British Posters

Skia are you English or an anglophile?

any polite posts/theads posted after a certain time of day, have the accent…

me.

my spelling makes that obvious.

Minyan Gal; Do you spell “Colour”, “Centre”, “Cheque” and “Catalogue” the Canadian/British way or the American way?! I myself am a former Canadian.

brightcolouredkettles,

Did you pick your name from the song “My Favourite Things” in The Sound of Music?

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favourite things

Cream coloured ponies and crisp apple streudels

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

These are a few of my favourite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

Silver white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of my favourite things

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I’m feeling sad

I simply remember my favourite things

And then I don’t feel so bad

metrodriver, the official Canadian way of spelling is the same way as the the English way:

neighbour – not neighbor

colour – not color

centre – not center

cheque – not check

However, Canadian society is so strongly influenced by American culture, that these days, anything goes. Most Canadian television is beamed in from the US via cable so a great number of Canadians even watch US newscasts and often know more about what is ocurring in the US than in Canada. Reading the newspaper one can often find a mixture of both spellings. It is really hard to know know which is correct these days although I believe that the teachers are still teaching the British way of spelling. I think that the only place you could be guaranteed of finding “proper” Canadian spelling would be in hansard.

metro, were you raised in Canada? If so, where did you grow up? Soon we will be playing Jewish geography and find out that we are first cousins.

Eng-uh-land swings like a pendulum do

Bobbies on bicycle, two-by-two

Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Big Ben

and the rosey-red cheeks on the little child-ren.

I am from NEW England.

CANADIAN!!!!!

Brightcolouredkettles; When I wrote about the Canadian/British way of Spelling “Cheque” I never intended to say that the other way of writing “Check” does not exist. Just that it has a different meaning.

p.s.: When you write “No pun intended-lol” you are expressing an “Oxymoron”, not to mention a “Parad-Ox”.

This is NOT a bash america thread. We leave that to king kong. No, the Americans are a delightful, splendid and wonderful nation. Truly are second to none. It’s only a shame they cant spell. Goq you are welcome to tea and scones any time. One would be most honoured to meet with you in person. Should this invitation be amenable to your good self, kindly inform Jeeves my butler of your travel arrangements and he shall have you fetched from the airfield at once! And remember that for his tip he would relish real British pounds and not that monopoly money that you seem to have so much of. I remain gratefully yours. Long live the Queen!

Ty for the invite Ken very noble of you ill have my valet call to make arrangements looking forward to seeing you ta!

What’s the difference between a barrister, lawyer, solicitor, attorney, counsellor, advocate?

abseil = on a string down a wall aubergine = a dip barrister = judge bedsit = buggy = stroller bespoke = i bespoke biscuit = bonnet = what the mea shearim ladies wear 😉 candy-floss caravan = a small homey van hooked onto a car courgette = vegetable estate-car = volvo 960 😉 ex-directory = not in the bt phonebook anymore fly-over = i’m just driving over the fly-over fortnight = 2 weeks full-stop = . greengrocer = fruit n veg shop hob = the cooker hoover = vacume cleaner handbrake = there’s nothing like a good handbrake skid 😉 ice-lolly = ice icing-sugar = white powdery sugar jumper = sweater kitchen-roll = paper towel lodger lollipop-man = the guy or lady with a big yellow stick with a stop sign lorry = truck motorway = highway nappy = what the babies wear number-plate = licence plate overdraught = petrol = gas plaster = what you wear on a bleeding sore plimsoles = those slippers you had to wear for P.E in school postcode = zip code rubber = eraser rubbish = garbage rucksack = sellotape = serviette = napkin spanner = sweets = candy trainers = sneakers marrow = verruca = some people have at the bottom of their feet whinge = moan windscreen = the window at the front of a car bumper = fender zed = z dunno how to translate all the words, sorry!

I’m British (but live in the States). I get water from a tap not a faucet and put petrol in my car not gas. My shopping goes in the boot of my car not the trunk and when I hear the word Math it makes me cringe. It’s MATHS short for Mathematics. Brits Rule!

Ken Zayn- here you go. Oh, and I’d rather coffee, not tea. Thanks.

abseil- to rappel

aubergine- eggplant

barrister-

bedsit- a rented single room and bathroom

buggy- can be a few things but I’ll say baby carriage

bespoke-

biscuit- cookie

bonnet- hat (old fashioned0

candy-floss- caravan

courgette- zucchini

estate-car- station wagon

ex-directory- phonebook

fly-over- when a place is a short flying distance away

fortnight- 2 weeks

full-stop

greengrocer- a grocer who sells vegetables

hob hoover

handbrake

ice-lolly- a popsicle

icing-sugar- icing

jumper- a pullover sweater

kitchen-roll

lodger- someone who lodges?

lollipop-man

lorry- truck

motorway- higway

nappy- diaper

number-plate- license plate

overdraught- when u spend more than u have in the bank (isn’t it with an f?)

petrol- gas

plaster- what you plast with

plimsoles- sounds familiar but i don’t know

postcode- area-code

rubber- do u mean rubbers? if yes then rainboots

rubbish- garbage

rucksack- backpack?

sellotape- do u mean cellotape?

serviette- a napkin, towel, tissue

spanner- i think it’s a tool of some sort

sweets- candy

trainers- sneakers

marrow- like the thing thats in bones?

verruca- Charlie and the chocolate factory 🙂 like, a wart?

whinge-

windscreen- windshield

bumper- the thing on your car

zed- the letter “z”

Okay, some of these I completely made up if you can’t tell.

metrodriver, thanks for clarifying, you left out the counsellor.

Lovely day? Yes not bad actually. The largest public strike in a generation has affected some of us with most schools closed (many Jewish schools were open but some were closed depending on teachers belonging to unions etc) so lots and lots of people were forced to take the day off work to look after their kids. City centres and recreation sites were packed. Rubbish bins were not collected and all council (local government) jobs were not carried out. Non emergency medical operations and facilities were badly affected with ambulances in some areas of the country only responding to life threatening situations. But the forecasted 12 hour wait at immigration was a fallacy with queues moving normally. Courts and tax offices were shut. But Yeshiva World was functioning normally BH.

we still rule!

aubergine (eggplant)barrister (lawyer) biscuit (cookie)bonnet (hat) ex-directory (phone book?) fortnight (2 weeks)greengrocer (vegetable guy)ice-lolly (icicle?)icing-sugar (confectionaer’s sugar) lodger (renter) lorry (truck)motorway(highway?) nappy (diaper)overdraught (something to do with the bank) petrol (gas)plaster (bandaid) postcode (zipcode?) rubber (galoshes?) rubbish (nonsense)rucksack (knapsack)sellotape (scotchtape) serviette (napkin) sweets (desserts) windscreen (windshield) zed (the letter Z)

How’d I do?

I wish you would all be as proud of your Jewishness as you are of your Britishness.

Ato Bechartonu Mikol Ho’amim….Veromamtonu Mikol Haleshonos….Ashreinu Ma Tov Chelkeinu….

HAHAHA which part of britain you live in- skiaddict…. wait…

let me guess i bet MANCHESTER???! AH