In the Interests of Unity Between us Brits and You Yanks... (page 7)

undercover

...its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) with Terry Thomas...

That's one of my all time favorite movies. And Terry-Thomas was hilarious (never understood the hyphen in his name)

undercover

*raises hand*

I know the Randy one!!! yeah baby! lol

Yea...one little mention of forking and you get all randy...

sacolton

Who's Randy? Boy, that would get confusing in a conversation between an American and a Brit.

American: Hi, I'm Michael.

Brit: Cheerio, names William.

American: (sees beautiful Brit girl) She's gorgeous!

Brit: I'm randy.

American: I thought you said your name was William.

Brit: It is.

American: You said you were Randy.

Brit: I am. Aren't you?

American: So, your name is William Randy?

Brit: No, chap, just William, old boy. Aren't you randy?

American: No, I told you my name is Michael.

Brit: Yes.

American: Huh?

Brit: Wot?

wobble

If we are to be truly unified, as per the thread title, then you Americans really must learn to pronounce things properly.

You utter words with no appreciation of their etymology, and therefore you go ahead and spell them incorrectly. We see many examples on this board of total ignorance of what a word means, or even a whole expression.

i.e "fertle" when you mean some land, or indeed a female, is fertile. Pedophile as a spelling must mean someone obsessed with feet, paedophile on the other hand means an abuser of children hiding in the WT organization.

Some on here have said " I could care less " when they mean "I could not care less" etc.

Let us work towards a common language ! Why doesn't everybody be like me, and speak fluent bollocks ?

love

Wobble

babygirl75

Wobble, you need to lay off the punk. LOL (I just saw that means weed....lol)

sacolton

Well, I don't like how Brits pronounce the word "missile".

American: MISS-ILL

Brit: MISS-AISLE

Here we put gas in our car.

You put petrol in your car.

Mickey mouse

That's one of my all time favorite movies. And Terry-Thomas was hilarious (never understood the hyphen in his name)

I thought Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney were hilarious in that movie.

beksbks

do you southeners have anything by which you are referred to, or are you just good old Americans?

LOL...depends on who you ask.

Most non-Southerners don't understand us, so they make fun of us.

Ahhhh phooey! Nice save UC! You Brits put Rubbers on your feet. We put them somewhere else.

Mickey mouse

The weirdest thing is how Americans pronounce aluminium.

wobble

How do I know then Sacs, apart from the context,based just on pronunciation, that you are not talking about the RC "missal" that would help me through a Mass ?

Love

Wobble

In the Interests of Unity Between us Brits and You Yanks...

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