No worse than how the UK butchers the E in Derby
Sounds more like darby when y'all say it
At least we don't call Trousers pants, and pants underwear.
Wait you call boxers/briefs pants? <_< And there are some of 'us' that call pants trousers.. Mostly only people over the age of 50 though. They also call 'em britches.
No worse than how the UK butchers the E in Derby
Sounds more like darby when y'all say it
At least we don't call Trousers pants, and pants underwear.
Well, in all technicality, the American term 'underwear' refers to both panties and bras/boxers and undershirts or whatever you choose to wear, not just the English 'pants' part. All of these articles of clothing are worn under something, wherein we get the term from.
Love how "potato chips" originated in the USA but the UK still claims they're crisps and calls fries "chips" lol
You didn't invent them you just changed the name randomly, sound familiar?
Because we already had Chips and calling them potato chips would confuse the demographic which is small children.
Also Chips aren't fries, they're more like what you call Steak fries.
The only time the type of 'fry' is really specified is on the menus at restaurants.. We just universally call them fries, steak fries, thin fries, crinkle cut fries.. They're all just fries.
Love how "potato chips" originated in the USA but the UK still claims they're crisps and calls fries "chips" lol
You didn't invent them you just changed the name randomly, sound familiar?
Because we already had Chips and calling them potato chips would confuse the demographic which is small children.
Also Chips aren't fries, they're more like what you call Steak fries.
what gets me, is there's a UK show called "supersize vs superskinny" where a huge person and a tiny person swap diets for 5 days, so they each can see where they're going wrong....and when it shows what they're having for dessert, the narrator-person will say something like "but today, Mary is only having a pastie, with a chocolate bar for pudd"
and i'm always like O.o because it makes it sound like they're having a chocolate bar for pudding or something. i know what they mean, thats just one of the colloquialisms i can't wrap my head around.
Love how "potato chips" originated in the USA but the UK still claims they're crisps and calls fries "chips" lol
You didn't invent them you just changed the name randomly, sound familiar?
Because we already had Chips and calling them potato chips would confuse the demographic which is small children.
Also Chips aren't fries, they're more like what you call Steak fries.
So is it really confusing other countries do exactly what you've done?
What? All of your language originated from British English. You changed things just to change them, not for any reason.
no, not all of our languages there were many languages here before europe even considered coming here. But yeah man a lot of the time we have the same reasoning behind a word change as you had
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.