Words Brits use that Americans don't?

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  1. Bicaptain My Captain

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    Gol dern, them southerners! She-it!
     
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  2. Candy Gal

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    Ooh never heard that before.

    We have several meanings to the term Old man.
    Could be, as a child, your Father, Married, your husband. or a strange question about your carrot - How's the old man. lol
     
  3. scratcho

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    Dang is for those that believe in Heck.
     
  4. Candy Gal

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    And Heck is? lol
     
  5. scratcho

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    Damn and hell for religious folks that don't dare use "cuss words." Silly!
     
  6. Candy Gal

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    Oh like GAWD. I use gawd lots.
     
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  9. Bicaptain My Captain

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    Gol is southern for Qawd.
     
  10. guerillabedlam

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    Do you ever mix phrases from the first list with phrases from the second?
     
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  11. Bicaptain My Captain

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    Do you mean like Tally Ho! For Fucks Sake?
     
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  12. guerillabedlam

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    Haha Yes
     
  13. Beach Ball Lady Balls

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    Ok, I have a question. Squish! My mum used this word when something was crooked. Ie. that picture is squish!

    is this still used in the uk?

    I had an old oxford dictionary and squish for crooked was in it.
     
  14. Joshua Tree

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    It is normal for a Brit when encountering Boris Johnson in the street to say:

    "Tally ho ****!"
     
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    I use “jam”
     
  16. Candy Gal

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    We have jammy bugger, it means lucky devil.
     
  17. mallyboppa

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    Kecks ! for Pants I know someone married a Japanese Girl and she Cracked up laughing when he said "wheres me kecks " she thought it was the maddest thing she ever heard !
     
  18. Candy Gal

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    I thought it was cacks?lol
     
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    Regarding sweaty words, you guys might be interested in the linguistic developments regarding the c-word in Scotland.

    If anycunt says it, will everycunt accept it?

    Now, I myself don't quite use the c-word so freely, but many of us do!

    It's particularly funny when somebody uses it in all innocence in a TV interview.
     
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    I hate the c word.
    But I do remember James Hunt being called ...lol
     

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