Joseph Littleshoes > wrote in news:ce823$491b1adb$4396f602
:

> wrote:
>
>> I find North American English,
>
> So tell us where you from and im sure we can find equally disturbing
> usage of language in whatever place of origin you claim.


LOL!!

Aussie slang for pie and sauce = dogs eye and ded 'orse.

But a quick NeoTrace of his IP shows him to be in Ottawa.




> I mean if your going to call an
> automobiles storage space a 'boot'


And at the other end is the bonnet.


> and an battery operated light a
> 'torch'


What the hell do you call it???!!


> .... your "biscuit" is our cookie.


Even though we now have packaging that calls some of them cookies :-/


> Our biscuit is something akin
> to a dinner roll, only fluffier and less salty. Usually served with
> breakfast with either preserves, butter, or bacon and eggs.


Your biscuit is our scone. Scone pronounced with the --one as 'on'.

Not as you call them with the --one pronounced 'own'


>
> Your "jelly" is our Jell-O or gelatin.


Gelatin is gelatin. Jelly is jelly.


>
> Your "jam" is our jelly.
>
> Your "crisp" is our chip.


Crisp is pommy.
We call them potato chips.


>
> Your "chips" are our french fries.


We call 'em hot chips.



>
> Your "mobile" is our cell phone.


It travels in your pocket/on your person, wherevr you go..... it's a mobile
phone.


>
> And we are all better off not even mentioning "marmite" (Promite YUM!!)
aubergine (egg plant)
> courgette (zuchinni) serviette (serviette) or a nice bit of crumpet (Ay!!
A hot crumpet on a cold morning with a cup of tea is bloody nice!!)


>
> Of course that is all just every day speech. If you ran into a proper
> cockney and he said something along the lines of "Bloody 'ell check out
> the boat and bristols on that. Ahh pony that was my trouble on the dog.
> OK china better finnish me pigs and hit the frog or I'll be in barney,
> know wha' I mean?".. Good luck understanding that.


I know China, and frog..... maybe trouble and dog too.

China plate = mate
Frog and toad = road.
Trouble (and strife) = wife
Dog (and bone) = phone


the rest might as well be in !Kabee (kalahari Bushman language :-)

> --
> Joseph Littleshoes


--
Peter Bigshoes Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

Mi b'aill docha basaich air m' ris, sin mair air m'glun.

(I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.)