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« on: October 20, 2008, 04:22:44 PM »

Go on Charee you think of one. The rules are that the questions are not to be answered from any person from the country who asked the question.
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2008, 04:24:06 PM »

now i have to think of one , might need awhile !!! my minds gone blank !!
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2008, 04:28:27 PM »

Ok I'll start. Anyone know what a North of England Steak Pudding is? :ukflag;
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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2008, 05:00:31 PM »

I'm guessing steak and kidney pie ???


Anyone know what a double double refers to in Canada?
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2008, 07:35:30 PM »

is it some kind of coffee, Monrein?       :rofl;   I have NO idea............just playing along............
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« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2008, 07:49:24 PM »

Ok I'll start. Anyone know what a North of England Steak Pudding is? :ukflag;

"Babby's Yead" or Baby's Head? minus the kidneys?

Anyone know what a double double refers to in Canada?

- two creams, two sugars in your coffee?
- two creams, two sugars at Tom Horton's?

Okay, so here's mine - do they have english muffins in England?
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2008, 03:20:10 AM »

Correct Pelagia. They are often called Babbies 'eads because of their shape. English muffins a type of bread roll a little bit like a small hamburger Bun.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/101Things/beefpudding02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://101things.wordpress.com/2006/03/15/7/&h=768&w=1024&sz=156&hl=en&start=8&um=1&usg=__leQj-TQiD4D1YskcBSWcpMg5ejs=&tbnid=CKJjgDa2BQlZnM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSteak%2BPudding%2Bpics%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX


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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2008, 05:01:25 AM »


Anyone know what a double double refers to in Canada?

Don't know this one Monrein so I'll take a guess. 4 IN A BED?  :rofl; 
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2008, 05:24:15 AM »

okay the English muffin sounds the same as what we call an English muffin, which is not at all like our "regular muffins" which are more like a cupcake, just not so sweet.  Do you have cupcakes over there?  We bake them in muffin pans!  :rofl;
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2008, 05:59:48 AM »


Anyone know what a double double refers to in Canada?

Don't know this one Monrein so I'll take a guess. 4 IN A BED?  :rofl; 

While the four in a bed sounds like a crowded idea, Pelagia got this one.  A double double is a coffee from Tim Horton's with two cream two sugars. 
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2008, 06:12:56 AM »

4 in a bed sounds like where FlipBob lives    Kentucky backwoods      I could not find the next question    good idea Ken

why is dip bad in the south
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2008, 07:26:49 AM »


IN USA a bonnet is something you wear on your head.
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« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2008, 07:38:14 AM »

Is dip snuff Twirl?   or chewin tabaccy???


And Okarol, a boot is something we put on a foot, right?  So boot to bonnet would be quite different in North America than in Britain.
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New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
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(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
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« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2008, 08:58:03 AM »

boot to bonnet
why would you kick a blue bonnet------ our state flower and our state footwear

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« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2008, 03:14:17 PM »

okay the English muffin sounds the same as what we call an English muffin, which is not at all like our "regular muffins" which are more like a cupcake, just not so sweet.  Do you have cupcakes over there?  We bake them in muffin pans!  :rofl;
No they are called Muffins. :rofl; There's English muffins and muffins which are like a cup cake. Small cup cakes in  the UK are called Fairy Cakes.
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« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2008, 03:18:58 PM »


IN USA a bonnet is something you wear on your head.
Same in UK. It's also the hood on a car and the boot is the trunk. Anybody know what car fenders are called in the Uk and the windshield? Twirl what's a dip and why is it bad in the south?
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« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2008, 04:39:49 PM »

dip is chewing tobacco
that stuff you chew and spit
we had a yankee teacher come to work for us and she saw a referral - a student had been sent to the principal for dipping in class -
she thought he got up and danced and dipped his parnter
it is bad b/c of the cancer causing factors
and have you ever knocked over a spit-can-- very sickening---- chewed tobacco spit


Ken your buns are getting cold
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« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2008, 05:55:40 PM »


 Anybody know what car fenders are called in the Uk and the windshield?

The fender is a wing, I think ?

Do all school children in the UK have rubbers? LOL That's a controversial subject in the US!
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New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
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« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2008, 06:22:52 PM »

Is a fender a bumper and a windshield a windscreen?   Jamaicans used to call them that.
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Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2008, 06:31:50 PM »

and then there are bumpers that hang off the side of boats.

The whole British pudding thing is also very confusing.  Here in the US pudding is a sweet dessert, kind of like an egg custard, but thickened with cornstarch or maybe tapioca and cooked on the stove rather than baked.  What do you call that in England?

aubergine is a color in our country, but a food in other places
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« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2008, 06:34:09 PM »

Aubergine is also the french for eggplant.  (It's a feminine noun)
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2008, 08:18:04 PM »

I thought rubbers were shoes you wear over your shoes in the rain for protection
wait
that does sound like the rubber you wear over something else for protection, does not matter if it is raining or not

when I was in school we called those plastic shoes rubbers
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« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2008, 12:05:46 AM »

In the English Caribbean we have a mixture of both vocabularies - British and US.  So we tend to use both interchangeably.  However, because of the influence of American TV, our last generation is losing the British Vocabulary.  Don't think any of them would know what a 'lorry' was, and that was the word we used when I was a child.
What's a 'lorry'?
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« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2008, 12:22:35 AM »

In Canada a "cordial" is like a mixed drink (eg: rum & coke)
in Australia a "cordial" is a drink you make up from syrup (sort of like kool-aid in the US i guess) and kids get hyper on red cordial!!

and more contraversial along the lines of rubbers (which down here are the erasers not what you put on your ahem... )... in the USA you "root" for your team (ie: support or barrack).. in oz that will get you tears of laughter (or red faces) because "to root" down here is something you may well need those rubbers for... unless they're aussie rubbers ! Yes to "root" is to have sex (or "hook up" as they say). You can imagine my hysterics on my first visit to the US in the 90's when I saw an ad on TV for the "rapid rooter" (some kind of weeder) .....

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« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2008, 01:12:01 PM »

lorry    truck

I think

what is a roly poly
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