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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:27:43 PM   
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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:28:07 PM   
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Ok ok.

Butty is slang for a buttered sandwich. AKA 2 pieces of bread with the internal side covered in butter/margarine.

A chip butty is the above with chips inbetween the 2 slices of bread.

A bit too literal?



And by chips you mean fish? (US slang would be crisp, thin fried pototoes, which i believe are "crisps" in UK slang...)

Oh good, because I was invisioning a pile of Ruffles between two buttered pieces of bread
I thought I was going to have to go over there and slap our UK friends around for culinary infractions

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:31:09 PM   
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Ok ok.

Butty is slang for a buttered sandwich. AKA 2 pieces of bread with the internal side covered in butter/margarine.

A chip butty is the above with chips inbetween the 2 slices of bread.

A bit too literal?



And by chips you mean fish? (US slang would be crisp, thin fried pototoes, which i believe are "crisps" in UK slang...)

Oh good, because I was invisioning a pile of Ruffles between two buttered pieces of bread
I thought I was going to have to go over there and slap our UK friends around for culinary infractions

Although, I have been pricing tickets from Denver across the pond anyway- we have really cheap airfare to London for direct flights. Some friends and I have discussed doing an extended weekend in London of pub hopping (ok crawling) and general debauchery

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:31:47 PM   
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Oh good, because I was invisioning a pile of Ruffles between two buttered pieces of bread


a carbohydrate sandwich!!

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:37:17 PM   
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Butty is slang for a buttered sandwich. AKA 2 pieces of bread with the internal side covered in butter/margarine.

A chip butty is the above with chips inbetween the 2 slices of bread.

A bit too literal?


Ah....assuming (hopefully!) rtrapasso is correct that "chips" means fried fish, then that would be a "fish sandwich" in American terminology.

So what do they call "shag carpet" in the UK?

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:38:51 PM   
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Oh good, because I was invisioning a pile of Ruffles between two buttered pieces of bread


a carbohydrate sandwich!!


Or what plumbers would call a "clog".......

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:40:25 PM   
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Oh good, because I was invisioning a pile of Ruffles between two buttered pieces of bread


a carbohydrate sandwich!!


Or what plumbers would call a "clog".......


Keeping cardiologists in business since the time they invented cardiology!

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:41:30 PM   
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lol.....I was thinking of a different sort of clog, but that one's good too!

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 7:43:09 PM   
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lol.....I was thinking of a different sort of clog...



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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 8:34:48 PM   
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Is it something you could use with someone of the opposite sex?

Guys you got it wrong! By chips I mean Fries!

Off to get a takeaway curry now....

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 8:51:44 PM   
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Shag carpet?!?

Is it something you could use with someone of the opposite sex?

Guys you got it wrong! By chips I mean Fries!

Off to get a takeaway curry now....

You put french fries between buttered bread?

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 8:56:57 PM   
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It's just thick carpet. Did you know that there is an actual dance known the Shag? Nope, strictly for two humans........

So it's a French fry sandwich?!?! Wow...a SuperClog(TM)!

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 9:43:58 PM   
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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:12:49 PM   
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Off to get a takeaway curry now....


Ah, another Britishism......this would be takeout curry over here.

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:22:21 PM   
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I thought we spoke the same language?

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:33:12 PM   
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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:33:38 PM   
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Do you still call elevators "lifts"?

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:38:22 PM   
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Takeaway?? Sounds like a bank robbery.


or a kidnapping...

Spanish has some of the same problems. i remember in one country the same phrase meant "He took the bus" and "He had sex with a little girl" depending on which country you were in... Some of the International broadcasts in Spanish were stirring up a lot of problems!

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:48:13 PM   
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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:51:42 PM   
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One of my favorites is the term flat. How anyone could live in a flat is beyond me. Do you duck a lot?

We won't even go into smoking cigarettes

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 10:59:52 PM   
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LOL. A work colleague went to the states for a bit. We called him and spoke to his American Secretary. She said he was away from his desk. We joked saying "oh he must be having a fag!"....She thought we meant something else other than having a cigarette

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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 11:03:11 PM   
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Hey I live in a flat

LOL. A work colleague went to the states for a bit. We called him and spoke to his American Secretary. She said he was away from his desk. We joked saying "oh he must be having a fag!"....She thought we meant something else other than having a cigarette



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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 11:08:36 PM   
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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 11:18:00 PM   
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RE: The log - 3/21/2006 11:41:29 PM   
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RE: The Thread - 3/21/2006 11:45:51 PM   
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Well, the worst/funniest misunderstanding that I know of between British and American is when a British teenager, having just moved with his family to the States, in class at high school asked the guy at the next desk if he "could borrow a rubber".



One guy (not sure if he was Brit or South African) ended up getting deported on one of these. An immigration officer was interviewing him in the 1960's (iirc) when applying to renew a visa after being in the States a few months. The immigration officer asked this unmarried male if he had ever had intercourse with an American woman, and he said "yes", thinking the guy was referring to SOCIAL intercourse (not the sexual kind). They denied his visa, arrested him and shipped him out posthaste. It was only later that he figured out what they were talking about (this was the early '60s and they were not so sexually liberated, i guess..........)

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RE: The Thread - 3/22/2006 12:33:36 AM   
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How about loo's and privy's? Are those British? Those seem pretty well recognized here.

Do you throw fits over there? Have cows?

We still don't need "lifts" to get to the first floor, either......

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RE: The Thread - 3/22/2006 12:40:04 AM   
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Found another one......slapper.........I believe that would be a b!tch in American........

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RE: The Thread - 3/22/2006 12:55:06 AM   
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Loo's - yup still have them. We also call them Lavatories or Toilet's....WC's

Yup we also throw fits over here.

Slapper - means the same here really.

You don't think of 'slag' in the purely volcanic form do you?

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RE: The Thread - 3/22/2006 12:55:53 AM   
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