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don't you find that as you type on this thread that you are enunciating your words clearly as you type...it takes me twice as long to type when I am enunciating :lol: I actually thought it was spelt 'anunciating' but I spell checked it and it deffo is 'enuniating' :naughty:
 
Marianne said:
I actually thought it was spelt 'anunciating' but I spell checked it and it deffo is 'enuniating' :naughty:
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Oh dear, u seems 2 of mist the 'c' out, innit!

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who described or compared the British and Americans in a most apposite way. He wrote -

"... a common people separated by a common language" ;)
 
Barry, I think he actually said "....two great nations separated by a common language"

Nice use of apposite though. ;)
 
Errors and Ommissions excepted! Thanks for the clarification.... still a great line though.... Where's my "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"?

Do I get any points for getting the right bloke?
 
CT - just noticed the small print! Thanks..... One of my favourite words though - Serendipity.
 
chuckles said:
Errors and Ommissions excepted! Thanks for the clarification.... still a great line though.... Where's my "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"?

Do I get any points for getting the right bloke?
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You can have a chocolate biscuit - it was indeed GBS. :)
 
Chocolate biscuit? Don't think it's gonna sit well with this half consumed bottle of Grolsch :gag:
 
chuckles said:
Chocolate biscuit? Don't think it's gonna sit well with this half consumed bottle of Grolsch :gag:
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LOL. Nothing really to do with this thread, but a mate and I on a particularly drunken spree tried to emulate the feat of Paul Newman in the film 'Cool Hand Luke', by eating a whole large bottle of pickled eggs. We were decidedly poorly for a couple of days. :puke:

We didn't down as many eggs as Newman, but we consoled ourselves with the fact that about 12 pints apiece had significantly added to the degree of difficulty! :D
 
The mind boggles - the body chunders! At least there was oesophageal lubrication.

You ever tried a dry Cream Cracker eating competition? How many in 6 minutes..... cotton wool doesn't even get a ranking on the scale of dryness :lol:
 
The Welsh news presenter on the BBC news (Huw Edwards?) has this really irritating habit of pronouncing 'says' as 'sez', as in "The Prime Minister sez....". Now I've picked up on this it is really starting to irritate me.

Text speak is another bugbear of mine and another thing I've noticed is how people write in regional accents when using e-mail, as in "Alreet pet" if from the North East, sometimes I have to really concentrate to try and understand what they are trying to convey.

Rant over.
 
chuckles said:
You ever tried a dry Cream Cracker eating competition? How many in 6 minutes..... cotton wool doesn't even get a ranking on the scale of dryness :lol:
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We have a variation of this one in the army. In our MRE packs there are "crackers" that really are cardboard with some paint. On slow days we used to sit around and see if anyone could eat one in 2 minutes without drinking anything. I haven't seen anyone succeed yet! I have pics somewhere of attempts I'll see if I can dig them up.
 
Well, I am an American and it has taken me a year to understand half of what Brits are saying. To my credit, I landed in the middle of Estuary English. What is that all about? Are there no 'R's in Essex?
I still don't know what "innit" means either.
And is it lens or lens here?
I agree with Renee in her "colour" comment.
Really, I am usually just lost.
I know Clorox, crackers that you eat, although, Crackers is also a derrogotory (sp?) for a group of people. Biscuits are bread, not cookies....the list goes on and on.
 
LOL, this is funny innit,lol

Over here in our public school system spelling isn't even a priority anymore. I battle with the kids teachers all the time about this, they don't like me at all,lol They say with computers and all that they don't need to know how to spell, thanks to a quick spell check. They are in grades two and three and I make it a priority, but I battle with it let me tell ya. :annoyed:

Quick thing I thought was funny too. In College I have to take an "English" credit to complete my course. The teacher has a 'British' accent. Bloody ell I can't uderstand a word she is saying sometimes and I'm supposed to learn English from her,lol Thought it was funny,lol :p :shrug:


Jewel
 
I know how you feel Dena!

I've been in England for about 20 months now and I'm doing ok face to face but man you get me on the phone with someone with a thick Yorkshire accent and I am lost.
 
innit = isn't it generally. Heavily used by lots of the asian kids round here, its very noticeable working in a school.

And less of the thick Yorkshire Renee - some of us are quite smart ;)
 
Im not the gratest spieller in the werld, but I alwais have a dickshunry wiv me sow I dont maik eny misstakes!
 
At least l337 (leet), hasn't arrived to this forum yet.
 
Someone got on my bus once (when I was a driver of course), and said

"Is there a B&Q in Bury"

I replied "No, love, just a B".

Well I was nearly wetting myself at how funny it was, but she just sat there with a puzzled look on her face....lol Until she 'got it', which raised a little chuckle.
 
Marcel said:
Someone got on my bus once (when I was a driver of course), and said

"Is there a B&Q in Bury"

I replied "No, love, just a B".

Well I was nearly wetting myself at how funny it was, but she just sat there with a puzzled look on her face....lol Until she 'got it', which raised a little chuckle.
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That was a very quick reply for you Marcel ;)
 
Here's another one - people who say fink instead of think or fort instead of thought! Ooooh it makes me soooo angry! Phew, calm down. calm down.....
 
anytime anyone using a "f" instead of "th". It really really grates on me. I couldn't even watch celebrity big brother because I wanted to throw things at Chantelle!
 
h.r.ford said:
I couldn't even watch celebrity big brother because I wanted to throw things at Chantelle!
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lol lots! I know exactly what you mean! Ever tried watching an episode of Eastenders? :bang:
 
Marianne and I were in a delightful bookshop in Ely yesterday. None of this Heffers, Ottakars or Waterstones stuff, just a tiny little 'ol bookshop. Until, you get inside.... it's like Dr Who's Tardis, colossal amount of space and bookshelves (fully laden, I hasten to add). Then, we went upstairs.....WOW! As soon as we stepped from the stairs to the shop floor this personable young man of around 27 years of age, asked us if we'd like some coffee. Our aim was to have one somewhere anyway, so problem solved.

We browsed the books sorted what we wanted, what we'd like and put 75% of them back on the shelves this young man said our coffee was ready..... WOW - cafetierre, cream, beautiful stone craft tableware, all neatly laid out for us. Marianne asked if we could continue our selection whilst having our coffee, "of course you can". So we made some more choices.

Where's this all leading? Well, the coffee table was right next to 4,000 dictionaries (OK maybe just 150). I picked up "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" and looked up, you've guessed it? GBShaw "common language" thingie. It would seem it never, ever appeared in any publication of GBShaw at all. It is more than likely attributable to Oscar Wilde.... I wish I could remember all the details but it was an eyeopener.

Talking of Eyeopeners.... try looking at a copy of "Dictionary of Slang" and "Origin of Words". We were in hysterics....... "Lady Chatterly's Lover" doesn't enter it to it! :D
 
i hate the way the americans stae the obvious. "thats a great GOLF shot", "welcome to the FOOTBALL game".
but was it not dumas who said english is only french spoken badly?
 
Don't get me started on the French!
 
pandabighead said:
i hate the way the americans stae the obvious. "thats a great GOLF shot", "welcome to the FOOTBALL game".
but was it not dumas who said english is only french spoken badly?
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There is an American Comic who does a whole thing on this. YOu need the tone of voice and thick southern accent to make it work. I think it is some of either Bill Engvall or Jeff Foxworthy's earlier work.

Renee
 
English is just a *******ised mishmash of other languages anyway. Welsh isn't, but Welsh makes no sense - so I'll stick with English for now.
 
chuckles said:
Where's this all leading? Well, the coffee table was right next to 4,000 dictionaries (OK maybe just 150). I picked up "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" and looked up, you've guessed it? GBShaw "common language" thingie. It would seem it never, ever appeared in any publication of GBShaw at all. It is more than likely attributable to Oscar Wilde.... I wish I could remember all the details but it was an eyeopener.
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I've always understood it to be attributable to Shaw, although you can equally well imagine it coming from Wilde. These quotations don't always come from written works though, although I can understand why compilers would prefer that. This site quotes two sources for Shaw being the author, although it too, acknowledges the possibility it could be Wilde. :shrug:

"America and England are two nations divided by a common language." -Somebody, either Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw. Or maybe both. In 1887 Wilde wrote: `We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language'. But the 1951 Treasury of Humorous Quotations (Esar Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: `England and America are two countries separated by the same language', but without giving a source. It had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader's Digest

The bookshop sounds great, it's nice to be served by anyone with even basic good manners these days, let alone be offered coffee. :)
 
APsolutely.............instead of ABsolutely. since when did this word have a P instead of a B when you say it? Almost everyone I hear says APsolutely. Grrr

And the dreaded apostrophe. "Kitten's for sale". Its as much as I can do from jumping out the car and rubbing out the apostrophe!! :razz:
 
Janice said:
And the dreaded apostrophe. "Kitten's for sale". Its as much as I can do from jumping out the car and rubbing out the apostrophe!! :razz:
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People who don't include them where they're needed. Oh boy. That riles me!

It doesn't really - I'm not too fussed on written language, it's poorly spoken stuff that gets me!
 
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