OT "Standing in a queue"

[Richard]

They spell it O-B-A-M-A

[harry]

A word that was not used when I was a child. It was always tip.

[Jethro_uk]

I have heard "loo" used in US programmes. And "nick" meaning "to steal".

[News]

As a now retired sub postmaster, I can quite believe that, particularly as books of stamps are sold in 6s and 12s :-)

[News]

In message , Graham. writes

Agreed. I spend quite a lot of my online time chatting with Americans, particularly about railway related subjects, so I say ties not sleepers, railroad not railway etc.

[fred]

I hate the current American use of the word 'Chops'W.T.F

[Scott M]

Same meaning but used as a general term like "jerk". There was a Mr Wanker in Mork & Mindy once.

[Scott M]

It's old English rather than Americanism. Used to be common here.

[The Natural Philosopher]

As in 'I found him looking at pictures of nude women and doing an obama all over the carpet'

[The Natural Philosopher]

presumably a corruption of seven nights as fortnight is fourteen nights

[The Natural Philosopher]

I met a yank whose name was Robert Bollick once.

Guess what his staff called him behind his back.

[whisky-dave]

I thought it was at 4C

[Scott M]

Bob?

[The Natural Philosopher]

half right...

[The Other John]

As a slight aside from that, why do estate agents pedantically quote rents as £x per calendar month? What other sort of months are there?

[Tim+]

The length of time taken by the moon to revolve once around the earth (29.53 days), a lunar month

anomalistic month The interval between the moon's perigee passages = 27.5545 days

sidereal or stellar month The time in which the moon passes round the ecliptic to the same point among the stars = 27.3217 days

solar month One-twelfth of a solar year

synodic month The period of the moon's phases = 29.5306 days

tropical or periodic month The time from the moon's passing the equinox until it reaches it again =

27.3216 days [Chambers Dictionary (iOS) © Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd.]

Tim

[Bob Eager]

My ISP gives customers the choice (inter alia) of being billed per calendar month or per lunar month...

[charles]

[NY]

I remember when the company that I worked for changed from paying people every four weeks to paying them every calendar month. That caused a lot of hassle when the nerds (and I worked with some real nerds!) tried to work out whether they would be better/worse/the same after the change - not sure why it made any difference averaged over the year. And it was a *lot* easier to be paid on the same date each month when working out when direct debits should be debited (just after rather than just before pay-day).

[Capitol]

US friends named their son John Thomas!