and your unlikely to live to tell the tale !!

windyboy

Once you have mastered that you should try

http://speaknorniron.8m.net/dicionary.htm

Windyboy.

Enigma

If you're ever thinking of visiting the Hull area then this one would be useful too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/...glossary.shtml