MarkD
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Hollydolly already straightened me out but I still found this little video helpful.
Great Britain, UK, England .. wut?!
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PeppermintPatty
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I didnāt know most of it either.
Tish
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Love it, thanks for sharing.
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
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Belated happy birthday.
hollydolly
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yes the UK shares one Capital city which is London as a whole...... however all 4 countries also have ther own capital cities...
Ergo...
England = London
Scotland= Edinburgh ( pronunced Edin Burra) ( Not edinburg)
Wales- Cardiff
N. Ireland = Belfast
The capital of Southern Ireland which is not in the UK... is Dublin
KSav
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Thank you for this! I have always had difficulty keeping this information straight (and been a bit embarrassed about that). Several months ago I found a Venn diagram that explained it, but this clip is much better.
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
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Just watched it again and then was suggested this one on some Americanism vs Britishisms.
Makes you realize how arbitrary some phrasings are which only feel right because of common use.
Makes you realize how arbitrary some phrasings are which only feel right because of common use.
hollydolly
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Restroom is the most ridiculous.
It's not a place you go to rest !
He's not quite correct about the "get and have''...Get is very impolite when asking for something, gets everyone's back up, but the young generation are increasingly saying it ... however we usually say could I have..or May I have ....
he's correct about Got & Gotten... gotten raises most British people hackles...
While we're on the same subject.... we generally hate the American word Burglarized... here we say Burgled...
I say Vac'd on here with the majority of American members so people don't misunderstand.. but in common conversation with other Brits I would say ''I have hoovered''..
overall this guy is really good at having compared all the words correctly.. and he even does a very good Southern English accent....
I'm a little bit concerned tho'...that he thinks there's an N before the letter Z...lol
It's not a place you go to rest !
He's not quite correct about the "get and have''...Get is very impolite when asking for something, gets everyone's back up, but the young generation are increasingly saying it ... however we usually say could I have..or May I have ....
he's correct about Got & Gotten... gotten raises most British people hackles...
While we're on the same subject.... we generally hate the American word Burglarized... here we say Burgled...
I say Vac'd on here with the majority of American members so people don't misunderstand.. but in common conversation with other Brits I would say ''I have hoovered''..
overall this guy is really good at having compared all the words correctly.. and he even does a very good Southern English accent....
I'm a little bit concerned tho'...that he thinks there's an N before the letter Z...lol
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