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05-02-2004, 12:56 AM
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| Go Bruins!  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: LOST in the 70's
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 And your bathroom correction got me thinking: I actually call it a washroom if I'm in a public place, but in a house I call it a bathroom. Is that weird? 
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05-02-2004, 06:15 AM
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 Miz Smarty Britches  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: drinkin' muddy water, sleepin' in a hollow log Age: 49
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05-02-2004, 07:27 AM
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| NI FORT fan  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: N.Ireland
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| Hi QBoots, the word apartment is now much more common than flat, it's a posher word than flat. Apartments are becoming much more common. In urban areas developers buy an older house with a bit of land and build an apartment development on it. My Mum always told us as children that we were "bold", meaning bad not brave. And motorways are our equivalent to freeways.  |
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05-02-2004, 09:24 AM
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| should be studying......  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia
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| We also use flats intead of apartments. We don't have freeways or motorways but we have highways. Mobile phones in the car are mobile phones (go figure!)We don't have ketchup but we have tomato sauce. And I know in the UK, you have bangers and mash whereas we have sausages with mashed potato.
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05-02-2004, 09:56 AM
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| NI FORT fan Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: N.Ireland
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| I know lots of kids who have "red sauce" meaning ketchup or "brown sauce" as in the HP variety. |
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05-02-2004, 09:59 AM
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| FORT Fan  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Canada Age: 44
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| My Mom and Dad come up with some doozies...My Mom will say something like your father was spending money so much, his pocket thought his hand had gone mad. My Dad will say "Give 'em the ole Liverpool kiss of Death"=Head butting someone. There are many more but I am just waking up so I will have to think on it. |
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05-02-2004, 10:30 AM
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| NI FORT fan Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: N.Ireland
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| A Glasgow Kiss is another term for headbutting!! |
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05-02-2004, 01:42 PM
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| "Drive For Five"  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Auburn, AL Age: 45
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| Don't know if anyone has added these: "Over yonda" - Meaning over there. "reckon" - Meaning, I guess so! (ex. Are you going to the football game? Well, I reckon I will") "cut" - Like "Cut the light off" I hear alot of people say they are "going to the house" instead of going home. Also, when we are teaching a child, dog, cat not to do something we say "ank" (not sure on the spelling)!
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05-03-2004, 04:55 PM
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05-03-2004, 04:58 PM
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I know "washroom" is a Canadian thing because when I travel in the US, even in the border states, some people are puzzled when I asked for it.
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