Two reasons for this thread:
One, I’ve always been interested in language. Not in learning heaps of them (unfortunately) but in the way it is used, as a phenomenon, as communication, action and intention, and also how it is so much more than direct and literal. On that latter note, style, ornateness, embellishments are the spices of language, which lift it from a mundane rice pudding to that festive and exotic lime and coconut syllabub (or should I say syllabic).
Second, after having joined TSR and later ATG, I realised just how much my English is influenced by that superpower across the Atlantic, despite (I believe) being taught British English in school. I just wasn’t fully aware of the differences beyond centre/center, colour/color, -ise/-ize, and a few others. Never mind boot and trunk, wellies and rubber boots, or sweets and candy (eh,
@Looney12345, you corrected me once).
So, on those notes, as it were, please enlighten me, humour me, indulge me with your favourite phrases, sayings, aphorisms, insults, annoyances, etc., US vs UK or not.
I’ll start things off with “a sandwich short of a picnic”. What a fabulous way of saying that someone is, well, a wazzock(?)
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