Do Americans know what drizzle is?

[thestrangequark]

Take Fanny for instance...

(wiki.....) I did not know that! Makes me wonder what the Brits think when they hear Americans use the term "fanny pack"!

We usually giggle in a childish manner

We do this as well whenever someone says a character in a film is spunky or has a lot of spunk.

Nah, spunk means that here too.

I did have a friend from Sheffield who would giggle every time we passed the muffler shop, though.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

(wiki.....) I did not know that! Makes me wonder what the Brits think when they hear Americans use the term "fanny pack"!

We usually giggle in a childish manner

We do this as well whenever someone says a character in a film is spunky or has a lot of spunk.

Nah, spunk means that here too.

I did have a friend from Sheffield who would giggle every time we passed the muffler shop, though.

I think I've seen that shop. It gives me a fuzzy feeling too.

 

[Capn Flukie]

We had a chain of candy store here in the US called Fanny Farmer.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

We had a chain of candy store here in the US called Fanny Farmer.

We also had a very famous celebrity chef called Fanny Cradock, and it was the dream of everyone across the country to have their meals to emulate the smell and taste and unmistakeable succulence of Fanny's.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Well knickers is a great word.

And of course there are the words that mean very different things for Brits and Americans.

Knickers IS one such word. In the US, the word refers to men's trousers (hence that one Statler Brothers song that got banned in the UK, it has a line about "movie stars on Dixie Cup tops and knickers to your knees").

 

[Haggis and tatties]

If its starting to rain up here we say "its starting to spit", or "Its spitting".

It's funny, I was thinking about this earlier. I don't know if it ever really 'drizzles' in Glasgow. The rain is always that little bit heavier. I guess it must, but I don't know.

If its heaver than spit in Glasgow its classed as good tee-shirt weather.

 

[Tulin]

Take Fanny for instance...

(wiki.....) I did not know that! Makes me wonder what the Brits think when they hear Americans use the term "fanny pack"!

Which is why I(in Australia)have started referring to them as "vagina vestibules".

 

[Brent]

I grew up in Texas and have heard of Drizzle all my life, a very common term.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If its starting to rain up here we say "its starting to spit", or "Its spitting".

It's funny, I was thinking about this earlier. I don't know if it ever really 'drizzles' in Glasgow. The rain is always that little bit heavier. I guess it must, but I don't know.

If its heaver than spit in Glasgow its classed as good tee-shirt weather.

Do they still do wet T-shirt competitions in Glasgow?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Well if you mean do they still spill their drink down their fronts when drinking out of their their cheap three liter plastic cider bottles or Bucky bottles while simultaneously trying to roll a fag while the 15 year old wife takes their six kids to the nearest post office to cash the child support book to buy more cheap drink, then yes, yes they do still have wet T-shirt competitions.

 

[StolenThunder]

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Who said i haven't.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Well if you mean do they still spill their drink down their fronts when drinking out of their their cheap three liter plastic cider bottles or Bucky bottles while simultaneously trying to roll a fag while the 15 year old wife takes their six kids to the nearest post office to cash the child support book to buy more cheap drink, then yes, yes they do still have wet T-shirt competitions.

I always get them confused with other such watersports.

 

[Iasius]

Also, honestly? Most people, when encountering a term they don't know, will gloss over it. Neil Gaiman used "gum boots" in American Gods and I didn't know he'd used a Britishism until I heard the term elswhere. (They're rubber boots or rain boots over here.)

I used to gloss over such terms as well. Then I installed dictionary tooltip for Firefox and a definition is just a double-click away. These days when I'm reading a book, I sometimes find myself wishing I could do that there as well.

 

[Canadave]

Exactly

In Canada we have a place called Fanny Bay.

Too bad it's located so far away from Dildo.

My favourite international difference in meaning is the fact that, in Australia, "root" is a euphamism for having sex. In Canada, we have a very popular clothing company named http://canada.roots.com/Roots[/url]. So an Aussie friend who was visiting here once told me he was highly disturbed by a sign for "Roots kids"...

 

[Tulin]

OMG!!!!

That is just disgusting!!!!

 

[Nathan_Heller]

I live in Virginia and have heard and used the term drizzle all my life.

 

[marillion]

In New Mexico, any kind of moisture from the sky (drizzle, mist, etc) constitutes as rain.. Unless, of course, it's really cold out and it's called white rain...

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Well knickers is a great word.

And of course there are the words that mean very different things for Brits and Americans.

Knickers IS one such word. In the US, the word refers to men's trousers (hence that one Statler Brothers song that got banned in the UK, it has a line about "movie stars on Dixie Cup tops and knickers to your knees").

Men's trousers would be knickerbockers.

 

[Sephiroth]

Who is the drizzle? </master shake>