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...The meal/function " tea " or " high tea " tends to suggest a kind of little-old-lady mild pretense...Sohthern more, again, or old-guard East Coast. I will agree that a lot of now more British terms were in wider use prior to the Sixties or thereabouts








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Can you what? If someone asked me that, I would have assumed they meant someone and not the packet in which they speak.
Usually, it's 'Can I have a fag?' or '' Can I borrow a fag?'' or ''You got any spare Cigs?'' all that and more, but not can I burn a fag from you, usually its impolite.
Also, for Biscuitman, if you want to be the sole provider of your middle class income, it usually goes with an afternoon or mid-afternoon tea (and biscuit). [/quote]

...Yes, they do. I grew up in Westchester County, NY, to the immediate north of NYC, Incidentally?, speaking of the NYC area, when people say " Long Island ", they mean Nassau and Suffolk counties...not the Brooklyn and Queens (Kings and Queens as counties) boroughs of NYC...Krafiekortie, you wouldn't call yourself a " Longuylander ", would you?











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I struggle with the American usage of obligated. Where I'm from it's obliged as in 'much obliged'. I was also totally confused when an American was talking about trowma. It took me a while to work out he was saying trauma. Also I do wonder if Americans have always used the word beverage. Here it's a drink.

We Americans (the ones Ive heard) all pronounce "trauma" as "trah mah". Presumably the same way that you say it. NEVER heard anyone say "trow ma". That would sound really weird.

Americans say "drink" (noun as well as as a verb) when talking about potables. "Beverage" is the word printed on menus. But "drink" was the word in actual speech. Though...I dunno....maybe "beverage" is starting to creep in actual speech lately.

About "obligated" . Never thought about it before.

You maybe right. Maybe "obligated" isn't a real word. And you should say "obliged".

Folks here do say "much obliged" coupled with "thank you". But if someone says "I am obligated to put away money each month to pay alimony" it wouldn't sound wrong to me.

The only "trow ma" I've heard is Troma Entertainment who produce low budget horror B-movies e.g. The Toxic Avenger which was such a cult classic it got turned into a musical and a kids cartoon.

A "Long Islander" is someone from Nassau/Suffolk County, not someone from Queens/Brooklyn--even though Queens/Brooklyn is actually ON Long Island.

Trauma is "trah-ma" to me. Rhymes with drama.

A "beverage" is a drink. Nobody ever calls a non-alcoholic drink a "beverage" in everyday speech, though it is referred to as such within menus. Sometimes, people refer to alcoholic drinks as "beverages" in order to appear elegant. The drunker a person is, the more likely he/she will use "beverage."

In the UK you would either ask for a 'drink' or a 'soft drink'

Before I started saying "soda", I used to say "pop" all the time when I lived up north. That is until I moved down to Texas...

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on November 15, 2017)

In NYC, a carbonated drink is always called a "soda." Sometimes, old folks call it "soda pop." Sometimes, "coke" is used for any brown-colored carbonated drink.

It's only "orange juice" if it's pure "orange juice." Otherwise, it would be called an "orange drink."

Same thing here in the US.

^^ "Tipple" seems to still be quite common around here in Yorkshire, as in "what's your tipple?" to ask what drink someone would like (usually meaning alcoholic, but not always.)

fizzy pop - carbonated soda
dilute pop - erm not sure if you have that. lol