To: Leaning Right
"What’s a hosepipe?"
Brits always come up with crazy names for things. Bathroom = Loo; Car Trunk = Boot. Cookies = Biscuits. Food gift basket = Hamper. And the rest of the time they mispronounce normal words like aluminum, garage, privacy, vitamin.
12 posted on
07/11/2025 5:41:39 PM PDT by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: mass55th
And the rest of the time they mispronounce normal words like aluminum, garage, privacy, vitamin. Also tomato, potato and banana.
To: mass55th
Don’t forget you open the “bonnet” to check your engine.
To: mass55th
Ironically, we’re the ones preserving the English language.
20 posted on
07/11/2025 5:48:55 PM PDT by
Kleon
To: mass55th
Brits always come up with crazy names for things.
Back when The Onion was actually funny and not just straight leftwing drivel, I recall them publishing an atlas of the world, with brief summaries of each country. One of the info fields they had for each country was "language".
For the UK, the "language" field was something to the effect of:
"A crude, debased form of English"
21 posted on
07/11/2025 5:49:05 PM PDT by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: mass55th
> Brits always come up with crazy names for things. <
And here’s another one.
Asians = Muslim invaders from Pakistan.
29 posted on
07/11/2025 6:03:06 PM PDT by
Leaning Right
(It's morning in America. Again.)
To: mass55th
Apartment- ‘’flat’’, shopping cart , ‘’trolley'', hood of a car- ''bonnet''.
76 posted on
07/11/2025 11:39:15 PM PDT by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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