Hi Peacock,
Sorry for not responding yesterday. I am a bit under the weather at the moment. A cold that I have valiantly been fighting off all week has finaly beaten me
I have lived in the States now for seven years ( I think). Yes seven this May. My husband is in the USAF and we first lived in Arizona before geting posted in NJ two years ago.
I miss everything about England, absolutely everything, especially my Mum and friends, although my Mum has managed to get over her to see me more often than I get to go home and see her. Saying this, the last time I was home was for the Millenium and it was fantastic and I hope to get home this summer as well.
I don't think anyone would call me Americanised....LOL! Apart from driving on the other side of the road in a left hand drive and using dollars. I tend to use all our Brit words, and have never gone through a drive thru and been understood the first time I ask for something, I usually have to repeat myself two or three times....yet I understand what they say?
Its the same for me in London Chris, whenever we order a takeaway Dave has to make the call cos they have no idea what I am talking about. The kids often ask which country I am from!!
(Not that we have many takeaways these days
Hope you are alright now Chris. I just thought I would repost as I meant to do it as a new thread anyway but I do this at work and my Boss keeps whizzing out of his door and into my office so I have to be quick - hence any typos you might find in my posts -I do not have the time to edit them!
TQ, are you from the other side of the pond then? If so where and how long have you been here? What do you like/dislike most about this little Island (this is for both of you - go on I won't be hurt!) I am so nosey......
@ Chris..boy..you hit the nail on the head..if i had a dollar for everytime someone has gawked at me when i open my mouth i have to talk really s-l-o-w otherwise i am doomed i once went in the store and asked for sellotape..the kid did'nt have a clue..i explained what it was and he said "oh..you mean scotch tape" Or i am asked if i'm Irish or Australian
but I am from up the M1 !! I am from Yorkshire and have lived here 9 years this month. I would love to move back, I do visit very often though. I married a Londoner and there isn't a lot of work where I come from so I was the one who got a job first and I had to move to be with my husband.
I really miss my family and friends, It is hard here to make new friends but slowly I feel as if I am getting there.
I was born in Perivale and lived in Southall, West London for my first 9 years. Have no idea where Enfield is though ?????
At first my family struggled to understand Ray and now Dad has lost his hearing his misses a lot of what Ray says. One of cousins came up from Brimingham and her and Ray couldn't understand each other at all, so we had an interesting evening with them only saying "ying yang" to each other, only thing they could understand each other say !!!!!
I am cracking up here, starting to feel better now too although a bit light headed...maybe the meds.
I'm so glad to hear that even in our own country people have trouble understanding one another, I really thought it was just typical of here. I figured out years ago after talking to people who looked at me intently, but really didn't know what I was on about, that they just listen to my accent, not to what I actually am saying.
Hannah doesn't like tomatoes on her burgers so if we do go through a drive through or even into a fast food place and I order for her, I won't ask them to take the tomatoes off, as I hate trying to even say it the way it's said here, it just sounds stupid coming out of my gob, so I just tell Hannah she can take off what she doesn't like....and as she's getting older now, I make her order for herself too
I once asked where the bathrooms were in a big shop (Target) and thought I'd have no problem communicating as I had used the American term, and the lady procceded to take me to where all the bathroom accessories were and so I told her I wanted the toilet, and she told me they don't sell toilets there, but I could go to Home Depot ( like a DIY shop) to get one. Me and my friend were nearly hysterical and wetting ourselves by this time, luckily my friend thought to use the term, 'restroom'. And then we finally got directions
this thread is so funny Chris...i once asked where the "Ladies" was in a club and the bouncer looked at me like (what? ) then i said 'bathroom'? 'washroom'? 'restroom'? before i got a reply..he was still looking at me funny when i left next time you go for a burger say "hold the tom ate toes" not tom art toes
TQ - sorry I thought you meant you lived across the pond! I am living in Fulham and have always been a Southerner (apart from a trip to Derbyshire to see a friend who now lives in Canada!).
I always laugh when Americans say Bathroom or restroom for loo. Do they sit and relax (for more than necessary) on the loo, and do they take their plastic ducks with them?!!
Smiling Sal I think Enfield is in Middlesex - at least the one I know is (or have they changed the boundaries again ?).
Cat90 - you'd have fun buying sellotape in Australia _I think I am right that there is a brand called ...Durex!!!
I work in an elementary school and have all my co-worker's in hysterics every time I ask for a rubber (to rub the kids work out), as they call this an eraser.....my friend went into a shop at the begining of the school year a few years back and asked someone if they had any rainbow coloured rubbers as her elementary age kids needed them for school....should have seen the look she got!
think Middlesex got dumped when London became Greater London.Enfield is now known as London Borough of Enfield but I believe there is a Middlesex preservation society!!
We live in' Norf Landan' as they say round here
Repost for BritinNJ
i once went in the store and asked for sellotape..the kid did'nt have a clue..i explained what it was and he said "oh..you mean scotch tape" 
I am not from over the pond.....
) then i said 'bathroom'? 'washroom'? 'restroom'? before i got a reply..he was still looking at me funny when i left 
