I dunno about everyone else...but I HATE it when yall refer to everyone in America as Yanks.. I'm southern through and through...That's like calling someone from......... okay well I don't know enough about Britian to make a comparision...But a lot of southerners (not me particularly) would even go so far as to find it offensive.
That's the trouble with yanks though - they don't understand the difference between two words that sound similar. A Yankee is a term used for the winners of the American civil war. A Yank is an english word derived from the word yankee to mean an american. But just because the word is derived it doesn't mean it has to keep all of the meaning as well. the word Bible is derived from the greek word for book, but that doesn't mean that every book is a copy of the bible. I suppose we could have chosen to call everyone confederates, or feds for short, but we didn't, we chose yank, get used to it.
Yes that is a strange one which has always puzzled me too - the US version actually means the exact opposite of what's intended. One thing that always annoys me is misuse of "somewhat" as in "Jeremy Clarkson is somewhat of a dullard". It should be "Jeremy Clarkson is something of a dullard; he annoys me somewhat." Others which are somewhat annoying are "oriented" for orientated, "whatever" for whatsoever and "also" instead of too. I don't mind the American dialect developing in its own way but when British speakers adopt these differences it always grates slightly, but that's just me being a snob.
as i read this even though im a brit i became more english if thats even possible, but i started saying it all like the fecking queen
bloody hell thats what i was thinking my son, dont you just love the way the british speak and i must admit i have said this all very posh, lets go and get one some wine and have a jolly good drink o tally ho
Thank you all for the information. If I might ask, whats wrong with the way americans say candy? And I am southern as well, as southern as you can get really, and I am not offended for being called a "Yank" or "Yankee". Then again I am not real crazy about the south. Anyway, thank you all for the information.
I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today (slightly annoying that the cinema was full of kids) and that's something that really annoyed me - they kept talking about "candy", British people would never call sweets "candy" and I'm positive it wasn't written like that in the book.
Too damn right. Charlie also used the term "Band-Aid", which is another American thing as far as I know. But, I guess Yanks wouldn't know what a plaster is... Also, you can see cars driving on the wrong side of the road. Bah. I think it was actually a conscious decision on Burtons part though, I reckon he didn't want to alienate Yanks by making it to English, nor anger Limey's by setting it in America. Quite a few things made me want to hate this film, but I couldn't. I really liked it, despite myself.
That's pretty much what I decided too, when they talked about buying the golden ticket off Charlie in dollars I decided that it's not really set in Britain nor America but in some imaginary Tim Burton world, and that's OK by me. Yep, it's a great film
what about some scots words, like ye kin (equal the american "know what im sayin" shits (little kid, used in parts of the american south too), buffty (homosexual, not in a good way), **** again is a good one, square-go is a fair fight, ummmm chip is stabbed, cant think of many more. OH yeah and "the ol bitches banner" is the Yellow Rampant Lion Royal Scottish flag lol, i like that one personally
I personally do think its different, more fizzy which makes the taste different i think although having a gassy ale is not always the best. But hey, its not everyone's cuppa tea
It's a conspiracy. He was trying to get you to drink more Newkie Brown because half the profits go to funding Newcastle's football team...and they need every penny they can get
