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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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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. |
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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10-17-2012, 01:12 PM | #78 |
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I saw that film on a British Airways flight into Manchester ... in the Summer of 1998.
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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? |
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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10-17-2012, 01:37 PM | #81 |
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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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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.
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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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10-17-2012, 04:46 PM | #85 |
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10-17-2012, 05:26 PM | #86 | |
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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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10-17-2012, 08:55 PM | #88 |
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10-18-2012, 03:22 AM | #89 |
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No, Americans use 'cookie' wrong. I don't need evidence, I'm correct.
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10-19-2012, 01:29 PM | #90 |
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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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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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12-15-2012, 05:30 PM | #94 |
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my word vocabulary......13,500 words
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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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