Re: THIS WEBSITE IS "ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS" as us Transplanted Brits Would Say
Mo779, Although we all believe that we're speaking the King's English, there are words and expressions which we (Yanks) use in everyday conversation which may have a very different, somewhat unusual meaning in another country. For example, I've heard folks from Ireland say, "Why don't you join us for some good crack?" They're inviting you to get together for drinks and laughs. Yet, in the USA, crack only means one thing these days, drugs. So put that way, it raises everyone's eyebrows. Since TV has a pretty good cross-section of people, have you heard (or overheard) anything which didn't make sense to you? Are there accents which are totally unintelligible to you?
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