This brings up another point: what do you (UK) call us (US) casually or in slang? I have heard colonists used with a mostly humorous and a touch of degrading meaning it seems but overall, not unkind.
The only two slang terms I know for a Brit. is 'Limey', which is NOT derogatory but merely slang. And really, I guess it would be an English person because we have other slang terms for the Irish (a 'Mick'). It is based on the fact that Capt. Cook started using limes as provender to prevent scurvy on long ocean voyages (I believe there is still the 'Limehouse' on the Thames where thy were stored or collected ?? ). The other term is 'Jickey', which is derogatory and I personally never use it simply because I do not know what it means.
Just as an aside, I do not know of any American slang terms for other native English speaking country's populations although we often call Australia 'Oz', again I do not know why. But I know of no slang terms for an Australian, New Zealander, South African and similar.
I believe you call a stove a 'cooker'. We call it a stove :-)
Brian
Wow, we're up to 13 pages.
I recently watched Terence Stamp in the movie The Limey.
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