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"None of the usual 'I love you' before the phone was put down, but what could Robin expect after he'd been such a wazzock?"
Wazzock! Now that's a new one. "What a wazzock!" It has a ring to it, doesn't it? I think I'm going to incorporate it into my vocabulary. 😁
— Sep 16, 2018 11:25PM
Wazzock! Now that's a new one. "What a wazzock!" It has a ring to it, doesn't it? I think I'm going to incorporate it into my vocabulary. 😁
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"I wanted to get a butcher's, as I said, but I felt a right idiot, sneaking about. Like I was the one doing something illegal, not them."
Get a butcher's? Okay, I'm stumped. Anyone know what this means?
— Sep 19, 2018 08:28PM
Get a butcher's? Okay, I'm stumped. Anyone know what this means?
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“Good game?” The scoreline suggested a bit of a try fest.
‘Try fest’ — that’s another one for my collection. I thought I was fairly fluent in Brit-speak, because about 25% of the fiction I’ve read is set in the UK. But every once in a while — all too rarely — a book comes along chock-full of Britishisms I’ve never seen before, & I realize that really, I know almost nothing. Books like this are great fun. :)
— Sep 17, 2018 07:34PM
‘Try fest’ — that’s another one for my collection. I thought I was fairly fluent in Brit-speak, because about 25% of the fiction I’ve read is set in the UK. But every once in a while — all too rarely — a book comes along chock-full of Britishisms I’ve never seen before, & I realize that really, I know almost nothing. Books like this are great fun. :)
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Ah, Brit-speak.
A phone conversation:
"We want to talk to Mr. Phillips..."
"You'll have to wait. He's just gone down to theatre."
Oh, he's watching a play? No, he's in the operating room. Duh.
That one I'd seen before, but others are new to me, like "telling pork pies." Whut LOL.
But I love it when the Britishisms are left in; it's quirky & mind-expanding. What a loss when American publishers take them out.
— Sep 13, 2018 05:42PM
A phone conversation:
"We want to talk to Mr. Phillips..."
"You'll have to wait. He's just gone down to theatre."
Oh, he's watching a play? No, he's in the operating room. Duh.
That one I'd seen before, but others are new to me, like "telling pork pies." Whut LOL.
But I love it when the Britishisms are left in; it's quirky & mind-expanding. What a loss when American publishers take them out.
