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Hmm...although people do say "fucking hell" so I'm not sure that translation thing entirely works!
(But you're right that no-one says "buggering hell", or "buggering" anything much really, it's more likely to be "bugger me sideways" or if you're Australian just "bugger!")
(BTW "bugger" doesn't just mean "screw" it specifically refers to, um, back-door screwing.)
I'm almost curious enough to go web/OED searching on scone pronunciation. I've always known it as scone/gone and my relatives, even the Inverness crowd pronounce it that way, in spite of the Throne/Scone association. Puzzling, because I always assumed the bone/scone was an English thing.
(But you're right that no-one says "buggering hell", or "buggering" anything much really, it's more likely to be "bugger me sideways" or if you're Australian just "bugger!")
(Although it's sometimes used in the past tense: "that's buggered" (broken), "he buggered off".)
Yeah, Angus. I get that. But, as far as I can tell that particular act is not quite quite as big in our curse lexicon as it is for you.(As a verb, anyway. There's all kinds of names for people that indulge in it. )hinking of itr way just kind of gives me a hint about where Fic! Spike might use it. that's all.
"We band of buggered"? Little bit direct for Shakespeare but he was a randy little ...
All other scones are newfangled American things, and based on my one encounter with blueberry scones whilst in LA, they aren't scones. Nice, yes. Scones, no.
Very true, this.
The one thing you have to give us is Southern biscuits. Hot out of the oven they are near perfection.
I'm almost curious enough to go web/OED searching on scone pronunciation.
A quick Google reveals all sorts of pronuciations for the word 'scone': it can rhyme with bone, with gone or with moon. See this page for example.
All other scones are newfangled American things, and based on my one encounter with blueberry scones whilst in LA, they aren't scones. Nice, yes. Scones, no.
You should see what we've done to croissants. The French are very irate about this. And an American pizza is very little like the Neopolitan version. Fish and chips, though inferior to the british, are still just fish and chips. You can even get malt vinegar. It's not like we slipped in balsamic when you weren't looking.
Just don't eat any bagels west of the Delaware.
The French have nothing to worry about on the croissant front, I think. Then again, it's hard for me to understand why anyone vacationing in France need eat any other bread form than a good baguette. And FTR, most American baguettes suffer greatly in comparison, esp the fancy zahzah ones around LA and the Bay Area. Sure I eat them, but they are an altogether different, crusty little beast.