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Jul 15, 2020 12:10:02   #
Abo
 
dancers wrote:
quite a few are said down here........


However they are definitely Americanisms.
We picked them up from the abundance
of Hollywood film and US TV shows that are aired down here.

As an aside, back around the mid 60s when I was a 9 or 10
year old a close friend who lived in the same street as me
was the son of an American immigrant. Marshal, my friends
father (was an ex US soldier who helped us fight the Japs
in the Pacific.) said to us boys; An army buddy of mine has moved down here
and runs a hamburger shop in Williamstown, (a 40 mile return journey mind you) jump in the car
and we'll have hamburgers for lunch.

I had no idea what a hamburger was but the way Gregs dad
spoke of it, we knew we were in for a treat... Back then,
hamburgers were unknown down here.

My first hamburger was thanks to a US WWII Pacific theatre vet.

I have to say, Marshal Munneke was one of the nicest blokes
you could ever meet and a lot of that wonderful man
rubbed off on his son Greg.

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Jul 15, 2020 13:30:24   #
foodie65
 


Jerry, you could add pounds, inches and gallons since most of the world (except for 2 other countries) are on the metric system

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Jul 15, 2020 18:02:43   #
TreborLow
 
LWW wrote:
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Excellent!!

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Jul 15, 2020 18:54:24   #
Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
 
P-J wrote:
How about you call "trunk" & what we can the 'boot' of a car in England. Ditto 'fender' we call a 'bumper'. we call them bracers, you suspenders. In England suspenders. an intimate female apparel for a lady's means of keeping her stockings up. Talking of which, you're pantyhose & we're tights. Vest vs waistcoat. Our trousers, your pants, Tuxedo vs dinner jacket (though I think we call a white d j a Tux. also? Some do anyway).
Unfortunately, due to the internet & the dominance of such companies as Microsoft & Apple, we find our younger generations here, now thinking that Americanisms & spellings are the correct way to use English? Pity. They are also having difficulties mastering using a knife & fork when eating (youtube?).
Interesting also your mention of Cambridge University. Americans use 'z', where in England use 's' in spellings. I believe this is due to Americans using what was the Cambridge University dictionary, where in England we adopted the Oxford dictionary version for our language. This may be in part that most of the Pilgrim fathers were from East Anglia, close to where Cambridge is? (not Plymouth, that was just their last provisioning port upon leaving England).
Maybe it's time to differentiate the types of English? We speak English, you speak American, the Australians speak Australian & New Zealand speak Kiwi etc.? After all it's not just how we spell, it's how we pronounce the same words e.g.we say caramelisation, Americans pronounce it as 'car amelization', Aluminium vs Alum inum?
Vive La Difference, as the French say?
How about you call "trunk" & what we... (show quote)


Well Americans don't seem to use the a, they tend to say carmalization or carmel instead of caramel. Then those two words Aluminum and aluminium are pronounced differently because, duhhh they are spelled differently. In the UK we have an additional I in that word and of course it would be pronounced differently.

Then there is the word "Fanny", in the UK that is the front part of a lady, yet in the USA that is the back part of a lady. Makes the words Fanny Pack have two completely different meanings!

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Jul 15, 2020 19:09:51   #
rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
 
One of the words on their list - “Freshman” - is quickly leaving Americanism. Because of not wanting to leave women out, it is often replaced by the word “Firstyear”.

I was interested to not see “Blue light special” on their list. Perhaps it’s exclusion demonstrates how retailer “K-Mart” has lost customers.

Speaking of retailers, do other countries use the phrase “clean up on Aisle n”??

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Jul 16, 2020 09:01:00   #
P-J Loc: UK
 
Lucian wrote:
Well Americans don't seem to use the a, they tend to say carmalization or carmel instead of caramel. Then those two words Aluminum and aluminium are pronounced differently because, duhhh they are spelled differently. In the UK we have an additional I in that word and of course it would be pronounced differently.

Then there is the word "Fanny", in the UK that is the front part of a lady, yet in the USA that is the back part of a lady. Makes the words Fanny Pack have two completely different meanings!
Well Americans don't seem to use the a, they tend ... (show quote)

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Jul 16, 2020 09:13:03   #
P-J Loc: UK
 
It is only America (and Canada) who have dropped the 'i' from aluminium. Why? It is internationally known as aluminium, especially in the scientific world of periodic tables, symbol Al & metal traders?
& why have Americans started to pronounce two Mid East countries beginning with 'I' as Eyeraq & Eyeran?
They don't call it Eyetaly do they? This is fairly recent anomaly? Maybe from the gung-ho generals & grunts when fighting out there? Hey ho more differences in the English, sorry American language.

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Jul 16, 2020 09:54:29   #
LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America
 
Lucian wrote:
Well Americans don't seem to use the a, they tend to say carmalization or carmel instead of caramel. Then those two words Aluminum and aluminium are pronounced differently because, duhhh they are spelled differently. In the UK we have an additional I in that word and of course it would be pronounced differently.

Then there is the word "Fanny", in the UK that is the front part of a lady, yet in the USA that is the back part of a lady. Makes the words Fanny Pack have two completely different meanings!
Well Americans don't seem to use the a, they tend ... (show quote)


That’s because in England they speak English, in America we speak American.

As Winston said, we are two nations separated by an ocean and a common language.

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Jul 16, 2020 10:49:44   #
P-J Loc: UK
 
Then perhaps Americans (& other English speaking nations) should start saying "I speak American (or whatever other country they are from?) & only those from the UK should say they speak English?

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Jul 16, 2020 10:50:41   #
LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America
 
P-J wrote:
Then perhaps Americans (& other English speaking nations) should start saying "I speak American (or whatever other country they are from?) & only those from the UK should say they speak English?


Perhaps.

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Jul 16, 2020 15:13:11   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
LWW wrote:
Perhaps.


Ah, but everyone in the UK doesn't speak "English". Put an older and old time Cockney and a way back in the Highlands Older Scotsman together for a conversation.

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