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@motherof5: No need to be sorry: It’s something we’re going to fix. As a Minnesotan, I appreciate your need to apologize for something that’s not your fault. 😀

sorry about the late response but yes, Todd, I’m getting the new posts on bloglovin via the old address. thanks!

I have so many patterns already
To make clothes for Janie and Freddie
I ought to get started
But I can’t bear to be parted from Teddy.

I love this thread! I’ve been trying to guess where people are from by the terms they use.

When I was in university I went on an exchange with students from Canada, England, Spain and Belgium. We had a couple of days together before the course started to hang out and get to know each other a bit. On the first day of classes, one of the…[Read more]

My husband and I have been together for over 30 years and he still sits on the sofa and I on the couch. The kids use colors which could be crayons, colored pencils, or markers. We swim in a swim suit or bathing suit. We eat sub sandwiches. The evening meal is dinner. A jumper is a girls dress that you would wear a blouse under. We wear a knitted…[Read more]

and of course I still eat grinders. Here they eat subs but where I grew up in CT we launch subs at the Naval Base in Groton. How about meals? In CT we had breakfast, lunch, and supper. No dinners at all. Here it’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So I interchange the words, nobody minds so long as the food is on the table.

like the lady from western Mass, I used all the same terms she did,still do. Of course being from New England means that I toss off the “r” at the end of words, many times the “r’ that is in words too, who needs it? It makes my southern born husband nuts and he is always trying to correct me at our old age! According to him (and I must say he is…[Read more]

Love this thread! I grew up in the UK before moving to Australia when I was 16 so had to learn lots of different phrases and names for things.
I think the funniest one was my first day at High School when the girls were discussing in great detail the new “thongs” they had bought. Just when I was wondering what sort of place I’d moved too one of…[Read more]

I just got the patterns I ordered a couple of weeks ago! Lullaby, Garden Party (5-12) and Hide And Seek (5-12). And I realised this afternoon that the garden party may work well as the base for Hermione’s dress.

I just got the patterns I ordered a couple of weeks ago! Lullaby, Garden Party (5-12) and Hide And Seek (5-12). And I realised this afternoon that the garden party may work well as the base for Hermione’s dress.

Cossie! I knew I’d forgotten one but couldn’t work it out, thanks 🙂

The shoe cleaning kit makes me smile, especially as the boys wear black school shoes to school everyday 🙂
And yes I do seem to function a lot as that type of aunt, but married 🙂

I have so many patterns already
To make clothes for Janie and Freddie
I ought to get started
But I can’t bear to be parted

@dubhels2003 – you’ve just reminded me of a funny story that happened to my brother – he and his girlfriend were backpacking around England – it was freezing, so they went into a shop selling clothes/woolly things and asked for a ‘beanie’ – the little old lady was most taken aback and insisted they had the wrong shop, and they needed one further…[Read more]

I hope it’s OK if I join in…

Cossie/swim suit or swimming costume.

Soda is specifically the fizzy soda water generally used for mixing with drinks. Soft drink or fizzy drink (if fizzy!) for general non-alcoholic drinks. Pop is used if you want to sound ‘vintage’!

I love the variations in language, not just internationally but that exist…[Read more]

We used to call what you call those (lemonade with icecream) spiders. Don’t ask me why.

When I was in the UK at age 8 we would buy sweets (we call them lollies) and pop was any fizzy drink.

Just to twist the words further, we get the “dags” off when we crutch sheep! My mum used to refer to loose threads hanging off a seam as “daggy bits”.

We used to call what you call those (lemonade with icecream) spiders. Don’t ask me why.

When I was in the UK at age 8 we would buy sweets (we call them lollies) and pop was any fizzy drink.