English speaking countries still use some different words, tell us ?

More Scots language: It's not slang it's actually a cousin of English as it branched off from Auld English and English was another branch.

 

hollydolly said:
Well we can't just classify a 'scots' accent, because like everywhere there are so many different dialects. This guy doesn't speak anything like me at all... thank goodness LOL
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This isn't about accents though, it's about the Scots languages like lowlands/lallans, Doric, etc. Some linguists call them a proper language, not a dialect.

How long have you lived in London? My husband lived there for 18 years and his accent softened. But being back here since 2004 he uses more lowlands but still doesn't have a strong accent.
 
Well Doric is a language almost all of it's own..or at least it should be.

My granparents were gaelic, my mother from the East Coast, and I was born and raised on the West coast, so I pretty much know every Scots dialect there is ...however I wish I'd learned Gaelic. I tired once but it was just too hard..
 

hollydolly said:
Well Doric is a language almost all of it's own..or at least it should be.

My granparents were gaelic, my mother from the East Coast, and I was born and raised on the West coast, so I pretty much know every Scots dialect there is ...however I wish I'd learned Gaelic. I tired once but it was just too hard..
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Lowlands/lallans should be its own language as well I think. I tried to learn Gaelic as well but gave up! I have an American friend who retired here with her Scottish husband and they both learned Gaelic while still living in California. She even joined the Gaelic choir here.

My hubby's grandfather came from Sligo and was a gaelic speaker and his grandmother was a highlander who also spoke gaelic. So they understood each other!
 
My Daughter in Spain has that as well now AS, she's a very stoical girl usually when it comes to illness but this has floored her. She can't speak, she can't keep anything down, and she says her throat feels like it's made of razor blades. Hope yours starts getting better very soon.
 
hollydolly said:
My Daughter in Spain has that as well now AS, she's a very stoical girl usually when it comes to illness but this has floored her. She can't speak, she can't keep anything down, and she says her throat feels like it's made of razor blades. Hope yours starts getting better very soon.
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Thanks. My stomach is just fine but I'm not improving and hubby is. I think the issue is we still weren't 100% over the cold we had in Thailand when we caught another virus on the plane (positive of that). Our friends who were on the flight us in the row just in front of us are also sick. I googled whether we can have more than one virus at a time and we can. So I'm sure I've got at least two.

I felt somewhat ill last week on Wednesday and went to the gym. I was hoping it was just the remants of the other cold and that I wasn't contagious. Thursday at home I did a really good 1 1/2 hour workout with weights. Friday woke up really sick. So it's been a week and everybody says two weeks is common for this strain. Ugh....
 
Here in the US we don't put on our wellies, indeed most of us get by without rubber boots at all. During my childhood rain or snow would mean I had to put on my galoshes or my rubbers which were rubber boots that you pulled over your regular shoes. These seem to have gone out of fashion and Americans now just seem to put up with getting their shoes wet.

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Josiah09 said:
Here in the US we don't put on our wellies, indeed most of us get by without rubber boots at all. During my childhood rain or snow would mean I had to put on my galoshes or my rubbers which were rubber boots that you pulled over your regular shoes. These seem to have gone out of fashion and Americans now just seem to put up with getting their shoes wet.

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Rubbers here mean only 2 things either a pencil eraser...or a condom.. can't say I would ever see anyone pulling a condom over their boots to keep out the rain.. :holymoly:
 
We wear Toques or sometimes spelled Touques (pronounced like tookes) - in many colors and textures, with or without pom poms

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CHEF HAT LOGO CMYK.JPGYes, chef's hat are called toques - I never knew there were so many different types of chef's hats.

Also, don't know if you got this in history class, we did -- French canadian voyageurs or coers de bois (fur traders) crossing country in canoes wore these caps. I couldn't resist including the drawing, thought it was so cute, including his dog.

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What do you all call a raincoat? Maybe it's just that, a raincoat? The plastic kind worn here a lot in the 1950's and 60's was called a Mac [McIntosh, or possibly Macintosh]. People often now wear a waxed coat or jacket [an upmarket Mac.]Fleeces are popular here [also called fleece jackets] and not just popular with the sheep;). We wear them for going for a walk as they are light but warm and made of some sort of micro-fibre?
 
Raincoat is just plain raincoat here. The ones with belts are trenchcoats.
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Toggle Coat or duffle coat also known as burberry
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Fleece jackets (same as yours)
 
Cookie the top ones are known just as Mac's here..I have a beige 3/4 length one..

I also have a red mid thigh length duffel coat..same as this one..img-thing.jpg

in the rain I wear my Barbour wax jacket same as this 6C3203L2W.jpg

and in the snow I usually wear a blue parka like this one ....

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I have wayyyy too many jackets and coats LOL
 

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