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Skipperoo
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| adzee1 wrote: |
| cj1976 wrote: |
I'll stop saying "whinge" when Americans stop saying the following:
"Could care less"
"Gotten"
"Wanna/Gonna"
Thank you. |
Dont forget some of the other classics
"my bad "
"I wanna leave already"
"Im gonna get me one of those"
"Get my eat on" |
I suppose I use more British English than American English...only the dregs of society like Joe Plumber use those terms, like the chavs I would guess.
Also, I think most people use got for something they recently acquired, while have is used for an object they have had for awhile. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| adzee1 wrote: |
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I always thought "Have you got?" rather than "Do you have?" was a Britishism.
Excellent, now I can stop teaching it when it comes up - I was trying to be fair-handed to the Brits.
To be fair, there are some pretty dumb Britishisms/slang.
"That's legend!" / "Ledge!"
"Yur American, Innit?"
"Wot?"
"Shedule" *shudder*
And, please, if you're going to go after American nonsense, get it right! It's "I'm gonna get me one of them (back shavers)!" |
haha yes I dont see any problem with "have you got" I know loads of people in England who say that.
You are also right about us having equally annoying phrases, nothing wrong with Shedule though 
Surely not as bad as Vytamin and A Luminum |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium
The spelling used throughout the 19th century by most U.S. chemists was aluminium, but common usage is less clear.[65] The aluminum spelling is used in the Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In his advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal 1892, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents[54] he filed between 1886 and 1903.[66] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling reflects an easier to pronounce word with one fewer syllable, or that the spelling on the flier was a mistake. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.
There are reasons for everything.
Just like even to this day, people think spinach is an amazing source of iron. |
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