those "what??" moments (food, slang, etc.)

[silvermoonfairy3]

We're not, our banks just aren't as technologically advanced as yours.

Accurate. :P

I hate checks. The only one I still write is for rent. Everything else is electronic these days.

[silvermoonfairy3]

Chuffing is short for 'chuffing nora' or 'chuffing 'eck'...

*blinks*
*stares*

Chuffing nora? Chuffing 'eck? That didn't clear anything up.. :P

[silvermoonfairy3]

There are soooo many arguments over scones. I personally rhyme it with gone. However a bigger argument than how to pronounce it, is what you have on it and which order you put things on: you can be evicted from Cornwall for getting it wrong

Pretty sure I'll be evicted.
When I make them at home, I usually eat them plain, unless I've made lemon curd, and then I'll eat them with lemon curd.
If I get one in a coffee shop, I'll probably have it with raspberry or strawberry jam.

I'm assuming clotted cream is supposed to be in there somewhere? We don't really do clotted cream.

[farandaway]

Accurate. :P

I hate checks. The only one I still write is for rent. Everything else is electronic these days.

yes, checks, not cheques... I'm trying to shake off the British English they teach us but it's deep in there. My SO is originally from New Mexico and I've come across all kinds of weird animals and weather phenomenon that I have never heard of before...

He thinks it's weird that kids take shoes off at school here. Americans like to walk around in their shoes but Finns want to keep their house clean and always take shoes off at the door without asking...

[MyHeartsInScotland]

Ah the never ending cookies vs biscuits vs scones debate! My SO tried to explain to me how his way of classification was right and failed miserably. I was utterly confused to why things were so complicatedly named.

Speaking of complicated, I still haven't got down cockney slang. Phrases like "apples and pears" and "cameron tolls" still baffle me. Besides Brit slang, there's also Scot slang which complicates things even more. Just to name a few:

-Messages: groceries
-Greeting: crying
-Piece: sandwhich
-Coupon: face
-Juice: soda pop
-Haud your wheest: slow down
-Giving it laldy: go for it!
-Wha's his pus?: what's his name/face?
-Jakie: junkie
-crabbit: grumpy
-Radge: idiot, but also used for greeting friends

Complete craziness sometimes. O.o

[emsimes]

Ah the never ending cookies vs biscuits vs scones debate! My SO tried to explain to me how his way of classification was right and failed miserably. I was utterly confused to why things were so complicatedly named.

Speaking of complicated, I still haven't got down cockney slang. Phrases like "apples and pears" and "cameron tolls" still baffle me. Besides Brit slang, there's also Scot slang which complicates things even more. Just to name a few:

-Messages: groceries
-Greeting: crying
-Piece: sandwhich
-Coupon: face
-Juice: soda pop
-Haud your wheest: slow down
-Giving it laldy: go for it!
-Wha's his pus?: what's his name/face?
-Jakie: junkie
-crabbit: grumpy
-Radge: idiot, but also used for greeting friends

Complete craziness sometimes. O.o

OMG, that is all kinds of craziness! I don't think I could keep up! ^^

[80anthea]

'put wood in'th oyle' confused my SO for ages!

[80anthea]

Some other good Yorkshireisms for ye:

not enough room to swing a cat - a small room
neither use nor ornament - useless
more brass na brains - more money than sense
were ya born in a barn? - close the door
lug - ear
cack-handed - left handed
Aye up - hello, how are you?
Topped his/her clogs - he/she died

[MyHeartsInScotland]

OMG, that is all kinds of craziness! I don't think I could keep up! ^^

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so! It's like he's speaking English, but not really. I've thrown him a few of our phrases like "shorty" and "manscaping" which he didn't understand, but he has taken to "jelly" "totes" and "cray cray" which are so much funny being said with an accent. Have you made your man from Germany say any of our slang words?

'put wood in'th oyle' confused my SO for ages!

Some other good Yorkshireisms for ye:

not enough room to swing a cat - a small room
neither use nor ornament - useless
more brass na brains - more money than sense
were ya born in a barn? - close the door
lug - ear
cack-handed - left handed
Aye up - hello, how are you?
Topped his/her clogs - he/she died

I understood about half of those! It's much easier to understand when someone explains it and I can kind of see where those phrases might have originated, but if were said in passing, I'd be terribly confused! What does "put wood in'th oyle" mean? Like to start a fire or heat things up?

[Harlequin]

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I do remember saying "...what?" many, many times during our first round of dating. I think moving to England took some of the Scottish out of him :P

I can't wait for him to hear me say "jeetyet", though. Or something similarly Pennsylvanian that I haven't said at him yet.

[80anthea]

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so! It's like he's speaking English, but not really. I've thrown him a few of our phrases like "shorty" and "manscaping" which he didn't understand, but he has taken to "jelly" "totes" and "cray cray" which are so much funny being said with an accent. Have you made your man from Germany say any of our slang words?





I understood about half of those! It's much easier to understand when someone explains it and I can kind of see where those phrases might have originated, but if were said in passing, I'd be terribly confused! What does "put wood in'th oyle" mean? Like to start a fire or heat things up?

It means close the door, put the wood (wooden door) in the hole (doorway). We're a simple bunch.

[Hollandia]

He he he, we go through this too many times to count. I am a bit of a reader and my mom is a trivia nut so I cant remember half of the times but he thinks he knows all about Americana from TV and Movies over here but when I tell him............." You're Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat!" and he does not get it, I have to laugh. Some of our stuff in USA that has not been around for decades in still in our society like the Acme store on Road Runner that shipped everything instantly and the Jolly Green Giant or Mister Clean. My kids knows this stuff but my SO had never heard of any of it. Needless to say a marathon of old Bugs Bunny/Road Runner eps is planned in near future. LOL.

[snow]

"Nutter butter" I thought it was one of his silly nicknames, it actually is a chocolate bar

[Hollandia]

"Nutter butter" I thought it was one of his silly nicknames, it actually is a chocolate bar

Don't forget the peanut butter in it.....yum yum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter

[emsimes]

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so! It's like he's speaking English, but not really. I've thrown him a few of our phrases like "shorty" and "manscaping" which he didn't understand, but he has taken to "jelly" "totes" and "cray cray" which are so much funny being said with an accent. Have you made your man from Germany say any of our slang words?

Haha, that's cute!! The only slang word my SO has picked up is "dude", which is so stereotypically popular here in Cali
He also learned how to make the West Coast gang sign while he was studying here, but I definitely didn't teach him that one