Words Brits use that Americans don't?

Exactly, KathyL. It's still 1700s sentence structure, but the occasional English word was thrown in when they didn't know the correct French word.

When I was living in Lafayette, LA at university there, sometimes 'Paris French' people would visit out in the countryside and had the same trouble you mentioned. At least, that is, until they got a bit drunk! (Which happens frequently in south Louisiana! Mostly Catholic, not Protestant.) I met a guy traveling from Quebec and he told me, "Patrick, you try to speak better French when you're drunk." Must have something to do with the 'auditory vagueness' of French.

 

Forget the snails, but I should invite all to south Louisiana for true 'cajun' food, not the B.S. commercially marketed. Like 'blackened fish'.. Down here if it's 'blackened', the dog gets it.

 

Ahhhh - obeying the rule of thumb Dragon taught me - "When it's brown it's done, and when it's black it's buggered up" !!!

 

Been there done that. x

 

DRUNK -
Pissed as a parrot
Drunk as a skunk
Two sheets to the wind

 

DRUNK !!!! legless ,,sh=tfaced ,

 

Sloshed · Sozzled · Out of Your Tree · Off Your Trolley · Wasted.



Britain has 3,000 ways to say 'drunk' (here's 100 of them)

 

poleaxed

 

This is sort of true.
They were pets in the 90s.
Some escaped, so in certain parts of the UK they are now wild.
I will find a link tomorrow.

 

They could be drunk Skunks, just saying. Lol

 

i think it may have been ,mink that escaped ,from a mink farm ,though rumour has it ,it was animal rights activists ,broke into the mink farm ,and set them free ,as the minks were being killed to make expensive garments ,there are quite a few wild critters in the uk ,that are similar to skunks , ferrits ,polecats ,stotes ,and several others ,are very similar to skunks

 

Knee-walking drunk.

Three sheets to the wind.

(rural version, not in common use) Drunker'n Cooter Brown.

 

drunk as a lord ...tipsy,,,bladdered ...sozled...

 

P*ssed as a newt is another expression in similar vein.

 

Now that's a tricky one that took getting used to. Over here "pissed" is angry, as in 'pissed off'. Over there it means drunk.

 

Yes, we have that too over this side of the 'pond'. If one is p*ssed, one is drunk, whereas if one is p*ssed off, one is angry

 

anyone said "Shagging " Yet ?