I have thought about asking H to pay but I am scared that will cause a row and ruin the DB'ing, because w're getting on well at the moment.
I am unsure how to broach it with him. Maybe I could ask him to lend me the money and then pay him back when I sell more books? I mean, I know he did this but somehow my M is more important to me than fighting over who owes the money.
as an afterthought to your previous post, I have checked out your how to speak British thing and it really made me laugh.
So you yankee doodles don't use bl**dy then?
I also can't believe that you don't know what the word 'bang' means
Shagging also means the same as 'bang', but most yanks know that anyway since the movie 'Austin Powers' came out (me and H laughed ourselves silly when we saw that at the cinema).
The crikey one came up when I was in the states - I was talking to an (American) friend and I said Crikey! on the phone and he didn't know what I meant - he kept saying Crikey all the time after that!
You don't have the word fancy in USA? To fancy someone means you find them attractive and want them to be your gf/bf. I fancy my H!
Gagging for it - means you haven't had sex in ages.
Pissed means drunk in the UK, whereas 'pissed off' means mad, angry.
You really made me laugh, thanks Lou.
Jo.
PS: check out the Greek lesson I left for Tag and learn them!
Jo wrote --------- So you yankee doodles don't use bl**dy then? ------------ No we don't use that word. I hear it in British movies a lot some times.
I had an incorrect degree of usage for the word. Kids can say Gees, Darn, Shucks and it is not considered swearing. If kids say Dam or put gods name in front of dam that is swearing.
I use to think Bl**dy was equivilent to Darn but when you used the ** instead of the oo I thought I should look up the term.
--------- I also can't believe that you don't know what the word 'bang' means --------- I do. that is the way some youngs guys talk among their male friends to describe sex for sex sake without much emotional connection.
These words mean about the same thing in the US as the UK and get used.
To fancy someone means you find them attractive and want them to be your gf/bf. I fancy my H!
Daft=Stupid (I've used the word daft in my posts - didn't know people wouldn't get it.) They will Jo, it is used.
To tinkle is to urinate, Mostly used to talk to kids 6 and under.(Do you need to tinkle) Older kids say Pee.
If you've got a bun in the oven or planning a cassarole, that means you're pregnant. Used extensively in the 1950's. Also used is "Knocked up" or PG. Used some today.
Bummer means something is bad. If you hear something bad, you say 'oh, bummer' or 'what a bummer'.
Aunt Flo (AF) is to have a period, used some. My visitor or MY friend is used.
Hissy Fit - to have a tantrum.
Tonsil Tennis - intimate kissing, sometimes used.
Bread is slang for money.
'he or she is a bit of alright' means they are sexually attractive. alright' usually means you like something very much. Not normally sexual.
Hen pecking means nagging, i.e, a woman hen pecks her husband.
My favorite Brittish saying when I was 14 was, Lets go knock up Liz. Whiich meant Lets knock on Liz's door in the UK. In the US, we boys heard it as lets have sex with Liz and see if we can get her pregnant.
East coast, west coast, in the south, or up north, each area has it's own slang words that may or may not imply the same meaning.
A can of Coke or Pepsi is considered a soda in the east, soda pop in the south, and pop in the west.
Just thought you might like to know the origin of 'knocked up' - it also means to impregnate here as well as to call upon someone, and it depends on the context as to which we mean when we say it.
It originally came from times when we didn't have alarm clocks, a couple of hundred years ago and most men worked in factories and mines and they had to get up at about 4am.
In those days you were fired immediately if you were late, so most people used to pay a 'knocker uper' to wake them up in the morning - which is a person who throws peas at the window to wake you up, hence knocking you up.
Professional knocker up's were still employed in the UK until the early 20th century so the term still means to call upon or to wake up, but in more recent years it has become more of a sexual connotation so kids or teenagers would laugh if you used that term.
It is mainly people aged about 50 that still use it to mean call upon.
--------- It is mainly people aged about 50 that still use it to mean call upon. ------------ How time changes the meanings of words.
Jo. I am over 50 but not Brittish, I guess that is why the term was so amusing to me back in 1958. Two distinctly different meanings.
In th 1950's, A lot of people were kind of embarrased to say pregnant. People would use the terms, make a motion with their hands to denote a big belly, say expecting, going to have a baby, got something in the oven, PG, knocked-up, or pregnant. (in order of most polite=(kids around), to most sexual). This was especially true if the girl was not married.
If the woman was married a year ot two is was OK to say expecting, PG or among adults, pregnant.
-------------- It originally came from times when we didn't have alarm clocks, --------------- Interesting history Jo
OG Lou. PS Having some stressful talks with W and maybe making progress? Will post the results on my threas when I can figure some things out and have more time.
