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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 3:17:10 PM
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A question.
Would trailer trash be the same as white trash?
Not all white trash live in trailers and not everyone living in a trailer is white trash.
Possible...yes, but not necessarily so.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 5:21:23 PM
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manda59
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Yep, fanny is the front part too here, Nicole!
(remember! the filter is American!)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 5:35:39 PM
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LOL didn't know if we could say fanny or not!
I also think the names for clothes is really weird
sweater, pull over, anorak etc
OHHH this is what I was thinking!! In American movies they always say "hand me the Kleenex" why not say "tissue" surely you have more than one brand of tissue. I mean we have Kleenex here but we dont say that.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 6:13:56 PM
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I also think the names for clothes is really weird
sweater, pull over, anorak etc
Don't you say those words?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 6:27:31 PM
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manda59
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Uni (university)...........Sandwich is "sanga" (not a hard "g").
Uni has definitely been totally incorporated into Brit speak btw.
Nicole, am I right in saying that a "snag" is a sausage?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 7:18:03 PM
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peculiar_lady2
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LOL didn't know if we could say fanny or not!
that's a whole lot better then "the F word"....I was trying to figure out what word you meant without it being THAT word!!!!
Kleenex is the brand that started the whole tissue craze though, so a lot of places people say that as a general word, not a brand name.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 7:30:42 PM
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Kleenex is the brand that started the whole tissue craze though, so a lot of places people say that as a general word, not a brand name.[/color]
In the UK, people will sometimes say "Andrex" for the same reason, as a general name for toilet paper (or bathroom tissue as you call it!).
Also, when I was growing up, my mum always called the vacuum cleaner the "Hoover" - at the time it was a Hoover, but even when she bought a new different brand, it was still called the Hoover, and it has rather stayed with me as well.
Don't y'all (  ) generally say "a Band-Aid" instead of "a plaster"?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 7:55:12 PM
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Hello all. Jumping in here so Nicole can have a bit more Aussie support  Been a while since I have been on Crosswalk, but this thread looks like fun.
Yes Manda a snag is a sausage but it can also be found when you are fishing and your line gets caught in it.
As for the sweater, pullover and anorak, I think those terms are used here [maybe not anorak unless you are in Tassie where it gets cold enough to wear them ] depending on which part of Aust you come from. My Victorian relatives all refer to pullovers, but here in NSW we tend to call them jumpers.
We used to refer to tissues as Kleenex, but now it tends to just be tissue. Speaking of the brand name becoming the item, in the past we would "Hoover" the carpets and put on our "Levis". But these terms seemed to have dropped from use now and it has become 'vacuum' the carpet and put on our 'jeans'.
Another typical Aussie slang term is to go to, or have "Maccas" when referring to McDonalds. And I always wondered about the American terms 'scones' and 'biscuit'. I know they are not what we know them as but am still a little unsure what they are. I guess by the reference to 'scones' at KFC that they may be the small bread roll you get with their meals?
I think the younger people here, particularly from the urban areas are becoming more American in their speech now and I am finding with [with horror  ] that even in our print media the 'journos' are using American spelling for a lot of our words, so colour can often be seen as color for instance. Although I wonder if that is more to do with the American ownership and input into our ads and media. 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 7:56:54 PM
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In the UK, people will sometimes say "Andrex" for the same reason, as a general name for toilet paper (or bathroom tissue as you call it!).
I heard that in Germany some.....a lot of the civilian mechanics that worked with hubby there were English.
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Don't y'all ( ) generally say "a Band-Aid" instead of "a plaster"?
yes....we do.....cause we are "stuck on band-aid brand cause band-aid's stuck" on us....lol (that's the band-aid brand song on their commercials for those that don't know)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:01:48 PM
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Cool thread!
Isn't a sweater in Brit what we in the US call a "sweat shirt?" In the US, a sweater is a knit or crocheted top, usually pulled over the head, but it can be a cardigan.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:08:12 PM
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peculiar_lady2
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Ahh, but do you call the little room the bathroom/restroom or the toilet?
here it is the bathroom (although out I will say restroom cause there is not a bath in it...lol)....when in Germany though we learned to say "toilet" or no one would know what we were talking about....lol. It's hard going back to the old American way of talking though after being over there....it's .....weird....lol
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:08:59 PM
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Ahh! I am mixed up!
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I remember my grandmother [who was English] talking about plasters but it was always Band Aids to us.
