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Huh. Legolas Send a noteboard - 15/12/2015 07:58:59 PM

View original postIt's like how apparently "shag" is the equivalent of "fuck" in the UK, but in the US it typically refers to a type of carpet.

I guess that's yet more proof for just how bad us continental Europeans are at distinguishing British from American English - if you asked me, I would have called it British rather than American, sure, but I would also have assumed it was universally understood among native speakers of any origin. Among adults, anyway.

Perhaps the SATs and similar tests should focus on this sort of vocabulary, instead of knowledge of words that literally nobody uses, even in academia.

View original postIn fact, I only heard it [i.e., "bugger" ] in Monty Python and thought it was just another funny English word like "codswallop" or "git" or "odds bodkins" (the last of which was so bizarrely English that I didn't even attempt to understand what it was supposed to mean). It wasn't until I got to law school that the word came up during a Constitutional Law discussion of sodomy laws (which at the time were still legal - this was 1997 and I was 22).

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why don't snowmen like carrot cake? random thoughts - 08/12/2015 09:35:13 PM 1137 Views
You see how you ruined this, right? Sareitha Sedai - 14/12/2015 01:44:21 PM 605 Views
not specifically but then again I could never tell a joke *NM* random thoughts - 14/12/2015 07:08:19 PM 262 Views
LOL, awww. Sareitha Sedai - 14/12/2015 07:28:04 PM 576 Views
If my daughter is a gauge that last until around 7 random thoughts - 14/12/2015 07:59:30 PM 577 Views
Well, I never had one, but that is my sense of how this works. Sareitha Sedai - 14/12/2015 08:36:49 PM 638 Views
When you misspell "booger" as "bugger" there is a huge level of confusion that can arise. Tom - 14/12/2015 09:21:26 PM 718 Views
that does put a different spin on things and makes me never want to eat carrot cake again *NM* random thoughts - 14/12/2015 10:08:41 PM 274 Views
Thank you. I figured it was some kind of surrealist humour that just went totally over my head. *NM* Legolas - 14/12/2015 10:15:41 PM 290 Views
Yes, especially on a predominantly non-US site *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 15/12/2015 02:59:54 PM 283 Views
You mean Americans genuinely don't recognize that word? That does surprise me. *NM* Legolas - 15/12/2015 07:17:56 PM 223 Views
I never heard it in America growing up. Not once. Tom - 15/12/2015 07:45:49 PM 573 Views
Huh. Legolas - 15/12/2015 07:58:59 PM 583 Views
Right. What Tom said. Sareitha Sedai - 15/12/2015 08:58:48 PM 578 Views
like bloody I have watched enough BBC to know what it means but I never use it that way random thoughts - 16/12/2015 06:25:51 PM 570 Views
Divided by a common language. Rebekah - 15/12/2015 08:10:37 PM 682 Views
Less so with globalization Tom - 15/12/2015 10:09:57 PM 561 Views
I think it is killing accents random thoughts - 17/12/2015 02:34:50 PM 545 Views
Much less so in the UK / Europe, I think. Legolas - 17/12/2015 08:04:29 PM 565 Views
I just thought that no one nose the answer. *NM* Cannoli - 29/12/2015 11:40:17 AM 259 Views
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