Toodle-pip wot wot

[odycee]

The election result is as I expected - although the Lib Dems did do better than I thought they would. There was only a 49.1% turnout in my constituency. How pathetic is that?

I've just seen this article in The Independent: Get your mitts off our lingo (as they say in New York). It's about a British Airways advertising campaign in the US that has a Brit-Speak Dictionary. My favourite bit from the Independent article:

One feels a twinge of sympathy for the Harvard professor of Classics, at the concierge's desk of the Ritz, shouting, "I do not need this aggro. I am knackered from arguing. Get on the blower to your manager this minute."

The dictionary contains such words as blower (telephone), chin-wag (chat) and cracking (allegedly means good time). And they don't bother to mention that tinkle can mean you're going for a pee as well as making a phone call. I'm just imagining someone giving information like this over on hp_britglish - they'd be lynched!

Edited: Because tinkle does not mean the same thing as tickle...

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[odycee.livejournal.com]

I think vomitrocious is a great word. I'm going to use it today. Along with tickety-boo.

I told people we pronounced the "g" in "gnat" (and when I came home, I told my brother that the English did that -- got two jokes out of that one!)

Ha! Why waste a joke if you can tell it twice?