International Equivalents

[Little Bird]

Just thinking. Kyle and I have different names for the same thing. Where I am from, I call them ladybirds but in Kyle's part of the world it's a ladybug.

It got me thinking about what other things we have different names for.

Here's another example. Here I would know it as a courgette but in your country it could be refered to as zuccini or even something else again.

Can you think of anymore?

[michaelsjewel]

ladybirds? for a bug? um..... that's interesting...in the US we call them birds if they are birds - and a ladybug is no bird...it may fly.... but so does a bee...a wasp....a butterfly...an airplane...a dragonfly...but i don't call those birds....no sirreee

[kjm030584]

what do you call cigarettes?

Aren't they called fags in England or is it all of G. Britain

[kjm030584]

Okay, I live in Pennsylvania and it seems like any place from here to the west calls softdrinks pop instead of soda (which is right!!!)

[Little Bird]

Well we actually call cigarettes 'smokes' here. Dave could tell you more about what they call them in Great Britain.

An hey, we all think our way is right. It's just different.

[michaelsjewel]

i'm not saying my way is right...it just makes since b/c they aren't birds...lol

as for soda and pop..... some call it 'soda pop' lol..... so there really isn't an answer for ya kjm.... in fact...i hear both...i think soda is a bit more fancy to say since that's the original way to say it - but pop is what i normally call it - or i call it that by namebrand.

i think the word pop came from the fact that when u open a shaken soda container - it pops or fizzes like an explosion ????? :unsure:

[michaelsjewel]

names for soda pop.....

soda
pop
soda pop
caffeinated beverage
cola
*namebrand (insert namebrand there)
does anyone call them.... FIZZERS? lol
soft drink (i don't understand how they call them soft as though they go down smooth, because they have fizz which makes it more difficult to swallow - wtf)

i think that's all i can think of

[kjm030584]

are you suggesting we call kiera little bug instead of little bird? :lol:

[michaelsjewel]

i thought her name LITTLE_BIRD was from a jewel song - not intending to call her a bug.....

in fact...my cousin katie.....
her mom always called her .....LADY BUG..... or katie_bug

i'm guessing b/c it rhymed? :huh:

[Angel_Eyes]

As for the whole pop versus soda debate, most everyone here in southwest Virgina calls it pop, but when I lived in North Carolina we either called it soda or coke (yes, we called it coke no matter what it was). If you're really curious though, you can go this site, http://www.popvssoda.com, and see the difference between people calling it pop and the people caling it soda or something else.

As for the cigarettes thing, I've heard some people here called them 'smokes' sometimes. I always thought it was a southern thing lol.

[MrCC]

I have a friend named Kalina. She is from Bulgaria and once told me her name means Ladybug in Bulgarian.

[michaelsjewel]

Originally posted by Angel_Eyes@Apr 21 2005, 06:31 PM
As for the whole pop versus soda debate, most everyone here in southwest Virgina calls it pop, but when I lived in North Carolina we either called it soda or coke (yes, we called it coke no matter what it was). If you're really curious though, you can go this site, http://www.popvssoda.com, and see the difference between people calling it pop and the people caling it soda or something else.

As for the cigarettes thing, I've heard some people here called them 'smokes' sometimes. I always thought it was a southern thing lol.
hey angel_eyes...from the survey of that site...their conclusion of saying "POP" is much much cooler.... yay...i'm COOL B)

well....cigarettes on the other hand....

i've heard
cigarettes mostly
then cigs
then smokes
then smoking stick (i'm making that one up...lol)

[Angel_Eyes]

Hey, I've heard them called cancer sticks, so smoking sticks is close lol.

[michaelsjewel]

i think they should be called.....TOXIC STICKS - would work great for britney's toxic video...what do u think? :blink:

[MrCC]

And coffin nails.

[kjm030584]

I call them death sticks. :P

[bluediamond]

Originally posted by little_bird@Apr 21 2005, 09:12 PM
Well we actually call cigarettes 'smokes' here. Dave could tell you more about what they call them in Great Britain.

An hey, we all think our way is right. It's just different.
Yep we call them Fags, although i hate that word im having trouble convincing Mr Blair to ban them..... :devil1: Smoking is bad!!

:lalala:
Dave

[Little Bird]

Originally posted by michaelsjewel@Apr 21 2005, 09:49 PM
i thought her name LITTLE_BIRD was from a jewel song - not intending to call her a bug.....

in fact...my cousin katie.....
her mom always called her .....LADY BUG..... or katie_bug

i'm guessing b/c it rhymed? :huh:
that's a regular misconception but it is actually the English translation of what my grandfather used to call me as a child. ?an?n beag (pronounced ayneen be-yug)

[LonelyLullaby]

Favourite vs favorite, colour vs color
We just have "our" way of doing things ;)

[michaelsjewel]

u know i'm a suspet when it comes to messing with words...such as you vs. u.... or night vs. nite....that sorta thing....cool vs. kewl....

i usually try to write things out now with that u for some reason ....
like i like to type colour instead of color..... i think the word program doesn't mind it either way :)

[MrCC]

I like how brits say Schedule instead of "Skedule". I don't know why, but whenever I hear it I think of "Bond, James Bond...Looks like your evil plan has come off sheeedyoool, Dr. BadToTheBone!" :P

[Eibhlin]

as a "yankee" living in the south, it was wierd to have someone ask me, "want a coke" and to say "yes" and to have them ask what kind...so i agree, soda for me is the right word :P
i found it amusing to tell my friend mike (who is very gay, a wicked funny) that i was going to smoke a fag...but i dont smoke anymore. and btw isnt it funny how the tobacco companies are all about helping people quit, while they are still churning out the cancer sticks? and i remember candy cigs when i was a kid, i used to love those things...go figure, early programming

is it true that sausages are called bangers in england? and what does right chuffed mean?

and airplanes are often called birds

in charlestown mass. people say yooz, down here it's y'all, or all y'all

[Eibhlin]

i like colour, or favourite...it seems more proper? cool? lol, more british? :P :banana:

[michaelsjewel]

Originally posted by Eibhlin@Apr 22 2005, 02:23 PM
as a "yankee" living in the south, it was wierd to have someone ask me, "want a coke" and to say "yes" and to have them ask what kind...so i agree, soda for me is the right word :P
i found it amusing to tell my friend mike (who is very gay, a wicked funny) that i was going to smoke a fag...but i dont smoke anymore. and btw isnt it funny how the tobacco companies are all about helping people quit, while they are still churning out the cancer sticks? and i remember candy cigs when i was a kid, i used to love those things...go figure, early programming

is it true that sausages are called bangers in england? and what does right chuffed mean?

and airplanes are often called birds

in charlestown mass. people say yooz, down here it's y'all, or all y'all
yah...that is weird about them helping people quit but making the stuff that made them addicted in the first place...such hypocrites!

the one i'm most familiar with is phillip morriss i believe - but i could be wrong :dunno:

[Angel_Eyes]

How appropriate. When I read the last couple posts about smoking, something came up on the news about a gorilla (I think it was a gorilla) who smokes. Who in their right mind would get an animal to start smoking?

[Angel_Eyes]

Originally posted by Eibhlin@Apr 22 2005, 03:23 PM
as a "yankee" living in the south, it was wierd to have someone ask me, "want a coke" and to say "yes" and to have them ask what kind...so i agree, soda for me is the right word :P
Hey, when I moved here there was a school program called SODA where High Schoolers came to the Elementary school to talk to 4th graders about drugs and various other stuff. My brother said that when a kid told him they had SODA that day, my brother asked "What kind?" :lol: And then we had to get used to people calling soft drinks "pop" when they ordered something to drink at the Theatre. Needless to say, it took some getting used to. :P

[michaelsjewel]

Originally posted by Angel_Eyes@Apr 22 2005, 11:39 PM
How appropriate. When I read the last couple posts about smoking, something came up on the news about a gorilla (I think it was a gorilla) who smokes. Who in their right mind would get an animal to start smoking?
you're right...who would get an animal to do such a thing.... wait...aren't humans animals!????? :o :P :lol: :clapjoy: :mooner: :omg: :devil1:


and btw forum moderators...that 30 second or whatever rule for not replying is bull....I TYPE FAST AND THINK FAST AND READ FAST....is that A CRIME?

might as well just become slaves...wait...i'm already a jewel slave!!!

[LonelyLullaby]

i like colour, or favourite...it seems more proper? cool? lol, more british? :P :banana:

Or more Canadian ;) I don't think it's a mistake to type the words either way, I guess it's more up to your personal preference
But actually when I spell-check the words it shows this spelling as wrong and corrects it to either "color" or "favorite" But it's an American spelling program ;)

[Eibhlin]

lol, i am going to be controversial and say, i dont go with the belief that humans are animals, or cousins of animals, though some may act worse than animals. ^_^

[Little Bird]

Originally posted by MrCC@Apr 22 2005, 05:04 PM
I like how brits say Schedule instead of "Skedule". I don't know why, but whenever I hear it I think of "Bond, James Bond...Looks like your evil plan has come off sheeedyoool, Dr. BadToTheBone!" :P
Ya know, I hate they way people say it like that. There are a lot of people in Ireland who say it like that too and it just annoys me. I don't know why.

Actually, mentioning the different spellings is good too. I notice the American dictionary takes the letter U out of a lot of English words like neighbour and honour and colour. Would love to know the history behind that one. Did the letter U fall off the boat on it's way over to America? I dunno.

and btw forum moderators...that 30 second or whatever rule for not replying is bull....I TYPE FAST AND THINK FAST AND READ FAST....is that A CRIME?
Ya know, I type really really fast and read really really fast too. What a coincidence.

[kjm030584]

Eibhlin Posted on Apr 24 2005, 04:34 PM
lol, i am going to be controversial and say, i dont go with the belief that humans are animals, or cousins of animals, though some may act worse than animals. happy.gif

Well, we did all come from one basic organism. Probably a bacteria of some kind. :P

[LonelyLullaby]

Actually, mentioning the different spellings is good too. I notice the American dictionary takes the letter U out of a lot of English words like neighbour and honour and colour. Would love to know the history behind that one. Did the letter U fall off the boat on it's way over to America? I dunno.

Maybe ;)

[michaelsjewel]

i think they did that to get rid of the SLANG when saying those words - if i would use the U in them - i wouldn't say color....i would say.....culure or some....if that is even pronounceable with how i spelled it...lols

[Angel_Eyes]

Just out of curiosity, how do you guys say "caramel"? Do you say it with 2 syllables or 3?

[Little Bird]

Originally posted by Angel_Eyes@Apr 26 2005, 03:27 AM
Just out of curiosity, how do you guys say "caramel"? Do you say it with 2 syllables or 3?
Well I use 3. Can you say it with just 2?

[kjm030584]

yeah, i use 3 syllables too, but when people use only two it sounds like (car-mill)

[bluediamond]

Shag!!

hmm now theres a strange word.

In the UK Shag is most definatly a word for a f*ck, but in the US isnt it a word that describes some sort of dance? lol

its a :wacko: world init

:lalala:
Dave

[kjm030584]

actually, shag in the US, i'm not sure it's a dance. It's a style of carpet from the 70s I used to have it in my bedroom when I was growing up.

[Angel_Eyes]

Originally posted by little_bird@Apr 26 2005, 03:46 AM
Well I use 3. Can you say it with just 2?
Yep, I say it with 2 syllables pretty much the way the Kyle put it. It sometimes bugs me the way some people say car-a-mel, no offence. :P

[MrCC]

Me too. I say it Car-Mel. Two syllables. Three syllables bugs me too.

And what's the deal with Herb vs 'erb? The H is supposed to be silent, yet people like Martha Stewart (who should know better) go around saying Herb this and Herb that. Herb is the name of some guy that works in a prison kitchen - it's NOT an ingredient!

Herb with a silent H! It's a good thing. Now say it right or I'll encrust YOU with herbs Martha. ;) :dunno:

[Intrepid Prez]

The Brits can't say data.

Yeah, I once did some multimedia stuff with a bunch of Brits...
and they say... 'day-ta'.

When I corrected them and said it should be 'dar-ta'
they told me to "get fooked".

They can't even say say "f**k" !!! :blink:


...

[MrCC]

Originally posted by Intrepid Prez@Apr 27 2005, 04:35 PM
When I corrected them and said it should be 'darta'
they told me to "get fooked".

...
You must get that a lot. It must be so irritating to you. :P :P :P :P

[Little Bird]

Originally posted by Intrepid Prez@Apr 27 2005, 11:35 PM
The Brits can't say data.

Yeah, I once did some multimedia stuff with a bunch of Brits...
and they say... 'day-ta'.

When I corrected them and said it should be 'dar-ta'
they told me to "get fooked".

They can't even say say "f**k" !!! :blink:


...
Oh I know. It's awful. Honestly, who taught these people to speak? Who taught them that language....wait a sec. They started the whole thing didn't they? Hmmm, so maybe we all say things wrong then. Huh! :blink:

[MrCC]

The Brits may have started it, but we perfected it here in the USA. :P

[Intrepid Prez]

Yeah Mike

I tell ya... it's the Irish who are impossible to understand...
you have to ask them over and over what they said.

Some people think that the Irish accent is quaint...
but you soon get over the quaintness. Then it becomes impossible to
understand what they're trying to say.

And then... yeah, it gets really frustrating trying to interact with them.

It should be compulsory for both the Scots and the Irish to rectify their accents
for the sake of civilized communication.


Easy Justin ;)



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[MrCC]

Yea, and don't get me started about the New Zealanders and South Africans. ;)

[Eibhlin]

actually the most un-intelligible (is that a word?) accent i ever encountered was some chick from illinois, she was ordering something and asked for a cookie and a spraaaa, it took me asking 3-4 times to realize she was asking for a Spriiii-T-e. THERE'S A T THERE!!!!
lol!
of course in mass. we call Worcester Woo-sta, Newburyport Newbrypoht, and so on and so forth

oh ya, down south shag is a dance, though there is the horrific shag carpeting and of course the baudier meaning dave pointed out ;)

[kjm030584]

I miss that carpeting :( ... even though it did contribute to almost all of my allergy problems. :doh:

[MrCC]

I had red shag carpeting in my room when I was a kid. I don't miss it though. I also don't miss our old avocado colored appliances. Some things should never come back.

[kjm030584]

OMG... my parents just got rid of their 30 year old avocado dish washer. It still worked pretty good too. They may have been ugly but they were meant to last. My shag was dark orange with blotches of brown and black; my walls were orange too, and my curtains.... *shudders* ... had clowns on them until I was 13. :wacko: clowns scare me now.

[MrCC]

Hey, I was a kid in New England during the Bicentenial. My room was all red, white, and blue. It was very patriotic. I marched in Bicentenial parades.

And yes those avocado appliances were built to last too long. You can still find a few still working.

[Eibhlin]

speaking of avocado appliances, my husband and i aquired a "lovely" avocado dryer this past year at a friends garage sale to replace our other one--the mud brown freebie. i must say that aside from a slight noise from the belt needing adjustment, the thing-which may be as old as i am- works just fine! though it is a hideous shade :P that was the first dryer we actually paid for! ($50 well spent)

omg, you grew up in new england...which part? i was born in newburyport, grew up in amesbury ma. and somersworth nh.

Andrea

[MrCC]

Originally posted by Eibhlin@May 2 2005, 04:43 PM
speaking of avocado appliances, my husband and i aquired a "lovely" avocado dryer this past year at a friends garage sale to replace our other one--the mud brown freebie. i must say that aside from a slight noise from the belt needing adjustment, the thing-which may be as old as i am- works just fine! though it is a hideous shade :P that was the first dryer we actually paid for! ($50 well spent)

omg, you grew up in new england...which part? i was born in newburyport, grew up in amesbury ma. and somersworth nh.

Andrea
In my childhood I lived in
Clinton CT
Ipswitch MA
Beverly Ma
Augusta, Maine
and a couple of other places in Maine. I lived in New England until my mid 20's. I still visit there almost every summer.

[Little Bird]

Originally posted by Intrepid Prez@Apr 29 2005, 01:16 AM
I tell ya... it's the Irish who are impossible to understand...
you have to ask them over and over what they said.

Well that's a whole other conversation but it really depends on the dialect. A lot of Irish people don't understand each other. For instance. I am from Dublin which is the most understandable if your are well spoken but even if you are supposedly well spoken from other Counties, you could still have an awful accent that foreigners would find hard or sometimes impossible to understand.

The town I have just moved to has, in my opinion, one of the worst accents in Ireland. They even have their own words for things so in essence, i have to learn the 'culchie' equivalents to everything now and get a couple of lessons in Redneck Wicklow accent.

[bluediamond]

oh ya, down south shag is a dance, though there is the horrific shag carpeting and of course the baudier meaning dave pointed out

hey Andrea,

did you have a 'shag pile' carpet?

.......if you did, your doing it wrong lol.

:lalala:
Dave

[kjm030584]

I love irish accents *throbs*

[kjm030584]

I also like scottish accents like in Trainspotting...... *glee*

I can understand them fine in that movie, my roommate can't understand a word of it other than ':censored::censored::censored::censored:e'

[Eibhlin]

har har har dave :P you old gooberhead!


Dave...

:getalife:


hahahaha :lol:

[MrCC]

I like accents in general. It's always a good conversation starter. "So where are you from?" We have many accents in the US also. I can pick out accents of people from Chicago, Massachusetts, Maine/New Hampshire, NYC, Florida, Utah, Kansas, Dakota, Minnesota, and Texas. Some states have very similar sounding accents. I try to guess before they tell me. Sometimes all I need is to hear one or two words like "Kah" (Car) or "Doncha Know" (Don't you know) and I can tell where they are from. And Canada is easy - all you need is one Canadian "O".

[kjm030584]

That reminds of a Canada joke I heard once.. it's probably funnier if you hear it instead of read it, but i'll give it a go:

Okay, it's about how Canada got it's name...
It's three people pulling letters out of a hat and they read them off. The first one says, we got a 'C' 'eh, the second one says we got an 'N' 'eh, and the third one says we got a 'D' 'eh.

Alright, alright, it's pretty lame but when I heard it it was more humorous. :rolleyes:

[Angel_Eyes]

Ah, I love hearing Canadians say words like "out" or "about" lol. For some reason my 25 year old sister watches Degrassy: The Next Generation on The N (Nickelodeon for teenagers, for those who didn't know) and it gets me everytime I hear them say it. :P Sounds kinda like "oat" and "a boat" lol.

[Eibhlin]

ya there is a definite difference there with the owt and abowt sounds, my friend from Canada lived with us for almost a year and ever since i have had that little accent thing, so people always ask if i'm from canada

of course, i am kinda losing my new england accent :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Veilingmeat]

EH??? where did this thread crawl out from!!!??? :P

[Eibhlin]

:rolleyes: duhhh, it crawled out fromthe abyss silly :P :D
from way back in the darkest, deepest depths of the abyss that is

[Veilingmeat]

Hmm, this means the abyss has gazed into you Andrea :devil1:


....anyway about these differant sayings and slangs we all have, i see it's never been mentioned that Americans say Pasta in a way that its not meant to be said..they say it 'Par-star' ......wos up with that!? and 'Semi' they say it 'Semi-y'? :P
You see...i know all you yanks have this thing going about you changing the words you think is right and so on...such as 'Armour' to 'Armor' and 'Colour' to 'Color' lol, wos that all about???? i even go to Dictoinary.com and it says Chiefly British "Variant of"..........i'v got nothing against the good ol' US of A and i'm not particuarly sticking up for ol' Blighty either!
...its just something/someones gone wrong somewhere!? it must be some huge burger eating american has had it in for the stuck up pansy tea drinking toffs of this country, lmao :P To hell with Traditional Old Gentry in the Old Domain....Cockney Rabbit all the way i say!!!! ;)

[Veilingmeat]

Er' have a butchers at this...I could'nt be bothered to go into captain kirk the other day, coz i were'nt very james dean...so i threw a metal micky! that were'nt until i'd realised i'd forgotten me cheddars, and locked me self out...i was gaspin for a nice cup of bruce...everything all went a bit nick cotton!
So to stop meself from goin chicken jalfrezi, i got meself an andy mcnab down the boozer for a few britney spears...that was 10-8, coz i saw me ol' bacardi down there, aint seen him in ages. It then started to get a bit gorky park and i was a bit mickey monk....i was a bit barb wired, so i took a quick jack dash, headed home..."Gawd, didn't I let this great big wyatt out" i said to meself....got home walked passed the missus and said "I'm off up the apples and pear to fakey ned." ...my strawberry only beats for you treacle :P

[bluediamond]

lol - now thats a different language, even me now a country bumpkin dont know what your talking about. 'Its slightly on the huh'

:lalala:
dave.

[Eibhlin]

:omg:
"my strawberry only beats for you treacle "
that was like the only thing i vaguely understood from all that, you need to translate that for me man!
hahaha, ya, that's like a whole other language :omg:

[Veilingmeat]

Dont know if i should translate it or not, the Cockney Rabbit slang is a secret code lingo :P lol

[Eibhlin]

well then pm it to me!! i wont tell, promise :pufi:

[Veilingmeat]

nah was :jkid: ...:P i'll translate it really, in here

[Eibhlin]

well thats good, i was about to go mad with curiosity :rolleyes: :shudder: :bowns: :o :wacko:

[Veilingmeat]

Er' have a butchers(look) at this...I could'nt be bothered to go into captain kirk(work) the other day, coz i were'nt very james dean(keen)...so i threw a metal micky!(sicky) that were'nt until i'd realised i'd forgotten me cheddars(keys), and locked me self out...i was gaspin for a nice cup of bruce(tea)...everything all went a bit nick cotton!(rotton)
So to stop meself from goin chicken jalfrezi(crazy), i got meself an andy mcnab(cab) down the boozer for a few britney spears(beers)...that was 10-8(great), coz i saw me ol' bacardi(geezer) down there, aint seen him in ages. It then started to get a bit gorky park(dark) and i was a bit mickey monk(drunk)....i was a bit barb wired(tired), so i took a quick jack dash(pee), headed home..."Gawd, didn't I let this great big wyatt(burp) out" i said to meself....got home walked passed the missus and said "I'm off up the apples and pear(stairs) to fakey ned(bed)." ...my strawberry(heart) only beats for you treacle

lol...its all so obvious when you think of it! :lol:

[Eibhlin]

:doh: :silly: :doh:
oh sure, silly me :rolleyes:
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