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pe Hallo kroket! Mike De Decker vermorzelt Michael Smith en treft Luke Littler in Grand Slam of Darts - Gazet van Antwerpen By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:28:38 GMT Hallo kroket! Mike De Decker vermorzelt Michael Smith en treft Luke Littler in Grand Slam of Darts Gazet van AntwerpenSterke Van den Bergh en De Decker stoten door in Grand Slam of Darts, onverwachte exit Van Gerwen sporza.beVIDEO. Hallo kroket! Mike De Decker vermorzelt Michael Smith en treft Luke Littler in 1/8ste finale Grand Slam of Darts Het NieuwsbladVIDEO. Dimitri Van den Bergh flitst naar 1/8ste finales Grand Slam of Darts, met dank aan een muntje: “Ik ga iets uit mijn achterzak pakken...” Gazet van AntwerpenMike De Decker bij laatste 16 op Grand Slam of Darts RTV Full Article
pe Peter Vandenbempt neemt praktijk op de korrel die steeds meer aan populariteit wint: "Gewoon geel geven, en een paar keer na elkaar" - Voetbalkrant.com By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:40:00 GMT Peter Vandenbempt neemt praktijk op de korrel die steeds meer aan populariteit wint: "Gewoon geel geven, en een paar keer na elkaar" Voetbalkrant.com"Je lacht gewoon iedereen uit": Peter Vandenbempt hekelt "blessures bij doelmannen" en komt met oplossing sporza.beDelanghe onder vuur na acteren tegen RSC Anderlecht: “Lacht iedereen uit” VoetbalPrimeur.beAlle middelen zijn goed: de 'gouden' truc die Cercle Brugge toepaste tegen RSC Anderlecht krijgt (voorlopig) geen staartje Voetbalkrant.comLoopje met de sportiviteit, Delanghe faket blessure tegen Anderlecht VoetbalPrimeur.be Full Article
pe Heeft nieuwe eigenaar van SK Deinze centen? Spelers zijn ongerust en verschenen niet op het oefenveld - Het Laatste Nieuws By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:21:00 GMT Heeft nieuwe eigenaar van SK Deinze centen? Spelers zijn ongerust en verschenen niet op het oefenveld Het Laatste NieuwsValse (door)start in Deinze: club krijgt puntenaftrek en ontkent "staking" van de spelers sporza.beSpelers Deinze staken omdat nieuwe overnemer niet betaalt, puntenaftrek dreigt Het Laatste NieuwsEven hol als hoopvol: het overnamedossier van Deinze doorgelicht De StandaardDeinze reageert misnoegd na puntenaftrek en is scherp voor media: “Fake news om de club te destabiliseren” Het Nieuwsblad Full Article
pe Thomas uit ‘Blind getrouwd’ over de klik met Karlien: “Ik ben nu eenmaal geen doorsnee persoon” - Het Laatste Nieuws By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT Thomas uit ‘Blind getrouwd’ over de klik met Karlien: “Ik ben nu eenmaal geen doorsnee persoon” Het Laatste Nieuws Full Article
pe ‘Sexiest man alive’ is... alweer niet zo sexy: John Krasinski pronkt op cover van ‘People’ - Het Laatste Nieuws By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:00:16 GMT ‘Sexiest man alive’ is... alweer niet zo sexy: John Krasinski pronkt op cover van ‘People’ Het Laatste NieuwsActeur John Krasinski is volgens People meest sexy man ter wereld NU.nlJohn Krasinski uitgeroepen tot meest sexy man op aarde Het Nieuwsblad Full Article
pe “‘Dr. Vogel’ was geen dokter”: expert over zin en onzin van homeopathie en kruidengeneeskunde - Het Laatste Nieuws By news.google.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:00:00 GMT “‘Dr. Vogel’ was geen dokter”: expert over zin en onzin van homeopathie en kruidengeneeskunde Het Laatste Nieuws Full Article
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pe Man die slapende dakloze in Rotterdam ernstig verwondde met steen mogelijk aangehouden in Franse stad Toulon - VRT.be By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:25:27 GMT Man die slapende dakloze in Rotterdam ernstig verwondde met steen mogelijk aangehouden in Franse stad Toulon VRT.beMan die zware tegel op hoofd van slapende dakloze gooide mogelijk gearresteerd in Frankrijk Het Laatste NieuwsVerdachte (32) van aanval met betonblok op slapende dakloze in Rotterdam opgepakt in Franse stad Toulon Het NieuwsbladPoging moord op slapende, dakloze man Opsporing VerzochtArrestatie in Frankrijk na dood dakloze, link met Rotterdamse zaak onderzocht NOS Full Article
pe Overleden vrouw aangetroffen op oprit van woning in Zwijndrecht, parket opent onderzoek - VRT.be By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:02:08 GMT Overleden vrouw aangetroffen op oprit van woning in Zwijndrecht, parket opent onderzoek VRT.beVrouw vermoord op oprit van woning in Zwijndrecht bij Antwerpen: schedel van slachtoffer werd ingeslagen Het Laatste NieuwsVrouw dood aangetroffen op oprit van een woning in Zwijndrecht, parket start onderzoek naar gewelddadig overlijden Het NieuwsbladVermoorde vrouw aangetroffen voor woning in Zwijndrecht: parket start onderzoek Gazet van AntwerpenLevenloos lichaam van vrouw gevonden op oprit van woning in Zwijndrecht: schedel van slachtoffer werd ingeslagen Het Laatste Nieuws Full Article
pe Petra De Sutter is geen kandidaat-voorzitter Groen: "Partij heeft nu iemand nodig die tanden laat zien" - VRT.be By news.google.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:25:41 GMT Petra De Sutter is geen kandidaat-voorzitter Groen: "Partij heeft nu iemand nodig die tanden laat zien" VRT.bePetra De Sutter geen kandidaat-voorzitter voor Groen - Musk gaat onder Trump ministerie voor ‘overheidsefficiëntie’ leiden De Standaard“Andere partijen zijn geoliede machines, wij vergaderen ons dood”: Groen snakt naar nieuwe voorzitter en heeft topfavoriet, maar wil Petra De Sutter ook? Het NieuwsbladNeen, Petra De Sutter wordt geen voorzitter van Groen. In dit interview legt ze uit waarom De Morgen Full Article
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pe what 'polite' means: Culpeper, O'Driscoll & Hardaker (2019) By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:20:00 +0000 I've studied the word please off and on for a few years now.* Currently, I'm trying to finish up a study that I started an embarrassing number of years ago. Now that I've returned to it, I have the pleasure of reading all the works that have been published on related topics in the meantime. They couldn't inform my study design, but they must now inform the paper I hope to publish. One of these is a chapter by Jonathan Culpeper, Jim O'Driscoll and Claire Hardaker: "Notions of Politeness in Britain and North America," published in the book in From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness, edited by Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Cambridge UP, 2019). Their question, what does polite mean in the UK and US, was a research project on my to-do list. When I was a younger scholar, I'd have been (a) royally annoyed with those authors for getting to it first, (b) sad, sad, sad that I didn't get to do a fun piece of research, and (c) consumed with self-loathing for not being quick enough to do the project myself. It is both the blessing and curse of middle age that I now look at anything anyone else has done with gratitude. Good! Now I don't have to do it! Let's start with why it's interesting to ask about "notions of politeness" in the two countries. Here's a clue from an earlier post about use of please when ordering at restaurants. I asked:So, how can it be that Americans think of themselves as polite when they fail to extend this common courtesy word?I argued that Americans (subconsciously) find the lack of please in these contexts "more polite." In the comments section for that post, some people—mostly British people—could just not accept that a food order without a please could be described as polite. To them, to be polite includes saying please. If you're not using the word please, it's just not polite. Now, part of the reason for that disagreement is that I was using the word polite in linguistic-theory-laden ways. The distinction between how the word politeness is used in linguistic discussions and how it's used in everyday life has become such a problem for us linguists that we now talk about polite1 and polite2 to distinguish commonplace understandings of polite (1) from our theoretical uses (2). The failures of communication in my previous blogpost probably stemmed from having three understandings of politeness at play: the linguist's polite2, American polite1, and British polite1. Postcard from the How to be British series Culpeper et al. set out to contrast British and American polite1. They point out that academic research on the topic of British/American politeness is "full of stereotypes that have largely gone unexamined." These stereotypes hold that British culture favo(u)rs maintaining social distance by using indirectness and avoidance in interaction, while Americans are more interested in creating interactional intimacy by being informal and open. The authors asked: how do AmE and BrE speakers use the word polite? If differences exist, then do they conform to the stereotypes, or do they tell us something new? To investigate this, the authors used two sets of data.Part 1: clustering 'polite' words in the OECFirst, they searched the Oxford English Corpus, where they found thousands of instances of polite. In AmE, it occurs 6.8 times and in BrE 8.8 times per million words. They then used corpus-linguistic tools to determine which words polite was most likely to co-occur with in the two countries' data. They then used statistical tools to group these collocates into clusters that reflect how they behave linguistically. (I'll skip over the detail of the statistical methods they use, but it suffices to say: they know what they're doing.) For example in the British data, words like courteous, considerate, and respectful form a courteous cluster, while words like cheery, optimistic, and upbeat are in the cheerful cluster. The British and American datasets were similar in that polite co-occurred at similar rates with words that formed cheerful and friendly clusters. This seems to go with the common stereotype of American politeness as outgoing and inclusive, but contradicts the British stereotype of reserved behavio(u)r. The most notable difference was that British polite collocated with words in a sensible cluster, including: sensible, straightforward, reasonable, and fair. This cluster didn't figure in the American data. The British data also had a calm cluster (calm, quiet, generous, modest, etc.), which had little overlap with American collocates. British polite, then, seems to be associated with "calm rationality, rather than, say, spontaneous emotion." Other clusters seemed more complex. Courteous and charming came up as British clusters, while American had respectful, gracious, and thoughtful clusters. However, many of the words in those clusters were the same. For example, almost all the words in the British courteous cluster were in the American gracious cluster. That is, in American courteous and attentive were more closely associated with 'gracious' words like open-minded and appreciative, while British courteous and attentive didn't intersect with more 'gracious' words. Respectful is a particularly interesting case: it shows up in the courteous cluster for the British data, but has its own respectful cluster in American (with words like compassionate and humane). Looking at these clusters of patterns gives us a sense of the connotations of the words—that is to say, the associations those words bring up for us. Words live in webs of cultural assumptions. Pluck one word in one web, and others will reverberate. But it won't be the same words that would have reverberated if you'd plucked the same word in the other web. It's not that compassionate wasn't in the British data, for example—it's that its patterns did not land it in a cluster with respectful. In American, respectful seems to have "a warmer flavour" with collocates relating to kindness and positive attitudes toward(s) others, while in the British data respectful has "older historic echoes of courtly, refined, well-mannered behaviour." Part 2: 'politeness' and sincerity on TwitterTheir second investigation involved analy{s/z}ing use of polite and its synonyms in a particular 36-hour period on Twitter. The data overall seemed to go against the stereotypes that American politeness is "friendly" and British is "formal", but once they looked at the data in more detail, they discovered why: US and UK words differed in (in)sincerity. In the British data, respectful seemed to "be used as a vehicle for irony, sarcasm and humour", while in the American data friendly "appears to have acquired a negative connotation" about 17% of the time, in which "friendly" people were accused of being untrustworthy or otherwise undesirable. This also underscores the idea that American respectful has a "warmer flavour" than British respectful. It's intriguing that each culture seems to be using words stereotypically associated with them (American–friendly; British–respectful) in ironic ways, while taking the less "typical of them" words more seriously. Yay for this study! I'm grateful to Culpeper, O'Driscoll and Hardaker for this very interesting paper, which demonstrates why it's difficult to have cross-cultural discussions of what's "polite" or "respectful" behavio(u)r. The more we're aware of these trends in how words are interpreted differently in different places, the better we can take care in our discussions of what's polite, acceptable, or rude. *If you're interested in the fruits of my please labo(u)rs so far, have a look at:Routine Politeness in American & British Requests (Murphy & De Felice 2019)Defining your P's & Q's: Describing and Prescribing Politeness in Dictionaries (Murphy 2019) Blog posts with the 'politeness' label Full Article politeness stereotypes
pe NYT Spelling Bee: an archive of disallowed BrE words By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:34:00 +0000 Twitter has been my main internet stomping ground since 2009, but I've been withdrawing my labo(u)r from it since October, when it became much more volatile for some reason. The New York Times Spelling Bee has been my morning-coffee activity for some of those years, and since November 2020 I've been jokingly tweeting the BrE words that it hasn't accepted. These go in a thread of posts that always start: Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me: An Occasional SeriesTwitter has really degraded this week, which is making me feel a bit sad that perhaps that thread will have to die. (I'm also sad that the thread has frayed along the way—it's very difficult to read it all the way to the beginning because it splits here and there.) So as a clearly procrastinatory measure, I'm putting the list of "perfectly common BrE words" here, with a little more explanation than they tended to get on Twitter.For those who don't know the Bee: it's an anagram game where one must use the middle letter. The twist—and what makes it a superior anagram game—is that you can use any of the letters as many times as you like. Here's what it looked like on the 5th of April when I hadn't yet got to Genius level. (My goal every day is 'make it to Genius before breakfast'. It's nice to be called 'Genius' before you've started work.) The game, of course, has its own word list, which is suitably American for its New York Times home. Still, some not-usually-AmE words are playable, like FLATMATE, LORRY and PRAM. But many words that are part of my everyday vocabulary in England are not playable. And non-AmE spellings are generally not playable. There's been a lot of attention to AmE words that (orig. AmE) stump non-American players in Wordle. (Here's Cambridge Dictionary's 2022 Word of the Year post, which covers some—and includes a video in which I talk about why HOMER was a great choice for Word of the Year.) Not as much attention has been paid to the Spelling Bee, which you need to subscribe to. I'm sure British players have their own (mental) lists of American words they've had to learn in order to get "Queen Bee" status (finding all the day's words) in the game. If you're one of them, do use the comments to tell us about those weird words.So, after all that preamble, here are the "Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me" words in alphabetical order, with translations or links to other blog posts. But first, a bit more preamble. The disclaimers! Words in the puzzle must be at least four letters long, so some of these are suffixed forms for which the three-letter base word was unplayable. If there's an -ED form but not an -ING form (etc.), that'll be because the other one's letters weren't in the puzzle. Some of these would not have been allowable—regardless of their dialectal provenance—on the basis that they are "naughty" words. I include them anyway. I have checked questionable cases against the GloWbE corpus to ensure that the word really is more common in BrE than AmE.Some are Irish or Australian by origin, but they are still more common in BrE than in AmE.Sometimes my spelling is a bit liberal here. If I could find one British dictionary that allowed me the word with the given spelling, I included it. Also the phrase "perfectly common" is not meant to be taken too seriously!These words were not playable at the time when I tried to play them. The word list may have changed and some of them may be playable now. Red ones are ones that have been unsuccessfully played/tweeted about since I first started this blog list. Green ones have been added to the blog since the original post, but were tweeted-about earlier than that—I just missed them in the tangled Twitter threads when I was writing the blog post. ABATTOIR AmE slaughterhouseAGGRO aggression, aggressive behavio[u]rAITCH the letter. Less need to spell it as a word in AmE. See this old post.ANAEMIA / ANAEMIC AmE anemia/anemicANNEXE minority spelling in BrE; usually, as in AmE, it's annexAPNOEA AmE apneaAPPAL AmE appall; old post on double LsARDOUR old post on -or/-ourARGYBARGY this is a bit of a joke entry because it's usually spelled/spelt ARGY-BARGY (a loud argument), but the Squeeze album has no hyphen. ARMOUR -or/-ourBALLACHE something annoying or tedious (usually hyphenated, but some dictionaries include the closed-up version)BIBBED I don't know why this shows up more in BrE data, but it does, just meaning 'wearing a bib'BINMAN / BINMEN AmE garbage man (among other terms); old post on binBINT derogatory term for a womanBITTY having lots of unconnected parts, often leaving one feeling unsatisfied; for example, this blog post is a bit bittyBLAG covered in this old postBLUB / BLUBBING to sob (= general English blubbering)BOAK retch, vomit, throw up a bit in the mouth. That was gross. Sorry.BOBBLY having bobbles BOBBY I think this one might be playable now. Informal term for police officer. In AmE, found in bobby pins. BODGE / BODGED make or fix something badlyBOFFIN see this old postBOLLOCK / BOLLOCKED reprimand severelyBOLLOX This one's more common in Irish English than BrE. To screw something up.BOKE see BOAK BONCE the head (informal)BOYO a boy/man (Welsh informal)BRILL short for brilliant, meaning 'excellent'; also a kind of European flatfishBROLLY umbrella (informal)BUNG / BUNGING to put (something) (somewhere) quickly/carelessly. People cooking on television are always bunging things in the oven. BUTTY see this old postCAFF a café, but typically used of the kind that is analogous to an AmE diner (that is to say a café is not as fancy in BrE as it would be in AmE)CAWL a soupy Welsh dish (recipe); also a kind of basketCEILIDH a Scottish social dance (event)CHANNELLED post on double LsCHAPPIE a chap (man)CHAV / CHAVVY see this old post and/or this oneCHICANE a road arrangement meant to slow drivers down; see this old postCHILLI see this old postCHIMENEA / CHIMINEA the 'e' spelling is considered etymologically "correct" but the 'i' spelling seems to be more common in UK; I think these kinds of outdoor fireplaces are just more trendy in UK than in US?CHIPPIE alternative spelling of chippy, informal for a (fish and) chip shop"cholla" at a UK online supermarketCHOC chocolate (informal, countable)CHOLLA a spelling of challah (the bread) CLAG mud; more common is claggy for 'having a mud-like consistency'COLOUR -or/-ourCONNEXION this is a very outdated spelling of connection. Not actually used in UK these days, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to play it?COOTCH a hiding place, a shed or similar (from Welsh cwtch)COUNCILLOR post on double LsCRAIC it's really an Irish one (a 'good time'), but it qualifies here because it's used more in BrE than AmE (and understood pretty universally in UK)CRIM criminalCUTTY short (in some UK dialects)DADO as in dado rail, what's often called a chair rail in AmE (here's a picture)DEFENCE AmE defenseDEMOB /DEMOBBED de-mobilize(d); that is, released from the (BrE) armed forces / (AmE) militaryDENE a valley (esp. a narrow, wooded one) or a low sand dune near the sea (regional)DEVILLED post on double LsDIALLING post on double LsDIDDY small (dialectal); see this old postDOBBED / DOBBING actually Australian, dob = to inform on someone; see this old post on the BrE equivalent grass (someone) upDODDLE it's a doddle = (orig. AmE) it's a piece of cake (very easy)DOOLALLY out of one's mindEQUALLED post on double LsFAFF / FAFFING one of the most useful BrE words. See this old post. FARL a kind of (AmE) quick bread, usually cut into triangles; can be made of various things, but here's a recipe for a common kind, the potato farlFAVOUR -or/-ourFILMIC cinematic, relating to filmFITMENT = AmE fixture, i.e. a furnishing that is fit(ted) in placeFLANNELETTE = AmE flannel old post on flannelsFLAVOUR -or/-ourFLAVOURFUL -or/-ourFOETAL AmE (and BrE medical) fetalFOOTMAN a servant or (formerly soldier (of a particular rank)FUELLED post on double LsFULFIL post on double LsGADGIE / GADGE guy, man, boy (regional)GAMMON this post covers the meat meaning, but lately it's also used as an insult for Brexiteers and their political similarsGAMMY (of a body part) not working well; e.g., I have a gammy kneeGANNET a type of sea bird, but also BrE slang for a greedy personGAOL now less common spelling for jailGIBBET gallows; to hang (a person) [not really in current use]GIGGED / GIGGING to perform at a gig [playable as of May 2023]GILET covered at this clothing post and also at this pronunciation postGIPPING form of gip, a synonym of BOAK (see above)GITE French, but used in English for a type of holiday/vacation cottageGOBBED / GOBBING form of gob, which as a noun means 'mouth', but as a verb means 'spit'GOBBIN waste material from a mineGOBBY mouthyGOOLY (more often GOOLIE, GOOLEY) a testicle (informal, see GDoS)getting gunged/slimedGUNGE any unpleasant soft or slimy substance; also used as a verb for having such stuff poured over one's head on a children's show (= AmE slime)GURN / GURNING see this old postHAITCH = AITCH, but pronounced differently See this old post.HALLO old-fashioned hello HENCH strong, fit (like a weightlifter)HOLDALL a duffel bag or similar heavy-duty bag; often spelled with a hyphen (hold-all), but at least some places don't. HOOPOE a kind of bird (mostly African), which sometimes makes it to EnglandHOGMANAY it is a proper noun, but I wanted to include it anywayHOICK / HOIK to lift/pull abruptlyHOTCHPOTCH AmE hodgepodgeINNIT invariant tag question: isn't it? INVIGILATING AmE proctoring; old postJAMMY lucky; old post KIRK church (Scotland)KIPPING form of kip, to take a napLAIRY (esp. of a person) unpleasantly loud, garish LAMBING form of to lamb, give birth to lambs. Often heard in lambing time or lambing seasonLAMPED form of to lamp, to hit a person very hardLARKING form of to lark, 'to behave in a silly way for fun'LAYBY AmE turnout (and other synonyms/regional terms); a place where a car can move out of the flow of traffic (usually has a hyphen lay-by, but I found one dictionary that doesn't require it)LIDO an outdoor public swimming pool; there's some debate about how to pronounce it LILO a blow-up mattress for floating on in a poolLINO short for linoleumLOLLY lollipop or (AmE) popsicle (especially in ice lolly)LOVAGE a(n) herb that Americans don't see very often [has been added! Played successfully on 3 May 2023]LUPIN AmE lupine, a flowerLURGI / LURGY see this old postMEDIAEVAL the less common spelling of medievalMILLIARD (no longer really used) a thousand million, i.e. a billion MILORD address term for a noblemanMINGE a woman's pubic hair/area (not flattering) MINGING foul, bad smelling, ugly (rhymes with singing!)MODELLED post on double LsMOGGY a cat (informal)MOOB man boobMOULT AmE molt (related to -or/-our)MOZZIE mosquitoMUPPET in its lower-case BrE sense: 'idiot; incompetent person'NAFF this has come up in posts about 'untranslatables' and about a study that identified common BrE words Americans don't knowNAPPY AmE diaperNAVVY a manual labo(u)rer (old-fashioned)NEEP Scottish English for what the English call a swede and what Americans call a rutabaga (old post on the latter two)NELLY in the BrE phrase not on your nelly (= AmE not on your life)NIFFY unpleasant-smellingNOBBLE to unfairly influence an outcome; steal NOBBLY alternative spelling of knobbly (which is more common in both AmE & BrE)NONCY adjective related to nonce (sex offender, p[a]edophile) NOWT nothing (dialectal)ODOUR -or/-ourOFFENCE AmE offenseOFFIE short for BrE off-licence; AmE liquor store (discussed a little in this old post) ORACY the speaking version of literacy; in US education, it's called oralityPACY having a good or exciting pace (e.g. a pacy whodunnit)PAEDO short for pa(e)dophilePANTO see this postPAPPED / PAPPING from pap, to take paparazzi picturesPARLOUR -or/-ourPARP a honking noisePEDALLED post on double LsPELMET another one from the study that identified common BrE words Americans don't knowPENG slang for 'excellent' PIEMAN / PIEMEN this one is usually two words (pie man), but I was able to find a dictionary that allowed it as a single word, so I added it to the listPIPPED / PIPPING pip = to defeat by a small amount; often heard in to be pipped at the post PITTA another spelling for pita, more in line with the BrE pronunciation of the wordPLAICE another one from the study that identified common BrE words Americans don't knowPLUMMY see this postPODGY chubbyPOMMY another Australian one, but English people know it because it's an insult directed at them, often in the phrase pommy bastardPONCE / PONCY see this postPONGING horrible-smellingPOOED / POOING see this post for the poo versus poop storyPOOTLE to travel along at a leisurely speedPOPPADOM / POPPADUM anything to do with Indian food is going to be found more in UK than USPORRIDGY like porridge, which in AmE is oatmealPUFFA full form: puffa jacket; a kind of quilted jacket; it is a trademark, but used broadly; I did find it in one dictionary with a lower-case pPUNNET see this old postRAILCARD you buy one and it gives you discounts on train ticketsRANCOUR -or/-ourRUMOUR -or/-ourTANNOY AmE loudspeaker, public address system (originally a trademark, but now used generically)TARTY dressed (etc.) in a provocative mannerTELLY (orig.) AmE tvTENCH a Eurasian fishTHALI another Indian menu word THICKO stupid personTIDDY small (dialectal) TIFFIN usually referring to chocolate tiffin (recipe)TINNING AmE canningTITBIT see this postTITCH a small person TIZZ = tizzy (to be in a tizz[y])TOFF an upper-class person (not a compliment)TOMBOLA see this postTOTTED / TOTTING see this post TOTTY an objectifying term for (usually) a womanTRUG a kind of basket; these days, often a handled rubber container TUPPENCE two penceTWIGGED, TWIGGING form of twig 'to catch on, understand'UNEQUALLED post on double LsUNVETTED related to my 2008 Word of the Year VALOUR -or/-ourVIVA an oral exam (short for viva voce)WANK / WANKING my original Word of the Year (2006!)WEEING AmE peeingWELLIE / WELLY a (BrE) wellington boot / (AmE) rubber bootWHIN a plant (=furze, gorse)WHINGE AmE whine (complain)WILLIE / WILLY penisWOAD a plant used to make blue dyeWOLD a clear, upland area (mostly in place names now)WOOLLEN post on double LsYOBBO / YOBBY hooligan / hooliganishYODELLED post on double Ls Full Article games spelling
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