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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: UK English - US English Dictionary #1725 04/30/00 08:58 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh OP Pooh-Bah OP jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 >everyone fell about laughing Lucy - You'll have to e-mail me the answer - I can only guess at the moment - I am feeling rather peckish! The Australian one I found strange was the idea that men wore thongs. I imagined men dancing removing layers of clothes in a seedy club - it turned out that thongs are the same as the footwear that we wear on the beach (but probably more stylish versions) called flip-flops. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 04/29/00 09:27 AM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary cadaver 04/30/00 01:15 AM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 04/30/00 08:55 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary Rubrick 05/22/00 09:52 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary lusy 04/30/00 07:57 AM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary tsuwm 04/30/00 02:34 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 04/30/00 08:58 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 05/14/00 09:48 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary Jackie 05/16/00 01:09 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary Lucy 05/17/00 05:47 AM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary paulb 05/17/00 12:04 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary Jackie 05/17/00 03:44 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary Rubrick 05/22/00 09:58 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary David108 05/22/00 08:45 AM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary paulb 05/23/00 12:32 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary David108 05/23/00 06:00 PM Posties and Barbies jmh 05/23/00 08:19 PM Re: Posties and Barbies David108 05/25/00 06:20 PM Re: "Up" beats jmh 05/27/00 04:59 PM Oeuf-rica David108 05/27/00 05:57 PM Re: Orstralia paulb 05/29/00 11:49 AM Re: Orstralia jmh 05/29/00 12:35 PM Re: Orstralia paulb 05/30/00 11:40 AM Re: Orstralia Jackie 05/30/00 09:31 PM Re: Orstralia Lucy 05/31/00 02:00 AM Re: Okra jmh 05/31/00 06:48 AM Re: Okra shanks 05/31/00 12:22 PM Re: Okra Jackie 05/31/00 01:13 PM Re: Okra jmh 05/31/00 02:03 PM Re: Okra Jackie 05/31/00 07:55 PM Re: Okra tsuwm 06/02/00 03:48 PM Re: Okra Jackie 06/03/00 11:27 AM UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 06/05/00 10:00 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 06/05/00 10:47 PM Re: Okra AnnaStrophic 06/01/00 02:12 AM Yards and Gardens jmh 06/02/00 12:14 PM Re: Yards and Gardens Jackie 06/02/00 01:02 PM Re: Yards and Gardens and Queues, oh my! AnnaStrophic 06/02/00 01:10 PM Re: Yards and Gardens jmh 06/02/00 05:27 PM Re: Okra tsuwm 06/02/00 03:56 PM Re: In Line/On Line jmh 06/02/00 05:26 PM Re: okra David108 05/31/00 08:03 AM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 05/23/00 07:47 PM Re: UK English - US English Dictionary jmh 05/25/00 02:12 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,018 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (wofahulicodoc), 390 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 25 A C Bowden 12 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,971 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,958 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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