They spell it O-B-A-M-A
They spell it O-B-A-M-A
A word that was not used when I was a child. It was always tip.
I have heard "loo" used in US programmes. And "nick" meaning "to steal".
As a now retired sub postmaster, I can quite believe that, particularly as books of stamps are sold in 6s and 12s :-)
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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.
I hate the current American use of the word 'Chops'W.T.F
Same meaning but used as a general term like "jerk". There was a Mr Wanker in Mork & Mindy once.
It's old English rather than Americanism. Used to be common here.
As in 'I found him looking at pictures of nude women and doing an obama all over the carpet'
presumably a corruption of seven nights as fortnight is fourteen nights
I met a yank whose name was Robert Bollick once.
Guess what his staff called him behind his back.
I thought it was at 4C
Bob?
half right...
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?
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
My ISP gives customers the choice (inter alia) of being billed per calendar month or per lunar month...
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).
US friends named their son John Thomas!
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