Marmite!! nectar of the gods.....yummm......:-)
The state of British English
* You can call then anything you like! Doesn't make them French, though..;)
Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor)
French Fries, French Toast, French Letter, etc... none of these are necessarily French but the misnomers don't stop with the French.
Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor)
French Fries, French Toast, French Letter, etc... none of these are necessarily French but the misnomers don't stop with the French.
<<Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor) >>
Hey, I'm British. Having a sense of humour is our birthright! :-)
Geoff, in Britain we call them chips, too. (And what Americans call 'chips' we call 'crisps')
Hey, I'm British. Having a sense of humour is our birthright! :-)
Geoff, in Britain we call them chips, too. (And what Americans call 'chips' we call 'crisps')
Hellas,
=>Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor) <=
I'm not a German neither do I have their sense of humour.
Ever thought of the idea that my kind of humour is different from yours?! I love sarcasm,irony and black humour.
=>Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor) <=
I'm not a German neither do I have their sense of humour.
Ever thought of the idea that my kind of humour is different from yours?! I love sarcasm,irony and black humour.
* Hey, I'm British. Having a sense of humour is our birthright! :-)
Oh yeah, I know about that self-stereotype ;)
Oh yeah, I know about that self-stereotype ;)
I agree. Anglo-Saxon wine, like most things Anglo-Saxon, is doing better than French wine. Wine sales in France are decreasing, whereas last year they increased by a massive 23% in Britain. As things stand, the British will be drinking more wine than the French by the year 2015 - but British wine and wine from other Anglo-Saxon countries such as the US and Australia. The US will become a biger consumer of wine than France by 2008.
Also, a British wine was voted the best in the world recently.
Also, a British wine was voted the best in the world recently.
"ADAM.....the UK once had a very awkward monetary system....LSD...(nothing hallucinatory!) ...librae, solidii, denarii...pounds, shillings and pence....a THREE tier system - £.s.d. How the hell would we cope with something like that now in this country? "
No-one thought it awkward at the time. But they found the current decimal system that we have now awkward to start off with. We used that system of hundreds of years and no-one complained.
What next? Are you saying that the measurement of time (days, months, years, etc) should be decimalised?
No-one thought it awkward at the time. But they found the current decimal system that we have now awkward to start off with. We used that system of hundreds of years and no-one complained.
What next? Are you saying that the measurement of time (days, months, years, etc) should be decimalised?
"Geoff, in Britain we call them chips, too. (And what Americans call 'chips' we call 'crisps') "
And what we call "jelly" in Britain the Yanks call "jell-O", and what we call "jam" the Yanks call "jelly", so whenever an American says "I'm having jelly on ym sandwich" it makes me want to vomit.
And what we call "jelly" in Britain the Yanks call "jell-O", and what we call "jam" the Yanks call "jelly", so whenever an American says "I'm having jelly on ym sandwich" it makes me want to vomit.
"ADAM.....the UK once had a very awkward monetary system....LSD...(nothing hallucinatory!) ...librae, solidii, denarii...pounds, shillings and pence....a THREE tier system - £.s.d. How the hell would we cope with something like that now in this country? "
We manage okay by having 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 2 weeks in a fortnight, four weeks in a month, two fortnights in a month, 52 weeks in a year, 26 fortnights in a year, 12 months in a year, ten years in a decade, 100 years in a century, 10 decades in a century, 1000 years in a millennium and 100 decades in a millennium, but no-one's thinking about decimalising it all because "it's all too complicated to remember."
That's just a similar system that British money was before decimalisation in 1971. Whereas the French just had francs and centimes, and the Americans just had dollars and cents, and all other countries had similar money systems with "100 of something = 1 something", Britain, proudly, was different, because we didn't have that. We had shillings, pounds, pennies, groats, crowns, farthings. All different ones. And working out the prices of things was easy, just like knowing how many weeks are in a year. If we reverted back to that system now, we would find it difficult to start off with because lots of people won't be used to it, but when our currency decimalised in 1971 lots of people struggled then, too. They didn't find it any easier.
We manage okay by having 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 2 weeks in a fortnight, four weeks in a month, two fortnights in a month, 52 weeks in a year, 26 fortnights in a year, 12 months in a year, ten years in a decade, 100 years in a century, 10 decades in a century, 1000 years in a millennium and 100 decades in a millennium, but no-one's thinking about decimalising it all because "it's all too complicated to remember."
That's just a similar system that British money was before decimalisation in 1971. Whereas the French just had francs and centimes, and the Americans just had dollars and cents, and all other countries had similar money systems with "100 of something = 1 something", Britain, proudly, was different, because we didn't have that. We had shillings, pounds, pennies, groats, crowns, farthings. All different ones. And working out the prices of things was easy, just like knowing how many weeks are in a year. If we reverted back to that system now, we would find it difficult to start off with because lots of people won't be used to it, but when our currency decimalised in 1971 lots of people struggled then, too. They didn't find it any easier.