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Cheerio!

My cousins from England are winding up their visit to lovely Las Vegas, flying to San Francisco tomorrow morning. I told Mr. Troutbend that once their plane takes off, he can no longer use certain Britishisms that he has adopted for their visit.

This includes: "peckish" meaning hungry. "I'm feeling peckish," he says as he drives towards the buffet.

"brilliant" used the same way the dim brains in this country "kewl, cool, sweet, and awesome, but not quite as often. He never uses those American platitudes of brain death because he values his life in this house, and he doesn't need to adopt one from another country.

When I told him this new vocabulary rule. He said "Bollocks, I was really looking forward to using those words."

Later he confessed to the visiting Brits that he doesn't really know what bollocks means, he just likes saying it.

posted on Nov 7, 2010 9:57 PM ()

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I have always adored using bollocks and peckish is what I have always been...Here, I find bollocks I can get away with, without eliciting a frown.

I wonder if Mr. TBends [over] use of the words “annoyed” your visitors? I know, some days I am not in the mood to hear a piss-poor imitation of g’day or hear crikey for the tenth time from this one particular nurse. She’s a good soul, so I forgive her.
comment by kjstone on Nov 10, 2010 9:45 AM ()
I think they knew he was pulling their leg a little bit. They sent us a text message saying thanks for the nice visit and all the laughs, most of which I know were at our Americanisms. Their favorite was when we simultaneously said 'nerd alert' upon spotting a bad driver on the Interstate.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:36 PM ()
We had visitors from UK, and she said "brilliant" a lot. I thought it was cool...tee hee
comment by anacoana on Nov 9, 2010 12:29 PM ()
This southwestern scenery, it's, well, words escape us... um... brilliant. Especially when it's 110 outside and not a cloud in the sky and one is standing in front of a massive solar array in the desert, gives the word a whole deeper meaning.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:38 PM ()
I had no idea that "peckish" was originally of British descent. My Mom has been saying it for as long as I can remember.

Hope you have a great visit.
comment by juliansmom on Nov 9, 2010 6:47 AM ()
I think my mother said it too, and I didn't define it as just plain hungry, to me it meant that feeling you have all day that's verging on maybe a little nauseated and maybe if you just ate something you'd feel better. But then you eat something, and that wasn't it, so you have to eat something else, and pretty soon the whole big bag of fun size candy bars is gone.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:45 PM ()
I say, a bloody good visit, what? A ripping time was had by all I trust.

reguards
yer pip pip pal
bugg
comment by honeybugg on Nov 8, 2010 4:14 PM ()
You should have heard Mr. Chatterbox. He used up his word quota for the whole month in about 3 days.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:39 PM ()
I have re-read the comments and have decided that "bollocks" is definitely being added to my vocabulary. As for when I use it, I think I'm safe for the most part down here where "dang" about covers everything.
comment by tealstar on Nov 8, 2010 1:16 PM ()
I know Mr. Tbend is probably tossing it around with great abandon when he's out and about by himself.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:42 PM ()
Yes, as said in My Fair Lady--Americans haven't spoken English in years!
comment by greatmartin on Nov 8, 2010 12:28 PM ()
That's for sure. I wondered if they struggled to sort through our accents as much as we struggled to understand what they were saying most of the time, never mind choice of words.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:41 PM ()
he sounds funny... I hope you had a great visit!
comment by kristilyn3 on Nov 8, 2010 12:07 PM ()
He's a riot when he opens his mouth. Wait'll you meet him, we'll see if he's feeling chatty or not.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:46 PM ()
You kill-joy, ha ha
comment by shesaidwhat on Nov 8, 2010 11:08 AM ()
I know! I feel a little mean, but we've got to have some rules around here.
reply by troutbend on Nov 10, 2010 10:47 PM ()
I've always like "brilliant!" As the saying goes, we and the Brits are separated by a common language.
comment by marta on Nov 8, 2010 10:01 AM ()
"Brilliant" is okay in small doses, certainly better than effing "cool" or "awesome" or "sweet" in every other sentence. I've heard whole sides of telephone conversations made entirely up of "cool" and "sweet." This was when I had a job and my neighboring cubicle dweller got into trouble with that one time because he was trying to ask questions about whether the temperature had been cooler in the mountains, but he'd already used 'cool' so many times in the wrong context whoever he was talking to didn't understand the question.
reply by troutbend on Nov 8, 2010 10:08 AM ()
I'm "chuffed" is my favorite, but you have to be a footie (soccer) nut like me to understand it.
comment by jondude on Nov 8, 2010 5:24 AM ()
you have to be careful with chuffed because "chuff" is a rude name for a women's parts or you could say "he takes it up the chuff" when describing a homosexual but chuffed means to be happy so many different meanings
reply by janeway4eva on Nov 8, 2010 2:55 PM ()
I've seen 'chuffed' in British mysteries, but not very often.
reply by troutbend on Nov 8, 2010 10:10 AM ()
I thought "peckish" meant out of sorts, easily annoyed. I used to know a lot of Brits in New York and it was their turns of phrase I enjoyed, as much as the different words. They were all journalists frequenting a bar also well known to Timesers.
comment by tealstar on Nov 8, 2010 5:02 AM ()
It means hungry or as Mr. Troutbend would have said before they came: I could eat.
reply by troutbend on Nov 8, 2010 10:04 AM ()
I am happy that Gary was that verbal. You should welcome it.
comment by elderjane on Nov 8, 2010 4:32 AM ()
Isn't that the truth! You should have seen him chattering away (for him), and I thought it was cute that he picked up those words from The Thin Blue Line.
reply by troutbend on Nov 8, 2010 10:12 AM ()
It means testicles but it is used in the context of disappointment as in "did you buy the milk" "oh Bollocks I forgot" it is very rude and you wouldnt use it in polite company.
comment by janeway4eva on Nov 8, 2010 2:57 AM ()
you wouldn't use it when the queen came for tea put it that way
reply by janeway4eva on Nov 8, 2010 2:57 PM ()
We just had a conversation about what we think 'polite company' would mean to us, and it'd be Mr. Troutbend's mother, people from Great Britain who'd know the true connotation, and anyone to whom we'd hesitate to drop the 'F' bomb.
reply by troutbend on Nov 8, 2010 10:17 AM ()
"Bollocks" I liked the sound of that one until I found out It originally meant testicles. Maybe you should inform Mr Troutbend.
comment by nittineedles on Nov 8, 2010 12:32 AM ()
He asked the cousins and they told him and he told them pendejos was the Spanish equivalent, he thinks, but he's not sure. It was a scintillating conversation. Any 'conversation' with Mr. Tbend is riveting to me because there is so little of it.
reply by troutbend on Nov 8, 2010 10:20 AM ()

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