WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember the Magic Pt 17

[iankh]

Hose Pipes??? I love when you speak English...

Why what do you call it? I call them hose pipes and always have.

Then again I also grew up with free standing closets being called a wardrobe, two houses that shared a common wall being called a semi-detached, and apartments being to let and not for rent.

No wonder I felt so at home when I lived in the UK for 4 years.

 

[granmaz]

Why what do you call it? I call them hose pipes and always have.

Then again I also grew up with free standing closets being called a wardrobe, two houses that shared a common wall being called a semi-detached, and apartments being to let and not for rent.

No wonder I felt so at home when I lived in the UK for 4 years.

What a normal person you are Ian!!! Wardrobes, how sensible too.

I want to know what hose pipes are called over there, also semi-detached houses too. Do you say car hire or car rental?

Oh, and while we are at it, why take the 's' off maths! Is it not mathematics, or mathematic?

 

[iankh]

Also little 1 story houses where called bungalows.

In fact a big Jewish summer get-away was to go to "Bungalow Colonies" that were in the Bear Mountains in upstate New York.

Marilyn, you will appreciate this ... a Bungalow Colony was very very similar to a British holiday camp.

My parents were too poor and we could not afford to go to the mountains. We used to go to New Jersey to a house that my grandfather had been given in lieu of payment during the depression.

It was in the middle of no where. I remember dirt roads, and the toilet was outside the house (I hated the spiders).

There was a lake nearby that had some sort of community hall. You needed to belong to the community hall to be able to swim in the lake. Unfortunately they did not admit Jews as members, so we couldn't use the lake.

It always struck me as a rather odd place for the family holidays.

 

[granmaz]

Also little 1 story houses where called bungalows.

In fact a big Jewish summer get-away was to go to "Bungalow Colonies" that were in the Bear Mountains in upstate New York.

Marilyn, you will appreciate this ... a Bungalow Colony was very very similar to a British holiday camp.

My parents were too poor and we could not afford to go to the mountains. We used to go to New Jersey to a house that my grandfather had been given in lieu of payment during the depression.

It was in the middle of no where. I remember dirt roads, and the toilet was outside the house (I hated the spiders).

There was a lake nearby that had some sort of community hall. You needed to belong to the community hall to be able to swim in the lake. Unfortunately they did not admit Jews as members, so we couldn't use the lake.

It always struck me as a rather odd place for the family holidays.

Well I guess it was all your parents could manage, but you would only see the odd place and scary spiders. Did you get out and play in the wild place? Kind of like a Huckleburry Finn? Fancy not being able to swim in a lake for that reason?

We live in a bungalow now, but not a holiday camp!!!! Though sometimes with the noise of our famous neighbour's children you could be excused for thinking that!

 

[iankh]

What a normal person you are Ian!!! Wardrobes, how sensible too.

I want to know what hose pipes are called over there, also semi-detached houses too. Do you say car hire or car rental?

Oh, and while we are at it, why take the 's' off maths! Is it not mathematics, or mathematic?

I think hoses are either called just that, hoses or garden hose. If there's a ban I think they say "watering ban." Such things just don't happen in Chicago. Not sure why, unless it's because of the rather large, some might say, great fresh water lake we're next to.

We say car rental not hire. In fact in almost every case where the British say, "hire" we say "rental."

I don't have an answer for the difference between math and maths. If we do say the full word, it does have the "s" on the end making it a plural, but I don't think it resides as a plural in our collective conscious. The "s" might also be dropped because it makes it, as a shortened form, a bit awkward to say, what with the "th" sound followed by the "s".

Many of our words are also different because of the original colonizers. Hence we have the word cookie for a small cake coming from the early Dutch colony and the word "koekje" which means little cake. Or the term for the front steps of a house being called the "stoop" which also comes from the Dutch.

In other cases we retained the original British words that were in use when the first immigrants came over in the 1640's.

Hence we use the perfectly acceptable Elizabethan word "platter" which refer a very specific type of serving dish, whereas the British, lost the specificity and evolved to the generic word, "dish."

We also retained the more British word, "Fall" for the season, where as the English gravitated over time towards the French word, Autumn.

Shakespeare would have been extremely comfortable and used the word "mad" to refer to anger. He would have also thought nothing of conjugating the verb, "to get" with the form "gotten." A conjugation of the verb that fell out of use in the UK, but is very much preserved and alive in the US (and a very useful form of the verb too I might add.).

Marilyn - if it makes you any more comfortable, I am completely bilingual and will be most happy to speak to you and John in UK English, though I have never really been able to master the accent. Even after 4 years of living there.

 

[granmaz]

Ian, I've learned a lot there.

Remember my UK English isn't that 'proper' with me being Yorkshire and with a Yorkshire/Lancashire border accent. Mind you I have lost a lot of that and perhaps have a posher harrogate accent now!!! Well I can only hope. Get me in a group of broad Yorkshire folk and I can ee bah gum with the best of them!!!

John is a southerner, but has lived up here much longer than he lived down there, so now has a bit of a Yorkshire twang. I can't get him out of saying barth instead of bath etc, but there you go!! Southerners!!!

 

[iankh]

Ian, I've learned a lot there.

Remember my UK English isn't that 'proper' with me being Yorkshire and with a Yorkshire/Lancashire border accent. Mind you I have lost a lot of that and perhaps have a posher harrogate accent now!!! Well I can only hope. Get me in a group of broad Yorkshire folk and I can ee bah gum with the best of them!!!

John is a southerner, but has lived up here much longer than he lived down there, so now has a bit of a Yorkshire twang. I can't get him out of saying barth instead of bath etc, but there you go!! Southerners!!!

The think I've always wondered about, and maybe it's a southern thing, and also more pronounced with posher public school people is what only I can describe as sort of a speech impediment that makes them sound a bit like Elmer Fudd.

You know where they say weally for the word really.

 

[granmaz]

The think I've always wondered about, and maybe it's a southern thing, and also more pronounced with posher public school people is what only I can describe as sort of a speech impediment that makes them sound a bit like Elmer Fudd.

You know where they say weally for the word really.

I think it is a kind of gene defect for the real posh people!!!

 

[iankh]

I think it is a kind of gene defect for the real posh people!!!

Let's just refer to them as RPPs behind their backs.

 

[HollyTyler]

We went down to Jacks to watch the fireworks from the summer fest at Schenectady... couldn't see too much cause they moved the location from last year, but at least we had some ice cream...

Ice cream! Sounds good!

 

[granmaz]

Let's just refer to them as RPPs behind their backs.

Done!

 

[HollyTyler]

And what did Mr "I-don't-do-vacations" say to that?
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Oh he laughed! He actually goes on vacation at least once a month. He has a condo up north in Michigan that he and his wife are often going to, and they also are in CA often, doing wine research. He's president of the Michigan Vintners Club, so he needs to keep up on his wine knowledge to be able to create a whole bunch of wine tasting events and other wine events. He also writes a weekly wine article (that I usually have to type...LOL!) for a local newspaper. AND he is head of a local Cystic Fibrosis organization and holds frequent fundraising events.

He is indeed the Energizer Bunny, and his wife is just as busy. Tyler's psychiatrist is good friends with my boss, and I told the psych one time that my boss has some SERIOUS ADD! LOL! He sometimes even dictates while working out on his elliptical machine, so when I'm typing, I hear heavy breathing and can clearly tell when he's doing that!

 

[HollyTyler]

What does everyone else call them?

Garden hoses. At least, if I'm correctly understanding what you were describing. I figured you were talking about a ban on watering the garden? I think some states out west here have that.

 

[HollyTyler]

Hello Michelle - wake up ha ha

Oh I had a busy week...

I dropped Ian off to his friend 's house last night and surprised to see that neighbour switched pipe hose on water for their grass

Today, it is heavy raining as I am going to my friend's wedding but lucky inside the Marriott hotel... Ian is usher that why he stayed with his friend 8 men they go by limo.... aright for some....

I am on my own I pick up my friend and her husband so I won't walk to hotel on my own

Nan - I am sorrry to hear about your mum thinking of you....

have a nice day today....

I am wearing same dress hot pink with hat.....Hope everything go smooth for friend as she had not got a good week... her dad rushed tohospital and had the operation yesterday and he is not giving her away... also best man got the kilt - all wrong sizes poor friend had the stress ....

hope today go well for her and I know she is sad about her dad....

Scottishwee35

Oh no! I'm sorry for your friend, hopefully her wedding will still go well. You'll look great in your hot pink dress and hat, I love that outfit on you!

 

[HollyTyler]

What a normal person you are Ian!!! Wardrobes, how sensible too.

I want to know what hose pipes are called over there, also semi-detached houses too. Do you say car hire or car rental?

Oh, and while we are at it, why take the 's' off maths! Is it not mathematics, or mathematic?

A wardrobe is a wardrobe, I don't know any other name for it, but I'm sure some must.

I've never heard the term hose pipes before, but I'm assuming it's what we call a garden hose.

I have no idea what a semi-detached house is, so I'm curious now! I will google it.

I say car rental, but I've heard plenty of people say car hire.

And maths, I'd never heard it called that before, but it does make sense. Mathematics = maths. Makes sense to me, but never heard it before. Maybe math is just easier to say? My tongue and teeth are struggling with the "s" on the end as I practice it now.

 

[HollyTyler]

I've wasted enough of my morning here. Need to hop in the shower, get dressed, go by a small gift for a 3 1/2 yr old girl, head to her 1/2-birthday party at noon, then head in to work.

I've never heard of celebrating a 1/2 birthday. Sounds very strange to me, but there will be cupcakes, so I'll be there!

Despite my extra hours at work all week, I was surprised to wake up at 9am today! I'm still trying to get used to not feeling the need to sleep until 2pm. I honestly believe it was the Paxil because ever since being off it, I have none of the extreme tiredness I was starting to think was normal for me. And a co-worker just told me yesterday that I seem more "animated" lately. First she said "manic", but when I looked at her in shock, she said, "Not literally manic, just more.....'up', having a hard time coming up with a word". Then she decided animated describes it best. She said I actually seemed a bit lethargic for a very long time. Amazing what the stuff we put into our bodies can do to us. Yikes!

 

[granmaz]

Garden hoses. At least, if I'm correctly understanding what you were describing. I figured you were talking about a ban on watering the garden? I think some states out west here have that.

Yes, you are correct. We don't have many bans but i think we will have one soon. No problem for us as we don't have a lawn, but wouldn't water it if we did anyway. We have a water butt that collects rain draining off the roof which we water the outside pots with etc. Amazing to think after all the rain the last few years. We just use so much more these days.

A wardrobe is a wardrobe, I don't know any other name for it, but I'm sure some must.

I've never heard the term hose pipes before, but I'm assuming it's what we call a garden hose.

I have no idea what a semi-detached house is, so I'm curious now! I will google it.

I say car rental, but I've heard plenty of people say car hire.

And maths, I'd never heard it called that before, but it does make sense. Mathematics = maths. Makes sense to me, but never heard it before. Maybe math is just easier to say? My tongue and teeth are struggling with the "s" on the end as I practice it now.

Could be the American accent that makes it more difficult, or perhaps it is just because we have grown up saying it with an 's'.

I love all the differences in language.

 

[granmaz]

I've wasted enough of my morning here. Need to hop in the shower, get dressed, go by a small gift for a 3 1/2 yr old girl, head to her 1/2-birthday party at noon, then head in to work.

I've never heard of celebrating a 1/2 birthday. Sounds very strange to me, but there will be cupcakes, so I'll be there!

Despite my extra hours at work all week, I was surprised to wake up at 9am today! I'm still trying to get used to not feeling the need to sleep until 2pm. I honestly believe it was the Paxil because ever since being off it, I have none of the extreme tiredness I was starting to think was normal for me. And a co-worker just told me yesterday that I seem more "animated" lately. First she said "manic", but when I looked at her in shock, she said, "Not literally manic, just more.....'up', having a hard time coming up with a word". Then she decided animated describes it best. She said I actually seemed a bit lethargic for a very long time. Amazing what the stuff we put into our bodies can do to us. Yikes!

A 1/2 birthday??? That is a bit of a con. More presents I guess. However, could it be she has her real birthday at Christmas time, so has another celebration mid year? I did hear of someone doing that.

I'm so pleased to read of all your new found energy. It just wasn't right for a young woman to be sleeping all that time. Think of all the things you now have time to do?

 

[ibouncetoo]

Morning Thieves

While it was a short work week it was a very busy, intense one for me. This morning woke from a dream about cruising so I'm starting the day in a good mood!

When I sat down to pay bills last night I realized between my upcoming cruises, and deposits paid for some family members for the 11/6/11 cruise, I have $2,000 in DCL deposits (thankfully all still at zero percent interest). Is that insane??? I guess not really, since it represents deposits for 13 people including two pricy Alaska deposits. (And I can't even remember if I've given/paid any deposit to Monica for the repo/Alaska adventure ) I keep thinking I should go ahead and cancel the Aug Alaska I won't be doing to get that $600 off the books (and then reapply it for the repo/Alaska). But a little voice in my head says to wait till this fall and transfer it to one of the 1212 cruises we'll be hearing about...'cause you know any special ones they may offer will sell fast and I'd want to be getting in on opening day, tier one pricing and keep the discount/OBC from that existing reservation.

Nevertheless, I'll be working as much overtime as possible this summer/fall!

for EVERYBODY!

.

 

[nskjerven]

Oh he laughed! He actually goes on vacation at least once a month. He has a condo up north in Michigan that he and his wife are often going to, and they also are in CA often, doing wine research. He's president of the Michigan Vintners Club, so he needs to keep up on his wine knowledge to be able to create a whole bunch of wine tasting events and other wine events. He also writes a weekly wine article (that I usually have to type...LOL!) for a local newspaper. AND he is head of a local Cystic Fibrosis organization and holds frequent fundraising events.

He is indeed the Energizer Bunny, and his wife is just as busy. Tyler's psychiatrist is good friends with my boss, and I told the psych one time that my boss has some SERIOUS ADD! LOL! He sometimes even dictates while working out on his elliptical machine, so when I'm typing, I hear heavy breathing and can clearly tell when he's doing that!

Holly -isn't she the wife that died?

A 1/2 birthday??? That is a bit of a con. More presents I guess. However, could it be she has her real birthday at Christmas time, so has another celebration mid year? I did hear of someone doing that.

I'm so pleased to read of all your new found energy. It just wasn't right for a young woman to be sleeping all that time. Think of all the things you now have time to do?

I have to admit we did 1/2 birthday at school for Molly since she is a summer bday - but it didn't involve a party and gifts - just me bringing a treat to share at school