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View Poll Results: What was your score range? (you can post the exact number below)
36,000+ 4 11.43%
30,000-35,000 (general range, so my score goes here) 7 20.00%
25,000-30,000 (general range) 13 37.14%
Less than 25,000 11 31.43%
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Old 10-17-2012, 12:52 PM   #76
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I pretty much universally use 'fancy' to mean a member a of the opposite sex. So I fancy the cute Philledelphian on my course.

The list isn't great, but is amusing.

Various Americanisms have crept in too though. I say 'dude' all the time. Though I I ever say "y'all" I'll probably put a bullet in my skull.
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Old 10-17-2012, 12:55 PM   #77
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There's a 1998 film called Sliding Doors. Set in London, but there are only two Eglish main characters. One is Gynneth Paltrow saying every cliched British curse in existence. Everyone else is Irish or Scottish so she sounds even more out of whack.
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:12 PM   #78
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There's a 1998 film called Sliding Doors. Set in London, but there are only two Eglish main characters. One is Gynneth Paltrow saying every cliched British curse in existence. Everyone else is Irish or Scottish so she sounds even more out of whack.
I saw that film on a British Airways flight into Manchester ... in the Summer of 1998.
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:36 PM   #79
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Never actually been to Manc. Should really do that, but I live in London now so everything just seems less awesome in comparison.

I just told someone I was 'proper craving' some chips and gravy. Is this a Britishism?
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:37 PM   #80
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I just heard innit on the TV right now. I was watching one of Gordon Ramsey's shows.

I am so using innit from now on.
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:37 PM   #81
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I just told someone I was 'proper craving' some chips and gravy. Is this a Britishism?
I guess? [/none of us are experts xfd;] I've never heard "proper craving" before afaik from anybody, English or American alike. In America I guess the adjectives I'd expect to find in front of "craving" would be "large," "huge," "sudden," etc.
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:23 PM   #82
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I've never understood the whole Biscuit / Cookie debacle, personally. Cookies are a specific type of biscuit - I've heard Americans calling things like custard creams or hobnobs 'cookies' and it just confuses me because they're nothing like cookies.

Also the list made me laugh a bit.
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:30 PM   #83
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Frankly I'm not surprised! But just cause I can't define words don't mean I can't use 'em!
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:40 PM   #84
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How many words do they expect a pre-schooler to know, anyway?
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:46 PM   #85
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Frankly I'm not surprised! But just cause I can't define words don't mean I can't use 'em!
Oh my god, I'm dying over here
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Old 10-17-2012, 05:26 PM   #86
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I've never understood the whole Biscuit / Cookie debacle, personally. Cookies are a specific type of biscuit - I've heard Americans calling things like custard creams or hobnobs 'cookies' and it just confuses me because they're nothing like cookies.
You lose this one, bub: you reverse imported the word from us. We got it from the Dutch and then gave it to you. You guys then fucked it up morphed it into something else. First attested use in colonial America in 1703. Apparently the Scots have embarrassingly tried to take credit for it though given what Wikipedia writes here:
According to the Scottish National Dictionary, its Scottish name derives from the diminutive form (+ suffix -ie) of the word cook, giving the Middle Scots cookie, cooky or cu(c)kie. It also gives an alternative etymology, from the Dutch word koekje, the diminutive of koek, a cake. There was much trade and cultural contact across the North Sea between the Low Countries and Scotland during the Middle Ages, which can also be seen in the history of curling and, perhaps, golf.
"So the world got the term from us, the mighty Scots ... but since none of you are buying that we'll put in a footnote here that says that our own term, which you lot borrowed! , came from the Dutch."

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Show us the document predating the 1703 American usage and we'll talk.
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Old 10-17-2012, 06:17 PM   #87
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How many words do they expect a pre-schooler to know, anyway?
Dunno!

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Old 10-17-2012, 08:55 PM   #88
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"Mate" is very much an Australianism isn't it?
Aw look mate, can't blame the Aussies for everything.
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Old 10-18-2012, 03:22 AM   #89
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No, Americans use 'cookie' wrong. I don't need evidence, I'm correct.

*nod*
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Old 10-19-2012, 01:29 PM   #90
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congee; see also congee
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Old 11-27-2012, 01:35 PM   #91
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lipstick lesbian

Hadn't heard this term before. And apparently it means different things on different sides of the Atlantic.
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Old 11-27-2012, 01:56 PM   #92
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Hadn't heard this term before. And apparently it means different things on different sides of the Atlantic.
Huh. I only ever knew of the US-meaning (super-feminine lesbian).
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Old 11-28-2012, 04:48 PM   #93
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Haha, I was in a play with a lipstick lesbian in the British sense of the term. She thought I fancied her, which was awkward.
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:30 PM   #94
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my word vocabulary......13,500 words
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Old 12-18-2012, 10:28 AM   #95
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Apparently I know 12,600 words.
Which seemed not to be too bad for a non-native speaker.

Only checked words I was a 100% sure I can define them when asked, so skipped a few which I would probably know if a context were given.
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