Two Times!!!
Mar 1st 2006 | 1:13 am
#46
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Lynne
No, thats also an Alabama thing.
Actually, it's an Ohio thing....but they usually do it "on" accident.
Mar 1st 2006 | 1:50 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by User Name
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But then again, when I was driving to my new post-doc at Bath University, I asked someone on a country lane if I was going the right way for Bath. He looked at me sideways and up-side-down, and then from top to bottom, then bottom to top and said (starting off slowly), I've never heard of Bath, but Baaaattthhhh is that way.
But then again, when I was driving to my new post-doc at Bath University, I asked someone on a country lane if I was going the right way for Bath. He looked at me sideways and up-side-down, and then from top to bottom, then bottom to top and said (starting off slowly), I've never heard of Bath, but Baaaattthhhh is that way.
The number thing annoys me too, why do they say twenty-five hundred instead of two and half thousand? I don't get it.
The really annoying phrases that grate with me are:
too fun (WTF?)
too cute (puke).
Annette
Mar 1st 2006 | 1:54 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Patrick
What ever happened to the word twice? Why do Americans use "two times" instead of twice. I noticed it on an advert the other day now I cant stop listening for it, no-one says twice, why, why, why?
The same goes for 'treble' if you say, " 802 treble 3 2572 " they think you're talking in some kind of medieval English last used when Shakespeare was alive.
Same goes for "whilst"
Mar 1st 2006 | 1:55 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by nethead
Oh he couldn't have been local, everyone knows it's Baaaaff
The number thing annoys me too, why do they say twenty-five hundred instead of two and half thousand? I don't get it.
The really annoying phrases that grate with me are:
too fun (WTF?)
too cute (puke).
The number thing annoys me too, why do they say twenty-five hundred instead of two and half thousand? I don't get it.
The really annoying phrases that grate with me are:
too fun (WTF?)
too cute (puke).
Mar 1st 2006 | 1:56 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Sarah
Same goes for "whilst"
I get told I've done a typo so many times on that one. Don't care though..still use it whilst I'm typing!
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:01 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
This one annoys me. Loud people on cell phones starting the conversation with........"where you at?"
Is that just a Texas thing or is it all over?
Is that just a Texas thing or is it all over?
Y'all Better learn the lingo
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:04 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Sarah
A yank friend of mine told me I was too funny once. I had no idea what the frig she was talking about but I thought it sounded like a stupid thing to say.
Annette
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:05 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
[QUOTE=Sugarmooma]where you at?"
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I just tell them "somewhere between the "a" and the "t" - which is probably just as annoying!
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I just tell them "somewhere between the "a" and the "t" - which is probably just as annoying!
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:07 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Elsie The Maid
Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
where you at?"
Bunch of misfits the lot of ya 
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:08 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Lynne
I have also noticed that a lot of Americans cannot comprehend "double" as in spelling out a name L Y double N E. I spelt it that way to one lady on the phone and she read it back as "LYWE".
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:11 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Englishmum
Another one I often overhear when people are talking on their cellphones is .....'she axed me/I axed him' instead of pronouncing 'asked'. It is soooo irritating! (Actually I've noticed that it is mainly black people who say this but I don't know why?).
How about:
Craig = Creg
Caribbean = car-ribean
Guyana = Gwee-ana
Aaron = Erin
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:13 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Try telling them something happens "twice a month" then when they say "Huh?" say "You know...fortnightly"
Paychecks work well; if you get paid every other week, that's fortnightly.
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:14 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Pronounciation ???
How about:
Craig = Creg
Caribbean = car-ribean
Guyana = Gwee-ana
Aaron = Erin
How about:
Craig = Creg
Caribbean = car-ribean
Guyana = Gwee-ana
Aaron = Erin
Aluminum
Nukiller = nuclear (solely patented to George W. Bush)
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:15 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by nethead
The number thing annoys me too, why do they say twenty-five hundred instead of two and half thousand? I don't get it.
Mar 1st 2006 | 2:17 am
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Re: Two Times!!!
Originally Posted by Desdemona
You forgot:
Aluminum
Nukiller = nuclear (solely patented to George W. Bush)
Aluminum
Nukiller = nuclear (solely patented to George W. Bush)
Oh, and could someone please explain to me the word "frickin" - is it meant to be a polite word for "f***in" or is it a yank version of friggin ???
