I live in an apartment building in Toronto. How about the diffidence of British and Canadian English? Any films about that? Greetings from Toronto! Love the lessons and I am with you Sir, for the second week.
Hi Roy. Ha ha you made my day by the way you pronounced Queue the first time ! 😅 🤣 I don't know if you knew it, but biscuit comes from the French word Biscuit. Long time ago, this word was used for specific little cakes made for navigators, for sailors who needed food that would last a long time. So the "biscuits" were cooked twice. Bis-cuits (BIS means twice in Latin language and CUIT means cooked in french) so the biscuits were cooked twice to have a better conservation. 😉
In UK law, biscuits and cakes are two completely different things. Ships' biscuits were biscuits, not cakes. Cakes are soft and go hard when stale. Biscuits are hard and go soft when stale. Biscuits attract a sales tax in the UK (Value Added Tax), cakes do not. In the UK, "cookies" are a specific type of biscuit. Not everytging calling itself a cake is a cake in law: "oatcakes" are considered to be a type of biscuit. McVitie's Jaffa Cakes are sold in the biscuit aisle in the supermarket but, under the law, they are cakes.
I before e either or iether, I say?OR Got me two GERRYS you know. CHERRIO and HELLO. BASIL RATHBONE WAS TRUE ENGLISH SPEAKER?Even when he talked fast he pronounced every sylliable,To this day i listen to the old Sherlock HOLMES movies and he was the BEST.
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Here are a few others - UK bonnet, boot, trainers vs. US hood, trunk, sneakers.
I live in a flat. Thank you dear Roy.
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I definitely love British English 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Please could you share famous hilarious anecdotes from uk and USA?
I live in an apartment building in Toronto. How about the diffidence of British and Canadian English? Any films about that? Greetings from Toronto! Love the lessons and I am with you Sir, for the second week.
Aubergine (GB) vs Eggplant (US) - Rubber (GB) - Eraser (US)
1st floor, ground floor. 😂
Hi Roy. Ha ha you made my day by the way you pronounced Queue the first time ! 😅 🤣 I don't know if you knew it, but biscuit comes from the French word Biscuit. Long time ago, this word was used for specific little cakes made for navigators, for sailors who needed food that would last a long time. So the "biscuits" were cooked twice. Bis-cuits (BIS means twice in Latin language and CUIT means cooked in french) so the biscuits were cooked twice to have a better conservation. 😉
In UK law, biscuits and cakes are two completely different things. Ships' biscuits were biscuits, not cakes. Cakes are soft and go hard when stale. Biscuits are hard and go soft when stale. Biscuits attract a sales tax in the UK (Value Added Tax), cakes do not. In the UK, "cookies" are a specific type of biscuit. Not everytging calling itself a cake is a cake in law: "oatcakes" are considered to be a type of biscuit. McVitie's Jaffa Cakes are sold in the biscuit aisle in the supermarket but, under the law, they are cakes.
Loved it!
..and since you ask, "tomato" should be added as a classic, I would have thought .. 😄
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Words aubergine and queue are french provenience so may looks a little strange
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I live in a two level flat :) maisonette
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I before e either or iether, I say?OR Got me two GERRYS you know. CHERRIO and HELLO. BASIL RATHBONE WAS TRUE ENGLISH SPEAKER?Even when he talked fast he pronounced every sylliable,To this day i listen to the old Sherlock HOLMES movies and he was the BEST.
British people queue to queue in a queue 🙄
Many slangs in Usa, no!!!!