h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've never heard the ones with added syllables before!! Too much effort. I prefer *vomit* but we also have *to throw up*...

Upchuck (UK)

BTW, I think that this conversation is getting a little sick

Barf or Puke works for me CDCould we get onto another word association please? Or is everyone out there preoccupied with throwing up.

Is it coincidental that there are at least as many terms for throwing up as there are for being drunk?

To change the course here, I've noticed a term around here that I've never heard used in the US ... "dodgy." I think I know what it means out of its context, but for the purposes of this thread, it's pretty much a non-term in the US. At least, in this part of the US anyway. Here one is far more likely to hear the term "shifty," and much less often at that. More likely to hear other terms like "unreliable" or "untrustworthy" and the like. Sounds highly dodgy, doesn't it?

- JD

p****d, s**t-faced, hammered (CDN)

p****d is used in the US for upset.

I use p****d to mean upset. BUt that's my American influence.

Oh TV, how I love thee.

Ratted (UK - meaning drunk)
Ratted (US - meaning gave info to authorities?)
Ratted (CAN - ??)

Boomer-CDN for loud car stereo
Boomer-AUS for kangaroo
Boomer-US someone born between 1945 and 1960

Boomer - UK - common name for a pet methinks.

Dog names-

US- Fido, ?

CDN- Scout

UK- ?

My favourite name for a cat is Chairman Mao. You get to call him with "Mao?....Mao?"

Or *F**k*

Oh, *that* would go over well in the neighbourhood....

That's the point!!

*F**k! Time for dinner!*

*F**k! Stop defecating on the neighbours vegetables!*

*F**k! Get in here!*

I was thinking about:

"Come, F**k!"

Or how about calling your cat Jesus?

*Jesus! Time for your tea?"

"Where are you Jesus?"

"Stop defecating on the neighbours vegetables Jesus!"

Ahem.

Back on topic, do they still call popsicles ice lollies in Britain? And what's the UK name for sneakers/runners/cross-trainers?

While I'm asking, what's another name for Thesaurus?

Ice-lollies, yes.

Sneakers (*arf*) = trainers (AFAIK)

And I won't address the last ditch attempt to be ironic!

Y'all might like this:
http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/

I know a dog called piss.

My uncle had a black lab called Kafir, just so he could stand in the park and shout "come here kafir, you black bxstxrd".

I know several friends who would lynch him for that!



So....what is UK for soda pop, which we most often call pop here, or for cargo pants (cargo trousers?).