Re: OT: Two countries separated by a common language

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Fatula" <fatula3@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: Two countries separated by a common language


> From: "Joe" <joe@...>
> Subject: Re: Two countries separated by a common language
>
>
> > > Excuse me for replying to myself, but I just thought of another
> > > Britishism that took me unawares: "biscuits".  The Hitchhiker's
> > > Guide series scene in which Arthur gets into a biscuit battle with
> > > someone in the airport struck me as very odd.  Biscuits in a bag from
> > > a vending machine??  Having grown up in Georgia, I  knew exactly
> > > what biscuits are, and they don't come from vending machines.
> > > They're yummy doughy breakfast breads, similar to scones, but softer
> > > and served hot, with butter or gravy, or perhaps a sausage patty.
> > > Yum.  :)
> > >
> > > -Mark
> >
> > Biscuits are an Englishism?  I suppose you guys would call them
'cookies'.
> > Or something like that...
>
> They are when referring to the flat, sweet things.  As Mark mentioned, in
> America they're a more bread-like thing that people eat down South,
> particularly.  Us Yankees don't have much use for the things.
>
> Joe (the other one)
>
>
> ---
> And before anyone mentions that the "us" should be a "we", English (at
least
> my dialect) is going through a shift where anything with a more vocative
> sense uses the accusative form, not the nominative.  Same goes for the
> prepositional usage.
>
Same in English English(at least my dialect).  The first person of 'you
guys' is 'us guys'.