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The Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British.

Mar 10, 2004 1:05PM PST

The Best of British
The American's guide to speaking British.

The seven sections on the left contain over 1000 words and expressions that differ in their usage between the US and the UK. This site started as a simple list to amuse our friends when we moved to the USA for 2 years - believe it or not, to a house in Tossa Lane!!!
Now, it's sold around 30,000 copies as a paperback book and has been reprinted four times!

Of course, you can read it all here for free.

Enjoy!

http://www.effingpot.com/index.shtml

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That's a neat site. ......" he got a bit stroppy"? ;-) -nt
Mar 11, 2004 12:13AM PST

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Re:The Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British.
Mar 11, 2004 12:17AM PST

And I thought I knew a lot of British lingo. Goes to show you, the more you learn, the less you know. Now I finally understand why Ringo greets the man on the train with "All right?" in A Hard Day's Night!

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Re:The Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British.
Mar 11, 2004 12:19AM PST

Hi Dale,

This was fun to go through...most Brit slang I can figure out just by how it's used, but some things really surprised me. Of course, our slang must be freakish sounding to y'all, too! How we can essentially speak the same language and still be so different amazes me.

Cindi

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Re:The Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British.
Mar 11, 2004 12:47AM PST

Thanks Dale, This is fun

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You mean, this site is really ace! :-) -NT
Mar 11, 2004 12:57AM PST

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(NT) Yey! Ace site! Can we Brits get you to do the equivalent US version? Thanks, Mo
Mar 11, 2004 6:50PM PST

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