Sally Redux

Quite a bit is shared actually.

*Could be my chance to share my Russell Group education*

Pulaski

I did German for a year in school too, but most of the German I remember came from Marks & Spencer's garment labels.

Yorkieabroad

Buc-Ees do a lot of t-shirts as well. Our ex-neighbors were church going teetotal methodists who went on mission trips to Africa in the summer, worked at homeless shelters on weekends, and spent Thanksgiving running a line at the soup kitchen. A nice family (although their parties were a bit dull). But when their daughter hit High School she used to wear a t-shirt with a huge Buc-ees logo on the back, and the legend "Nice beaver" in large fancy letters on the front I didn't know where to look

Pulaski

It is, and I tried to work that into my post, but it got long and clumsy, ..... which would have been appropriate for a sentence comparing English as a Germanic language to German!

I don't know much Dutch, just a little, but I think it is more or less what English would have become if it had been developed without input from French and latin languages.

In fact the Freisland Dutch dialect is remarkably similar to "old English", and therefore to Yorkshire dialect.

Yorkieabroad

Most of mine came from Fawlty Towers and Commando comics.....

Anian

I know some people with the last name Bumgardner.

ChocolateBabz

K Pauls restaurant in New Orleans, first item under Main Courses...

SultanOfSwing

Quite brilliant.

MrFloyd

Old English (think Beowulf) and German are incredibly simillar. Same grammer, structure, etc. Had a uni lecturer that could speak it fluently - freaky times.

Sally Redux

I love all that stuff. Nibelungenlied, Parzifal, Tristan und Isolde. Good yarns and there's something very soothing about old languages.

Hotscot

Where's Sally gone?

Mrs Danvers

I was in the UK but I swear I haven't heard it in use over here.

Sally Redux

I have never heard it used in the UK, only knew about it by reading a John Irving book (Garp?) where one of the characters keeps going on about them.

Aren't they all 'Brazilianed' nowadays? Doesn't seem to work then

SultanOfSwing

Funny, I always thought 'beaver' was more a US usage. We cartainly prefer minge in the UK. Also **** ...

Pulaski

I am increasingly thinking I might have lived my own little bubble in the UK that was heavy on American culture. I listened to Paul Gambaccinni's American Top 40 back in the 1980's when I was still a teenager, and I was a big fan of the Dukes of Hazzard, which might go some way to explain where I ended up.