08-02-2008, 05:47 PM
joseph Wrote:oh no that is hard is hope i never said them! what words are they like.I was afraid you might ask :tongue:
It's obviously a very long list and probably changes all the time, but you might have to be careful if you fancied an "iced bun" or if you were a smoker you wanted to know where you could buy some "fags". An American might be surprised at the response he got in England if he thought he might want to bum around and if you'd been drawing or writing and you wanted to rub out a mistake it's best not to ask for a "rubber", because you would probably be given a condom!
If you have a lot of time here's a longer list:
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/britguid.html