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[Donna]

   Yeah we're quaint depending on your definition of the word! 
   I told Donna just yesterday that sometimes I have difficulty understanding your english. But then I have the same problem with New Jerseys lingo too!    Right Donna! 

Boy are you up the Crick! No, it's you all that have the accent.

[MAK]

   Yeah we're quaint depending on your definition of the word! 
   I told Donna just yesterday that sometimes I have difficulty understanding your english. But then I have the same problem with New Jerseys lingo too!    Right Donna! 

Boy are you up the Crick! No, it's you all that have the accent.

   Now how did you know that's what I was thinking of Donna?!!!    Up a crick without a paddle!   

[Tokira]

Right, MAK! Dustbin = garbage can.

Ain't we quaint??

I have a UK Friend on a Cat List, who recently referred to her house as a "tip".  The context was quite funny 
For the uninitiated, the tip is where the dustbins' contents end up...
A lot of us on the cat lists, several from the UK and Australia/New Zealand, have a lot of fun with the different meanings of common words across the water.
Carol

[Bobbie Ireland]

Right, MAK! Dustbin = garbage can.

Ain't we quaint??

I have a UK Friend on a Cat List, who recently referred to her house as a "tip".  The context was quite funny 
For the uninitiated, the tip is where the dustbins' contents end up...
A lot of us on the cat lists, several from the UK and Australia/New Zealand, have a lot of fun with the different meanings of common words across the water.
Carol

Hey, Carol! Do I know your friend? Our place is a "tip" too! (too much Forum watching...)

Once... when I was not long on this island and still getting used to the "new language"... I complimented a girl on her lovely vest... and she immediately began checking to see if her underwear was showing...

[Tokira]

Hey, Carol! Do I know your friend? Our place is a "tip" too! (too much Forum watching...)

Once... when I was not long on this island and still getting used to the "new language"... I complimented a girl on her lovely vest... and she immediately began checking to see if her underwear was showing...

My very favorite is the exuberant Yank at a proper London reception, who extended his hand and gushed, "Hi, I'm Randy!"

Carol

[Bobbie Ireland]

Hey, Carol! Do I know your friend? Our place is a "tip" too! (too much Forum watching...)

Once... when I was not long on this island and still getting used to the "new language"... I complimented a girl on her lovely vest... and she immediately began checking to see if her underwear was showing...

My very favorite is the exuberant Yank at a proper London reception, who extended his hand and gushed, "Hi, I'm Randy!"

Carol

Heaven forgive me, but a friend of mine (Irish) married (short-lived) an American chap named Randy... shoulda been her first hint... and you shoulda heard the comments during the toasts!

My own posh faux-pas was at a la-dee-da wedding here where a tray of drinks (served by a waitress!) was proferred. I said I would wait for "the red", to which she replied: "Madam, it's champagne!" What a hayseed!

[MAK]

 ???  Hayseed?!  I need notes or something to help with your language Bobbi.      How does this happen when I hear that you are from Rochester?  :

[Bobbie Ireland]

???  Hayseed?!  I need notes or something to help with your language Bobbi.      How does this happen when I hear that you are from Rochester?  :

MAK, I think this is because I have now spent more time living on Erin's Green Isle than I did in Rochester. Plus - and as you may have noted - I love language, the use of words... no wonder I work in publishing!

On "hayseed", tho... this we used as a common parlance among my ROC gang... meant anyone who was unpolished, dim, not up with the modern way of doing things... (Doris Day in "Calamity Jane"?? The Dukes of Hazard? Ellie-May in "The Beverley Hillbillies"?)

Sorrreeeee if I continue to confuse!!

[MAK]

???  Hayseed?!  I need notes or something to help with your language Bobbi.      How does this happen when I hear that you are from Rochester?  :

MAK, I think this is because I have now spent more time living on Erin's Green Isle than I did in Rochester. Plus - and as you may have noted - I love language, the use of words... no wonder I work in publishing!

On "hayseed", tho... this we used as a common parlance among my ROC gang... meant anyone who was unpolished, dim, not up with the modern way of doing things... (Doris Day in "Calamity Jane"?? The Dukes of Hazard? Ellie-May in "The Beverley Hillbillies"?)

Sorrreeeee if I continue to confuse!!

Don't be sorry Bobbi. Confused is my natural state! I rather enjoy your lingo,just don't always get it.

[Bobbie Ireland]

Contact information:

MAK@confused.com

[MAK]

   You got it Bobbi!   

[Bird Crazy]

can I get an email address there too. Because I still don't get it. Can someone draw me a map?

[Donna]

Hayseed (slang): 3. Slang A bumpkin; a yokel.

Dead on board aff yisser nut, oi don't git it either but 'tis craic readin'.

Ireland for: Ok Bird crazy, I don't get it either but it's fun reading

So yer clap, 'tis not dat 'ard ter understan' bobbie's language.

Ireland trans for: So you see, it's not that hard to understand Bobbie's language

Oi'm from jersey an' oi don't understan' any av dis.

[MAK]

    Donna you are a nut!   

[Bobbie Ireland]