I blame YouTube, how many more Americanisms are we going to have to suffer ?

[Thingybob]

Dont get me going with Captain Pugwash and Trumpton now there s hiden meanings

 

[JobandKnock]

Pugwash? Hidden meanings? Only if you believe the urban myth about what the Black Pig's mate's name was

 

[MarkAW]

The one that really annoys me is when asking for something in a cafe or shop. For example asking for a coffee: "Can I get a coffee" ....only if you go behind the counter and make it yourself!

 

[Thingybob]

Pugwash? Hidden meanings? Only if you believe the urban myth about what the Black Pig's mate's name was

Urban myths come about when chinese wispers are used to repeat somthing you told somebody who repeated to somebody etc etc so with social media being what it is we should be up to our thigh boots in myths by now

 

[JobandKnock]

Aren't we?

 

[Thingybob]

Aren't we?

Depends on how high your thigh boots are lol

 

[Droogs]

we are but they are called conspiricies these days

 

[TRITON]

Dont get me going with Captain Pugwash and Trumpton now there s hidden meanings

Contrary to popular belief, there wasnt a cabin boy named Roger.

 

[Steve_in_Lincs]

"...and for reaching out to cinch." I don't know about anyone else but I usually contact people, as I find my arms are too short to reach out beyond my immediate vacinity.

 

[John Brown]

"...and for reaching out to cinch." I don't know about anyone else but I usually contact people, as I find my arms are too short to reach out beyond my immediate vacinity.

And yet "contact" means "touch with" originally. So you'd still need those long arms.
Just goes to show, once again, that language evolves.

 

[Inspector]

And yet "contact" means "touch with" originally. So you'd still need those long arms.
Just goes to show, once again, that language evolves.

I thought you shouted it when the magnetos were switched on so the guy on the ground could pull the propeller so you could hunt the Red Baron.

Pete

 

[Cabinetman]

Contrary to popular belief, there wasnt a cabin boy named Roger.

A real shame I quite liked that myth, in actual fact he was called Tom and Bate was mate

 

[Thingybob]

Contrary to popular belief, there wasnt a cabin boy named Roger.

It wasnt the cabin boy i was thinking about

 

[Thingybob]

He was an ordinary seaman "without inuendo carry on films would never of been popular"

 

[rafezetter]

Dude, like all of them, brah; what's your malfunction?

 

[Nigel Burden]

Leominster, another. How about Lyme Regis? A friend was once asked, by an American tourist, the way to LYMEE REG-is. My friend told him that was where the original 'Limeys' came from!

Similarly in East Dorset we have Corfe Mullen and Corfe Castle. As a child I would sometimes spend time at some friends just outside of Corfe Castle. An American asked the way to Corfee Castle.

Shapwick is pronounced Shapick. Beaminster is pronounced Bemister, and I once had a woman who insisted that Chideock was was Chide Oak not Chidick.

Historically in Dorset the letter S was pronounced hard like a Z in many words, as was the letter F which was pronounced like a V, as in Welsh. So, I could say that "I'm vrom Darzet"

Nigel.

 

[Peterm1000]

Similarly in East Dorset we have Corfe Mullen and Corfe Castle. As a child I would sometimes spend time at some friends just outside of Corfe Castle. An American asked the way to Corfee Castle.

Shapwick is pronounced Shapick. Beaminster is pronounced Bemister, and I once had a woman who insisted that Chideock was was Chide Oak not Chidick.

Historically in Dorset the letter S was pronounced hard like a Z in many words, as was the letter F which was pronounced like a V, as in Welsh. So, I could say that "I'm vrom Darzet"

Nigel.

And what about Schenectady, Acequia, Ahwatukee , Port Hueneme, Wampanoag, Synendoche or Passamaquoddy? It's not just Americans who struggle with English place names. English people might struggle with some American place names too...

 

[John Brown]

Americans stopped eating French fries a few years ago when they fell out over Iraq. They now eat Freedom fries.

I have never, ever heard anyone in America say "Freedom fries".

 

[Mark Hancock]

I have never, ever heard anyone in America say "Freedom fries".

Back around 2003 they did but think it has now lapsed.

 

[John Brown]

Even in 2003, I don't remember ever hearing that. Probably invented by The Express, or Nige.