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Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 15th 2012, 2:52 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Not just a moment, my whole day
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 15th 2012, 2:26 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

All part of life's rich tapestry.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 15th 2012, 12:48 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Along the same lines, I talked to my sister (100% English, lives in England) on the phone the other day. To myself, I sounded very "American" as I talked to her, while usually I feel I sound...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 8th 2012, 8:37 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Ah no! "Do what now" is so cute, I just get them to repeat it a couple of times..
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 4th 2012, 12:44 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

As for post vs mail, I think that back in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the word "post" had a wider meaning than "post office," "post a letter" etc. Before the advent of the railways,...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 3rd 2012, 3:51 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

I think part of it is that Americans don't seem to like simple, no nonsense Anglo-Saxon words, if there is a Latinate euphemistic word they can use instead.

An example is smell, as a noun. ...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 3rd 2012, 2:12 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

I can't get used to "passed on" or "passed" instead of "died."
Always sounds weird to me.. a bit Stygian or Victorian. Somehow I imagine a seance being convened, "loved ones" contacting those "on...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Sep 7th 2011, 6:12 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

He starts cooking with schmaltz, you need to worry.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Sep 2nd 2011, 6:14 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Yes - my name is Robin pronounced English fashion with two short syllables. Sorry, but I'm not going to say my name Raaaaah-bin just so locals may possibly recognize it as a name.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 24th 2011, 1:06 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Yes, it is odd but my wife (American, lived in UK for about 15 years) uses a lot of specifically British terms that even I don't use. She always says "ansafone" for instance, instead of "answering...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 23rd 2011, 5:37 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

I'm looking forward to going back.. we had a wonderful week in Amsterdam in 2007.. I think it was? But all the major museums including the Van Gogh and the Rijksmuseum were closed for renovation at...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 23rd 2011, 12:46 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Talking about pronunciation of foreign words, how about the artist Van Gogh. I understand the ignorant Dutch say it completely differently from either standard British OR American pronunciation..
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 22nd 2011, 5:37 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

17th century?? Me, I've regressed to caveman since settling here...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 22nd 2011, 5:19 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Doesn't everyone say "over yonder" ?? Doesn't sound especially American to me.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 19th 2011, 1:02 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

My wife & I met in Israel, so in neutral territory in terms of English accents. Early in our relationship she told me this knock-knock joke which was hard to figure out;

*knock knock*
who's...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 1st 2011, 6:09 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Americans will say;
"There's an unpleasant odor in this room. It makes me feel a little nauseous."
A British person would likely state:
"The f#%king stink in this room is bloody awful. It makes...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 1st 2011, 2:47 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Houston, a street in New York or a city in Texas?

I'm glad you mention "Brits." I hate that coinage, will never use it. Who the hell invented that word? It seemed to appear 20 or so years ago,...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 1st 2011, 1:34 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Except that (apparently)
"BOY" pronunciation is universal among sailors
"BOO-I" pronunciation was formerly the pronunciation in Britain, too..
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 1st 2011, 1:06 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

OK.. I just looked up BUOY in the Oxford English Dictionary. Very interesting paragraph about the etymology and the history of the pronunciation.

BUOY
Etymology: 15th cent. boye corresponds...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 1st 2011, 12:57 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Surely they use MAINS in America, for mains drainage and mains water, for instance?
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 1st 2011, 12:56 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

The one that is easy to adopt (for me) would be BUOY. I'd definitely adopt the American pronunciation, if in the UK I'd have to stop and think about it.

I'm puzzled by Muslim, bogie and soccer. ...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 25th 2011, 3:13 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

That is a good one but how often do you get to use it?
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 25th 2011, 2:59 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Dagnabit, that is a swell expression!
Talking of old fashioned expressions, my late MIL had a passel-ful of old-time words & expressions that I use now.. "discombobulated" is one. "That and a nickel...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 25th 2011, 12:45 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

What the heck does it mean though??
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 24th 2011, 5:32 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 30,570
Posted By robin1234

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

Duh.. I only got one cell?? ;)
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