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  1. marlingardener

    marlingardener Happy

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    In England, "booster shot" is spelled Borchestershire shot.
     
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    So when I vacation there I should ask for wooster sauce on my steak?
     
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    In English, the Australian, "Twenny fluey dancers,"

    is " a pint."
     
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    Better stick with A-1,, its easier to spell !
     
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    In England, nobody will serve you lunch with a napkin

    I think in England they spell it V-1.

    I will see myself out now....
     
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    Oh No ! My steak would be crying at that one ! A steak without A-1 is just meat !
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I am probably one of the few who doesn't like any kind of sauce on beef or pork...actually I do not care for beef or pork.
     
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    On trips to South America I discovered how wildly different beef and pork could be from my experience to date.
     
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    Do UK websites use biscuits instead of cookies?
     
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    Digressing.

    As a kid I was taught this rhyme phoenetically.

    I was an adult before I knew the actual words. I think they are quite clever.

    Mares eat oates and does eat oats
    and little lambs eat ivy.
    A kid'll eat ivy too,
    wouldn't you?

    History.

    Milton Drake, one of the writers, said the song had been based on an English nursery rhyme According to this story, Drake's four-year-old daughter came home singing, "Cowzy tweet and sowzy tweet and liddle sharksy doisters."(Cows eat wheat and sows eat wheat and little sharks eat oysters.)

    Drake joined Hoffman and Livingston to come up with a tune for the new version of the rhyme, but for a year no one was willing to publish a "silly song". Finally, Hoffman pitched it to his friend Al Trace bandleader of the Silly Symphonists. Trace liked the song and recorded it. It became a huge hit, most notably with the Merry Macs' 1944 recording.

     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I learned that before I started school in the very early 50's, my Mom taught it to me.
     
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    I'm having a heck of a job understanding all this foreign language on this thread. Maybe I should clear biscuits on my puter.:confused:
     
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    In England, we know how to pronounce the word "Buoy" :p
     
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    Most people in England can't pronounce "David Bowie" :eek:
     
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