the language barrier!!!
Feb 6th 2008 | 7:42 am
#46
Yorkshire meets Vegas
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From: T. ON (so there!)
Re: the language barrier!!!
I always speak more quickly for ease of comprehension. I find slowly spelling stuff out gets the Canuck's stumped!
But don't start me on the pronunciation of "regulatory"
But don't start me on the pronunciation of "regulatory"
Feb 6th 2008 | 7:54 am
#48
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From: Back in Yorkshire
Re: the language barrier!!!
Hi Judy -
Giro...pronunciation already explained, but not what it is....it's short for Girocheque a measn by which payment of state benefits is made; when I worked in the Department of Employment, more years ago than I will confess to, they were a fairly new idea....a piece of paper (cheque) which the claimant clutched in his/her hand, then toddled to the local post office to exchange for real money. It was deemed a safer way to pay claimants.
P45 - a tax form issued to an employee, by an employer, when said employee has terminated his/her job. It shows the amount of money earned and the amount of tax paid up to that point, along with one of the great mysteries of English Life....the Tax Code.
Giro...pronunciation already explained, but not what it is....it's short for Girocheque a measn by which payment of state benefits is made; when I worked in the Department of Employment, more years ago than I will confess to, they were a fairly new idea....a piece of paper (cheque) which the claimant clutched in his/her hand, then toddled to the local post office to exchange for real money. It was deemed a safer way to pay claimants.
P45 - a tax form issued to an employee, by an employer, when said employee has terminated his/her job. It shows the amount of money earned and the amount of tax paid up to that point, along with one of the great mysteries of English Life....the Tax Code.
Could have been a love letter for all we knew! 
Feb 6th 2008 | 7:56 am
#49
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From: Back in Yorkshire
Re: the language barrier!!!
And what about "aluminium"??
Feb 6th 2008 | 8:02 am
#50
Meh
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From: Calgary
Re: the language barrier!!!
And what about "aluminium"??
Feb 6th 2008 | 8:06 am
#51
Lowering the tone
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From: Here and there
Re: the language barrier!!!
I once had a boss with a Brummie accent who used to pronounce the word "database" as "dah-tabase".
We used to have conversations about said database where he would determinedly say "dah-tabase" and I would equally determinedly reply, "oh yes, the day-tabase...".
It marginally brightened up otherwise terribly dull conversations about databases, of which I know absolutely nothing, except how to pronounce one.
We used to have conversations about said database where he would determinedly say "dah-tabase" and I would equally determinedly reply, "oh yes, the day-tabase...".
It marginally brightened up otherwise terribly dull conversations about databases, of which I know absolutely nothing, except how to pronounce one.
Feb 6th 2008 | 8:20 am
#52
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From: Back in Yorkshire
Re: the language barrier!!!
I once had a boss with a Brummie accent who used to pronounce the word "database" as "dah-tabase".
We used to have conversations about said database where he would determinedly say "dah-tabase" and I would equally determinedly reply, "oh yes, the day-tabase...".
It marginally brightened up otherwise terribly dull conversations about databases, of which I know absolutely nothing, except how to pronounce one.
We used to have conversations about said database where he would determinedly say "dah-tabase" and I would equally determinedly reply, "oh yes, the day-tabase...".
It marginally brightened up otherwise terribly dull conversations about databases, of which I know absolutely nothing, except how to pronounce one.
My relatives deliberately find ways to the make me say "garage", so they can laugh hysterically; I'm getting paranoid about using the word.
Feb 6th 2008 | 8:54 am
#55
Now on Vancouver Island
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Re: the language barrier!!!
Originally Posted by JonboyE
Is it shed-ule or sked-ule?
Feb 6th 2008 | 9:02 am
#57
Worth the wait...
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 268
From: Sunny Okotoks, Alberta
Re: the language barrier!!!
I have had an elderly deaf patient ask me if we were speaking the same language as she could not understand a word I was saying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was said at maximum volume much to the amusement of my fellow nurses and Doctors.
Sarah
This was said at maximum volume much to the amusement of my fellow nurses and Doctors.
Sarah
Feb 6th 2008 | 9:05 am
#58
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,885
From: Regina Beach, Saskatchewan
Re: the language barrier!!!
I told my Canadian mentor that I would be back in a fortnight 
she visibly stepped back and looked amazed til and older Canadian lady explained what I said - I couldn't stop laughing she looked so shocked 
she visibly stepped back and looked amazed til and older Canadian lady explained what I said - I couldn't stop laughing she looked so shocked
Feb 6th 2008 | 9:51 am
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Re: the language barrier!!!
I once had a boss with a Brummie accent who used to pronounce the word "database" as "dah-tabase".
We used to have conversations about said database where he would determinedly say "dah-tabase" and I would equally determinedly reply, "oh yes, the day-tabase...".
It marginally brightened up otherwise terribly dull conversations about databases, of which I know absolutely nothing, except how to pronounce one.
We used to have conversations about said database where he would determinedly say "dah-tabase" and I would equally determinedly reply, "oh yes, the day-tabase...".
It marginally brightened up otherwise terribly dull conversations about databases, of which I know absolutely nothing, except how to pronounce one.
