Klarinet Archive - Posting 000323.txt from 2004/03

From: "Rupert Kahn" <Rupert.Kahn@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:46:59 -0500

Anyone who is enjoying this thread should check the Beebs "Routes of
English" website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/index.shtml

This programmes on which this is based was worth the license fee by itself.
If you can get to hear CDs from the programme you will not be disapointed.

A few comments.

Stuffed: The story seemed to say that English hosts took "stuffed" said
after a meal to mean shagged or pregnant. This sounds apochryphal to me.
Stuffed certainly can mean shagged, but it is also used to mean well fed,
and would take a desperate and diliberate act of misunderstanding to mean
anything else in this context.

Mind the gap/watch your step: If someone says watch your step I look for
dog poo to avoid. Mind the gap is specific. We also say mind your head for
low ceilings and mind your backs when people are pushing trolleys about,
regardless of what needs minding. Do you have child minders in the US or
only nannie's and baby sitters.

If my memory is right it's only Bank Station on the Underground that is so
curved it has big gaps. Is there somewhere else.

Rupert
Derbyshire
UK

   
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