the film Mean Girls According to my weekend newspaper - I haven’t seen the film. Truly-ruly.
That might not be the best example. Anything like this over there (the bit under “Bijou”)? What do you call it?
Also, what about something like this?
The thing on the cinema hasn’t really got a name. We’d probably call it the “name board” or the “cinema thingummy”
The thing by the roadside we’d call a signboard or possibly a billboard. In any case we don’t have them here.
By the way a “marquee” is a big tent.
Finally someone replies to the OP.
Oh, I see what you mean. As Cunctator said, it’s just a sign - there’s no special word.
Going back to my canopy ( if anyone is still awake ) , I was told that a canopy is a free standing unit. Well this structure is described by the manufacturer as a canopy.
So make your own mind up.
a size progression would seem to go:
Wendy House
Fishing shelter
pup tent
camping type tent
marquee
beer tent
big top
Millenium Dome
(that’s without including awnings)
Wendy House - now there’s a name for a thing we ain’t got in the US!
You probably do - you probably call it something else. God alone knows what.
You don’t really have “Wendys” in the USA - you think it’s a sort of beef-burger.
My daughter had a wendy house.
BTW a “Wendy House” is a small small tent or shed for a small girl to play in. They have doll’s tea parties in them.
Boys would never be seen dead in a Wendy House. They would never live it down.
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You don’t really have “Wendys” in the USA - you think it’s a sort of beef-burger.
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Surely they’ve all heard of Peter Pan?
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He’s on trial in California for kiddy-fiddling.
Anyway - now they’ve got the hang of tents shall we try to explain what “camp” means? And then we can tell them about Camp coffe (which I am inexplicably fond of - I blame my father)
Demountable Wendy House poles do, for boys, make fantastic blow-pipes that fit miniture darts (like from a keyring set you might get in a posh cracker at Chrissie) perfectly. And very accurate over short distances too.
As a complete aside, I’m a best man next week. But in a mill, not a marquee.
Has your sister spoken to you since you discovered this?
Also Yanks: Do you have crackers*? I love cracker jokes!
- The Christmas kind - not the “Deliverence” kind.
Unless I am mistaken, those thingummys don’t look like the contain a funny paper hat, novelty, thing that goes BANG and dreadful joke.
You have no idea what you are missing.
The ONLY thing that tiddly Grannies like better than the Birdie Song is drinking sherry whilst wearing a paper hat.
Unfortunately, the closest thing we have to English crackers are fortune cookies.
Or this. We regret it. We really do.
And you don’t even have pantos. You poor deprived tea-dodgers.
Oh, we have those exploding things. What the hell are those called? I forget. We play with them at Halloween.