Tuesday 21 September 2010

The Best of British

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The Very Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British...


Aggro -
Short for aggravation, it's the sort of thing you might expect at a football match. In other words - trouble! There is sometimes aggro in the cities after the pubs shut!


All right? -
This is used a lot around London and the south to mean, "Hello, how are you"? You would say it to a complete stranger or someone you knew. The normal response would be for them to say "All right"? back to you. It is said as a question. Sometimes it might get expanded to "all right mate"? Mostly used by blue collar workers but also common among younger people.


Anti-clockwise -
The first time I said that something had gone anti-clockwise to someone in Texas I got this very funny look. It simply means counter-clockwise but must sound really strange to you chaps! I think he thought I had something against clocks!


Any road -
Up north (where they talk funny!!) instead of saying anyway, they say "any road"! Weird huh?

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