Teach me English

Discussion in 'General Mayhem' started by Nauseous, Oct 6, 2004.

  1. Nauseous

    Nauseous Active Member

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    I have pretend to be "English" at work now, so I need to learn some words that people from the UK spell differently than people from the US... words like "centre" vs "center. Any common words that you write differently?
     
  2. StrangelyBrown

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    Color = Colour

    Soccer = Football

    Alot of its around pronunciation more than anything. If in doubt just set up english dictionary on word and run a spell check in there. I know there are others, just cant think of them at the moment.
     
  3. Dubya 2.0

    Dubya 2.0 New Member

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    The British Empire will rise once again and dominate the world.

    God Bless The Queen and all Those Who Speak Properly English.
     
  4. Dubya 2.0

    Dubya 2.0 New Member

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    Whilst I'm at it...

    Tire = Tyre
     
  5. unlimited-time

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  6. Sanjay Kapoor

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    check = cheque

    woman = bird, bit of fluff, slut, bitch, whore, her indoors, etc. etc. you be get the point

    anything ending in 'ize' is ending in 'ise', eg. theorize is being theorise.

    How the fuck am I being knowing this?
     
  7. Sanjay Kapoor

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    Favourite
    Favour
    Neighbour
    Glamour

    Just be inserting a letter ā€˜Uā€™ in every word and you are being a pie & pea eating, clog wearing brit before you are know it.
     
  8. Spooky Action

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  9. Schmed

    Schmed New Member

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    to the lot of you.......
     
  10. Schmed

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    Toothbrush=Dishrag
     
  11. ratatouille

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    queue - waiting in line
    jewellery - jewelry
    fag - cigarette
    bangers and mash - hotdogs and mashed potatoes
    chips - French fries
    saft - stupid
    sarnie - sandwich
    dodgy - suspicious
    theatre - theater
    badly packed kebab - female genitalia


    and there is always this dictionary of slang you could use.
    http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
     
  12. Robman97

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    Hell, I want to know why you have to act English at your job. You work at a call center right?
     
  13. DrBungle

    DrBungle New Member

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    I worked at a call center. It was horrible.
     
  14. Nauseous

    Nauseous Active Member

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    Thanks.

    I'm taking a job from the UK, but stopping it from going to India. Seriously, I work for a company that is an essentially an outsourcer and our biggest client is a company that outsources it's own to India.
     
  15. Nauseous

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    And yes, I do work for a call center, but I don't take calls. I answer emails all day.

    Actually, we aren't just merely a call center, we do a ton of back office shit. We basically run the website that we support. We actually have our hands in a bunch of other different companies too.
     
  16. DrBungle

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    That's sounds a lot cooler than what I had to do. People would call up after watching an infomertial to order something (Dean Martin Variety Show, Winsor Pilates, blah fucking blah).

    It would have been cool if you could just take their order, but you had to try and cell them twice as much as what they were ordering.

    Oh, and you had to read them unless one of two conditions occured; the caller was about to hang up or they said I only want what I saw on tv, twice.

    People would ask my advice, what do you reccomend. I got in trouble for saying I recceomend hanging up! You don't need this shit.
     
  17. Nauseous

    Nauseous Active Member

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    At least you weren't a telemarketer...
     
  18. Sanjay Kapoor

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    weren't you At least a telemarketer...
     
  19. ratatouille

    ratatouille New Member

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    yeah but she couldnt hack the human interaction and had to move on to answering emails.
     
  20. Nauseous

    Nauseous Active Member

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    It's a fucking cake job with kick ass benefits and decent pay. I get to listen to music and bullshit with the people around me.

    I still take calls for a smaller website, but I average about 8 or 9 a week and every now and then I have to take regular calls and that sucks because you really have to work.

    I remember when I first started, I had to take strictly calls and my first day on the phones after six weeks of training, I decided to get stoned. It was insane.
     

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