The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53749   Message #833952
Posted By: GUEST,adavis@truman.edu
24-Nov-02 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK dialect help
Subject: RE: BS: UK dialect help
As a young American passing through Heathrow on my first trip overseas, I stood with my suitcase, waiting to get on a shuttle. A stewardess, descending, looked at me and said, "Catches fall off." I checked the catches on my suitcase, and they seemed to be fine, so I started for the bus again. She planted a hand firmly on my chest and said, pretty sharply, "Catches fall off!" It took a long time to perk through my brain that what she was saying was "Coach is full, luv."