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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
I have a British girl that works for me. She's pretty cool to have around just to listen to her talk.
The one thing that always gets me is the "TH" being pronounced with an "F".
Three becomes free, months becomes monfs, think becomes fink, etc..
Dilly-dally gets thrown around the place quite a bit, and "numpty prat" has become my new call-sign after repeated pranking.
The best mixup in translation from British to American was the other day.
She comes up to me in front of several customers and asks me if I have a spare rubber she can borrow. We all look at her funny, and it takes her an awkwardly long amount of time to get across that she was actually looking for an eraser.
Apparently erasers are called rubbers in England, and condoms are called "Johnnies".
Hilarious.
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That's because she's working class.
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I think the young people enjoy it when I "get down," verbally, don't you?
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