Do Fish Get The Trots?

[AMS]

Trots and loo There needs to be a pinned thread about English English and American English

 

[dgwebster]

lol i second that

 

[Iron Man]

Why is it Southerners understand the British more than other Americans? I remember that word from a kid but haven't heard it in many many years. Got a big laugh when I saw it in the subject title.

 

[qwikimpss]

Well, we northerners can't understand most southerners most of the time....let alone British English!

 

[oneponygirl]

I've heard the term and I was born and raised in Washington state. Can't get much more non-Southern than that, not to mention British. Though I do envy the accent a lot, or any accent for that matter, we sound so boring up here IMO. Lucky for me though I got to spend a couple years living in Rhode Island so now I can go back and forth from coast to coast. Did I park my car or pahk my cah?

 

[Kairi]

Why is it Southerners understand the British more than other Americans?

I'd never thought of that before, but ya know, you're right!

 

[dgwebster]

i found texans to be rather good at understanding me. though the australian girl i was talking to in one shop in florida understood me better than anyone.

I still laugh at the plural of "y'all" though

 

[TF Keeper UK]

All i can say is British English is the fore runner! Our cross Atlantic cousins have just bastardized it!

eg. color, flavor, neighbor, etc!

I have to laugh when I read about English programs with subtitles so the Americans can understand it!

 

[Raven_24]

yep I heard about that with the film Trainspotting - they couldn't understand scottish slang so stuck subtitles on the bottom

Not heard the 'trots' being used for a looong time, up here we call it a 'dicky' tummy, the squits or the s.h.i.ts.... usually happens the morning after the night before

 

[WILDER]

Lovely,

 

[dgwebster]

and dont forget the phrase "being a bit skittery"

oh, and check your spelling of "bastardized."

The funniest phrase i ever heard here was a SWUMP.

Have you ever been out at a really really hot night club, and you work up a little sweat? and your arse crack gets a little bit slick... and you need to pump. and when you do it, it feels a little odd, almost like you want to run to the toilets and do a check-wipe to make sure that you did not follow through....

Its a sweaty pump, or a SWUMP.

 

[AMS]

Probably the most disturbing thing I have heard in a long time.

 

[dgwebster]

ever heard of a geyser (sp?)

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

This is very entertaining! (Maybe because I'm a bit tired from working in the gardens today.) When we were kids, we called it "back door trots"!!!

 

[dgwebster]

lets not forget "the runs"