USA to UK relocation guide
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- shapesalad0
What you looking at = I’m about to kick you in the head.
Bain = baby.
Your kid = your brother.
10 foot = back alley behind row houses.
Gives a croggy = allow one a ride along side you on your bicycle.
Please may I have... = Give me a....
Tar = Please / thank you
- Bairn
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just to be pedanticMrT - That's not being pedantic.Nairn
- these are all regional slangkingsteven
- bairn is gaelic/norse - it's child in irish too. they wouldn't have a clue what yer talking about south of the pennines...kingsteven
- The more I look at this the wronger it is. Bairn = kid. Wean = baby.
"I'm about to kick your head in"
"Giz a.." not that I agree with that eitherNairn - Also, in Barmanthorpe, 'croggy' = blowjobNairn
- Yikes.MrT
- Stonking: very good.CyBrainX
- Bairn
- fadein113
If you get homesick, just visit Stratford upon Avon, fully of yanks any time of year.
- MrT0
Cuppa = cup of tea.
I’ll put the kettle on.
- 2 sugars and 1 milk please.... aka two and a moo :)cherub
- Seems so odd that America does not use tap to pay for debit / credit ....get with the times! ;)Static_Line
- Yes we do. It’s just not adopted by every purveyor yet.monospaced
- Yes many do :) - I also know some retailers have it and do not know they have it... used tap in Philadelphia and the guy at the counter was mind blown!Static_Line
- utopian6
Brexit = Fucked!
- cherub0
Time. How could I forget time. I switched my mobile to 24 hour format when I was there, and kept it that way after coming back so I don't have to get disoriented all over again when I go back.
- I don't think this one is universal tbf, more so on mobile phones if anything. Ain't no one gonna be like "let's meet for tea and biscuits at preciselykalkal
- thirteen hundred hours. Pip pip."kalkal
- Uk websites use 24 hour format, and the train times are too. But come to think of it, I never heard a person say 13 hundred. They would just say meet me at 1.cherub
- Honestly thought this one was an Americanism which we'd adopted, don't remember seeing this format much in the 90'skalkal
- kalkal0
kicking off = starting up / get going - Also arguing or starting a fight
Cheeky - going a bit too far with either humour or a request for something that might not be deserved. Two very different uses.
Housing options? Never even heard this myself
Mind - as in "mind yourself"? because this would be more like... "watch yourself"
Not sure what relation meant/supposed are supposed to have either.
- Mind as in, "mind you don't drive to fast down this road."cherub
- Meant as in, "We were meant to stay at the pub until 1 but it closed early.". In American english we would say "supposed" right there, not meant.cherub
- We might also say "mind you" as an alternative to "on the other hand" too :)kalkal
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Obviously slightly out of date, I like to think it's quite relevant still though...kalkal - "Mind" is starting to get awkward to think about in my mind... oof so awkward and I realize you're right. It's not remember.cherub
- It sticks out in my memory because my ex used to say it constantly.cherub
- BusterBoy0
And aluminium is pronounced ALOOMINEEUM not ALOOMENUM.
- raf1
> Even if only going for a visit, you'll want to know how to speak like the locals. I was in Wales, but here is a list of slang I made that should help you.
That's mostly true for non-English-as-their-first-langu... speakers.
Learn that shit, of course, understand it and use it but bear in mind Americans are perfectly understood in UK and Ireland. They sound ridiculous when trying to blend in too much.
More importantly, do not change your accent. That will only lose you respect, on both sides of the pond. You will get stuck in an accent limbo — will never sound like them and will sound ridiculous to your folks.
You don't want to sound like Madonna.
- cherub0
@nairn: food is cheaper in the uk as long as you prepare it yourself. at worst(takeaway), it's exactly the same. look below, these are cardiff prices for a thai entre(average £9), and a cookie shake(£3.99). At current exchange rate, that's $11.23 for the entree, and $4.99 for the shake. Compare that shake price, with the cost of a flavored frappe or fruit smoothie at my local coffee shop - $5.
but like I said, that's only true for takeaway. Buy it at Sainsbury's, Tesco, or Coop and it's cheaper, even after you factor in the conversion rate.
So much so, it makes me jealous what you pay for food. The pound has awesome buying power, I don't care what anybody says. The pound is king of europe.
The tenner I brought back with me is my favorite thing I brought back from the uk. I showed it to some Americans in Houston and they were amazed lol.