Americanisms

Wife's cousin came on a visit from Florida and I took him up to the local
Miners Welfare Club. He only had about four pints of John Smiths and was
as pis*ed as a rat. He got up to go to the bog and was missing for what seemed
to be ages. I decided to go and look for him. I found him semi conscious with a big
lump on his forehead laid with his arm in the trough.
We got him back to the house and managed to get him cleaned up. When his head
cleared he told us that when he stood on the step of the urinal it was pretty crowded
so he said to a large ginger haired guy " move over you Limey bum." We told him he'd insulted
probably the hardest guy in Doncaster and district who had proceeded to " drop him", but he couldn't work
out why the bloke had taken exception to his comment because he reasoned that " in the States all English blokes
are known as Limeys."

 

I have been to Jamaica, they pronounce it the way we do.

Billy ocean has a song called Carribean queen, he also pronounces it the same.

Pirates of the carribean is an American film, they also say it the same as we do, including Johnny Depp.

 

Go figure..

 

Another Britishism happening in the States (I assume due to the rise in popularity of British boxing) is people referring to a boxing match as "a good scrap" haha.

 

O.M.G.

 

Making landfall

Taking a knee

Calling out

 

They don't do our funny pronunciations. Once heard some American tourists on a train refer to Loughborough as Looga Barooga. I had to keep listening for furthet clues before I worked out where on earth they were referring to.

 

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British people be like "litcherally"