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(in spoken English, the British "bugger" is sometimes misheard by Americans as "booger") ... can (n.): bathroom (slang), jail (UK: gaol) ...
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Like in America, we say words like "sup" and u kno ... Like in America, we say words like "sup" and u know stuff like that. :D; What do these use is common slang used in England and Britain and places over in there? 10pts...
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Here in the UK we have adopted many, many "Americanisms" into everyday language and, I believe, some British terms are now used in the USA. This is probably due to travel and the wide exchange of TV programmes etc. ... Loo or Bog (slang)*
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www.hintsandthings.co.uk/library/WORDS2.htm
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Best of British - If someone says "The best of British to you" when you are visiting the UK, it simply means good luck. It is short for "best of British luck". ... This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason "butchers" means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for...
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www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml
www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml
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British slang for bathroom is "can", it's considered vulgar.Toilet is the proper word for the bathroom when it is not for a bath. ... what do english people call bathrooms, what do british people call the bathroom, what do the british call meatloaf, what do english people call the bathroom, what do the brits call a toliet...
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www.chacha.com/question/what-do-the-british-call-a-bath...
www.chacha.com/question/what-do-the-british-call-a-bathroom
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"Mean Mr Mustard" Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose - "Ten bob note" is a bank note worth ten shillings i.e. half a pound. "Bob" was widely-used slang for "shilling", ... Note that the size of British bathrooms (which *always* include a bathtub, otherwise they're not called bathrooms, but toilets) would suggest that he...
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www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/britguide.html
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An huge collection of all those strange English words and phrases combined in a dictionary of slang and colloquialisms of the UK. ... Noun. 1. An act of defecation. 2. Excrement. * Both uses are from rhyming slang for 'shit'. William Pitt (1759-1806), the youngest Prime Minister of England on record.
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www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm
www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm
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Verb. Go, often hurriedly, to escape. Abb. rhyming slang from Scapa Flow. E.g."He grabbed her handbag and scarpered before anyone had the chance to tackle him." ... Noun. An idiot, an objectionable person. Popularized on Red Dwarf, a British sit-com, for the humorous usage. Also smeg head. [Orig. Liverpool?]
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www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm
www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm
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