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Posted on 07/11/2025 5:28:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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People in Arizona laugh at England’s “heat wave”.
“What’s a hose pipe?”
A garden hose. They also tax it (a “hose pipe tax”)
Yeah, I could wish for a high in the mid-90s this time of year. But it’s a dry heat (well, not so much when the monsoon gets going).
Poor Evelyn Gullo...they forget her in the locker rooms...and it took a while to figure out where she was.
Knock up your neighbor for a fag.
This weather is weird but awesome.
To have everything green in the middle of July!
Our watering bill is way down.
When heatwaves hit the UK, many people compare them to the extraordinary summer of 1976. That year still holds the record for the longest-lasting heatwave in the UK—16 consecutive days—and the highest June temperature ever recorded: 35.6C in Southampton.
God: I want you to build an ark.
Noah: Right ... What’s an ark?
God: Get some wood and build it 300 cubits by 80 cubits by 40 cubits.
Noah: Right ... What’s a cubit?
Hello,
sorry to butt in once more, but couldn’t it be that, in times past, an apartment used to be called a „flat“ in America, too?
I once read, in Bill Bryson‘s book „Made in America“, a very instructive and enjoyable read on American English and American culture. In this book, the author quotes the following little poem, which was a roadside advertisement from the 1930s for a - then very famous - brushless shaving cream:
„He had the job,
He had the flat,
but his face scratched
And that was that. Burma Shave“
From this, I concluded that, maybe, before the mid 20th century, Americans used the therm „flat“ as well. Maybe…🙂
They are still called flats in some parts of the country. My oldest son has the middle floor of a three-floor brownstone outside of Albany, NY. You can call it an apartment or the second-floor flat.
I am afraid that in the Northeast apartment and flat has been interchangeable for many many years.
Very interesting to hear, just as the two last contributions to this debate.
As a former student of the English language, who found this debate very enlightening, I‘d like to say thank you to all of you 🙂- and wish you a blessed Sunday, too.
Nautical (and britspeak) term for what most Americans call a hose. We just shortened the original word. Not to be confused with a hoser ... those are found north of our northern border.
Same to you Menes!!
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