Our Common Language

[jinmich]

Yea thrawn has me thrown too

Can anyone help me with....

1.Coke as in coca cola or pop or soda what ever you like

Also

2.Sex
3.Love making

4.and uh uh breasts


Remember I am trying to write a book, can anyone help?????????

Still looking for a song for the groom to sing to his bride on the wedding day.

Thank ye all

JW

[Willy]

It seems like we referred to carbinated soft drinks as "soda" but what I found funny was if you wanted a 7-Up for example, you ordered a "Lemonade". (Of course, my sister & I thought...so what do they call a "lemonade" then....?)

[dferg]

Fizzy drinks in general are usually either "juice" (but then, so are most sweetened drinks) or possibly pop, depending on who you talk to (sometimes "fizzy pop" or "fizzy juice". All generic colas are often refered to as coke, regardless of the actual brand. All clear vauguely lemonesque "pops" are lemonade, though we would use a brand name like 7up if we wanted that particular one.

Soda is reserved for soda water (carbonated water, used as a mixer, for pitys sake, don't use it in whisky!)

Zippers are just zips, what else? Pantyhose are called tights.

I always thinik its funny when you hear Americans saying they got dressed up in good pants and vest to go out for dinner. For us that would be just a triffle underdressed, especially inthis weather!

Thrawn is a Scots word with no direct translation, it means something like stubborn or un-compliant. Digging your heals in. the best definition I ever heard was from an old shepard who used it to refer to sheep, particularly when they were bent on doing their own thing, even when it was a bad idea. Refusing to come off cliff ledges, trying to walk through gorse thickets instead of round them, that kind of thing. Remeber, highland sheep are not that docile, and as hard as nails. they bear about as much resemblance to Larry the Lamd as Vinnie Jones does to Gary Lineker. If anyone has a better definition...

Hey Peteman, good to see you still with us!

[Brian]

While we're on clothes, it's worth remembering that what we call suspenders, you call garters. Suspenders in the US (the things that hold up trousers (or pants)) are called braces over here.

So, guys, don't go into a gents clothes store in the UK and ask for suspenders!!

Bri

[Willy]

OK...now I have to ask, what do you call those metal things dentist's put on people's teeth to straighten them?

So Dferg, it sounds to me as though thrawn means very stubborn or headstrong. Is that what my scottie puppy is? (because that term would seem to fit him quite well.)

[jinmich]

So is making love and sex and breasts a common word for us or

Has no one had sex or has any body parts over there.

Pleeeease bail me out, I need help

[Willy]

Hmmmmmmmmmm...this is a "family oriented" site you know....BUT...just to help you out for the sake of literacy...

I've read that breasts are sometimes referred to as "bristols" (though I never heard that term when I've been to the U.K.), and funny enough, "hooter" in Britain refers to one's nose. (imagine the disapointment when a visitor goes into Hooters looking for waitresses with odd noses. )

As for the other terms.....maybe someone else may help you out, but an interesting site you may look into is www.effingpot.com


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Di (aka ^..^ ~ Willy)