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The English Language

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Time-Machine:
I say dude, and so does everyone else around here, and none of us surf or anything like that. It's just a fun word. Everyone's a dude. We're all dudes.

quimmy:
Hah, I say egit all the time, it's such an old-fashioned insult though.

Americans say 'bangs', British people say 'fringe'.

I love saying 'innit' and 'warrit?' and 'somefink', little imitations of Northern English accents.

Irish people tend to blend verbs, like 'I amn't' and 'I ain't' instead of I'm not'.

I'd consider sck-on to be the posh way of saying it. ^^;

monkey:

--- Quote from: Quimmy on March 03 2006, 06:24 am ---Americans say 'bangs', British people say 'fringe'.

Irish people tend to blend verbs, like 'I amn't' and 'I ain't' instead of I'm not'.

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I'm british and I've only ever heard people say Bangs. Fringe is really old.. like a decade ago old.

We say I Ain't down here in the south too, not me personally but people I observe do.

Strawberry:

--- Quote from: VexNet on March 03 2006, 08:05 am ---I'm british and I've only ever heard people say Bangs. Fringe is really old.. like a decade ago old.

We say I Ain't down here in the south too, not me personally but people I observe do.

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I say fringe and never use the word bangs

Anyway I'm at university and there are loads of international students here and sometimes its difficult to communicate due to the accents.

quimmy:
I have a fringe and I say fringe. I've never heard a British or Irish person say bangs!

Ah, and we nearly always say Taytos instead of Crisps too.

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