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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2007, 01:34:46 PM »
On which note:

Pavement = sidewalk

Interesting, I'd didn't know pavement was a name for sidewalk in G.B.

It isn't, sidewalk is a name for pavement in the US. :P

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2007, 02:18:19 PM »
On which note:

Pavement = sidewalk

Interesting, I'd didn't know pavement was a name for sidewalk in G.B.

It isn't, sidewalk is a name for pavement in the US. :P

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2007, 04:21:16 PM »
Any unique profanity or colloquial insults?
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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2007, 05:13:19 PM »
Any unique profanity or colloquial insults?

I believe that the term 'Haddaway and Shite' is synonymous with 'Go Fuck Yourself', though I think that it's more of British regionalism more common in The North.
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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2007, 06:30:31 PM »
Any unique profanity or colloquial insults?

I believe that the term 'Haddaway and Shite' is synonymous with 'Go Fuck Yourself', though I think that it's more of British regionalism more common in The North.

better Haddaway than Callaway!  :laugh:
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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #20 on: March 03, 2007, 06:33:18 PM »
The motherlode of English Slang is here:

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #21 on: March 03, 2007, 06:39:00 PM »
Any unique profanity or colloquial insults?

I believe that the term 'Haddaway and Shite' is synonymous with 'Go Fuck Yourself', though I think that it's more of British regionalism more common in The North.

Its a Geordie expression, also 'haway and shite'.

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2007, 07:20:49 PM »
Also you can hear a wide range of accents/dialects at the British Library. You can start off with the Curator's picks, browse the whole collection, or do an advanced search and browse by Place name (City/County). Be forwarned though that if you choose to search by Place Name, you have to specify an object type of Recorded Speech.  All files on this site are in .wma format.

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/

Bearing in mind the concept of mutual reciprocity, A good collection of American Regional accents can be found here. All files seem to be in low quality though still listenable .mp3 format. For the record, The samples on this site are divided in two halves. The first half being the subjects reading text, and the second half where the subject adlibs. The second half of the audio samples is much more representative of the normal speech patterns.

http://web.ku.edu/idea/northamerica/usa/usa.htm

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2007, 07:37:57 PM »
The motherlode of English Slang is here:

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2007, 09:56:07 PM »
Do the British still use the term Milliard for a thousand millions ?? ?? ??

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« Reply #25 on: March 10, 2007, 01:54:28 AM »
No. We use billion.

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #26 on: March 10, 2007, 04:40:36 AM »
Do you use trillion for the old definition of billion, which is a million million?

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« Reply #27 on: March 10, 2007, 04:42:30 AM »
If they use a billion as another word for a milliard, they should. In the rest of Europe, a billion is 112, a trillion is 118, etc...

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Re: Britishisims for Dummies
« Reply #28 on: March 10, 2007, 04:45:19 AM »
112 = 118 = 1

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« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2007, 04:47:28 AM »
Of course I meant 1x1012 and 1x1018:-[