OT: British English help!

[Doreen Rich]

No: HPFGUIDX 12089




--- In HPforGrownups at y..., andeinmn at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/11/01 2:10:47 AM Central Standard Time, 
> doreen_iowa at y... writes:
> 
> > Hi 
> >   
> >  I am new to this kind of group.. so I don't know if I am doing 
this 
> >  correctly. I see that you got your answer to the "revisions" 
> >  question. If anyone has any other "British terms", feel free to 
email 
> >  me, as I do have a very kind British friend, who supplies me 
with 
> >  definitions for such terms as "plus fours", "treacle", 
and "tripe".
> >  
> >  I am in the middle of reading "The Goblet of Fire", having just 
read 
> >  the other three books in about six days. As soon as I finish 
that, I 
> >  will get busy on the British terms list to send to the lexicon 
> >  website.
> >  
> >  My email address is nera at r... 
> >  
> >  Doreen from Iowa
> >  
>  
> Hi Doreen and welcome from your neighbor to the north.  Hope you 
have fun 
> here and I am looking forward to seeing your list on the Lexicon.
> 
> Andrea

Thank you, Andrea. I have found a great partner in my endeavor. I get 
to do the easy part... supplying him with Strictly British words or 
phrases that we "foreigners" do not use in our every day speech. He 
and his friends are then going to be kind enough to supply the 
Strictly British definitions of these words or phrases, not so much 
as they might appear in a dictionary, (I have looked some up) but 
rather how they are used in UK every day speech. A much more 
interesting way of approaching it, I think. His name is Neil Ward and 
you probably know him all ready.

When Neil offered his help, I could not put it off, but started 
sending him stuff from SS. We decided to start at the beginning and 
go from book to book, with a few exceptions. 

Doreen aka Ms_Lagmuggle