UK-US-AUS-NZ-CAN-IRE etc. Slang thread.

[motahead]

We all speak english but not exactly the same so I thought we could have a cross cultural discussion on how english is spoken in different places.

For instance..

"Pissed" in the US means "mad or angry" but in the UK and elsewhere it means drunk.

To "take the piss" in the UK means to make fun of...whereas in the US that would mean that you have taken some urine...er.. somewhere.

To take "a piss" in the US means well..to urinate.

"mad" means crazy in the UK but in the US it means "pissed."

Like to "skin up" in the UK and elsewhere would be to roll a joint.

However in the US that would sound like you were going to jerk off or something vaguely sexual like that.

I once had a friend from Belfast who was always like "let's skin one up" and I at first thought he was pervin' out on me. But he really just wanted to get high.

motahead Reviewed by motahead on 11-21-2005. UK-US-AUS-NZ-CAN-IRE etc. Slang thread. We all speak english but not exactly the same so I thought we could have a cross cultural discussion on how english is spoken in different places. For instance.. "Pissed" in the US means "mad or angry" but in the UK and elsewhere it means drunk. To "take the piss" in the UK means to make fun of...whereas in the US that would mean that you have taken some urine...er.. somewhere. To take "a piss" in the US means well..to urinate. Rating: 5

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Fags are cigarettes, not gays over here.

There are words like footpath, that US say sidewalk, but that's not the same thing.

Do Americans call 5 and 10 dollar notes fivers and tenners like over here? lol

[heavymetal101]

nope we say 5 bucks or 10 bucks. I heard that people over in england call cigarettes fags. When i heard this ( i was really young) I thought that was some of the funniest shit in the world! I was just a typical little badass tombay son of a bitch back then, HAvent changed much except now i do drugs and I dont roll in mud or play in it anymore. LOL

[motahead]

No..but what you call 5 and ten pence we call nickel and dimes.

We would say Five bucks or ten bucks.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Lol, well you'd have to know the English accent well before you came here i guess.

Like everyone says "Quid" instead of "Pound" (money-wise), like saying "Here's that 3 quid i owe ya!"

[Ganj]

America has ebonics. The meanings of a lot of your words are understood well in America, but I'm sure none of ya'll understand ebonics. We're truly unique.

[motahead]

That reminds me..I was living in San Francisco and there were alot of Irish and British there and some dude ("bloke") came in and asked for a pack of "fags".

The obviously gay shopkeeper laughed and told him he was in the right city for it but he should ask for cigarrettes instead.

[robert42]

BUMBAG (ENGLISH) = FANNYPACK (US)

Cos fanny means ya bum
not ya MINGE

(the office)

[motahead]

Yeah but the UK has cockney rhyming slang..

there is no way an american can understand that unless you are told exactly what it means.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Yeah but the UK has cockney rhyming slang..

there is no way an american can understand that unless you are told exactly what it means.

Go up the apple and pears, and take that look off your chevy chase!

Biatch lol