SultanOfSwing

A damning insult as well.

scrubbedexpat099

pretty sure they did not realise how bad it was, just as well.

SultanOfSwing

Then they go home after the game and look up 'The Villa', and a tear falls silently as they realise the full extent of the burn.

manekeniko

The cement from which I sprang, New York City, favors a more locally chauvanistic "we're #1" on the foam finger over "USA! USA! USA!" As an avoidant non-sports fan, I'm unfamiliar with this chant used anywhere.

I'm a New Mexican now (as of 12/2017), and the local chant seems to be "meh," or "mañana, mañana, mañana."

vikingsail

It's a bit oink like really. I am really hoping that a group of well meaning American tourists are going to do it in May at the Harry Megan wedding thing. Watching the media coverage explain that will be great, as well as the irony.

Shard

I doubt it would happen. The only Americans that have the slightest interest in Megan & Harry are Anglophile and probably royalists too.

manekeniko

Millions of Americans looove the royals and are generally less critical of them than Brits. We can follow them without supporting them, etc. Americans are batty over British actors and TV shows like Downton. Never underestimate Americans' love of British culture.

I'm not a royalist, and my personal interest in Megan and Harry is about 5 out of 10, and only because they're an interesting and unusual couple.

Shard

I guess I did underestimate it.

Pulaski

And indeed a British accent. I might only be a single example, but I have been in NC for fifteen years, and still get an average of one comment a week on my accent - usually that they "just lurve" it.

Ironically, but luckily for me, Americans don't seem to be able to tell the difference between snooty Downton English and BBC English - and my muted Sheffield accent! If the same had been true (of women) in London, I probably wouldn't now be living in the US.

Shard

Do you not want to have a nice Carolina accent?

Pulaski

I don't seem to have any choice in the matter. I left Sheffield at the age of eight and spent the rest of my school career in Glawster, but picked up absolutely nothing of the local drawl. I them went to uni in Landan, and worked there for a number of years, picking up nothing of the local accent there either.

In fact I occasionally got comments when I lived in London about my accent, from people who recognized it as being from Yorkshire, or even pinpointing it to being from Sheffield!

So unsurprisingly fifteen years in NC apparently hasn't impacted my accent much either - despite willingly adopting local words and idioms such as faucet, gas, and y'all, and local pronunciation of words such as to-may-tow and gah-rahj (my family in Sheffield would disown me if they knew about that last one ). So at this point in my life I am pretty much stuck with it!

Shard

Interesting. You must be a Sheffield lad at heart. Is there much difference between NC and SC? Like would an NC definitely be able to identify SC and vice versa?

manekeniko

It would make no sense for him to want that. A British accent of any sort makes a man seem like James Bond to American women. We're not fussy.

Pulaski is feeling the lurve.

kimilseung

The USA chant is an interesting one, it is just the name of the country, so I dont really know why it comes across as so threatening and aggressive. I have a suspicion it is the opening low tone of the U. How these little things can matter sometimes.

Pulaski

I thought it was a weapon delivery system.