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To: the scotsman

I’m not sure I think this is such a great list. Some of these words I’ve always used, like frock, and I don’t think row meaning fight is really a Britishism, I’ve always heard that usage.

A word not on the list is dear, meaning expensive, my grandmother (from Ireland) always used that word. She used frock too, of course, so maybe that is why it is familiar to me.

Now, there are some words that have different meanings over here, so I don’t think these Brit usages will ever become popular.

One on the list is bum. We use bum to mean a no-good person or a vagrant. I don’t know what the brits use for those meanings.

Another Brit word that is always confusing is jumper, meaning sweater. My grandmother never used jumper for sweater, and believe me she sewed me a lot of jumpers, so it might have come up. I don’t know if that is not a term used in Ireland or if she just was careful not to use it. I still don’t know what the brits call the frocks we call jumpers.

I always use the phrase bother, as in “bother it, bother me” etc. Of course I got that from Brit books, but it fits very well in some instances when even “darn it” would be too strong.

There, I wasn’t keen on the list, but I did bang on and on about it, didn’t I?


25 posted on 10/17/2012 5:45:35 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307

“One on the list is bum. We use bum to mean a no-good person or a vagrant. I don’t know what the brits use for those meanings.”

‘Tramp’ or ‘pikey’.


37 posted on 10/17/2012 7:16:43 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: jocon307
One on the list is bum. We use bum to mean a no-good person or a vagrant. I don’t know what the brits use for those meanings.

"homeless person"








or "tramp"

39 posted on 10/17/2012 7:34:32 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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