The English Language

[Becster]

I know what that word means and I'm American. It means hungry.

Ahhh, I guess I'm just going based on my friends over there...they don't know what it means.

[monkey]

What about the term "dude"? I've been told it's fairly common in the western part of the US, where I am, but it's not used much elsewhere.

That's definayly a word that California used waaay too much

[Strawberry]

Oh... another thing about spelling, as I mentioned before Brits use u's in colour, flavour etc..., but theres also a difference when they spell organise and analyse. We British use an "s" whereas Americans use a "z" so that its spelt organize and analyze.

Also Americans say "Math", but Britsih say "Maths"

[Becster]

Also Americans say "Math", but Britsih say "Maths"

*twitch* Maths...How I loathe it. I'm doing coursework and I had to get NINE articles, three similiar ones from each of three papers and count ALL. THE. WORDS. In my chosen article.

...Guuuuh.

And, yeah, there's the whole 'organise' 'organize' thing...I think the 'z' looks funny, but American's probably think the 's' looks funny O.O

[~*~Lunar Eclipse~*~]

I say "dude"...but thats probably because me and my friends are like, surfer-obsessed

[Time-Machine]

I say dude, and so does everyone else around here, and none of us surf or anything like that. It's just a fun word. Everyone's a dude. We're all dudes.

[quimmy]

Hah, I say egit all the time, it's such an old-fashioned insult though.

Americans say 'bangs', British people say 'fringe'.

I love saying 'innit' and 'warrit?' and 'somefink', little imitations of Northern English accents.

Irish people tend to blend verbs, like 'I amn't' and 'I ain't' instead of I'm not'.

I'd consider sck-on to be the posh way of saying it. ^^;

[monkey]

Americans say 'bangs', British people say 'fringe'.

Irish people tend to blend verbs, like 'I amn't' and 'I ain't' instead of I'm not'.

I'm british and I've only ever heard people say Bangs. Fringe is really old.. like a decade ago old.

We say I Ain't down here in the south too, not me personally but people I observe do.

[Strawberry]

I'm british and I've only ever heard people say Bangs. Fringe is really old.. like a decade ago old.

We say I Ain't down here in the south too, not me personally but people I observe do.

I say fringe and never use the word bangs

Anyway I'm at university and there are loads of international students here and sometimes its difficult to communicate due to the accents.

[quimmy]

I have a fringe and I say fringe. I've never heard a British or Irish person say bangs!

Ah, and we nearly always say Taytos instead of Crisps too.

[Strawberry]

yep

and there are differences when the British and Americans say Tomatoes. The British says "Toe-mart-toes" where as Americans say "Toe-mate-toes"