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gomerels

a chuisle

ceud mile failte

Now for Gordon Ramsey. I got the :censored: "F" word. :o ;)

However, there were a few last night in the show that I had to write down.

carrier bag

go pear shaped

beans on toast

posh toddy

cotton wool? what is this?

What's up with Essex? The guys on there seemed to have a bit of an attitude about it.

Thanks, sister chickies.

Can't answer all of them - don't understand the first few

Carrier bag - plastic bag with handles that you get from the supermarket to put your groceries in. You use paper bags I think without handles

Cotton wool - Um, fluffy white stuff you use to, inter alia, take off make up, apply calomine lotion, that sort of thing

Beans on toast. Do you know what baked beans are? heinz 57? anyway they're beans in tomato sauce commonly poured over toast - yummy

Go pear shaped - go wrong

Are you sure it wasn't posh totty?

What's up with Essex? I am so not going to attempt that one - I'm new and don't want to get slung off the board. :)

Originally Posted by Doughnut:
Cotton wool - Um, fluffy white stuff you use to, inter alia, take off make up, apply calomine lotion, that sort of thing OK. We call them cotton balls

Beans on toast. Do you know what baked beans are? heinz 57? anyway they're beans in tomato sauce commonly poured over toast - yummy Not exactly Adkins, is it?

Go pear shaped - go wrong

Are you sure it wasn't posh totty? Probably. However, like Lucy, I'm an American. I don't speak "English" :lol3:

What's up with Essex? I am so not going to attempt that one - I'm new and don't want to get slung off the board. :) Now you've got me scared. I don't want to start some sort of war on here.

Now add "inter alia" to that list.

inter alia - among other things, it's latin.

How do you do that copying from another post? I wanted to copy the I'm American I don't speak English bit :) Shouldn't worry about it - most English people barely speak it.

Gomerels is really annoying me - know I know it.

Sorry about the Latin - i swear I don't speak like that but I'm obviously still in work mode.

Still letting someone else come in on the Essex thing :D

Isn't cead meal falite gaelic for "you are welcome"...I have no idea if thats right or not but it rings a bell.

Originally Posted by Doughnut:
How do you do that copying from another post? I wanted to copy the I'm American I don't speak English bit :) Shouldn't worry about it - most English people barely speak it.

Gomerels is really annoying me - know I know it.

Sorry about the Latin - i swear I don't speak like that but I'm obviously still in work mode.

Still letting someone else come in on the Essex thing :D

To copy with the quote, just look at the bottom of where you are reading. There is a little "Quote" button there.

The first 3 lines are Gaelic.

[QUOTE=cbmare;1534422]To copy with the quote, just look at the bottom of where you are reading. There is a little "Quote" button there.

Excellent - cheers!

Ceud mile failte is Scottish Gaelic for 'a hundred thousand welcomes'. A chuisle is Irish Gaelic, something to do with love, 'my love' or 'my darling' or something like that. Where on earth did you hear these??!
I'm not sure if you're still confused about the posh totty bit, but that's someone who is hot but kinda posh, like Kate Winslet or Nigella Lawson (hope I haven't just listed people you haven't heard of!)

[QUOTE=Doughnut;1534438]

Originally Posted by cbmare:
To copy with the quote, just look at the bottom of where you are reading. There is a little "Quote" button there.

Excellent - cheers!

And who says you can't teach an old Doughnut new tricks? ;)

Originally Posted by wana wear a bikini:
Ceud mile failte is Scottish Gaelic for 'a hundred thousand welcomes'. A chuisle is Irish Gaelic, something to do with love, 'my love' or 'my darling' or something like that. Where on earth did you hear these??!
I'm not sure if you're still confused about the posh totty bit, but that's someone who is hot but kinda posh, like Kate Winslet or Nigella Lawson (hope I haven't just listed people you haven't heard of!)

Thanks!!!!

I'm reading the last book in the Outlander series.

Posh totty makes sense now.

So, how do you pronounce that?

From the Irish rep :-)

cead mile failte - Irish for welcome (note, not for 'you're welcome'/thanks but welcome to my house/greetings). exact translation = a hundred thousand welcomes.
Mo cuishle - My darling (frequently heard in film 'Million Dollar Baby')

Can't figure out the first one...maybe the spelling is incorrect?

Originally Posted by :
carrier bag

go pear shaped

beans on toast

posh toddy

cotton wool? what is this?

What's up with Essex? The guys on there seemed to have a bit of an attitude about it.

Ooh I love these, being a former student of English Lang. And also having lvied in the US and been stumped by their words, too, so know how you feel.

First of all *Inter alia* is simply Latin for *between all* (everyone). So a letter/email you copy to everyone involved - goes inter alia.

Go pear shaped is go wrong.

Beans on toast is a British delicacy - baked beans on toast. (Canned beans but they're not at all like the ones you have in the US - your's are brown things, right?) I'm guessing Gordon would use it as an example of really crap food that even a moron could make.

Posh toddy - you'll have misheard him. Posh totty - means a posh sort of tarty woman, usually youngish. Quite derogatory.

Cotton wool is those fluffy balls of cotton in the tops of tablet bottles. Forget what you call them... lint?

As for Essex - it's a bit of a joke nationally. County to the East of London. Many Brits think of Essex girls as wearing no tights and white stilettos, being over made-up, and..er...thick. Essex Boys are football hooligans - have backwards baseball caps, type thing and again, a bit thick. Wear lots of bling bling and tacky designer clothes like Burberry. And fancy themselves. My ex was an Essex boy - and it's all true.

Gomerel is a fool... (Scottish)

And here's some cotton wool...

and here's gomerel ...............
Pronunciation: (gom'ur-ul),
—n. Scot. and North Eng.
a fool. Also,gom'er•al,gom'er•il.