The World Wildlife Fund doesn’t recognize the Regency period or the use of the word ‘quim’?
(And my spellchecker doesn’t recognize the latter as well.)
Hrrmmm…
I have noticed, of late, “spot on” increasingly used by Americans on the net and telly.
Gastropubs would seem a bit odd in London. All the pubs I have visited- and I have a few to go- have the same menu as if they all had the same catering company.
A little further out and the meals were tops.
I understand that edible food in English pubs is a relative recent phenomena. 
But there’s quite a long history of it in the States.
I was thinking more World Wrestling Federation, who also don’t recognize the term.
I know it because I read Victorian pron.
Brakes Brothersprobably. Surprising how many establishments that they serve their multi-portioned prepared meals. They’re not bad, they’re just not great, but from the standpoint of the pub they’re excellent as they allow the menu to be changed frequently (you have a vast selection to choose from) and require few kitchen staff (they’re not microwave ready meals, so require a tiny bit of prep and presentation). Some really nice pub food not far from me in the leafier bits of Surrey that is entirely prepared onsite, but I get the feeling that even some of those use Brakes for stuff like desserts.
WWF = Words With Friends, a scrabble-type app game. I like playing that, but prefer WordFeud, because you can choose to use an international english dictionary, which opens up a lot more words. I bet THEY take quim! I’ll have to try it out…
To be fair, most American bars serve the exact same food as well. Walk into any random bar and there’s about a 90% chance the menu will consist of the following items: burgers, fries, nachos, chicken strips, and maybe pizza.
“The Britishisms are coming!”
Aha, all those decades of watching Brit-Coms, Carry On movies, Top Gear, video channels like Weebl & Bob, etc will finally pay off!
In an earlier thread it was established that “birds” is still used for young woman in modern UKian, so we can build off of that. We’ll need some UKians to review this list and alert us 'Mericans to which slang is out of date.
Wonder soon how till the phrase “Wanker” enters into everyday USian language…
You mean, it hasn’t? OK, then.
It hasn’t yet? My husband and I use that word daily (usually while driving), but we’re not USian.
I was unaware that this was a Britishism.
Not exactly a Britishism but I’ve been noticing more and more “Keep calm and carry on” parodies.
KCCO! Thank Chive for that.
After years of Monty Python, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, etc… many of my ‘witticisms’ are apparently British.
Wanker is definitely among them, though I wouldn’t use it in proper company.
I thought you wrote Mercians, and I was going to suggest that you might be about 1100 years behind the times. But you didn’t and so I now like a blooming pillock.:smack:
But it’s used for men! It’s completely different usage. It’s quite normal and not at all offensive to refer to friends as cunt, you might say: “Aah, shut up, you ugly cunt” (you have to imagine a thick norhern accent or it doesn’t work) in a friendly way. OK I wouldn’t, but I know plenty of people who do. Cunt, as far as I know, is never used in a friendly manner in the US. Of course normally it is used to swear at people, but pretty much on the same level as calling someone a dick.
To me there is a huge difference. I hate words like bitch or slut. Cunt, applied to a guy and used in a British accent doesn’t particularly bother me. In an USian accents and applied to a woman it is the same as using bitch or slut: utterly unacceptable. If someone said that to me we’d have to go and have a little talk round the back.
I agree we don’t care as much though. 
“Mind the gap!” announcements on our subways?
Daughter, studying junior year in London, was often asked how things going in “The Colonies”.
See, this was the opinion I have had, as an american watching too many british tv shows or movies or SOMEthing. “Stop being such a cunt” I had put up there with 'Stop being such a wanker.", ie asshole, jerkoff, whatever.
Yeah, it’s way more offensive than that.
That being said, when I was about fifteen I thought one teacher telling another teacher “Just because you have hair round your mouth doesn’t mean you have to talk like a cunt” in front of the second teacher’s class was the funniest thing ever. As a teacher myself now, I would report the first teacher for misconduct for acting that way, in front of children or not. I probably wouldn’t bother if it was a ‘less offensive’ phrase though (except if they did it in front of children, that would be seriously unprofessional behaviour).