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      OK....I love teasing BonnyMiss about words/phrases they have across the big pond that is different than in Texas.  Example buttered buns.  I think of buttering someone's butt    what are some other phrases or words that have different meanings where you are? | |
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      Fanny pack = Bum bag.
 Fag = Cigarette.     | |
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       Dzien Dobry-----  Good Morning   | |
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      you crazy English    | |
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      There are crazy Canadians that will tell you about aboot......   | |
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      what is aboot?  I know I wear 2 boots    | |
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      Cars have boots in the UK.
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       piwo ---- beer    | |
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      Tab = Cigaretts
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| Cars have boots in the UK. That's the trunk? | |
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       papierosy------cigarette ,
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| Cars have boots in the UK. That's the trunk? It is.   | |
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      Arse about face - This means you are doing something back to front. 
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      Bang - Nothing to do with your hair - this is a rather unattractive way of describing having sex. Always gets a smile from Brits in American hair dressers when they are asked about their bangs. 
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      Bender - Gay man
 To go on a bender - a pub crawl or a heavy drinking session.     | |
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      Biggie -  A biggie is what a child calls his poo! Hence the reason Wendy's Hamburgers has never really taken off in England - who would buy "biggie fries"? Yuck - I'm sure you wouldn't buy poo fries! The other meaning of Biggie is an erection.
 Yellowrose, are you sorry you started this thread?             | |
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      Over here we throw a blanket on the horses, over there they rug them.
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| Bang - Nothing to do with your hair - this is a rather unattractive way of describing having sex. Always gets a smile from Brits in American hair dressers when they are asked about their bangs. We use Bang over here too for sex as in "I'd bang her." | |
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      "There's a moose loose aboot this hoose!"
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        Edited by
        feistybaby
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        Mon 07/26/10 10:31 AM
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      windshield here = windscreen there 
 spotted dick is something you eat not something contagious.... bangers and mash are suasages and potatoes not people haveing sex and stalkers   | |
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