Posted on 12/22/2018 10:17:15 AM PST by robowombat
Yes, two countries separated by a common language.
If George Washington hadn’t defeated Lord Cornwallis in Yorktown we would still be speaking English in this country!
For Pete’s sake, the word is a perfectly normal word for rappelling down a rope (especially from an aircraft), and is used in American English too - although less commonly, unless you’re a mountaineer. Why criticize them for doing something good?
I’m more interested in what will happen to the hijackers. They’ll probably just be released into the British population and put on welfare.
Expect?
Some can not grasp the concept of lorry
Hey!
Leave my cousin Lorry out of this.
“Hey....they call cookies biscuits.”
Chips are crisps
Fries are chips
Dessert is called a sweet
An elevator is a lift
The windshield is the windscreen
The hood is the bonnet
If a multi-story building has a basement the basement is the first floor, the street level is the 2nd floor
And my personal pet peeve
Aluminum is aluminium...even though Sir Humphry Davy named it aluminum when he discovered it in 1808
Forget it Jake, it’s England...or the soon to be Caliphate of Britain.
And the trunk is the boot.
Anyway, more cultural enrichers loosed upon Old Blighty or what’s left of it.
No these folks were mussies
Russia would have turned them lose with a few concrete blocks to build homes in their new homeland.
Abseiling: of German origin—by way of Estonia...
Thanks.
I am amazed, so often, at the breadth of knowledge of so many freepers.
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