- I still love the "FANNY FARMER CHOCOLATES" i use to buy when i lived on the east coast. When i sent some to my mum she was mortified!! - Leah
- I haven't heard the acrosst thing here, but I know someone who says 'ideal' instead of 'idea' and it makes me CRAZY!!! I also can't stand 'expecially', I hear that a lot. And something funny I noticed is that all my friends from the Tennessee/Kentucky part of the world seem to say 'whenever' instead 'when'. As in, "Do you want me to get you some milk whenever I go to the store?" Weird. - Rene'
- My fave southern saying is FIXIN. As in, "I'm fixin' to smack you upside the head!" - Rene'
- What I have noticed (and I have only been here for a couple of months) is that I don't feel like I am living with people that have an accent anymore. TV, conversations on buses, shops, etc all sound normal to my ear now. Although Toosday and Toona still sound foreign to me. Oh and erbs. Okay and so does Marzda, Tiyota...hmmm, maybe I am not as acclimatised as I thought I was. - Pauline
- After learning that here in the USA, you need to drop the letter "u" from pretty much anything you need to spell, and that you're hard-pushed to find words that end in "re" (ie. centre, litre etc), I learn today, courtesy of my oldest daughters 4th grade teacher, that tyre is in fact spelt "tire"! - Jo
- What about "hour"? I don't know of anyone who says a how-er. I still haven't got used to 'erb instead of herb. - Neale
- There should be a disclaimer on all student visas with the rubber/eraser warning on it! - Rene'
- "it was a great, honking one" - Annalisa
- I like "Yikes" and "Critters" and "Varmint". Also, in the south here, there is a saying to "smack someone upside the head" - Rose
- "Going postal" - meaning that someone was as mental as an employee for the postal service - Sandra
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