[Regia-NA] Mostly incomprehensible

[rmhowe]

And Encyclop(a)edia Britannica finally took on an American Advisor.
It seems American English is dominant on the world-wide scene
these days, or so it said in a news article I saw on telly in
the last year.  The new American member was being accompanied
through the doors of Britannica by the older members.

Funny how when you get older days go faster and years compress.
Just the opposite of childhood. Perhaps the size of the body
has some sort of time factor effect that is inverse to gravity.

Magnus

Wulfhere se Treowryhta wrote:
> I used to work for a group of gentlemen from the UK. We often found 
> ourselves in need of an American-to-English dictionary. I'm sure 
> Parisians and Canadians have the same problem as do Puerto-Ricans and 
> Spaniards. The linguistics are the first cultural detail to fade.
> 
> 
>> .....We have the word "rucksack" which seems to be equal to your word 
>> "ruck"
>>
>> I apologise for being transatlantically incomprehensible.  However, 
>> once when asked to examine something owned by a member from Germany, I 
>> unthinkingly replied that I would "have a butchers" - which got met by 
>> a blank stare.  I can't help it if I've got an east london Dad, a home 
>> counties Mum, and got brought up in the black country ;-)
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> P.S. For the uninitiated:  Rhyming slang.  Butchers hook = look