[Rokinronda]

Sundae...hmmmmm......Not mondae, twosdae, whensdae, thursdae, fridae, or saterdae......Yes sundae, I think it is a day of rest!!

[Muncle]

Boomer, yes, bitte does mean please. The first words I learned in Deutsch were "Ein Bier, bitte." (Coincidentally, the first Canadian sentence I learned was "Deux LeBatt Cinquente, s'il vous plait.")

But bitte is a handy little word. When someone says danke (thanks), the reply is bitte or more formally "Danke Schoen" -- "Bitte Schoen"
They use it other places, but mein Deutsch ist nicht gut. Normally I say "Mein Deutsche ist Scheisse" and most Germans agree.

[Boomer]

Munc, I think I just translated your German. I did not know I could do that.

TOTVers from RI, thanks for clearing up that cabinet thing. And I love the little dictionary, Ronda. I want to add "wikkit" to my own dictionary.

That whole thing about what to order in the ice cream store is fun. I can just see a sign in an ice cream store in TV where everybody is from everywhere. The sign would have to be really big to list all the different words for a milkshake.

And in Boston, is frappe pronounced "frap" or "frap-ay"?

Another regional word: Across the river and farther south in Kentucky, you carry your groceries home from the store in a "poke" not a bag or a sack.

Boomer

[Rokinronda]

I also say shopping cart. Here it is buggy??!! Yes lots of creepy crawlees, I agree florida is buggy, but my groceries like a ride in the shopping cart.

[barb1191]

frappe = frap

Are we restricted to our domestic language or can we throw in some foreign "duzies?"

Like in UK where they talk "funny" English.
(I was married to an Englishman; have heard it all.)

The car hood is the "bonnet."

The car headlight dimmer is the "dipswitch."

"Keep your pecker up." Means hang in there and things will get better.

"bloody bugger" is extremely crude and gross.

I'm told that in midwest the people wait ON you rather than wait FOR you.

I just realized that I'm off subject in that you were looking merely for "words" and not expressions.

Sorry for the drifting off course.....b

If you enjoy playing with words, here's a link that may be of interest to you:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/a.htm

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Rokinronda

I also say shopping cart. Here it is buggy??!! Yes lots of creepy crawlees, I agree florida is buggy, but my groceries like a ride in the shopping cart.

Mine too. My groceries that is. They like to ride in a shopping cart. They would "spit up" in a buggy.

GracieGirl

[redwitch]

My food stays in the grocery cart until I take it to the checker for ringing up. The horse stands in the front of the buggy waiting for the whip to crack, unless, of course, the driver is buggy and thinks the horse should ride and driver should pull. The baby rides in the stroller or baby carriage.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by barb1191

frappe = frap

Are we restricted to our domestic language or can we throw in some foreign "duzies?"

Like in UK where they talk "funny" English.
(I was married to an Englishman; have heard it all.). . .

Sorry for the drifting off course.....b

If you enjoy playing with words, here's a link that may be of interest to you:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/a.htm

barb, it can be quite lovely to drift off course. I don't know why I did not mention other than domestic language. In fact, the time I spent on Thursday with our friends' Australian house guest was what got me started thinking more about this. This was one of the things we talked about.

This reminds me of a question I have had for a long time. -- This thread has talked about ice cream words. For years I have wondered if our Canadian friends speak of ice cream differently.

Here's why I need to ask:

Many, many, many years ago, a good friend of mine was dating a Canadian Mountie who came to visit. He was handsome and utterly charming, just like in those old movies. We had a great time. But I have always had a question about something he said. Being from the Midwest, I was, of course, too polite to ask him, at the time. So here, 30 years later, I will just ask all of you.

Our Canadian guest did not say that he wanted a scoop of ice cream or a dip of ice cream or a dish of ice cream. He wanted a "piece" of ice cream. Is that what is said in Canada?

Boomer

[mac9]

Don't know about Canadian piece of ice cream, but when I was growing up in Central New Jersey, ice cream came in a "brick" (a square pint box). We would ask for a slice of ice cream as it was never dipped, but always sliced. Cones were rectangular at the top to accomodate the slice.

[chuckinca]

In Chicago ice cream cones were generally scoops.

A chain called Prince Castle used a cube scoop and a square cone and you got a cone built up with cubes. This was also done years later in Payless Drugs.

A famous stand near Blue Island on the far Southside had Rainbow Sherbet cones made of slices of different flavor sherbets stacked on a 30 degree angle vertically (it was a few blocks away from a Prince Castle)

And back on subject - a friend from New Zealand calls the city dump "the Tip"

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Boomer BeBack

Munc, I think I just translated your German. I did not know I could do that.

TOTVers from RI, thanks for clearing up that cabinet thing. And I love the little dictionary, Ronda. I want to add "wikkit" to my own dictionary.

That whole thing about what to order in the ice cream store is fun. I can just see a sign in an ice cream store in TV where everybody is from everywhere. The sign would have to be really big to list all the different words for a milkshake.

And in Boston, is frappe pronounced "frap" or "frap-ay"?

Another regional word: Across the river and farther south in Kentucky, you carry your groceries home from the store in a "poke" not a bag or a sack.

Boomer

I have an English friend who will come by and "knock me up".

Waiting for Tony to meander in any time now.

[njgranny]

My English friend, who moved here when she married an American, had quite a few embarrassing moments with her "English" expressions.