Now that I'm riding a Triumph, I'm having to learn a new language, and I thought I already spoke English. Ok, it's southern English, as in y'all, yonder, (over there..), you'ins, ( a group of folks,), But now I'm learning that a windshield is really a fly screen, my saddlebags are pillions, my speedometer is an instrument cluster, and, instead of "gassing up" I'm adding petrol! Good grief!!! I made a new friend here in Gawga, who hailed from Oldham, in Lancashire. Harry, who can't pronounce "H", was looking for plimsolls, and I told him we don't have those over here. Found out he was lookin' for some tennis shoes! Then, he was gonna put them in the "boot" of his car, and I suggested he put them in the trunk. One night, he suggested we go out "trapping birds" at a local pub, and I explained we don't have any pubs, just bars, and while hunting was great in Georgia, we probably want to do it outside, perhaps in a field? Imagine my surprise when I found he meant picking up girls!!!! I just found out a spanner was a wrench, and I'm still trying to figure out what a right wanker is.I think it's a bike tool? Thank the Good Lord I didn't buy a jap bike! Arigato might get ya in a fight here in the mountains!!!!
Almost there with this new language bud but saddlebags are panniers as you say so many variations, we'll see you right though
Hi and welcome - we're all happy as Larry to see you in here, or even in fact pigs in muck. Some words are indeed a very different kettle of fish depending upon which side of the pond you're on and it's easy to go barking up the wrong tree as your conversations with Harry have demonstrated. Hopefully your Triumph will blow your socks off.
Come on @Glenn2926 ....... Eyup si they ars tha do in ol cocker? Ove t'ill n darn ginnel thas a reet bird ont end o that road.
Yes...We all speak some form of English. We just have to learn to understand each other. Whatever it takes to "git-er-done". ...J.D.
Alright Mongoose, you seem like a decent enough Geezer and will fit in well with this bunch of Nobends
Local dialects and rhyming slang can vary so much even the natives can struggle! I came across this on the net recently which I found interesting. Not sure how much of this observation of the "British People" still applies to the modern generation. https://flashbak.com/1942-extracts-...ons-for-american-servicemen-in-britain-14231/ Despite our cultural differences and the fact you all drive on the wrong side if the road over there, I think we still have much in common. Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum from another American, @Mongoose. I hail from Arizona so even we speak a different form of English! As you've already discovered, there is much to learn here above and beyond things about Triumph motorcycles. I hope you become an active part of our international "family". BTW, what Triumph are you now riding? Perhaps you've mentioned that elsewhere but we love to know what fellow forum members ride...and to see pictures of their bikes, too!