What are some funny Brit words?

[The Boston Dangler]

I love how they pronounce aluminum: al-u-MINI-um

Oregano is funny too: Or-e-GAN-o

aluminium is the correct spelling and pronunciation. recently american dictionaries have changed to accommodate the american mispronunciation.

oregano is inexcusable.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

aluminium is the correct spelling and pronunciation. recently american dictionaries have changed to accommodate the american mispronunciation.

Not exactly. The discoverer of aluminum originally named it "alumium" and later changed it to "aluminum." A British literary journal took offense to the spelling and deemed it "aluminium." In the US, Webster's dictionary used aluminum as early as 1828. So there really is no one "correct spelling and pronunciation." Both are correct and have been in use for quite a long time.

 

[Ronstang]

Brits like to go outside and blow a i love you every once in a while to reduce stress.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Brits like to go outside and blow a i love you every once in a while to reduce stress.

lol

 

[AeroEngy]

"Got a rubber on yah?" means something totally different over there.

Yep. In high school an attractive exchange student asked me if I had a rubber during class. I stared at her in confusion with a big grin on my face.

 

[Gibsons]

Sod off
tosser
knickers - means the same thing in 'merican, they just use it while we don't.
bollocks

 

[tcG]

Poppycock

 

[pontifex]

bollocks are also balls
never understood the boot/bonnet thing.

i love you

 

[shortylickens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4BqzHEK6o&feature=player_detailpage#t=35s


Laughed myself silly the first time I saw this bit.

 

[chowderhead]

pip pip cheerio means goodbye
Bangers and mash are sausage and mash potatoes
twat
Muppet

 

[OutHouse]

oh, my fav

Trollies = shopping carts....

 

[preslove]

Nutter = crazy person

In'it = isn't it (cockney)

 

[Ichinisan]

 

[Gibsons]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHD2VRJvPUU

 

[T_Yamamoto]

/thread
Just talked to some British people

Ask him if he remembers "action man"

Biro for ball point pen

Sellotape for tape

Blues and twos for emergency services

Bloke for guys
(He's a cool bloke=he's a cool guy)

Boiling sweet for very sweet

Bullocks for balls

Bacon Butty aka Bacon cob aka bacon sandwich

Load of cack for load of shit






Just get Hal in here and he'll help you

 

[zinfamous]

considering french fries aren't french I'm not sure your name for them is anymore apt :hmm:

fine.

then how about calling potato chips, crisps?

 

[zinfamous]

Nutter = crazy person

In'it = isn't it (cockney)

I met a guy while visiting Cannes for a week or so--this was about every 3 words out of his mouth. Good times at the bar those evenings.

 

[bononos]

My ex-boss is a Brit. I just about died laughing when he called a truck, 'lorry'. Such a cutesy hilarious name to call a big machinery.

There goes a lorry. LOL. Calling TV a telly is quite comical. Wanker is a funny insult, but it's also funny when used in proper context. If a girl said "I want you to wank for me" LOL I'd lose my boner.

What are some other funny Brit words?

Just for perspective, what are some funny American words for Brits?

Juggernaught is a cooler word for a big lorry.

 

[BladeVenom]

Cut toast is called soldiers.

 

[BrokenVisage]

colour, theatre, oranisation, dialogue...

 

[Arcadio]

Calling an elevator a "lift" is weird.

 

[Triumph]

Brits seem to use the word "fuck all" in strange context, like, "This football match is fuck all." That just sounds weird.

Rogering.

It just sounds classy, and the more you say it the nastier it sounds.

I love rogering. "Gave her a jolly good rogering, did you?"

 

[AstroManLuca]

It's funny how certain words are rude here but not there and vice versa.

An American might say that he fell on his "fanny," which, especially if it's a guy saying it, will get some looks from British folks. Meanwhile, Brits seem to use the word "cock" a whole lot more often than Americans; from how they use it it sounds like it's about as vulgar as saying "crap" but in the US, it usually means a penis.

What I don't get is, the condiment that Americans call ketchup is referred to as "tomato sauce" in the UK. So what do they call the stuff you put on top of your spaghetti? Certainly they don't put ketchup on spaghetti, that's horrible even by British cuisine standards.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

I love how they pronounce aluminum: al-u-MINI-um

Oregano is funny too: Or-e-GAN-o

Err, that's how you spell it dumbass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

 

[Zeze]

Err, that's how you spell it dumbass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

Your very link shows both.