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Irritating American names for things

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  • #152
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    We rely so much on America.

    Our culture is basically American, our wealth is from American companies.

    American english is superior english anyway so i'm glad it's getting more common in Ireland :)

    Not true at all.


  • #153
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭VG31


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Cups. As a measurement.

    I never got this. What are "cups"? Are all cups the same size in the US?
    freewheeler wrote: »
    EYE-raq (Iraq)

    AY-rabs (Arabs) as well.


  • #154
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    If you think our culture is American, you didn’t get much past a pub in Boston!


  • #155
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,310 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Pantyhose for tights. Panties for knickers.
    I quickly scanned the thread looking to see if these had been posted.

    They set my teeth on edge. Hideous words that make tights and knickers sound like they're excitedly uttered by a depraved, greasy-haired flasher whilst pulling the knob off himself.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #156
    CVB
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭CVB


    Pawsta for PASTA !!!

    & calling long pasta Like spaghetti
    They call them NOODLES !

    Boil the NOODLES!!!!


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  • #157
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 12,990 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    I haven't heard that in a long, long time. Co. Limerick. Never heard it anywhere else.

    I've only ever heard it uttered by Limerick people too. Cousins of mine who thought I was posh saying runners :D

    To thine own self be true



  • #158
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    "Math" seems to be gaining traction this side of the pond. And those who use the term "soccer" to describe a football game should be forced to operate a hotdog stand in an abandoned carpark.

    Association Football is soccer though. In the non-anglified parts of this land.


  • #159
    CVB
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭CVB


    GAS Station ! (For Petrol/Diesel Fuel)


  • #160
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I quickly scanned the thread looking to see if these had been posted.

    They set my teeth on edge. Hideous words that make tights and knickers sound like they're excitedly uttered by a depraved, greasy-haired flasher whilst pulling the knob off himself.

    Precisely my reaction to those words.
    "Panties, oh panties. She puts on her panties and then her pantyhose . Oh JAYSUS! A1 Sharon "


  • #161
    Sonic the Shaghog
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Sonic the Shaghog


    Maybe it's just a rural thing but we always called it soccer, football was reserved specifically to mean GAA football


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  • #162
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,288 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I've only ever heard it uttered by Limerick people too. Cousins of mine who thought I was posh saying runners :D


    Ya there was a lot of "watch your man off thinks hes from New York with his runners" thrown about when anything other than tackies got a mention.


  • #163
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Sonic the Shaghog wrote: »
    Maybe it's just a rural thing but we always called it soccer, football was reserved specifically to mean GAA football

    Yup. You say football round here you mean Gaelic. If you called soccer football you'd be hounded out of the county.


  • #164
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,651 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    It's called soccer in Australia, because footie, or sometimes football, is something entirely different.


  • #165
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,288 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    cnocbui wrote: »
    It's called soccer in Australia, because footie, or sometimes football, is something entirely different.


    Same as Ireland then


  • #166
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Sonic the Shaghog wrote: »
    Maybe it's just a rural thing but we always called it soccer, football was reserved specifically to mean GAA football

    It’s not a rural thing. I’ve had my head taken off by Dubs for using the term football in reference to soccer and you’ll find it gets used in Donegal, where soccer often is a rural thing.


  • #167
    Sonic the Shaghog
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Sonic the Shaghog


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Yup. You say football round here you mean Garelic. If you called soccer football you'd be hounded out of the county.

    I remember plenty of young lads getting an awful slagging off aul fellas when they'd ask if they play football, the young lad says I do and when asked is it club X, y or z (local GAA clubs) the young lad would correct and say oh no I mean soccer

    Cue the aul lads doing a "ara jaysus" and walking off like the old woman in Fr. Ted when she finds out the film is subtitled :pac:


  • #168
    gammygils
    Registered Users Posts: 17,222 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Expiration date for Expiry date


  • #169
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    I remember an American comedian being quite bemused at the term "washing up liquid" (dish soap in the US). He wondered if they called gasoline "driving around fluid" in England.


  • #170
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users Posts: 30,719 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    cnocbui wrote: »
    No kidding. Great when you have an emergency and someone's screaming about a gas leak.

    That’s grand, but I’m just pointing out that you saying that gas is a liquid is a bit erroneous, as that’s got nothing to do with the term ‘Gas’ - which is only called Gas because it’s a shortening of Gasoline. The same way we shorten Petroleum to Petrol.

    The fact the physical state is also called a gas is unrelated - sure there’s tonnes of English words with alternative meanings, and you figure it out by context.

    The “gas leak” thing is a good example, but even still depending on context you know what it means - and either way you’ll be acting fast :pac:

    But sure given that it’s been this way for decades, they’ve obviously not had much of an issue distinguishing based on context..


  • #171
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    gammygils wrote: »
    Expiration date for Expiry date

    The main one that caused confusion is writing the date month, day, year format.

    03/09/2021 gets read here as 03 September 2021 and not March 09, 2021. It can cause really serious confusion as nobody in Europe uses that MM/DD/YY format and it's not very intuitive, if you're unaware of it, especially in numerical form.

    I've seen it cause really serious mix-ups in business contexts.


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  • #172
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Freshman, Sophomore and Varsity years in College. Why can't they just say 1st, 2nd and 3rd year?


  • #173
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users Posts: 30,719 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Freshman, Sophomore and Varsity years in College. Why can't they just say 1st, 2nd and 3rd year?

    Don’t get me started on Starbucks cup sizes!!


  • #174
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    ~Rebel~ wrote: »
    Don’t get me started on Starbucks cup sizes!!

    They're nothing to do with American English though. It's just Starbucks own terminology, and is best ignored.


  • #175
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    The weird pronunciation of Europe as "Eurp"


  • #176
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Meh! Sure Irish people say Chi cahRR Go for Chicago.


  • #177
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Calling someone's fringe 'bangs' just annoys me.


  • #178
    gogo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    Freshman, Sophomore and Varsity years in College. Why can't they just say 1st, 2nd and 3rd year?

    Learn something new every day ... heard of freshman and the rest but could never be arsed to google them


  • #179
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Sure we've universities that use terms like Michaelmas, Hillary and Trinity terms, borrowed from Oxford & Cambridge.

    UCC replaced them after modularisation, with Teaching Period 1, Teaching Period 2 and Teaching Period 3...


  • #180
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Cilantro.

    Actually the Spanish word. Don't know how they started using it.


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  • #181
    Creol1
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Creol1


    Watching US politics they use the same terms but with somewhat different meanings, which is very confusing: they say "middle class" meaning "working class" and use "liberal" to mean "socialist" or "social democratic".


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