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Formal words that the UK use but we don't

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  • #152
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    It's odd that it's called sliced pan but even more odd than an unsliced one isn't called just a 'pan'.


  • #153
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    It's odd that it's called sliced pan but even more odd than an unsliced one isn't called just a 'pan'.

    Yeah it is.
    Loaf gets swapped for pan.


  • #154
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭trashcan


    65535 wrote: »
    an before h
    most annoying
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-a-or-an

    Oh yeah. And it's creeping over here too. They aren't even consistent with it. If you're going to say "an historic.." why do yo not say "an history". ? You never see or hear that.


  • #155
    All that fandango
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭All that fandango


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Perhaps afternoon tea is more popular in the UK but as long as Ireland has had hotels, there's been afternoon tea.

    Only in the Shelbourne probably.


  • #156
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and gingers were redheads. Never heard the word foxy, ever...it actually sounds like something the English would use. It’s certainly not a common irish term.


    I grew up in Co Kerry and foxy was the absolute term for a redhead. Makes sense too since a fox is that carroty/ginger colour.

    People would also say 'pan' for basin.


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  • #157
    All that fandango
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭All that fandango


    English expats. Irish immigrants.


  • #158
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Brit would was "I was sat watching TV"

    Irish would say "I was sitting watching TV"

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #159
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,745 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    trashcan wrote: »
    Oh yeah. And it's creeping over here too. They aren't even consistent with it. If you're going to say "an historic.." why do yo not say "an history". ? You never see or hear that.
    I was born and brought up in England, and I'd never say "an historic". It just doesn't sound right to my ears, whether it is right or not. I was taught that "an" is (almost) exclusively used before words beginning with a vowel. The obvious exception that springs to mind would be words beginning with a silent 'h', like hour. Any others?


  • #160
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Americans pronounce EVERY leading H very strongly and then go out of their way to say "an (h)erb..." and "(h)erbs" and will correct you for saying it with a voice H.


  • #161
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JustAThought wrote: »
    few words that shriek British when used for me;

    Galoshes instead of Wellies

    Luncheon either as a noun or verb

    Using ‘shall’ instead of will

    Partake

    An invitation for a spot of (luncheon/golf etc)

    But shall and will are very different. Shall means it must be done. Will means you have chosen to do it. You have free will


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  • #162
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,836 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    Delph vs crockery.

    No one in the UK uses the word delph, apart from some very very middle class people.

    Who uses either?


  • #163
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sleety_Rain wrote: »
    A couple of pints

    As in 'we'll go for a couple of pints' , they actually mean 2 pints not a heap :(

    They don’t really have pubs though.


  • #164
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    They don’t really have pubs though.

    Ah the typical Irish snobbishness about English pubs coming out.
    I've been in both sh1t Irish pubs and great English ones and vice versa.


  • #165
    Sunny Disposition
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    They’re much more formal, young people expected to address their elders as Mrs and Mr. Never really got used to the formality you’d experience fairly often there, never saw the point of it.
    In a lot of cases I think they liked Paddy because we were less formal.


  • #166
    ActingDanClark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ActingDanClark


    Outwith. As in the taxis are ' outwith' the train station


  • #167
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Sunny Disposition wrote: »
    They’re much more formal, young people expected to address their elders as Mrs and Mr. Never really got used to the formality you’d experience fairly often there, never saw the point of it.
    In a lot of cases I think they liked Paddy because we were less formal.

    Which period drama was this?


  • #168
    Floody Boreland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭Floody Boreland


    Renno, Perjo


  • #169
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 7,194 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Esquire (or Esq) in a title.


  • #170
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    But shall and will are very different. Shall means it must be done. Will means you have chosen to do it. You have free will
    This flies right over the heads of Irish people who think shall is just the posh will.


  • #171
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,954 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    My English wife has no problem understanding "to lodge a cheque" and insists that it's just how she always would have said it.


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  • #172
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    **** for describing themselves accurately? Perhaps you are the wanker.

    Moving to the UK from Ireland is not exactly migration. UK and Ireland allow their citizens to work and travel freely and seamlessly within each others borders - so much so that you are not even ID'd if you travel by ferry between UK/IRE. Claiming you are an 'immigrant' in that situation is odd.


  • #173
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭blinding


    There used to be such a thing as a Cock Lodger when Ladies of a certain age ran boarding houses if thats any reason for the confusion ! !


  • #174
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    Moving to the UK from Ireland is not exactly migration. UK and Ireland allow their citizens to work and travel freely and seamlessly within each others borders - so much so that you are not even ID'd if you travel by ferry between UK/IRE. Claiming you are an 'immigrant' in that situation is odd.

    Keep telling yourself that.


  • #175
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,954 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Immigrant :

    noun
    noun: immigrant; plural noun: immigrants
    a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
    "they found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants"


  • #176
    Dr Devious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Dr Devious


    A lot of the English seem to feel they are above emigration, always called or described as an “ex pat” even though they have no intention of returning home to “Blighty”.


  • #177
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    This flies right over the heads of Irish people who think shall is just the posh will.

    It’s a bit like “can” and “may”, which was explained to me as a seven year old at school. A bit of light corporal punishment helped seal the message..

    Me (with hand up in class): “Please sir, can I go to the toilet?”

    Teacher: “Yes. Of course”

    I leave the room, have a pee, and return to my seat

    Teacher: “Where have you been?”

    Me (somewhat quizzically): “Er, to the toilet, sir”

    Teacher: “And who gave you permission?”

    Me (now perplexed and heading towards panic): “You did, sir”

    Teacher: “No, I did not. You said, ‘Can I go the toilet”, to which I replied, ‘Yes’, because anyone can go to the toilet, because they are physically able to do it. But not everyone may go to the toilet, without asking permission first. Take this note to the Headmaster.”

    Me: (Reaching for exercise book to shove down the back of trousers): “Gulp”

    Never forgotten the difference.....


  • #178
    Sunny Disposition
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Which period drama was this?

    It’s a while ago for sure! Fifty two years since I went over and back more than 30.


  • #179
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,836 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It’s a bit like “can” and “may”, which was explained to me as a seven year old at school. A bit of light corporal punishment helped seal the message..

    Me (with hand up in class): “Please sir, can I go to the toilet?”

    Teacher: “Yes. Of course”

    I leave the room, have a pee, and return to my seat

    Teacher: “Where have you been?”

    Me (somewhat quizzically): “Er, to the toilet, sir”

    Teacher: “And who gave you permission?”

    Me (now perplexed and heading towards panic): “You did, sir”

    Teacher: “No, I did not. You said, ‘Can I go the toilet”, to which I replied, ‘Yes’, because anyone can go to the toilet, because they are physically able to do it. But not everyone may go to the toilet, without asking permission first. Take this note to the Headmaster.”

    Me: (Reaching for exercise book to shove down the back of trousers): “Gulp”

    Never forgotten the difference.....

    uurgh what a knob of a teacher


  • #180
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Dr Devious wrote: »
    A lot of the English seem to feel they are above emigration, always called or described as an “ex pat” even though they have no intention of returning home to “Blighty”.

    Irish don't use the word because they're not heading off on the steamer to Americay with a cardboard suitcase.


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  • #181
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭blinding


    lawred2 wrote: »
    uurgh what a knob of a teacher
    Funnily enough I remember some teacher using the same situation to explain similar , without the trip to the headmaster . National School and he was the headmaster. He used the situation to explain the carry on. No violence ensued that time anyway ! ! !

    Perhaps its Teacher Training School ; Lesson 1.


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