Ha ha ha darren... You won't lose that Pompey dialect for years!

An ounce is a dry and liquid measurement of weight.

16 fluid ounces in a US pint.
19oz is closer to a UK pint.

God damn 'mericans cant handle a real pint!

http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm

OK, better point out one thing

Im not a Pompey Local and certainly dont have that accent! Im originally from the Isle of Wight but just enough private school education and moving around means I sound somewhat "normal"

Quite possibly yes to both!

Joking apart, I think that it is important to draw a disctinction between "accent" and "pronunciation".

It is very dfficult to talk in an accent that isn't your own without sounding false - we've all seen enough hams in Hollywood films to know that! ..... and they're professional actors! I think that it would be a mistake to mimic an American accent, but if one "grows on you" over time, so be it.

On the other hand, there are many words that have taken on a different pronunication in America - tomato, and schedule spring to mind, and then there are words with differing spellings too - color, check, jewelry, etc.. In both cases I'd say you should use the local custom as these are the things that are going to make you difficult to understand, not that you don't have an American accent.

One other thing, depending on where you live in the US, you can probably expect to be told frequently "I just luuurve your accent!", .... reason enough not to take on American accent!




An imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces by definition. However an imperial fluid ounce is only about 95% the size of a US fluid ounce, so, you are quite right if you want to define an imperial pint with reference to US fluid ounces.

You know when you've adjusted to the US when you get a hankering to go to Waffle House on a sunday morning. Nothing like grits and hash browns covered to cure that irish pub hangover! Only the Tesco's all day breakfast can even come close and thats only becaus of the heinz beans and proper bacon!
Most of my english friends that have visited me hate the place and my american ones look at me strangely when i say i love it! An english person that likes grits - how quaint!
Gotta go there a pancake with my name on it!

OMG PROPER bacon.

I miss bacon that isn't a 1inch wide rectangular strip of pure fat.
I miss bacon that actually consists of meat.

I've never understood why US bacon is so thin, stripped and fatty.

NY & NJ, A&P supermarkets or Food Emporium sell Real Irish Bacon. We also have English Store Myers of Keswick, Ex British butcher, sells all kinds of bacon + pies, pasties & real puff pastry sausage rolls.

Reg. Frank R.

Darren is in fact an inbred webbed-footed gilled fish molester ? ( Pompey area view of the Isle of Shite )

What I really hated about my visit to the USA was the appalling lack of decent cider avaliable

Nathan... I don't know why they call it bacon at all! Nothing better than frying up some of the good stuff then dropping some sausages and tomatoes in the fat! Mmmmmmm!

Is anyone in CT cooking today?

Please everyone ignore the twit that posted about darren! He is reported!

Doctor Scrumpy is no twit. Look at how he managed to manipulate the keyboard into producing a "?" he even went so far as adorning the post with brackets.

I for one, LOVE HIM.

Do you think he'll give lessons? ô¿~

Somehow I doubt it.

Now non of us will ever know how he did it!

* No that ain't right!

& Darn that ain't it either!

$ I'll never get it!

If my fiancee tries to Americanize when he gets here, I will promptly send him back to the UK! ok, maybe not, but most everyone I know understands petrol, tin of bean,instead of "can", etc and can recognize (recognise, hehe) British spellings. His Britishness, accent, spelling, word usage is wonderful and I never want him to change--dont tell him that though, we still playfully argue when I correct his spellings, and words, but he knows I dont give a damn. ;-)

When I was last in the US with my US fiance, we were driving thru Sonic and I wanted a banana milkshake (that's right, banaaaaana ) and for a laugh, when ordering, Kurt pronounced it like I do. They didn't respond until the end of the order, when going through it again "Okay! That's xyz.... and one banaaaaaaaaana milk shake...." and fell about laughing, in fact we could hear all her co-workers laughing as well!

Debbie