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| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6959 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 57 of 76 01 September 2008 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Haha...well, in my family (Australian) we say something is "in the oven" or "on the oven"...they were never seperate pieces of equipment for us, although I have seen them seperate quite often here in the UK. In that situation the bit for the pots and pans seems to be refered to as a Hob. I always think that's cute! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jeigo again Groupie United States Joined 6133 days ago 43 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Indonesian, Irish | Message 59 of 76 03 September 2008 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Whoa, I use a lot of these!
post ( I use that A LOT) autumn chemist's flat prison sweets crisps film I also pronounce either; 'eye-ther' in most cases. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| GBarr Newbie Uruguay Joined 5977 days ago 29 posts - 30 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish* | Message 60 of 76 03 September 2008 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
There's also the term "cooker", is this the same as stove? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6085 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 61 of 76 05 September 2008 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmmm, I think a cooker refers to a portable appliance of some sort: pressure cooker or slow cooker..
How I understand it is hob=stove. Oven=oven. The "burner" is the actual heating element, but I always say, "do you have something on the burner?" instead of "stove". It seems more descriptive. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| albillbol Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6384 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 62 of 76 06 September 2008 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A note on the word "pants". While in most of the UK it is used to mean underwear, in the north of England it us often used in the same sense as the North American; i.e. trousers. In fact it used to be said that you could tell if someone was a from northern or southern by what they used the word "pants" to mean (trousers in the north: underwear in the south. This may have changed in recent years however...
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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 63 of 76 07 September 2008 at 3:50am | IP Logged | |||||
I personally tend to use "Have you ...?" a la Shakespeare or "Blah Blah Black Sheep, Have you any wool?" But I'm odd. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lemanensis Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Switzerland hebrew.ecott.ch Joined 5924 days ago 73 posts - 77 votes Speaks: French*, English*, German, Spanish, Swedish Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 64 of 76 30 September 2008 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
[British English speaker] Chips = British variety to go with fish Fries = thin variety you get with fast food US style apartment is a fancier flat - I wouldn't use flat if talking about a penthouse!! pharmacy just as common as, and probably regarded as more correct than chemist's sweets are generally either generic or specific type, e.g. boiled - I wouldn't call chocolate bars sweets maize is only in agriculture, for eating it's sweetcorn/corn on the cob cookie is a style of biscuit - a more irregular shape and often with chocolate chips pitcher is something much larger than a jug tin/can used interchangeably otherwise I stick with the left-hand column on the whole - sometimes talk about a movie and don't consider that 100% NAm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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