[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Help on britspeak?

[Denise R]

Now, here in Ohio, all things in a can (ginger ale aka CANADA DRY RULES!;
purple, orange; red; brown aka icky coke, Pepsi, etc...; and rootbeer) are


POP!

:)

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----- Original Message -----
From: <catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:06 AM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Help on britspeak?


> Seeing as no one else has stepped in...
> We would indeed say patio (but not outdoor patio, as a patio is, as
> far as the English are concerned, outside), but instead of grill,
> would probably use barbacue (even tho' it is still a grill, I
> suppose).
>
> Most English people would call the brown fizzy stuff coke, regardless
> of whether it is coca cola, pepsi, whatever, (a bit like Hoover v.
> vacuum cleaner) although a few may say cola and oldfashioned people
> may say pop, but this is more generic.
>
> Most cocktails translate as is, including all the ones you mentioned.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Catherine
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., lrcjestes at e... wrote:
> > Hello...I posted this a few days ago, but no one has stepped up to
> > the plate...Neil?  John? Dai? where are you?
> >
> > Thought I'd post it one more time...as my 2 yo says...hep hep
> > (meaning help, help)
> >
> > Thanks for nay insight...
> >
> > carole
> >
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., lrcjestes at e... wrote:
> > > OK I need some brit-speak assisstance.
> > >
> > > I'm describing cooking steaks on a grill on an outdoor patio.
> > Would
> > > you use differnt words than grill and patio if you lived in great
> > > britain?
> > >
> > > Also what is the vernacular for coke, soda, pop...whatever you
> call
> > > that brown fizzy drink?
> > >
> > > Finally I need common tropical drink...marguerita? Daquiri?  Mai
> > tai?
> > > Something you'd associate with longing on a beach somewhere.
> > >
> > > Thank you for any help...
> > >
> > > carole
>
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