Thanks, left policy at home, can't rememder the company name. Wife is now sleeping on the chaise sofa, the other two couple with us won't ride the elevator with me. You've heard of the "Ugly American?" I'm the stinky American, Cruised the shops down town on Queens St. In Auckland and found a Shop that had "Sport Shorts" on sale. One pair for $59.60, about USD $55.00. Wow! The sales girl explained that they were made out very nice material. I said unless they vibrate I'll be going "commando style" soon. We both had a good laugh. The airport luggage people said they've located my missing luggage and wiil deliver today.
Have you tried Kmart? There are lots of them in New Zealand, I think. Kmart Home NZ$ 59.60 seems somewhat steep. But it would still be worthwhile to save a US$ 10,000 holiday, surely? Failing that, of course, if you still have no underpants by the time you get to Sydney, you can have a couple of my old pairs.
Strange. We say exactly the same thing of the Welsh, Aussies and Kiwi's. Saying that, this article doesn't do my cause any good Commuters saw man have sex with goat - News - London Evening Standard Hull's a strange place
Where have you been? I was beginning to think all our Yorkshire-baiting was in vain. We could see Wales across the sea from my school when I was a kid. We weren't allowed to use binoculars so that we didn't see any ovine indecency. Have you been to Hull? Honestly, she was probably the most attractive prospect he could find.
lol I have and your comment is a little unfair. There are some rather delightful ladies in Hull, well to look at. Just wait until they open their gob though; "Ere you, 'old me pint while I go for a shite". Charming.
Yeah, good point. You want a girl who can hold her own pint while she goes for a shite, really. Or who'll just down it before she goes to 't bog, and get another pint - snakebite and black, preferably - when she gets back (saying "I wouldn't go in there for ten minutes if I were you," of course). Relying on men to hold their pints while they go for a shite just reinforces the patriarchy.
[/QUOTE] Which English accent are you refering to? If you mean the 'Queens English' or Cockney, then yes you're right. But where I'm from there are more similarities with our pronunciation of words to you guys compared to my fellow countrymen further south. Geysers are pronounced geeser down south but Gyser up north. You say grass as do I, but my friends down south say gr-arse. We say path, they say parth. But I don't think modern American accents in California are close to old English, but more the accents in deepest darkest Boston and other original States. Your accents have changed in the last 80 years just like ours have. Listen to the accents in an early 30's US movie and they sound nothing like yours do today - and ours certainly don't. Interesting subject though. But considering there are probably about 50 different accents within as many miles to me, it's fascinating.
There's a good Bill Bryson book that covers this. I'm buggered if I can remember which one: I'll have a think. But I remember that in one section, he talks about a town in New England called Norwich. The locals pronounce it as we would - "Norritch" - rather than the way most Americans would pronounce it - "Nor witch". But yes, there are old English words which are used in America and which we don't use any more - Fall instead of Autumn would be an obvious example.
"Gotten" is another one. This Wiki page has some more examples: American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only some of us say it nu. Around the New York area. Thus Nu-ark. A bit south in Delaware its New-ark.
So is it route or route? As in Route 66. Or re route the wiring. To us it's root 66 and re - root the wiring, but the cutting tool called a router is said rowter. And is it root 66? I'm sure the song goes like that, but on tv you guys all say rowt. Or does the US have accents and differing pronunciation all over too? I'm sure hkmb will confirm, but we love it when you guys say vehicle. To us it's vehicle said in one go, but you appear to say it ve-he-icle. Or do the police sheriffs on Live and Let Die ( J W Pepper) not give a true reflection?
Incredible, one can hear different inflections by changing neighborhoods in London, even different schools have different inflections, but yes, everyone in the US sounds just like Bill Cosby.
