pants??

[Kates1122]

wow glad i asked this question now i'm learning even more words! i wish i had a british accent too, that would be cool, but my british accent sucks hahahah!

 

[urchin]

Hmmm yes, mealtimes are a law unto themselves, and definitely vary around the country (as well as with class)

Where I'm from we have breakfast, dinner and tea - supper is the light snack before bed with a milky drink
Wheras others have breakfast, lunch and dinner - with tea being a mid afternoon affair of scones and, well, tea!
I've always thought the other type of supper is just another word for evening dinner, but served a little later!

 

[Clo]

Trousers ARE called 'pants' in some parts of the UK...like in Cumbria lol

 

[DragonMummy]

I would say lunch is what they used to call tea, but served at lucnhtime - cakes and sarnies etc. Dinner is a large meal but at lunchtime (like on a sunday when you have a roast)

tea is your evening meal. but also dinner if people are eating with you. Supper is a lighter meal had quite late.

Kate I have to say I do think I have a pretty cute accent

 

[urchin]

lol that's clear as mud DM!

 

[sh77]

What accent do you have Dragon? Beautiful and happy pic BTW.

 

[Kates1122]

Kate I have to say I do think I have a pretty cute accent

HAHAHA! fantastic, my accent is southern and boring lol

 

[pinkandfluffy]

I forget people use such different words!

I am from the Lancashire side of the Pennines, and moved to Yorkshire 3 years ago, and the biggest problem I have is the names for bread........

When I ask for a 'chip muffin' at the chip shop they look at me like I'm insane...... thinking I want chips, with a chocolate muffin..... but a muffin to me is a bread roll / bread cake / barm cake / bap / choose your own word for that type of bread....lol

I also refer to my trousers as pants.......and my mood as pants lol....

And supper to me would be a bowl of cereal after 9pm

 

[Parkep]

I would say lunch is what they used to call tea, but served at lucnhtime - cakes and sarnies etc. Dinner is a large meal but at lunchtime (like on a sunday when you have a roast)

tea is your evening meal. but also dinner if people are eating with you. Supper is a lighter meal had quite late.

Kate I have to say I do think I have a pretty cute accent

lol this thread has cracked me up.

Here we have breakfast, lunch, dinner.... lol its easy if you eat dinner at nine at night its still dinner ill never get the whole tea/lunch/supper/dinner thing lol

 

[Cleo]

This is officially my new favourite thread!! And I am soooo going to incorporate "pants" into my vocabulary...I drop the f-bomb way too much and think this is a perfect substitute. Plus, there aren't many British sayings that you can get away with in Canada without sounding like a bit of an idiot. Unfortunately I just can't pull off "rubbish", "brilliant" or "knackered"!! I'll do my best with pants though!

 

[puppymom32]

wow glad i asked this question now i'm learning even more words! i wish i had a british accent too, that would be cool, but my british accent sucks hahahah!

Thats so funny when I read peoples post I try to envision what their accents might sound like.

 

[calm]

Each time I see this thread called pants I start to giggle LOL

 

[urchin]

OOOOooooo now bread rolls, that's a whole different ball game
Where I come from they are cobs (if they are the crusty sort) and baps if they are the soft floury sort.

Cleo - I've never thought of brilliant and rubbish as being particularly British! Although knackered does seem more at home this side of the pond

 

[Odd Socks]

i used to call trousers, "trousers" but moved up north, & now call them pants!
i went to my boyfriend's parents & they asked if i wanted tea, i thought they meant a cup of tea, they meant "dinner" tea. when i said no, i missed out on a meal! so now, i call it tea.
& i didn't know what a barm was until my boyfriend explained it to me!
i've become more northern!

another good english-ism, is a cigarette can be called a fag! so, "i'm just going to have a fag" has made many american friends of mine laugh.

the one american thing that really, really confused me was biscuits with gravy (in the uk biscuits are cookies, so i thought you all had your cookies covered in gravy - eww!).

 

[pinkandfluffy]

OOOOooooo now bread rolls, that's a whole different ball game
Where I come from they are cobs (if they are the crusty sort) and baps if they are the soft floury sort.

Nooooo not more bread terms!!!!!

 

[hannah76]

i love this thread!!!!!

wow... so many words for bread! here its bread. just bread. or i guess a roll is what you'd have with a roast or something or while you're waiting for your meal at a restaurant... so confusing!!

kates i imagine your accent to sound really cute!! like "ah will nevah go hongree agayan!!" all 'gone with the wind' and all... mine is probably the most boring!! and i don't say "aboot" like they make fun of canadians saying "about" on south park!!!

i agree that there are few brit-icisms that could pass without being looked at funny here... here brilliant means really smart, not 'cool', so would make a few eyebrows raise! especially if i said "wow, that's brill!" haha...

dh and i had an argument last week about "chuffed" where he thought it meant dissapointed but i thought it meant excited/pleased... i won, right??

 

[Zen_Jenn]

This thread is great, I've been stalking . I'm with you about being unable to pull off foreign slang. My DH spent 15 months in New Zealand, and he still calls people 'mate', with no other sign of a kiwi accent

 

[Kates1122]

hahahha my cousin is from texas and he even makes fun of my accent...ok take the words "filled" (chocolate filled donut) and "field" (soccer field) i same them the same way, apparently thats hilarious to him...oh well...but i'm not like the redneck kind like "yea o'er yonder in the holler" hhaaha i'm not that bad

 

[hannah76]

kates, i hope you didn't take that as me making fun of you... i love 'gone with the wind'!! i'm sure your accent is super-cute and thx for starting this thread

 

[Kates1122]

hahah on no i didn't think you were making fun of me, gone with the wind is a great movie! my grandma used to talk like that when she was alive, VERY deep southern accent....i'm glad i posted this too, have learned a lot! a guy came in my job today and handed me a bag and was like "do you have a rubbish?" and i immediately thought of this thread...he was american!! don't know why he said that, but hey , i laughed on the inside hahaah