Airplane instead of Aeroplane.
Why?
After all you dont say (or maybe you do?)
airnautics instead of aeronautics
airdynamics instead of aerodynamics
airfoil instead of aerofoil
airnomic instead of aeronomic
airsol instead of aerosol
or my personal favourite Air instead of Aero
airspace instead of aerospace
Wait, we use both...
Airplane instead of Aeroplane.
Why?
After all you dont say (or maybe you do?)
airnautics instead of aeronautics
airdynamics instead of aerodynamics
airfoil instead of aerofoil
airnomic instead of aeronomic
airsol instead of aerosol
or my personal favourite Air instead of Aero
Ran into a new one: apparently in the UK, you call ear muffs 'ear defenders'. Makes sense, just not something that anyone in the US would understand without explanation.
Watched a documentary produced in the UK and actually caught quite a few individual words used in a way that would not be understood in the US also but cannot remember them right now. Almost all of them made sense in the context when they were used except a couple, and those might as well have been in Portuguese. :-)
One area that I find both countries are somewhat odd about is Post or Mail. I believe it would be more normal to use the word 'post' instead of mail in casual conversation in the UK but both countries use both words in different places. We have a US Postal System, with a Post Master that oversees the..... mail. You apparently have 'post' and a post office and so forth but the materials handled by the post offices are sometimes transferred to a ship designated RMS for Royal Mail Service. I also think it is an age thing, at least here in the US too; in the olden days, I believe it was more common for the mailman to be called the postman. Even today everyone would know who a person was talking about using that term but no one really uses that term anymore. And the thing that the mail man (or mail carrier) puts the mail in is the mail box.
Brian
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Definitely Postman otherwise it would be Mailman Mike instead of Postman Pat
I've joined a multistrada forum that has predominantly UK members, some europers but few Americans. I am starting to talk like a Brit. Kit instead of gear. Sat Nav for GPS. Faf I believe means "pain in the a$$" (which would be ar$e) and then the're mate. That's def. different.
Faf I believe means "pain in the a$$" (which would be ar$e)
Definitely Postman otherwise it would be Mailman Mike instead of Postman Pat
Except here we can no longer officially use the word "man" in anything (even when the person is male), because it is not politically correct. So it would be "postal carrier", "letter carrier", or "mail carrier".
police officer
fire fighter
chair person
sports person
Since I don't like PC, I will continue to put "man" and "woman" at the end when referring to specific people Although I do often use the neuter version when referring to the generic/collective. Some really sound beyond strange though-
fisherwoman? fisher person?? Maybe just "fisher"
Where I work, when we had a female in charge of the Board, people kept calling her the "chairman" and I refused to do that. I called her the "chairwoman" since it seemed really odd to say just "chair", like I was calling a person a piece of furniture
I've joined a multistrada forum that has predominantly UK members, some europers but few Americans. I am starting to talk like a Brit. Kit instead of gear. Sat Nav for GPS. Faf I believe means "pain in the a$$" (which would be ar$e) and then the're mate. That's def. different.
"FAF about"........ to take a extra long time to complete a simple task
In fairness most people tend to refer to them as "the postie" which is gender neutral
I must say, "postie" doesn't sound gender neutral.Why? Too close to pastie?
South Africans are just generally rude & obnoxious
Well Mikey, seeing that us SA'ns are rude and obnoxious, let me live up to it.....
Do you know what us Afrikaans speaking people call you okes from GB........?
"Souties"..... Short for "Sout Pielle"....excuse my language please....?
Sout=salt and pielle=penis', so roughly translated, it means salt-d*cks..... Reason being that with the Anglo-Boer war, the okes were one foot in GB, the other in SA, with the their d*cks hanging in the ocean....