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I doubt people learn English for it's efficiency
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Diaper vs nappy.......doesn't really matter as they were both coined in Britain!
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Chuck the baby out with the bathwater if you like but keep the diaper - nappy - or whatever the heck you want to call it.....canny Scottish thrift :-)
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"I doubt people learn English for it's efficiency "
They learn it for its efficiency and because it's a lot more useful than Dutch.
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"Adam, Adam, Adam; you are funny. I believe "The Eagle has landed" was said in an AMERICAN accent.... "
Yeah? And?
All I said was that Imperial measurements, not metric measurements, put man on the Moon.
Imperial is far superior, and less cumbersome.
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"In Adam's part of Lancashire: Fleeing "
Other lancashire words for "cold" -
Frozzen.
Cowd ("By eck, it's cowd out here.")
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More British slang words -
Banger - sausage/old car
Chelp/Chelp off - to disagree vocally with someone without sufficient grounds to do so i.e. "he chelped off at me"
Daft - stupd/foolish
Evat - The common newt
Minging - ugly
Nards - testicles
Nimrod - A Northern English word for the common weasel
Pongo - Infantryman of the British army
Scrotty - dirty
Skanking - dirty
Skivvies - male or female underwear
Sod off - "Go away!"
SSDD - The common newt
To take the mickey - to mock
Todd - a red fox
To be on your todd - to be alone ("He is on his todd" - "He is alone.")
To wank - to masturbate
Whittret - Northern English word for weasel
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=>"I doubt people learn English for it's efficiency "
They learn it for its efficiency and because it's a lot more useful than Dutch. <=
What do you know about learning languages Adam !?
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**What do you know about learning languages Adam !?**
Probably zilch!....like about......90% at least of us....the overall British population - if you mean to the point of absolute fluency SANDER.
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No DAMIAN ;-) , I ment he shouldn't talk about things he does not know anything about.He's not an English teacher and he hasn't learned English.
So Adam: STFU.
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You spelt it wrongly ADAM: "Todd" - I've only heard of that as a surname.
"Tod" - Scottish and Northern English dialct word for a fox.
Being alone.....should be spelt "Tod" as well - as in "He's on his tod" meaning "on his own - solo". It's rhyming slang....most likely Cockney....there was once a jockey called "Tod Sloan" - Tod Sloan all alone ....on his tod...all alone. He's on his tod. Probably cream crackered - knackered. I'm feeling a but cream crackered tonight so I'm staying in. Some Friday night! :-( skint.... LOL
"Tod" also meant at one time a unit of weight for wool sheared off a sheep...equiv. to 28 pounds in those archaic Imperial measurements you still cherish! It comes from the Frisian word "todde".
"Toddy" - a whisky with hot water (not too much!!!!) and with a wee bit of sugar and lemon juice added.
Guaranteed .......
.....for a cold in duh heid.
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Adam,
Whittre? Nimrod? I've lived in Northern England all my life and never heard of those. The only Nimrod I know is the plane!
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"Whittre? Nimrod? I've lived in Northern England all my life and never heard of those. "
Me neither.
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I got my information from a website about British slang.
Those two words must only be used in some areas of Northern England but not all over.
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Adam,
=>Me neither<=
My god! You don't even read what you copy&paste!!!
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