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Post by momofrussell on Nov 5, 2008 17:08:36 GMT -5
LOL Dawn... born and raised in Cali and I always said "grocery store".. didn't say "market" much... and ALWAYS said Garage for a garage.. and a carport for a carport.. so I've used both... a carport isn't a garage from what I was taught growing up in Cali nor in the Midwest You really call garages "Carports"? And a parka and windbreaker are two different things to me also... but they are both jackets LOL A.
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Post by lorraine on Nov 6, 2008 9:54:27 GMT -5
So would you go and buy food from a shop? like do you say you're going shopping? that probly doesn't make much sense but I know what I mean LOL
Lorraine
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Post by Haleysmom on Nov 6, 2008 13:14:05 GMT -5
Fun thread - I'm from Rhode Island- we have our OWN english!
Sandwich with lots of fixin's PA - Hoagie most other places - sub/sub sandwich RI - Grinder (or as we say it Grinda)
Drinking fountain in RI - Bubbler - or in RI speak BUBBLA
coke is coke, pepsi is pepsi - soda is whatever kind it is no pop for us
Liquor store - in RI - Package Store
spaghetti sauce is gravy
Hot dogs w/special sauce in RI - Hot weiners/Gut busters we actually have lots of names for them - official "Hot Weiners" are actually sold in NY Systems restaurants but I don't think you can find a NY Systems in NY
Some in RI say shut the light - instead of turn off the light
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Post by wrblack on Nov 6, 2008 16:55:15 GMT -5
This appears to have become American/American translations, instead of Australian/American or English/American. You know the French think there are two languages, English and American. Lots of other bits and pieces. When we're in Alabama and go to Gulf Shores, we'd say we're going to the beach. But when we're in NJ and go to Seaside, or even Point Pleasant Beach or Beach Haven, we say we're going down the shore. Makes as much sense as lots of things. -- Bob
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Post by CC on Nov 6, 2008 22:45:37 GMT -5
LOL Yup Bob we here up in Northern Jersey always say "going to the shore" for the day, for the week, for the month...
Soda is the name on the can or bottle, Coke is Coke, Sprite is Sprite, Pepsi is Pepsi or just plain we need more soda ...
Not sure but I think here in northern Jersey we say Eggs and Taylor Ham sandwich and I think south Jersey refers it to Eggs and Pork roll? Might be wrong on that, BOB am I? But here its Taylor ham NOT pork roll which are the same thing LOL
I know here in the USA we say diapers and I forget but I know others call them nappies I think??
I know there are many others but have to think...
Do any of you use the phrase "its so cold out the ground crunches (sp?)"?
CC ~
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Post by Valerie on Nov 6, 2008 23:49:00 GMT -5
CC, here it's "It's colder than a well digger's a$$!" ;D
I know when we lived in Kentucky people there called shopping carts buggies. And one of my friends told me to get the kids some juice from the icebox, which I would have thought was the freezer, but was actually the refrigerator.
Here in Iowa it's pop, not soda. And I work with someone who moved here from Wisconsin and when she was talking about the bubbler (water fountain) I was totally clueless what she meant!
And we call the roads with off/on ramps interstates, the rest are highways.
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Post by Tammy on Nov 7, 2008 3:45:34 GMT -5
OK... lets sort out some more... LOL...
Carports and Garages... we have both. A Carport is an undercover area, like 4 pillars with a roof, usually adjoined or close by the house for parking your car. Garage, is fully enclosed, 3 walls and a big door on front, for parking the car, often adjoining the house, but sometimes a large shed is used as a garage.
Shop and shopping, yes Lorraine, I go shopping at the shop which is really a supermarket but is always referred to as The Shop, ie, I am going to the shop, do you want me to get you anything?
When I do the shopping, I put my groceries in a shopping "Trolley" not a cart !!
When we go to swim and play by the ocean... we are going to "The Beach"
We dont have diapers, we have Nappies.
A drink fountain is one that runs off mains water and is turned on with a tap and it squirts upward to drink from. A Bubbler is one of those big upturned bottles of purified water on a stand that you find in office buildings etc. So we have both of them.
Some more not mentioned...
We eat "Hot Chips" Americans eat "Fries"
I keep "Chooks" in my yard... big birds that lay eggs each day for me! The rest of the world keeps chickens !!
Americans eat candy... we have "Lollies"
We eat Jelly, Americans eat Jello.
Sure I will think of loads more...
;D ;D ;D
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Post by lorraine on Nov 7, 2008 5:53:49 GMT -5
There are lots of similarities with Australian and English words then. When it's really cold here we say "It's brass monkeys...."
Here's some food/cooking ones ...
Cake mixture - batter icing - frosting biscuits - cookies chips - fries aubergine - eggplant spring onions - scallions frying pan - skillet
and when we cook we weigh out all the ingredients but I think you use cups to measure, that must be confusing 'cus cups come in different sizes don't they?
Lorraine
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Post by Tammy on Nov 7, 2008 8:47:35 GMT -5
Lorraine.... Australia IS afterall....
A Brittish Colony...
;D ;D ;D Goes without saying our language should be at leats similar !!
Spring onions/Scallions... We use Spring Onions...
Measuring.... I use cups and weights... 1 Cup = 250ml liquid / 250gm Flour
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Post by lorraine on Nov 7, 2008 9:18:23 GMT -5
LOL Can you tell geography was not my best subject at school? ;D Or should that be history? I know nothing ..... Lorraine
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Post by Jessie on Nov 7, 2008 9:39:50 GMT -5
My husband's favorite saying when it's really cold is, "It's colder than a witch's t*tty in a brass bra". LOL I have no clue where he got that one since he's lived everywhere. His dialect is a mixture of everyplace he's lived too.
I thought of another one, we say 'apartment', but I think at least the UK calls them 'flats'?
Brian's family calls footstools 'hassocks'. Drives me crazy because they are the only people I know that refer to them as a hassock. I know it's a correct term, we just don't use that around here.
My SIL moved to Florida and they call their screened-in back porch a 'lanai' . . . um, it's a screened-in back porch to us!! LOL
Tammy - I'm with you on the garage vs. carport and the highways vs. freeways . . . we refer to those things the same way here too.
As far as shopping, we just simply say we are going to the store. If it's truly just a grocery store, we say grocery store, but otherwise we just go shopping at the store. Probably would specify if it were a mall though.
Jessie
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Post by wrblack on Nov 7, 2008 11:08:22 GMT -5
Yes, CC, pork roll. My Jersey girl wife loves pork roll sandwiches. Delis around here have pork roll and egg on a bagel. Taylor ham must be a north NJ thing. A few more standard American/English vocab entries, truck -- lorry elevator -- lift parking lot -- car park traffic circle -- roundabout (equally difficult and dangerous to navigate) -- and the list could go on and on, Bob
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Post by momofrussell on Nov 7, 2008 15:23:23 GMT -5
Ah yes, we say "Colder then a witch's T$$" too LOL And BRASS MONKEY is a drink made famous by the Beastie Boys LMAO! ;D I also think some call townhome's "Brownstones".... I think that is an East Coast thing and/or NY thing. I say both Frying Pan and Skillet... depending on what I am talking about and cooking. Bob, in Cali we call them Traffic Circles, out here in the STL area, they don't know what the heck a "traffic circle".. I think they call them "roundabouts" out here... or something like that... but not "traffic circle".... MO hasn't SEEN a Traffic Circle like the ones we have in Cali! I also use Icing and Frosting both... Those Lanai's and screened in porches are called "3 season rooms" here... and "sun room"... We called ours a screened in porch in CA because we had one, but here they don't say that.... I hear "3 Season Room" most. I also grew up with my Gramps saying "davenport" and "divan" for couch and/or sofa... and a commode wasn't the toilet, it was a table A side table next to our couch.... It had doors and we kept things in it so that is where I think the commode name comes from. A.
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Post by Googsmom aka Jennifer on Nov 7, 2008 20:16:19 GMT -5
"Those Lanai's and screened in porches are called "3 season rooms" here... and "sun room"... We called ours a screened in porch in CA because we had one, but here they don't say that.... I hear "3 Season Room" most. "
Here we call it "the deck"
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Post by jelanismom on Nov 7, 2008 21:38:38 GMT -5
three seasons room? huh? how fancy! we say porch or screened in porch.
Tammy what about things like barbecue and shrimp? What about pajamas, television, and telephone? What about slang terms like hold on or hold up? I still use that old term "hold your horses" LOL What about going on vacation? Is it going on holiday? What about endearing terms like sweetheart and honey and what do you call a handsome guy? A hunk?
I wanted to mention my mom would say go get a "carriage" in the grocery store... which meant a shopping cart. I still accidently say it. People look at me crazy.
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