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how about powderroom? as if many of us actually usually felt an
irresistable need to powder our noses....

Johanna Gibson wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:36:03 -0800, DrQuilter
wrote:


I went to a british school back home. when I moved to the States I had
to get used to not say 'rubber' and learn to use the american word
'eraser' instead because everybody would giggle at lab... however, it is
OK to say rubber ducky and nobody would think condom, so go figure! )


Maybe the youth is getting "Americanized" here, but I never hear a
person under say, 30, say "rubber" to mean eraser. I hear them say
"eraser". I think they know very well that it means something else in
the US, what with all the US television programs.
I think perhaps the word Sally is referring to is "toilet". You can
ask where the toilet is here, and all is well. You would not ask
where the bathroom is, because you will be shown a small room
containing a tub, and a sink if you are lucky, but quite possibly
lacking a toilet. If you ask for the bathroom, people will assume you
want a bath. However, there seems to be some problem with asking
where the toilet is in the US (is it rude, or is it shocking? because
people stare at me when I ask this now)... and you have to use an
evasive way to ask; "bathroom" and "restroom" spring to mind. Hmm. I
usually don't need a bath or a rest when I'm out in public.


-- Jo in Scotland

--
Dr. Quilter
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out before replying)

"Maureen Wozniak" wrote
In Illinois, Chicagoan's who find themselves south of I-80 are puzzled
when someone asks if they "want to go with?"

Okay, I'm a looong way south of the I-80. Any chance of explaining what that
means?

I find more and more people here are asking for "the bathroom" too, which is
strange. In most houses in Australia, they won't find a toilet in there! We
Aussies are generally much more direct. We just ask for the loo, dunny,
toilet...
--
Leigh Harris
Perth, Western Australia
www.leighharris.info
(Real email is bearleigh at bigpond dot com)

crapper is also used in none too polite circles! Also potty....

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia
Queen of Down Under
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)
**********************
"Leigh Harris" wrote in message
...
"Maureen Wozniak" wrote
In Illinois, Chicagoan's who find themselves south of I-80 are puzzled
when someone asks if they "want to go with?"

Okay, I'm a looong way south of the I-80. Any chance of explaining what
that
means?

I find more and more people here are asking for "the bathroom" too, which
is
strange. In most houses in Australia, they won't find a toilet in there!
We
Aussies are generally much more direct. We just ask for the loo, dunny,
toilet...
--
Leigh Harris
Perth, Western Australia
www.leighharris.info
(Real email is bearleigh at bigpond dot com)

Hey, I can barely say the word eraser! Maybe it's from having a trad
catholic school upbringing, half our teachers were stuck in the past! :-D

Charlie.

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:36:03 -0800, DrQuilter
wrote:

I went to a british school back home. when I moved to the States I had
to get used to not say 'rubber' and learn to use the american word
'eraser' instead because everybody would giggle at lab... however, it is
OK to say rubber ducky and nobody would think condom, so go figure! )

Maybe the youth is getting "Americanized" here, but I never hear a
person under say, 30, say "rubber" to mean eraser. I hear them say
"eraser". I think they know very well that it means something else in
the US, what with all the US television programs.
I think perhaps the word Sally is referring to is "toilet". You can
ask where the toilet is here, and all is well. You would not ask
where the bathroom is, because you will be shown a small room
containing a tub, and a sink if you are lucky, but quite possibly
lacking a toilet. If you ask for the bathroom, people will assume you
want a bath. However, there seems to be some problem with asking
where the toilet is in the US (is it rude, or is it shocking? because
people stare at me when I ask this now)... and you have to use an
evasive way to ask; "bathroom" and "restroom" spring to mind. Hmm. I
usually don't need a bath or a rest when I'm out in public.


-- Jo in Scotland

When I went to Scotland several years ago, I went *knowing* that 'fanny'
means something much diferent in UK English than it does here. That's not
the mistake I made. It gets better...
I was with some friends at a bar in the hotel in Glasgow. We were attending
a sci-fi convention. That night was the costume contest and one of the girls
was dressed as Gabrielle from 'Xena'. She was carrying a large club and said
she felt like a cave woman and could go bash herself a man in the head and
drag him away to her cave. When I asked her to 'bonk' one for me as well,
everyone burst out laughing and she agreed very quickly! It was interesting
to know how easily I could still blush...
--
Debi

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?


"georg" wrote in message
.. .
Anne wrote:

I have a couple of Brazilian friends who learned "American" English, then
went to England to study at university. One day himself went into M&S to
buy "suspenders" as his trousers didn't have belt loops, and found out he
really needed "braces" instead of a "garter belt". His wife once
complained of the cold, saying it was her own fault though because she
wasn't wearing "pants". She meant "trousers"; her companions heard "under
garments". Somehow they both survived :-) (and still dine out on their
malaprop stories)

My brother drank for free for a week on his smooth move in German class-
while as a Rotary foreign exchange in Iceland. (he was 18, so is there
drinking age). A pretty young thing, knowing he spoke pretty much only
English, asked him for a rubber. He reached into his wallet and handed her
one. She had to explain she meant eraser.

I will admit, that language combination will twist anyone up- he didn't
speak Icelandic, the language in which all of his classes were taught, and
they put him in German III, another language he never had a lesson, so it
was all gibberish to the poor dyslexic lad. Good thing those grades didn't
count, as he graduated here before going.

-georg

Down here in Redneckland (the South) there are some funny ones too.
We mash the switch to turn lights off and on (and other button-activated
devices), when it is 'fixin' ' to rain really hard, it's 'comin' up a
cloud', a really hard rainstorm is a 'frog-strangler'. Someone can 'grin
like a mule eating briars', and someone who is rather too big for the size
clothes they're wearing looks like they tried to pack 'fifty pounds of $&!#
into a five pound sack' and look 'uglier than a bucket full of smashed
armpits.'

--
Debi (who never ever says 'y'all' or 'fixin' to' or anything like that,
Nosiree! ;-)

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?


"Bonnie" wrote in message
...
You don't have to leave the states to find differences in
language. I grew up in Philly and then moved upstate. I
had to learn a whole new vocabulary.

Red up - means to tidy the room
Outten the light - means to turn the light off
It's all - means there is none left
Make down - means it's raining

There are others, but these are the ones that popped
in my head.
--
Bonnie
NJ

.....and don't people named Crapper hate their name being used that
way....lol

Dee in Oz

Dee in Oz wrote:

....and don't people named Crapper hate their name being used that
way....lol

Dee in Oz


Thomas Crapper was a very industrial plumber in the late 1800s/early
1900s. Many many public loos were installed with his name on them in the
basin as a company signature. American GIs started calling the toilet a
"crapper" because, after all, that's how they were labeled. And they
brought that term home with them. So he was a real person. Stands to
reason he's got relatives out there somewhere.

The original John is Sir John Harrington, godson of Queen Elizabeth, who
was the first to auther a book describing a cistern-flushing device
similar to our modern johns. Yes, I have a copy of this book. And some
places in England they will also refer to them as Sir Harry's for the
same person.

-georg
the research blog with more comments on plumbing:
http://georgresearch.blogspot.com/

Leigh Harris wrote:
"Maureen Wozniak" wrote

In Illinois, Chicagoan's who find themselves south of I-80 are puzzled
when someone asks if they "want to go with?"


Okay, I'm a looong way south of the I-80. Any chance of explaining what that
means?

If someone is going to the store, you might ask - want to go
with? In other words,
do you want to come along with me?


--
Bonnie
NJ

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!!!
PAT, LOL in VA

Kate Dicey wrote:
Sally Swindells wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:57:16 -0500, "Violet \"F'loonslayer\" Volfie"
wrote:



And what did they call the movie, "The Shaggy Dog" in the UK?

Giselle (btw, if I had said I needed "ragging" directions, THAT would
have
meant something odd to *me*)



Shaggy isn't rude! but I can remember reading in the paper of great
hilarity at the cinema when 'Free Willy' was advertised.

Sally


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