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After reading a few posts on 'Random questions about the UK...' thread gave me an idea.
Cant you work out what the slang/phrase means above (or others) from the other country.
Start small to progress the topic.
Full Monty?
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2012-03-13, 08:59 PM #1Deleted
UK vs US slang/phrases.
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2012-03-13, 09:05 PM #2Old God
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Fully nude?
Originally Posted by Madkitty
Not english or yank but I'll give it a shot.
Mits(not man boobs)The nerve is called the "nerve of awareness". You cant dissect it. Its a current that runs up the center of your spine. I dont know if any of you have sat down, crossed your legs, smoked DMT, and watch what happens... but what happens to me is this big thing goes RRRRRRRRRAAAAAWWW! up my spine and flashes in my brain... well apparently thats whats going to happen if I do this stuff...
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2012-03-13, 09:11 PM #3DeletedOne of them, its also another phrase for a full english breakfast. Originally Posted by Jackmoves
man boobs would never of crossed my mind tbh for mits......no idea, if its swedish i have no idea
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2012-03-13, 09:11 PM #4Herald of the Titans
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Not man tits? You mean mitts? Those are hands. Originally Posted by Jackmoves
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2012-03-13, 09:13 PM #5DeletedMittens or gloves. Originally Posted by Jackmoves
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2012-03-13, 09:14 PM #6Deletedfull monty means everything, though a lot of people think it means nothing or nude. Originally Posted by Madkitty
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2012-03-13, 09:20 PM #7Titan
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What about the phrase "I'll have you chewing gum out of the other side of your ass!" Heard a Scottish guy say this, I have no idea what it means. I assume it means he's gonna mess you up.
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2012-03-13, 09:21 PM #8DeletedHe is Scottish, hence it is mostly nonsense. Originally Posted by Dacien
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2012-03-13, 09:23 PM #9Herald of the Titans
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That's RACIST! Originally Posted by RICH1471
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2012-03-13, 09:38 PM #10Deleted
"Some chav nicked my rubbish after I chucked it in the tip! I was so gob-smacked, I coughed up the bap I was munching on and got sprog all down my front!"
Come at me from across the pond!
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2012-03-13, 09:40 PM #11Titan
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Holy crap lol! That's uh, that's pretty wild haha! Originally Posted by Baiyn
"Some chav nicked my rubbish after I chucked it in the tip! I was so gob-smacked, I coughed up the bap I was munching on and got sprog all down my front!"
Come at me from across the pond!
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2012-03-13, 09:44 PM #12DeletedSprog means child or infant. What you typed made sense up until that. Originally Posted by Baiyn
"Some chav nicked my rubbish after I chucked it in the tip! I was so gob-smacked, I coughed up the bap I was munching on and got sprog all down my front!"
Come at me from across the pond!
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2012-03-13, 09:48 PM #13DeletedMilitary coloquilaisms! Originally Posted by RICH1471
Redders!
Brassic!
Numpty!
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2012-03-13, 09:49 PM #14Herald of the Titans
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Well, Robert is your father's brother. Originally Posted by RICH1471
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2012-03-13, 09:51 PM #15The Patient
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I had no idea that the word "fanny" has a very different meaning to you Brits than it does to us Yanks. That was an awkward moment at work.
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2012-03-13, 09:54 PM #16DeletedI know, right! Just your average day in Blighty! Originally Posted by Dacien
Actually, in Yorkshire it can mean spit too. Usually, rather unpleasant spit, at that (containing phlegm or something else equally revolting)! Yahoo! 'Sprog' Discussion >_<' Originally Posted by RICH1471
I had actually forgotten it can mean a child too. Perhaps my usage of sprog was a little too colloquial to be fair.
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2012-03-13, 09:59 PM #17Deleted
I have a West Yorkshire accent, my relatives from the south have no idea what I'm saying. So we have plenty of ways of saying things, we often use words like 'the' very rarely, eg "Goin dahn taun" = "I'm going down to town"
But my boyfriend and his family have a stronger accent, still using words like thee, thy and sither. I find dialects rather interesting though.
But I've always found the difference between fanny US and fanny UK rather amusing.
And yep, the full monty means "the whole thing" like a full monty fryup would be a fryup with absolutely everything on it!
I'd not heard of that one! What area of Yorkshire?Actually, in Yorkshire it can mean spit too.
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2012-03-13, 10:00 PM #18Titan
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Someone once told me that bugger means something totally different in the UK than the US...
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2012-03-13, 10:04 PM #19DeletedI use it as another way of saying "Go away", "bugger off" has just been something I've said for a long time now. Originally Posted by Khaza-R
We sometimes refer if something's a pain or an annoyance as a "toe". How odd.
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2012-03-13, 10:14 PM #20DeletedHmmm... After a fairly thorough search (by internet standards), only that Yahoo! discussion I linked in my explanatory post actually references using 'sprog' as spit. It would seem that it is fairly narrow in its area of usage in that context. Perhaps only around Leeds and York? Interesting. Originally Posted by Aianne
Amusingly, apparently 'sprog' is used in Australia as slang for 'male-specific fluid'! http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sprog xD
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