new 2 barefoot

Hey Sax.I heard Bobbbies used around
football grounds just a few years ago.
Addmittidly those using it were older.
One thing I can tell about you mate
is you're definitly from the south.Or
is that 'darn sarf'.
Londoners don't know it all.They just
think they do.

 

I found out what fanny mean first hand ** rubs left side of face ** after I explained what I meant she appreciated the compliment. she then explained what fanny means in the UK.

when I was stationed there the one "British" word that really threw me off was ... and this came from my landlords 13 year old daughter, rubber.

she wanted to show me her rubber collection ... for Americans rubbers = condoms .. so you could imagine initial shock at this and then my relief and expression when whe showed me her ERASER collection.

the one that drove my landlords wife into laughing fits was ZIT. She thought that was the funniest thing she ever heard. zit = pimple

pavement does not mean sidewalk .. sidewalk means sidewalk
pavement means anything paved, but is usually thought of as street that is either cement or asphault

fire company dates back to the earliest days of American fire fighting .. it was a company/association/group/team of men that did volunteer fire fighting in their communities. The term sticks today because the men live, work and sleep together in a station house for the duration of their shift. they are usually the same COMPANY of men, so that they can becomed accustomed to one another which gives a cohesive fire fighting force.

you want to talk pronunciation issues.. why do y'all remove the 'h" from county names .. like Derbyshire, Oxfordshire .. is it not pronounced Derby-SHIRE, Oxford-SHIRE ? that is the way it is spelled, yet I always heard Derby-shur or Oxford-shur. this wasn't always from country folk either

 

Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, - we don't remove the 'h', if anything we remove the 'e' on the end - so we pronounce it Derbyshir - as in "Shirley you can't be serious"

We use the word Shire as in Shire Horses and "the shire" if you're a Tolkien fan. On the other hand, where do you think the word Sheriff comes from? But tacked onto the end of a county name the symbol is officially prononuced "sheer" - but that gets contracted in normal speech to "shir".

But then there are lots of place names that aren't pronounced as they'er written - Wymondham is Windam, Bicester is Bister, Leicester is Lester, Totnes is Totness, Chalmondley is Chumly - it's the way the English language has developed. But as the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind, and since Americans have no use for these words they just don't pick them up, where as over here, English is the same as it always has been and so we keep using it that way. Just be glad we don't all speak Gaelic!


A rubber is called a rubber because it's made of rubber - and erasers are made of rubber. - Also it's something which which you rub out pencil markings - it's something that rubs.

Oh and yes, I am original West London. Even though I was born in Bath (westcountry where they all speak like Wurzel Gummidge). But if you think we're arrogant you should talk to the northerners. Yarkshurmen can harp on for bloody ages about 'this tha' an' t'uther'. And you should hear them speak - the accent is very different from mine. And that's just one KIND of northern accent. It's not darn sarf by the way (northerners tend to think it is) but we say 'dan saff'.

 

Actually, pretty much nobody does and nobody ever did take to calling French Fries "Freedom Fries," except maybe a few idiot politicians who were trying to score points with anyone who was pissed off at the French. It's easy to get pissed off at the French, though, because they're such assholes about everything.

By the way, according the Barrons' Food Lover's Companion, the term "French Fries" should really be "Frenched Fries," and has nothing to do with France at all: "frenched" is a way of cutting food.

So calling them French Fries would not be like giving credit to the French in the first place.

(Of course, I have no idea why that kind of cut is called "Frenched.")

Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

 

who cares. They're just chips anyway. Chipped potato - whatever you like - they're chips. You can't go wrong with that. Sometimes they get called Fries in this country because the name gets carried over with the menu from chains that started across the pond, but they're never called French Fries. I've heard the term "Country Fries" or "Southern Fries" as well at times- but I think that's just taking the piss.

I've got a lot of time for the french - I like the way the hang onto their own language unlike all the other countries who are just using English because it's easier to talk to everyone - unfortunately they learn english Incorrectly, or worse they learn it the American way and then are completely shocked when we tell them how to speak properly. If they want to go to america they can speak American - but if they'er going to be on the continent most of the time then they really ought to speak it like us. I've noticed the French and Germans speak English, the Italians, Spanish and Portuguese tend to speak American. But I'm digressing from the French. The French keep their own language, if on holiday in England they will actually go up to you in the street and talk to you in French, just as an Englishman might in Holland or Greece or any country where he's not likely to have been taught the language in school. But in England we all learn a reasonable amount of French in school. I also admire the french for standing up and saying no to Bush - something that Blair should have done, especially since everyone in England did, or at least wanted to and tried to with their demonstrations.

However, the French are a bit French, in that irritating french way - it's a wonderful love-hate relationship we've built up and it gets spoilt a bit when the yanks come having a go at our dear old pals the frogs for all the wrong reasons.

 

Technically we ARE staying on topic - the topic has evolved naturally to where it is at the moment - it's not as if any one individual is posting spam or anything. And it's not as if there aren't plenty of other barefoot threads. I'd just like to quickly point out that "pigs" and "fuzz" are american terms, and they only get used over here because a lot of American has found its way here through television, films and the internet. That doesn't make it officially part of the English language.

Ok, at the request of the honourable gentleman - lets say we kill this thread now and immediately stop our interesting discussion about the difference in language between the two sides of the pond and go back to a discussion about barefoot started by someone who hasn't even posted for ages. Should we do that I predict that this thread will just die, but I don't make the rules up.

Anyone else new to going barefoot?

 

Mellow_Hendrix.Go fuck yourself.I was born in Manchester you

fucking imbecile!I don't know know where you're from but
you're probably very americanized.
You fucking turd brain!

 

Mellow_Hendrix
You call it the fire department beceause that's what
you've heard on american t.v programs.
you call them "fuzz" beceause that's what you've
heard on american t.v programs.
and on and on
You impressionable little fucking dweeb!
You erode the culture!
I've seen an England You'll never see!

 

Well, Skip, I'm sorry that you've been bothered by this but it would appear that Mellow_Hendrix went right over our heads - he never bothered to ask us to get back on topic - or even attempted to post about being new to barefoot, and had he done so the thread could have been guided back onto that topic just as easily as it left it. We did not mean to hi-jack it, but the discussion that developed was one that interested a number of us and there was no-one else to tell us otherwise. Yes we could have started another thread, but as far as we could tell this thread was not being used for anything else. In fact, more than once I did mention an interest to getting back to talking about barefooting but people seemed more interested in discussion the evolution of the english language.

Mellow Hendrix, if you have more to say about being new to going barefoot then please just say so, no need to go filing complaints about us - we're not unreasonable people!

 

no i call it a fire brigade like i said, dipshit!!
i call them fuzz because thats wat iv always called them iv never heard anyone call them that on american tv!
i live in england !!! in live in devon

americanized isnt a word
wow born in manchester but only lived there for a few years u must know what ur talkin bout I WAS BORN IN DEVON AND LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE!!!

now there was no need to pm me with abuse i dont do it to you so dont do it to me!!

anyway back to the original subject sorry skip


btw sax_machine i didnt file any complaints so skip is either lying or it was sumone else dude

 

Interesting how you two are fighting over who's the more English when you've both been using words, phrases and spellings that come across to me as EXTREMELY American.

So yeah, anyway - barefooting. Been anywhere interesting in your bare feet, lately?

Myself I had a lot of fun going barefoot to the Folk festival all weekend, saw plenty of bare feet there, although not many genuine barefooters - shoes were mostly nearby - it was like being at the beach.

Been barefoot to the cinema recently as well - and walked barefoot home from work, that's about it mostly though - I've spent an awful lot of time at home lately, and of course I never wear shoes at home, but that's nothing special.

 

Mellow_hendrix I apologize.You did call me a name first though.

 

you mean apologise, don't you?

Anyone ever apologised barefoot before?

 

its cool mate sorry bout callin u an asshole

wow i just apologised barefoot lol

umm did nothing special barefoot today but i did wear shoes for the first time in 2 weeks (cos i was goin skating) it was nasty my feet were all sweaty and hot BAREFOOTING RULES