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So you've had 300 years to change the pronounciation
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You mean like Arkansas and Tuscan?.
*Not sure if being sarcastic*
Worse than "deplane?" Every time I hear that come over the intercom on an airplane (that's an aircraft or aeroplane to you blokes) I feel a little sick, and I've lived here my whole life.
Of course, I guess we could create a new thread chock full of stupid things they say on planes.
IOne thing that really bugs me is spaghetti sauce, it's called pasta sauce, spaghetti is a dish you make with it.
Mike RotchCatsup anyone?
i.e. tomato sauce.
"...One thing that really bugs me is spaghetti sauce...it's called pasta sauce...spaghetti is a dish you make with it.
I don't know about you, but I USE spaghetti sauce when I'm cooking WITH spaghetti pasta..aka "long noodles"...
When I cook a creamy fettuccine (Ribbon Cut Noodle) carbonara, I'll use a nice Alfredo sauce.
Likewise, if I'm making Lasagne, then I use a 'white sauce'...
Thus, as you can see, all these dishes are made using various types of pasta noodles, but not all the pasta dishes use a generic 'pasta sauce'.
You'd love it over here. Apart from the ones Famine mentioned earlier, I give you...We've got issues here too, absolutely. Bugs me to no end. Illinois makes no sense.
No, you are using a red pasta sauce.
Why not call it fettuccine sauce?
(Oddly enough, someone has asked me for "fettuccine sauce" at the store I work at, scarily it was for the school orders we fill, those orders are written by home economics teachers)
Why not Lasagne sauce?
Thanks for proving my point while trying to prove me wrong though.
Never said there was only one type.
Spaghetti = A dish made with a red pasta sauce.
Crisis in... England
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Explain?
Um, well I'm pretty sure that definition of the word was first coined on Top Gear. I never heard it used that way before Clarkson mentioned it on one of the TG episodes a while back.
Um, well I'm pretty sure that definition of the word was first coined on Top Gear. I never heard it used that way before Clarkson mentioned it on one of the TG episodes a while back.
Well that's where I heard it first. Pretty sure I heard it somewhere else too.
Top Gear is my portal into the UK.![]()
It's not a TGism. Nor is it a Britishism. It's a "romance novelism".
Well then I guess you won't be too surprised to find that I don't read those sort of novels![]()
Essentially, there's an entire class of novels read by middle-aged housewives that are basically about some people having sex with each other. For reasons of frequency, padding and audience they can't just say it up straight, they have to use a series of euphemisms.
MikeTheHockeyFanA few I can think of:
Those little coloured sprinkles you put on donuts, cakes, and other confections are called "Jimmies" in certain parts of the U.S. Weird.
A "hoagie" is what some of the northeastern U.S. calls a submarine sandwich.
I remember visiting the UK as a kid and being slightly alarmed when my under-10 brain didn't know that a torch was a flashlight. One of my cousins suggested we all go grab some torches and take them up to the treehouse.
^We call them 'Hundreds and Thousands' (???)
I have really started to hate the use of the word 'Someplace'.
IT IS SOMEWHERE!!
A few I can think of:
Those little coloured sprinkles you put on donuts, cakes, and other confections are called "Jimmies" in certain parts of the U.S. Weird.