Just one more example of assuming a girl will pop up from there, be into tickling, and want HIM to do it. This site totally humiliates the male gender.
Geordie = someone from Newcastle
Brummie = someone from Birmingham
Scouser = someone from Liverpool
Jock = someone from Scotland
Paddy = someone from Ireland
Oh yeah.
Heh, yeah. I didn't know about those. That's another one of those cultural things. Like, people in England call our fish & fries, "fish & chips" and stuff like that. Never have quite understood that. *laughs* I guess I'm not meant to.
Heh.
Ohhhh... so I'm the oddball, huh? *laughs* I feel outnumbered now. Fine, if you all ever talk about stuff like that for whatever odd reason, we'll just call them fish & chips rather than agrue about what they're actually called.
Re: Heh.
Yeah.. I'm still not quite sure why that is.. I mean, when British people first colonised America, everything was already named, then all of a sudden different names appear for stuff.
My theory is that it was Americans after they won their independance trying to prove their independance. Though, the whole point of that baffles me.
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Heh, now that I have no idea. That makes sense, I suppose. That's everywhere though. No place in the world is completely the same as another place. Fish & chips isn't an exception here. There are all kinds of other things like that though.
Yeah.. but that's mainly because most places had their own languages before the Empire came along and taught them English, there's bound to be some residual traces of the former language...
But with America it was British people going there already speaking English.. so why new words for stuff appeared I don't know... (I would also like to point out that they don't have any resemblance whatsoever to native american words, considering they didn't have words for most of the stuff anyway)
Yep.
Yeah, this is where things get pretty interesting, because there's no 100% way of proving anything, that I know of. All people can do is theorize. We all know English came from England, then spread considerably after we got situated over here. It's a fascinating topic, in any event.
Re: Yep.
English is an amalgamation of many other languages (lots of Latin and German, as well as French, Spanish, Skandinavian languages, among others) because we've been invaded by and colonised so many places over the centuries.
Also, because different people settled in different areas, the accents and dialects differed amazingly (though, throughout the last few hundred years (since the invention of the printing press) it's calmed down a bit, and accents have calmed down further since the invention of the radio and the TV.
Why I know about all this I have no idea, though it's amazing.
Yes.
Yes, that is a bit fascinating. Sounds you copied and pasted something off a website, R&T. Either that, or someone really knows their history. ..... and... also.... what does being Russian have to do with the history of language? Maybe I missed something.
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Hey now, that's not very nice to say. But yeah, I agree with the ancient history part. It really is interesting, probably one reason being that's still things to discover about it that haven't been found out yet. I don't it'll be possible to discover everything that happened throughout the world's history but the little bits and pieces that people who spend their whole lives searching for things about the past discover everyday is pretty cool.
Huh.
Yeah, I know. Still, the way I look at things, history is made everyday. I try not to ever discredit anything; it's just the way I am. Doesn't matter if it makes sense or not.
..... and... also.... what does being Russian have to do with the history of language? Maybe I missed something. 
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