101 different ways to say the same thing.
- chadspad
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Courage = spunk
Doesnt it also mean good-looking 'he's a spunk'
Doesnt it also mean good-looking 'he's a spunk'
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- Millymollymandy
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Who call 'em filberts anymore? I remember a children's story about a boy and a jar of filberts, and it was in an older UK-edition book, so maybe that's just an anachronistic name for us all?UK call them hazelnuts too.eva wrote: Hazelnuts (US) - Filberts (UK)
My understanding . . . we call them hazelnuts
Glad for the discussion
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when I read 'a Christmas Carol' to my son last thingymas, filberts were mentioned.. I had to look it up.
so I guess they were called filberts at some time here.
so I guess they were called filberts at some time here.
Red
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
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I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
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subway (US) sort of sandwich
subway (UK) tunnel under a road for people to walk
Bum (uk) = bottom
Bum (US) = tramp, homeless (UK)
subway (UK) tunnel under a road for people to walk
Bum (uk) = bottom
Bum (US) = tramp, homeless (UK)
Red
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
my website: colour it green
etsy shop
blog
- Millymollymandy
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I think we had a discussion about hazelnuts somewhere on the forum and no-one quite knew why sometimes they were called "Filberts" and sometimes also "Cobnuts"! I think nowadays they are just generally known as Hazelnuts.eva wrote:Who call 'em filberts anymore? I remember a children's story about a boy and a jar of filberts, and it was in an older UK-edition book, so maybe that's just an anachronistic name for us all?UK call them hazelnuts too.eva wrote: Hazelnuts (US) - Filberts (UK)
My understanding . . . we call them hazelnuts
Glad for the discussion
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barm (yorkshire ish)= yeast
barmy = crazy..... but if in yorkshire it must therefore mean you have a nasty case of thrush or athelete's foot
one thing which often gets me is "gormless". normal english rules denote that if something is *.*less then it is without *.* ..... so to be gormless is to be without gorm. so WTF is a gorm?!
barmy = crazy..... but if in yorkshire it must therefore mean you have a nasty case of thrush or athelete's foot
one thing which often gets me is "gormless". normal english rules denote that if something is *.*less then it is without *.* ..... so to be gormless is to be without gorm. so WTF is a gorm?!
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
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On this subject, fungi of all kind in French are called "champignons", not just mushrooms, and on the pot of athlete's foot powder I once had the instructions talked about having "champignons" growing between your toes! It turned my stomach having visions of mushrooms or toadstools growing out my feet - as for thrush and imaginging champignons in my nether regions..........urk!mrsflibble wrote:barmy = crazy..... but if in yorkshire it must therefore mean you have a nasty case of thrush or athelete's foot
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