Couple of clarifications on an earlier post.....:smile:

Bubble & Squeak is actually chopped vegetables mixed with mashed potatoes and pan fried.

Sausages and Mashed Potatoes are "Bangers & Mash"

Kippers are a type of fish - smoked herring... stinks out the house when cooked and often eaten for breakfast. Probably so you can go to work and hope the smell dissipates

I do miss eating ******* & Peas, scratchings, black pudding, chip butties, scotch eggs, and tripe!!!!

Cheers!

PS My wife has steamed her first Christmas Pud this year under the tutelage of my mom. Its currently aging - hopefully she will master the family recipe to carry on the tradition! We'll know in another month or so!

 

Found this, actually it was a link from www.fark.com

http://www.translatebritish.com/index.php

 

*** = cigarette

It's short for ******: A ****** is an archaic imperial unit applied to collections of sticks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_...of_measurement)

So a *** in your boot is not a homosexual in your footwear, it's a cigarette in your trunk!

 

And yet a skivvy (or alternative spelling) is a polo neck shirt...

cheers,

 

Actually skivvy is also a Navy term for a T-shirt. My father (American) used it all the time.

Just watched a re-run of Coupling BBC America, and it was good to know some of these terms. Jane was looking to **** some bloke.

Anti-clockwise = counter-clockwise
**** about face = back to front
**** up = mistake

 

A ****** is also a savory meatball!

Probably do not want one rolling around in your boot!

 

Not really British, engineers here use both terms. BHP is 'brake horsepower', a brake being an 'engine brake', which is a more general term for the class of engine-loading devices that include a dynamometer. "at the flywheel" is the same as BHP, measuring the power of the engine on a test stand. It's used to distinguish from chassis horsepower measured on a chassis dynamometer.

Here's a difference: the UK has a passenger railway network that you can actually use for transportation when your MINI is unavailable.

 

No - "A fair cop" means "caught me fair and square." Originally used by criminals caught in the act.

Neil
05 MCS
96 M3

 

I thought the British version was funny......until I considered trying to pick up 2500 pounds.

 

Well, I spent a lot of my youth in Canada in the 60s (no, I was too young for the draft) and the term "cop a feel" was often used by my fellow adolescent young men in describing their Friday night accomplishments. In that sense, it seemed to mean "getting away with something".

Bill