I may have to start having elevenses now I know that is actually a word. I mean, I've been looking forward to having my eleventy-first birthday since I was old enough to read fat books in English, but having elevenses might be a more realistic life goal than celebrating your eleventy-first birthday. And I can accomplish it tomorrow instead of waiting another 69 yearsThe confusion sets in after elevenses
It does. Bijt means to bite, and is pronounced very similarly (ij is our extra vowel. I't's reffered to as a letter and if it's used in a word starting with a capital the whole thing turns capital. IJs means ice for instance. Old mechanical typewriters have an ij key.).Does "ontbitj" have anything to do with a "bite" of some kind? We might say "a bite to eat" meaning a snack or small meal.
What?It interests me how sometimes the poles seem reversed between the US and England; that England's South seems to have the same sort of relationship to its North, as the US North has to its South.
What?
Bijt means to bite, and is pronounced very similarly (ij is our extra vowel. I't's reffered to as a letter and if it's used in a word starting with a capital the whole thing turns capital. IJs means ice for instance. Old mechanical typewriters have an ij key.).
Ont is apparently an old prefix meaning something like 'before'. A before eating food food or such.
It seems like the character of North England and the people who live there are sometimes compared to the working class, while people of South England are more "upper" class. In America, sometimes the South is equated with "lower class" or working class, while the North is considered more "upper class."
Ah, north and south from a social geographical point of view, makes sense now. It would have made sense with your first post too, if I had paid a bit more attention while reading. But my inner sleepy sailor got stuck at north and south in navigational terms and wandered off to thoughts like 'where exactly on the Atlantic do you turn your compass' and 'does the sun come up in the west if you reverse the poles'.It interests me how sometimes the poles seem reversed between the US and England; that England's South seems to have the same sort of relationship to its North, as the US North has to its South.
Thank you!To avoid confusion on the forum I refer to tea as evening meal, but would never use that phrase outside the forum.
Could say the same thing about West and East coast America
Well I must be the lowest of the low in the class system!
I was born, brought up, and continue to live in the north of England. 71 years of northernness.
We have breakfast, elevensies, dinner, tea, supper in that order. Supper is last thing before bed, and normally is just a hot drink with biscuits or a sandwich.
To avoid confusion on the forum I refer to tea as evening meal, but would never use that phrase outside the forum.
As I understand it, the meal "tea" originated from "afternoon tea", which still exists as a meal and normally involves cream cakes, crustless sandwiches, and a pot of tea. This is still served in cafes and hotels all over the country mid afternoon.
As for vests, they are worn next to the skin for extra warmth. Waistcoats are sleeveless, short to the waist, and buttoned up the front. They are worn over the shirt and under a jacket. Do not get me started on liberty bodices. Dreadful invention for little girls. In my days all little girls wore them until they were "big enough" for a bra.
But which is which.Could say the same thing about West and East coast America
How many ways to describe a bread roll... and just to complicate it further ...
"Do you take sugar in your tea?" =
"Do you put sugar in your tea?" =
"Do you like sugar in your tea?"
I read somewhere once that the English language has a huge vocabulary because it has so many different ways of saying the same thing.
Depends on where your north is, doesn't it?But which is which.
yes but which is considered upper class and which lower west or east.Depends on where your north is, doesn't it?
yes but which is considered upper class and which lower west or east.
How many ways to describe a bread roll
Teacake
Barmcake
Bap
Oven bottom cake
Probably many others these are Northern ones
Carol
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