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Try "apt." Joel Send a noteboard - 27/10/2012 04:13:18 PM
Thing is, I usually don't even realize I've said it. It'll be when my friends just stare at me or otherwise react that I realize I'd used "bloody" or something (but, I probably get that as much from WoT as anything else, since I've been reading the danged series for 20 years or so (half my life!).

Yeah, that is special case for WoT fans; it can easily slip into language unintentionally.

And calling it a flat is so much easier and quicker than saying apartment. BLAH! I hate typing that word too. I think I actually started using flat in text messages and IMs before I was saying it.

See subject line. ;)

Posh? I just like the word. I don't actually say it out loud often if at all, but it gets used by my stream of consciousness voice most of us have.

I never thought of that as an exclusively British word, so no biggy.
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Do us Yanks use too many British terms? imlad - 24/10/2012 03:28:53 AM 833 Views
I use very few of those terms and thankfully, I'm not a "Yank" or "Yankee" Larry - 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM 626 Views
I use "bloody" because I've read WoT for years. Dannymac - 24/10/2012 04:41:31 AM 609 Views
Gorram Ahm'Merkins *NM* Praziquantel - 26/10/2012 06:56:17 PM 258 Views
Soccer terms and lack of subject-verb agreement are the worst that I notice. Narg - 24/10/2012 05:25:18 AM 693 Views
It' called football. You silly americans and your handegg! *NM* Bergioyn - 24/10/2012 07:32:47 AM 325 Views
There is no disputing that our use of the word football is total nonsense *NM* Narg - 24/10/2012 07:48:46 AM 289 Views
I may be wrong, but I believe it's called a football because it's 12-inches long. Gher - 25/10/2012 07:15:28 PM 659 Views
Using a non-Metric system of measurement is total nonsense. Bergioyn - 25/10/2012 07:51:27 PM 578 Views
How can you say that?! Gher - 25/10/2012 08:40:20 PM 641 Views
I'm an evil European. Bergioyn - 26/10/2012 04:20:57 PM 647 Views
I don't think so. Has to do with its historical origins in rugby football. *NM* Legolas - 25/10/2012 09:17:20 PM 250 Views
Regulation balls are shorter than that, and "gridiron" is an unambiguous international term. Joel - 26/10/2012 11:41:18 PM 567 Views
Re: Soccer terms and lack of subject-verb agreement are the worst that I notice. Stephen - 24/10/2012 08:22:37 AM 575 Views
Bad example. Sheep is both a singular and plural noun. *NM* Narg - 24/10/2012 02:47:34 PM 248 Views
That may be the problem. Joel - 27/10/2012 12:00:49 AM 572 Views
ever since I was a kid, it was a soccer pitch imlad - 25/10/2012 06:17:38 PM 583 Views
You all need to include some Irish-isms into your daily speech. Stephen - 24/10/2012 08:26:30 AM 655 Views
One British term I agree is horrid when said by Americans imlad - 25/10/2012 06:20:54 PM 643 Views
I think it's a minor issue for anyone to get rile3d about... vandevere - 26/10/2012 01:10:25 AM 622 Views
Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal. Joel - 27/10/2012 12:10:52 AM 586 Views
Re: Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal. imlad - 27/10/2012 04:24:26 AM 670 Views
Try "apt." Joel - 27/10/2012 04:13:18 PM 584 Views
always hated the letters "pt" together in that order imlad - 28/10/2012 04:44:29 AM 568 Views
Having enough neuroses of my own, I will not be accountable for yours. Joel - 28/10/2012 01:55:44 PM 613 Views
Can't happen fast enough. Tim - 29/10/2012 09:07:34 PM 587 Views
I picked up a lot of Britishisms from Ian Anderson Panorphaeon - 05/11/2012 05:00:50 PM 719 Views
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