Saturday night knickers and biscuits

I tend to use a double language here so when I posted about nappy rash cream I posted nappy/diaper. I tend to use the word cookie a lot more these days rather than biscuits though, milk and cookies sounds more appetising than milk and biscuits somehow don't you think? I still use mum though rather than mom. It must be very confusing for other people though that are here to try and improve their English. I don't think I could pull it off well enough for people not to know I am from the UK and no one has really assumed I live anywhere else really. Ellie :D

I hear a lot of British terms from listening to BBC radio, but I don't use them in conversation, because they'd confuse people. But with friends and family who know I listen to the BBC, just for fun I'll throw in terms like lorry, or pronounced words using a British pronunciation and accent, like "shedule" (schedule), etc.

I pick up a lot of British terms/slang from BBC America and I have found myself automatically using them in everyday conversation. One expression that I think is absolutely brilliant is - "gobsmacked". Not only do I become gobsmacked on occasion; but, others become gobsmacked when I tell them I am gobsmacked. Brilliant word. Do people actually think I am British - no. Do they get confused about where I am from - all the time. I was born and raised in NY; but, since then, I have done a lot of traveling and I do have a tendency to pick up accents that I am exposed to and the accents keep coming back when I talk to people from those locations without even realizing it is happening. I have been accused of being from TX, MN, MS, and several other states; and, I was even mistaken for Turkish once by customs officials IN Turkey! I don't even realize that I am doing it unless someone calls it to my attention; it is just automatic.

I'm not sure if I am going to respond to this discussion the way you would want a reply or not, but it made me think of this word that I have been hearing a lot lately. The word is STOKE. Which I guess means good, great, happy. It is used as "I am really stoked." Have you heard this recently? Not sure where it is generated from but have heard it a lot in the last several months.

Foxy people have enough trouble understanding my Southern/Mountain drawl, without me adding more confusion by trying to add another dialect to it, LOL. I do love to hear The Irish, Scottish, and English speak though, and from what I understand a lot of the mountain speak I grew up with was Derived from the Olde English.

Good discussion. I haven't really been on here long enough to pick up much from others in different countries, or in other areas of my own country.