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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 10:10:26 AM
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doinkdom
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Wow - 3 pages of posts in one evening...a new CW record I bet!
I was laughing at all the spellings for how to pronounce words...
Southern pronunciation for Toilet is ter-lett
And I don't even try to say aluminum = I say tin foil
Oil is awl (same with foil is more like fawl)
and so it goes on and on and on . . .
Around here, the Charleston accent has a touch of a British accent with a splash of southern sprinkled over it.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 11:07:34 AM
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doinkdom
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Brit isn't (not to us anyway), but "golly" is regarded as such by many so watch out!! 
really?
I mean, jeepers
I mean, well I dunno now...I guess I should just shut up. 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 11:08:46 AM
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We say aluminum, because that's how we spell it. There's no 'i' after the 'n.'
Oh yes there is. 
If you choose to spell it incorrectly, that's fine - so long as you recognise this.
From here:
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Wohler is generally credited with having isolated the metal in 1827, although an impure form was prepared by Oersted two years earlier. In 1807, Davy proposed the name aluminum for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminum was adopted to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements, and this spelling is now in use elsewhere in the world.
Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society officially decided to use the name aluminum thereafter in their publications.
How daft!!
Just as everyone else in the world decides to call it aluminium, to conform with the -ium ending of most elements, you Americans decide to change the spelling again (thereby calling it something different from everyone else). How bizarre is that?! I wonder what the point of that was??!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 11:12:43 AM
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Doink-
golly
I have been taught that it's taking the Lord's name in vain... but apparantly not.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 12:38:33 PM
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stellaluna
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How daft!!
Just as everyone else in the world decides to call it aluminium, to conform with the -ium ending of most elements, you Americans decide to change the spelling again (thereby calling it something different from everyone else). How bizarre is that?! I wonder what the point of that was??!
Meh. We do what we want.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 1:57:57 PM
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Doink-
golly
I have been taught that it's taking the Lord's name in vain... but apparantly not.
So, it's kinda like how Black Sambo and Uncle Tom are considered racial slurs?
I am such a Yank 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 2:16:47 PM
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I always get weird looks because I say facial tissue. Mainly call it that because I think that Kleenex are worthless compared to Puffs!
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Also, when I was growing up, my mum always called the vacuum cleaner the "Hoover" - at the time it was a Hoover, but even when she bought a new different brand, it was still called the Hoover, and it has rather stayed with me as well.
When I first moved to Indiana one of my neighbors said that she needed to sweep her carpet. I thought she meant that she didn't have a vacuum cleaner, so I offered to loan her mine. She gave me a puzzled look. IMO, sweeping carpets in a lot harder then vacuuming them. She laughed and explained to me that in the midwest vacuum cleaners are referred to as sweepers, so people say that they are sweeping thier carpet, even though they are using a vacuum cleaner. 
My grandma in Missouri had a carpet sweeper - she swept her carpets.
My other granny in FL had a broom and she swept her yard...there was no grass, only sand and she swept it every day so it looked nice.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 2:19:06 PM
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So, it's kinda like how Black Sambo and Uncle Tom are considered racial slurs?
"Golly" only matters in some very PC quarters. I was being facetious
oh...ok...I guess I'll have to watch that if I ever meet someone from England who is PC.
I did meet Prince Charles when he came to Charleston back in the 80's. Not sure why that matters, but I would think he has to be PC, being the Prince and all.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 3:07:41 PM
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its aluminium, I agree with Manda!
Manda do you say "you know what I mean?" alot? Jamie Oliver says it stacks and I was watching "brat camp" last night (nothing else on tv) and the kids there kept saying it ALOT!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 3:40:49 PM
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No, Nicole, I do not!
I occasionally say "if you catch my drift" though.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 3:43:37 PM
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LOL I take it with that response you don't like that phrase
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 3:56:31 PM
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doinkdom
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LOL I take it with that response you don't like that phrase
I Know What You Mean
that was great!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 5:21:04 PM
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Jamie Oliver says it stacks
Is "says it stacks" a typo or another phrase we don't have in common?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/4/2008 5:36:59 PM
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LOL its something we don't have in common, stacks means "alot"
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