I do wear cwhat we call suspenders. What do you call them? capt david
i'd be more concerned with the different meaning for the words: Pants (to you trousers, to us underwear) or suspenders (to you, the things that hold up your 'pants' to us an item of womens underwear used to hold up Stockings) Having read some of the previous posts by some members on here, if you were stalking with them and passed a comment that your suspenders were digging in, well a missunderstanding like that could spell disaster.
Ezzy
My wife asked an american friend to "knock her up in the morning"
Chips are Chips and French fries a poor copy of them . Oh yes chips are cut from whole potatoes and not mashed up then squeezed through a plate to make them all the same size ala Macdonalds .
Chippie in this context is a place that sells and serves chips most often a fish and chip shop or resturant. However in anoth context a chippie is a carpenter ............................. is English not a wonderful language .
i worked for a while in California as a ski instructor back in 2000 i remember when i first said to someone after a few hours in my new local bar "im just gonna pop out and smoke a fag" half of the room cheered and the other half looked at me like i had just run their grandmother over. how was i to know that "smoking a fag" was defined as "shooting a gay man"!!