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Irritating American names for things

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    #1022
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Faucet.

    Irritating & rediculous name for a tap.


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    #1023
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    American girls refer to the hair that grows down the front of their forehead as "bangs"


    "I need to trim my bangs"


    What the fcuk are you on?


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    #1024
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Jam - Jelly


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    #1025
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Da Bomb - really good


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    #1026
    NSAman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Electric Sheep wrote: »
    That answered neither of my questions.

    That must be irritating?


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    #1027
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    MeepMeep2021 wrote: »
    Da Bomb - really good

    Dope is another one. Explains all the mongos that culture is spawning


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    #1028
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,376 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    The way they call your bum , your fanny.
    Very easily can lead to ' mistakes ' :(


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    #1029
    messrs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    American girls refer to the hair that grows down the front of their forehead as "bangs"


    "I need to trim my bangs"


    What the fcuk are you on?

    Unfortunately that has made its way over here. Saw a pic of my 19 year old niece on Instagram earlier who was after getting her hair done so I sent her a text and asked here when she got a fringe she text back and asked "Do you mean my bangs" :eek:


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    #1030
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    "Back in de day",seems to have taken over here by people without embarrasment.


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    #1031
    branie2
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    My bad, indicating a mistake


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    #1032
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Soddering instead of soldering. Every Statesian youtuber calls it soddering


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    #1033
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Soddering instead of soldering. Every Statesian youtuber calls it soddering
    Yet they will type it as soldering. Seems to be an accent thing. Maybe the L after the O and before the D is difficult to pronounce for some north American accents? Canadians do the same thing. The L will probably disappear in time. Than and Then mixed up another one, though that's observable everywhere.

    In much the same way that some English accents can't seem to navigate two vowel type sounds together. EG instead of "Drawing" a few English accents will pronounce it as "DrawRing". "Drawer" is another that come be contracted to "Draw"(some will even spell it that way). I've heard some East Coast US accents that do similar. I seem to remember it's something to do with the vowel shift in English. It happened in England and the US, but didn't happen here with hiberno English to nearly the same degree, so we sound more like pre vowel shift in our pronunciations. Well we did before the Dort accent took hold and latterly the fully Americanised accent affectation. A fair number of our older words have become rare to hear. Though "press" instead of "cupboard" and "I'm after going to.." is still in play, things like "shores" instead of "drains", or "bowler" for a dog are all but gone. Nature of language I suppose and new words come in, but I think it's a bit of a pity. I've only heard an example of vocal fry the once, a conversation, if it bore the weight of that description, between two young wans in a shop, but jaysus that's hard on the ears and makes the speaker sound like a complete dribbling moron.

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    #1034
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    My fury doesn't come so much for their names but rather their pronunciations.


    I first went to the US at the age of 17 and I was in my cousins's house and we played Trivial Pursuit in the basement and ate pizza.


    Her mate plucked a card and announced "Sport and 'LEE-ZHURE'"


    Who the FCUK came up with that pronunciation?


    Leisure rhymes with pleasure.


    "LEE-ZHURE" FFS.


    Then I had the "pleasure" of later hearing ROUTE pronounced as "ROWT"


    Take a different ROWT. Yet they will still sing "Get your kicks on ROOT 66"


    Nonsense.


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    #1035
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,056 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Faucet.

    Irritating & rediculous name for a tap.
    There is actually a technical distinction between a tap and faucet. And, embarrassingly, the US usage of "faucet" is technically more correct.

    The whole, um, apparatus has three parts:

    1. At one end, there's a connection to a hole in a vessel or water main, through which water can come out. That connection is the "tap". You "tap into" a water main by making such a hole and connecting a pipe to it.

    2. The water comes out into a pipe - the "spigot".

    3. At the other end of the spigot is a device which opens and closes, to allow or arrest the escape of water from the end of the spigot. That device is the "faucet". The faucet is the bit that you handle and, mostly, the bit that's visible.

    "Synecdoche' is the phenomenon by which a complex thing is named after one of its parts - "motor" for a motor vehicle; "hand" for a workman. Calling the entire assembly a tap, as we do, or a faucet, as the Americans do, are both examples of synecdoche. But in most circumstances, the US usage is closer to accurate. You don't turn the tap; you turn the faucet. And there's only a leak in the tap if the leak is at the join between the spigot and the main. If water is dripping out the end of the spigot the problem is likely to be with the faucet, not the tap.


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    #1036
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    There is actually a technical distinction between a tap and faucet. And, embarrassingly, the US usage of "faucet" is technically more correct.

    The whole, um, apparatus has three parts:

    1. At one end, there's a connection to a hole in a vessel or water main, through which water can come out. That connection is the "tap". You "tap into" a water main by making such a hole and connecting a pipe to it.

    2. The water comes out into a pipe - the "spigot".

    3. At the other end of the spigot is a device which opens and closes, to allow or arrest the escape of water from the end of the spigot. That device is the "faucet". The faucet is the bit that you handle and, mostly, the bit that's visible.

    "Synecdoche' is the phenomenon by which a complex thing is named after one of its parts - "motor" for a motor vehicle; "hand" for a workman. Calling the entire assembly a tap, as we do, or a faucet, as the Americans do, are both examples of synecdoche. But in most circumstances, the US usage is closer to accurate. You don't turn the tap; you turn the faucet. And there's only a leak in the tap if the leak is at the join between the spigot and the main. If water is dripping out the end of the spigot the problem is likely to be with the faucet, not the tap.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEOjo0imqKE


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    #1037
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,651 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Soddering instead of soldering. Every Statesian youtuber calls it soddering

    They all pronounce niche as "nitch"


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    #1038
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    There is actually a technical distinction between a tap and faucet. And, embarrassingly, the US usage of "faucet" is technically more correct.

    The whole, um, apparatus has three parts:

    1. At one end, there's a connection to a hole in a vessel or water main, through which water can come out. That connection is the "tap". You "tap into" a water main by making such a hole and connecting a pipe to it.

    2. The water comes out into a pipe - the "spigot".

    3. At the other end of the spigot is a device which opens and closes, to allow or arrest the escape of water from the end of the spigot. That device is the "faucet". The faucet is the bit that you handle and, mostly, the bit that's visible.

    "Synecdoche' is the phenomenon by which a complex thing is named after one of its parts - "motor" for a motor vehicle; "hand" for a workman. Calling the entire assembly a tap, as we do, or a faucet, as the Americans do, are both examples of synecdoche. But in most circumstances, the US usage is closer to accurate. You don't turn the tap; you turn the faucet. And there's only a leak in the tap if the leak is at the join between the spigot and the main. If water is dripping out the end of the spigot the problem is likely to be with the faucet, not the tap.

    Ah come now, you're getting more than a bit carried away with the old technicalities there :D

    Sure if that's the case we could apply the same logic to Automobile Vs Car, Elevator Vs Lift, Fanny Vs Bottom, Windshield Vs windscreen, Closet Vs Wardrobe, etc etc etc....

    I like our words, I like using our definitions instead of the US equivalents, I like turning on the tap (and not the faucet).


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    #1039
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,056 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Ah come now, you're getting more than a bit carried away with the old technicalities there :D

    Sure if that's the case we could apply the same logic to Automobile Vs Car, Elevator Vs Lift, Fanny Vs Bottom, Windshield Vs windscreen, Closet Vs Wardrobe, etc etc etc....

    I like our words, I like using our definitions instead of the US equivalents, I like turning on the tap (and not the faucet).
    So do I. But that doesn't mean the US preference for "faucet" is irritating and ridiculous. It's just as good as ours. It's only your insecurity that makes you so dismissive of it. ;)


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    #1040
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    But that doesn't mean the US preference for "faucet" is irritating and ridiculous. It's just as good as ours. It's only your insecurity that makes you so dismissive of it. ;)

    :D
    Excellent.


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    #1041
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    Gasoline is probably more technically correct than petrol. Ze Germans called it benzene and it is marketed in some countries as autogas and small aircraft operators call it Mogas to differentiate it from Avgas, which is a different type of petrol for aero engines.


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    #1042
    granturismo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭granturismo


    'Super'

    'Entree' and on the subject of food, we ordered fillets for our main course in Chicago and the waitress insisted on correcting us three times by repeating it as 'fillee' - the french pronunciation. I replied each 'yes I'll have the fillet'

    Following up the location of a town/city with its country or US state. I know there is a Paris in Texas and France but from the context of the conversation most societies around the world dont need to refer to San Francisco as San Francisco, CA. Fair enough if they're referring to a US location that has has been used in more than one state.


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    #1043
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    granturismo wrote: »
    'Super'

    Ah yes, every single meeting I'm at now with the heads of the company, everyone is always super excited.


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    #1044
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    branie2 wrote: »
    Jam - Jelly

    Jelly typically has added pectin or some other thickener. Jam can, but doesn't "in general" especially "pure" jams (like, homemade)

    They're two different products in the US.


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    #1045
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,651 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    granturismo wrote: »
    'Super'

    'Entree' and on the subject of food, we ordered fillets for our main course in Chicago and the waitress insisted on correcting us three times by repeating it as 'fillee' - the french pronunciation. I replied each 'yes I'll have the fillet'

    Following up the location of a town/city with its country or US state. I know there is a Paris in Texas and France but from the context of the conversation most societies around the world dont need to refer to San Francisco as San Francisco, CA. Fair enough if they're referring to a US location that has has been used in more than one state.

    Entree for a main course is terrible.


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    #1046
    Wibbs
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    Stovepipe wrote: »
    Gasoline is probably more technically correct than petrol.
    Not really. Gasoline was a brand name for a petroleum spirit. Petrol although a contraction is the more accurate.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #1047
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Tap, faucet, spigot... can we put it down to locali(s/z)ation?


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    #1048
    764dak
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭764dak


    NSAman wrote: »
    MY BAD! = I am a thick yank

    Trunk = boot of a car

    Starbucks = Coffee

    Yeah No = Chicago for No

    Where did you get "Starbucks = Coffee"?


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    #1049
    New Home
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    New Home wrote: »
    Tap, faucet, spigot... can we put it down to locali(s/z)ation?
    And can we switch to benzine, instead of gas(oline)/petro(eum spirit)?


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    #1050
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Y'all is the aural equivalent of eye bleach


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    #1051
    Beanstalk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Beanstalk


    Alooooominummmmm


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