Words Brits use that Americans don't?

You know how some clothes have pockets.
People from australia will say things like put this note into your sky rocket please.
Sky rocket = pocket
Dead horse = sauce
Dog and bone = phone
Dunny = toilet

Some of the sayings are a little too rude to post up on here but that's just a few of the clean sayings i can post up.

 

We have the same except Dunny. Where the hell does that come from? lol

 

A dunny used to be an outside toilet.

 

We had them, but I would have to google what we called them. lol

 

"Latriene"..??........(wrong spelling i know).



Cheers Glen.

 

Maybe they were built in Australia by some of the brits who were shipped over from England to Australia to live.

 

Sadly, both John Sullivan (who wrote only fools and horses) and Roy Clarke (Last of the summer wine, open all hours and keeping up appearances) died recently, I dread to think what is going to happen to British comedy now.

We live on the surrey borders and my accent is typical of BBC newsreaders. I recorded a few sections as Alvarado Dell for historic films.
The accents around south east London are legendary, but also hugely variable. Cockney is nothing like the accent of Charley Chaplin who was born a few miles away in Walworth. In the film version of his life story, the voice coach got it wrong and Robert Downy had to start all over again.

The meat market traders also used 'backslang', where every word is said backwards. It was a sort of code and completely confuses me, but it was fun for the traders who used it openly in front of the poor unsuspecting customers.
................................ Uoy nac ees reh screckin ginwosh' (You can see her knickers showing)

Have you ever been to the Welsh speaking areas of north Wales. Listening to the natives is great fun.

 

Many a true word spoken in Jest..... I will leave it at that, rather than risk being beheaded at the tower of London.

 

As an engineer, I find the American term very misleading.

A spanner has flats and is designed to operate nuts without damage


A wrench grips the surface and tightens by ratchet action and should only be used on smooth surfaces such as pipes

The term wrench is also used for the device that DRIVES a socket spanner. This can also have a torque slip for critical work, particularly in aircraft manufacture.

 

We find the word spanner just as odd. You show a pipe wrench. We certainly know the difference

 

We call a tool with parallel or hexagonal flats that do not grip the load a spanner. Everything else is a wrench.

The confusion that I mentioned was in ordering tools. A lot of quality tools are manufactured in the US and we spend ages looking for the spanners. LOL

 

I see the problem. Even my spell check will not recognize spanner

 

Napkins are for babies, not your face. lol

 

1. “How’s your father,” “Rumpy pumpy,” “Good rogering”
Meaning: To have sex, sexual relations, get “your groove on.”

2. “Going to play some footy”
Meaning: Going to play soccer.

3. “I’ll give you a bunch of fives”
Meaning: You’re going to get a punch in the face.

4. “That was a right bodge job”
Meaning: That job went wrong.

5. “Oh bloomin ‘eck”
Meaning: A non-curse word exclamation.

6. “That’s pants”
Meaning: It’s not great, not very good.

 

That's 'Khazi' Candy darlin' or 'bog' or 'thunder box'

 

Thunder box. lol

 

We also owe the Russians a good deal too Kirstie darlin' - go research 'the battle of Kursk and you might understand why !!!

 

OIY!!! No politics!!!!!

 

Not politics Candy darlin' - merely research on historical fact

 

But this thread is for words and phrases.