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#20081 02/26/01 03:11 PM
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Hi - this is my first post but thought it was about time (seeing as I'm a Brit...)

Crikey - (polite) surprise
To be knackered (rhyming slang - cream crackered) to be very tired
To take the mickey - to mock someone. "Are you taking the mickey?"
Tickity-boo. This means fine, OK. "Everything is just tickety-boo".

Bye for now...Oswas




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One of my favorites/favourites:
"A reading from the book of the Prophet Isaiah"
(the penultimate syllable in the prophet's name being pronounced "eye") Don't know why Brits and American have different pronunciations for this. Do you?


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"Naughty" has to be one of the funniest words ever. "Hugh Grant was arrested for being very naughty on the Sunset Strip."






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Don't know why Brits and American have different pronunciations for this. Do you?


Not sure, but I think it is because God pronounces it eye-z-EYE-yuh.




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I love the Jamaican accent...


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God pronounces it eye-z-EYE-yuh.

British or American accent, Father?





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God pronounces it eye-z-EYE-yuh.

British or American accent, Father?

Neither. As CapK notes in his bio, the land he and I inhabit is called Godzone, so the correct answer is ZILD!


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In that all civilised persons know that God is a proper English gentleman, He speaks only with an upper-crust British accent, of course.



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I felt embarassed to have to keep saying "What?", and it didn't help matters that the fellow looked rather...irate.

I know that feeling well -- being embarrassed, that is. When I moved from Southern Ontario (Canada) to Louisiana, it was months before I could listen through a conversation without a "Pardon?". It didn't help that our phone number used to be for the state Wage and Labor division (and still passed around by clueless departments). Loved those upset phone calls at two in the morning...

New Orleans accents were about as easy as they got for me. They actually have an almost Bostonian ring to how they speak. No idea how that came about, but it is one of my favorite of the southern accents.

In my opinion, though, nothing can beat a nice, mellow irish accent.


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Crikey - (polite) surprise

It's interesting how some words/slang just wouldn't be right when said without the proper accent. If I heard something like "crickey" out of the mouth of one my neighbors, I would think I'd misheard what he was really trying to say.

I'd love to know more Brit speak, slang. (Or any region's slang, for that matter). I'm pretty new to the AWAD, so if it's come up before, I haven't come across it. Maybe something for a new thread? Or private mail me if you've got a list... I'd enjoy it.


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