The funniest thing about living here and being able to get to know the girls from England (and having my son go to a traditional "English" school and Pajha in a school full of all different cultures) is some of the new words we have all learned! Here are a few of them....
- Rubber. Peyton came home from school one day and we were doing his homework, he asked me for a rubber. Excuse me... a WHAT? "Mom, I need a rubber"... I remember feeling so confused... and worried, what on earth is he talking about? An eraser... Phew! He still calls them rubbers. I need to work on that before we move back to the states.
- Pants. What we call pants to them are underwear, or panties.
- Trump, or Pump... that is what we would call having gas...
- Dust bin or rubbish... that is a garbage can. Pajha calls it a dust bin. For the longest time I had no clue what she was talking about because the way she says it sounds like daspin.
- A "Mummy" is not a corpse wrapped in cloth... it's me... I see the resemblance at times
- When you order a chicken fillet or fish fillet, they don't pronounce it as we do (fill-ay)... they say it just as it sounds (fill-et). I've wondered why no one understood what I was asking for. Go ahead try saying it chicken fill-et... wierd huh? I still can't do it, just doesn't feel right!
- Aluminum foil... they say it Aluminium (Al-oo-min-i-um). Strange!
- Bonnet... no it isn't a hat they wore back in the days. That is the hood of your car!
- And finally Boot.... nope not the ones you wear on your feet but a boot is the trunk of the car!
I am sure there are many more but these are some of my favorite to debate with my friends!
3 comments:
I love your "corpse" comment! I totally feel like that today. Whenever I watch the Wiggles' older DVDs they make me laugh because of the words they use. They say aluminum the same way!!
You make me smile! I love hearing all the fun things you do, see, say...I use to be envious, but now I just take it as a blessing and so grateful that your life has led you to such great things and we get to "share" in a way your life! It will be so fun to have you home - I'm afraid we will be boring after a while - but then again - life here is anything but boring - just a whole different type of "EXCITEMENT!" Thanks for sharing all your blessings with us - we love it! I've missed you online....where ya been? Well, I hope to catch ya soon - have a great DAY! - oh - I mean EVENING to you!
LOVE YA!
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What a fun list to read. It must be so much fun to live in another country and experience a different culture. Have your kids become accustomed to the accent there?
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