British vs. American vocab

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~Ahem~

Michael Caine in "Cider House Rules", and that doctor bloke who rarely shaves and walks with a cane on the telly.

Racist remark here ...

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/ ... sh?view=uk
This says it's a myth, but it doesn't give an actual origin explanation.

Round where I live, they say 'shan' which apparently means unfair.
And they go 'ya areet?' and stuff like that.
The reason being, is because I'm geordie.

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From what I've been told, a British person can tell you exactly where you come from (in the UK), and likely what class you're from, and possibly even what you do for a living. I also get the impression that there's no faster way to tick off an English person than to try to do an English accent (being from the South, I lay it on the cornpone with a trowel...

There's a lot of British accents...Orkneys (sp?) to the 'Beautiful South'. One thing that does tickle me was there was a BBC TV show about Glasgow, which was (I'm not making this up) supplied with English subtitles... It was for British audiences, too...
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It's true that every area of the UK has its own distinctive accent,although I suspect the use
of subtitles for Glasgow was more of a thinly disguised Anti-Scottish political comment from
the London-based BBC hierarchy rather than something viewers would actually need. The BBC wouldn't dare use subtitles for English accents like Liverpool,Birmingham or Newcastle which are just as distinctive.

There's a curious change when it comes to singing,in that most British singers have always
tended to sing in an American accent ! Occasionally,some groups buck the trend and make a
point of singing in their local accent (The Proclaimers in an Edinburgh/Fife twang and Scouting
For Girls in what sounds like Cockney to me)

But ours is the original - you messed it all up

It is indeed a curious phenomenon. It's actually quite annoying.

Think of this as a computer. You guys developed it first. We had to work out all the bugs.

PWNED!

sigh...one of the saddest things about getting old is everything your read and learned in school turns out to be wrong...Fireside theatre must have been right...

Tell me this isn't true ! !!

I've used this expression my whole life, and always believed the origin story ....

Did we develop it first?

I don't know if racist is the right word, since we have the same races in the US as in England, but it's definitely a prejudiced remark.

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The word Race, used above, is a direct link to Racisim, just because it is not to do with visual, issues, it does not mean it is racisim...

If somebody were to laugh at some people from a different country speaking to each other in a different language, that would be considered, 'Racist' he would be presumably laughing at the words in the language, or the way words are said...

What was just said, Was, presumably a racist remark about the differences between Americans and people from the U.K... so technically Keith was correct...

When I was a kid I watched a *lot* of Brit TV and regularly would order dr. who novelizations that were printed there. Even now, one of my most-watched channels is BBC America.

Confuses people to no end when they encounter me: British accent, spelling, and vocabulary ... but has never ventured beyond North America.

Isn't posh classy and sophisticated? I hear it all the time here...

Hmph, well fine then if you want to get all technical.