Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Not being able to pronounce "route", or "buoy", and getting both the pronunciation and spelling of "aluminium" wrong!!
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What americanisms do you hate?
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Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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"You know and he was kinda like 'okay' and I was kinda like, well yeah...."
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Americans pronouncing any of the following - Herbs, Tomato, Vitamins, Moscow, Basil, Tuna. The most ridiculous of which is 'Herbs' which they pronounce 'Erbs'!! Where's the friggin 'H'?
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Cheeky Monkey said:
And then he's like to me WHAT EVAH and I'm like as if! to him like y'know...
Yeah and so but like EVERY sentence like... goes up at the end? Like it's a QUESTION? And like there's like, y'know, loadsa EMPHASIS, with liddle like... PAUSES in fron' of 'em, like EVERYWHERE? Mmm mmm ummm mmm yeah guh'fren', I is so not diggin' that jive. Yknow? WhatEVAH....
Publius Ovidius
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like
as in...." It was like , so good"
From that fecking friends series. What a load of old poo
as in...." It was like , so good"
From that fecking friends series. What a load of old poo
Hungry Joe.
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Yes, the way the say Oregano makes me want to kill something. I hate it when they end statements with 'period' also.
IT'S ALL GOOD STUFF DEAR
IT'S ALL GOOD STUFF DEAR
how can you lot slag off americans, yes there are some differences, but listen to geordies, taffs, scousers, jocks, cockneys, yokils - a lot of them don't speak Queens English never mind another country - next you'll be complaining that the French speak French! It is another country, their language their rules...
BUT SOCCER FFS - that is bad!
BUT SOCCER FFS - that is bad!
Vankleek Hill Seagull
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Everything, and I mean everything is a candidate for litigation.
Have you ever seen a poor American lawyer (solicitor).?
No, me neither.
Have you ever seen a poor American lawyer (solicitor).?
No, me neither.
bhaexpress
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Well, there's few things I can think of. My Wife's ex husband being one. The whole of the immigration service. But the most annoying being the notion that they speak English. If that was the case how come so many of them can't understand English (as I, an Englishmen, speak it).
bhaexpress
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jmc said:how can you lot slag off americans, yes there are some differences, but listen to geordies, taffs, scousers, jocks, cockneys, yokils - a lot of them don't speak Queens English never mind another country - next you'll be complaining that the French speak French! It is another country, their language their rules...
BUT SOCCER FFS - that is bad!
Actually it's 'Sackuh'.
REDLAND
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jmc said:
Hooray someone whos not Zenophobic has posted some sense !!
Hungry Joe.
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redland said:Hooray someone whos not Zenophobic has posted some sense !!
It's Xenophobic actually. Being irritated by the way our beautiful language has been bastardised by another country doesn't make one racist. Get a dictionary.
REDLAND
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I should have spelt it xenophobia
Definition: [adj] suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign
Definition: [adj] suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign
Hungry Joe.
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redland said:
That's better. Does South Croydon count as foreign or strange?
IT'S ALL GOOD STUFF DEAR
MRRF 10
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where do i start?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
That stupid f***ing thing american woman do with their necks when they're arguing with someone - they kind of face forward and shift their heads from side to side as if they're Egyption, before uttering some banility like "talk to the HAND".