The-Rigger wrote: » What would you do if you met the person that coined that? I'm guessing very little.
Wreck wrote: » Douche.
fitz0 wrote: » http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055349097&highlight=americanisms Anyone else notice the amount of repeated threads that crop up here?
A Neurotic wrote: » People who say "mom". She's your mammy, you plank.
Monday, April 10, 2006 Mum and Mom Do you think Mom is an American word for Mum and that the latter is the correct spelling in England? Think again. The word Mom is widely used in the Midlands. "Mom and Mommy are old-English words, words that are stilled used in Birmingham and most parts of the West Midlands, we all use the term Mom and Mommy never Mum or Mummy, as here the correct spelling is Mom and Mommy has been for hundreds and hundreds of years, when people from the West Midlands went to America all those years ago they took our correct spelling with them, hence they use Mom and Mommy and we still do in the West Midlands. Here in the West Midlands the words Mum and Mummy are frowned upon as they look and sound wrong, thankfully our local schools teach our correct spelling of Mom and Mommy and the kids still come home with handmade cards with out correct Mom and Mommy Spelling on. I believe parts of Scotland use the Mom and Mommy term too, as I have relatives there and whenever I visit them, they and the people I visit or see use the term Mom too, however I'm not sure how widespread its use is. We in Birmingham and the West Midlands get annoyed when people wrongly think we are using American words, when the word Mom and Mommy aren't American they were British to start with, it's just unlike the West Midlands other areas changed their spelling." C Parkes
Acacia wrote: » Do you mean ''frickin'" as in ''frickin' sweet!" Because ''frigging'' is an old word from this side of the Atlantic, been used for ages. I hate ''frickin'", "awesome" and ''it really bugs me''. And they way they pronounce ''schedule'' as ''shedule''.
Salvelinus wrote: » Girls calling each other lads.
The word guesstimate I am not even sure I am spelling it right,because I am pretty sure it is not a word
BraziliaNZ wrote: » yes "mom" needs to stop. Fair enough in America but Irish people saying it is just ridiculous.
star.chaser wrote: » aw, don't get me started, Alumin-um
Wreck wrote: » I've been calling my mother Mom for nearly 30 years, was America even discovered at that stage?
Filibuster
Manic Moran wrote: » Apparently that one is actually justifiable. At the time the words were being collected for the Noah Webster dictionary of 1828, the inventor/discoverer of the stuff, Englishman Sir Humphrey Davy (Oh, if only his last name were Appleby) actually did spell it 'aluminum.' He subsequently changed it to 'aluminium', but by that point, it was too late, and the American dictionaries used the earlier spelling. NTM
Novella wrote: » "Hey, you guys! How you guys doin' today? Have a great day, you guys!" STOP CALLING ME A GUY!!! :mad:
star.chaser wrote: » was it you? if it was you'll need to PM me to find out what i'll do to you if i ever meet you. if i post it, my account will probably be suspended
The-Rigger wrote: » Would you do this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7bYNAHXxw
star.chaser wrote: » that's actually very funny if you imagine some ponce with a thick new york accent saying it
star.chaser wrote: » watched that but you obviously need sound to understand your point which i don't. sorry
