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Thread #64745   Message #1061011
Posted By: Midchuck
25-Nov-03 - 10:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: English To English Dictionary
Subject: RE: BS: English To English Dictionary
Pharmacist (US) = Chemist (UK)

Internal pickup in acoustic guitar (US) = bug (UK)

"Bloody" in US simply means someone or something has blood on it. In UK it appears to be one of the nastiest dirty words - for no reason I can see - i. e., calling someone a "bloody idiot" in UK is as bad as, or worse than, calling him a "goddam f***ing idiot" in US. (Of course, I always supposed that if I must be an idiot, I'd rather be a f***ing idiot than a non-f***ing idiot, but I digress.)

Peter.