http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aBritish+English+tag%3aRugbySearch results for 'tag:British English tag:Rugby' matching tags 'British English' and 'Rugby'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3256.36449)http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnAndOff/cljmb/post.htm#223891Tue, 09 May 2006 09:52:12 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:223891nona the brit<P>1. irritated me a lot</P> <P>2. Both are a bit clumsy. By age seven/by the age of seven she was winning skating competitions.</P> <P>3) She trains hard at her skating (on the ice) - the off the ice part probably refers to other aspects of skating such as building up fitness, listening to her coach, reading about skating etc) or it could refer to other things entirely, perhaps school work. Hard to say without the full context.</P> <P>I was a bit confused by the next &nbsp;questions but think you mean</P> <P>4) Is 'rackets' the same thing as 'badminton'? or Does 'rackets' mean the same as 'badminton?' Are they played in the same way? </P> <P>5)ditto with soccer and football.</P> <P>4) Not in British English. Rackets is a game played by very few people (mainly posh private schools and their ex-students) that is a game more similar to squash in that it involves walls! Don't know more than that I'm afraid. Badminton is more commonly played and uses a light 'shuttlecock' instead of a ball. So they are completely different games.</P> <P>5) this is where it can get confusing. In British English soccer and football are the same thing. In American English soccer is our football (men running round kicking a ball) whereas Football is the game that is a bit like rugby, picking up the ball and running with it as far as you can, only the players wear tons of padding. Everyone else in the world calls that American football to distinguish from normal football. </P>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BigCheese/qdkv/post.htm#79649Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:54:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:79649Mister Micawber<br /> <br />FROM WORLD WIDE WORDS website: <br /> <br /> <br /> [Q] From Edward Teague: “What is the origin of the term big cheese as in ‘He’s a big cheese in the rugby world’?” <br /> <br /><img src="/emoticons/emotion-13.gif" alt="Angel [A]" /> There’s no shortage of expressions invoking cheese: one may be cheesed off (miserable, annoyed, fed up), or something may be cheesy (cheap, unpleasant or blatantly inauthentic). These refer to the unhappy habit of ripe cheese making its presence known to anyone within sniffing distance. <br /> <br />But big cheese has a quite different origin, based in the only positive slang sense of cheese that seems ever to have existed. This was first recorded in London in the early part of the nineteenth century, with the sense of “good, first-rate in quality, genuine, pleasant or advantageous”. <br /> <br />Originally it had nothing to do with cheese—the source is the Persian or Hindi word chiz, meaning a thing. Sir Henry Yule wrote it up in Hobson-Jobson, his famous Anglo-Indian Dictionary of 1886. He said that the expression “used to be common among Anglo-Indians” and cites expressions such as “My new Arab is the real chiz” and “These cheroots are the real chiz”. Another expression with the same meaning that predated the real chiz was the real thing, so it’s highly probable that Anglo-Indians changed thing to chiz as a bilingual joke. Once returnees from India started to use it in Britain, hearers naturally enough converted the unfamiliar foreign word into something more recognisable, and it became cheese. <br /> <br />The phrase big cheese developed from it in early twentieth-century America, as a term to describe the most influential or important person in a group. The first written example we know about is in Ring Lardner’s Haircut of 1914. It followed on several other American phrases containing big to describe a person of this kind, most with animal or vegetable associations—big bug, big potato, big fish and big toad, of which the oldest is probably the British English bigwig of the eighteenth century (more recent examples are big shot, big enchilada and big banana). Like the others, big cheese was by no means always complimentary and often had derisive undertones, no doubt helped along by the influence of other slang meanings of cheese. <br />http://www.englishforums.com/English/BritishVersusAmericanExpressions/xbdl/post.htm#69133Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:19:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:69133seyfihoca<br /> <br />British English American English <br />Adopt nominate <br />air hostess flight attendant <br />bad form bad manners <br />Bedsitter studio apartment <br />Bellpush doorbell <br />Bill check (restaurant payments), invoice <br />Billion trillion <br />bin liner trash bag <br />Biscuit cracker, cookie <br />Blower telephone <br />Bonnet hood (of a car) <br />Boot trunk (of a car) <br />boot sale garage sale <br />Braces suspenders <br />Bundle package <br />Bursary financial aid, scholarship  <br />Buttered eggs scrambled eggs <br />call box telephone booth <br />came away went away, left <br />car smash car crash <br />Cashier dishonorable discharge <br />Casualty hospital emergency room <br />cat mint catnip <br />Cha tea <br />chambers law offices <br />chemist shop drug store  <br />child-minder baby-sitter <br />Chips French fries <br />Chit memo or voucher <br />Cinema movies, movie theater <br />Climber vine, ivy <br />clocked in checked in <br />Closet conference room <br />Coach bus <br />cold store freezer <br />consultant department head <br />Copper cop, officer <br />Cotton thread <br />Crisps potato chips <br />Cutting clipping (e.g., from a newspaper) <br />Dash tip, gratuity <br />dinner jacket tux, tuxedo <br />double bend S-curve <br />Draughts checkers <br />(game) <br />drawing pin thumb tack <br />driving wheel steering wheel <br />Dummy baby's pacifier <br />dust bin garbage can, trash can <br />engaged (telephone) busy signal, line is busy <br />engagement appointment <br />estate car station wagon <br />Extension lead extension cord (electric) <br />facia pocket glove compartment <br />Factor agent <br />Faculty department <br />fairy cake cup cake <br />Fen marsh <br />fill in, fill up complete, fill out <br />Film movie <br />fir apple pine cone <br />fitted carpet wall to wall carpeting (abbreviated w/w) <br />Flagstaff flagpole <br />Flashers turn signals <br />Flat apartment <br />Flex electric cord <br />Float petty cash <br />Flyover overpass <br />Flyscreen window screen <br />Fondle handle, touch  <br />football rugby, soccer <br />footway sidewalk <br />fortnight two weeks <br />Fount font, typeface <br />franking machine postage meter <br />free phone toll free <br />Frisson shiver <br />full age legal age <br />full stop period <br />Fused burnt out <br />gangway aisle <br />Gaol jail <br />gear box transmission <br />gear lever gear shift <br />geyser water heater <br />Ginnel alley <br />Glass mirror <br />goggle-box boob tube <br />good few good many, large number <br />grammar school high school <br />Griff news <br />ground floor first floor <br />Gum glue or paste <br />gum boots rubber boots <br />hair wash shampoo <br />handbag purse <br />hard lines bad luck <br />headlamps headlights <br />headmaster principal <br />held up delayed (held up means robbed in American) <br />Hide leather <br />hooter horn <br />ice lolly Popsicle <br />in-built built-in <br />infant's school kindergarten <br />interval intermission <br />invalid chair wheel chair <br />ironmonger hardware store <br />Jam jelly <br />Jelly Jell-O, gelatin <br />jotter notebook <br />Jug pitcher <br />key money security deposit <br />knickers panties <br />knock up waken or rouse (means impregnate in American) <br />laddering my tights a run in my stocking <br />ladybird ladybug <br />Lag insulation <br />lead (dogs) leash <br />lead (electric) cord, wire <br />lending library public library <br />lettings apartments for rent <br />library ticket library card <br />Lift elevator <br />loads lift freight elevator <br />lollipop lady crossing guard <br />Long-case clock grandfather clock <br />Loose covers slipcovers <br />Lorry truck <br />m and r um and er, hem and haw <br />macintosh raincoat <br />mack raincoat <br />Mad insane (means angry in American) <br />made redundant laid off <br />maize corn <br />maize cob corn on the cob <br />marrow squash <br />match game <br />mean stingy <br />means test need analysis <br />mend repair <br />metalled road paved road <br />midden garbage dump <br />milliard billion <br />minced meat ground beef <br />moggy cat, kitty <br />monkey nuts peanuts <br />motor spirits fuel, gas, gasoline <br />muesli granola <br />nappies diapers <br />Nose to tail bumper to bumper <br />Note bill (money) <br />notecase wallet <br />noughts and crosses tic-tac-toe <br />number plate license plate <br />oblique slash (punctuation) <br />on-cost overhead expense <br />open university extension courses, distance education <br />outfitter clothing store <br />pack of cards deck of cards <br />page (hotel) bell boy <br />pants underwear <br />paper handkerchief tissue <br />Pass out graduate <br />patience solitaire <br />pavement sidewalk <br />peep-bo peek-a-boo <br />Peg clothespin <br />perspex Plexigla <br />petrol gas, gasoline <br />pickled cucumbers pickles <br />pictures movies <br />piece-tin lunch box <br />pissed drunk <br />pleader lawyer, attorney <br />ponce pimp <br />pop round come by <br />porridge oatmeal <br />Post mail <br />Post free postpaid <br />postcode zip code <br />postoffice directory telephone directory <br />power cut power failure <br />preggers pregnant <br />press man journalist, reporter <br />private address home address <br />professor conductor (orchestra) <br />programme show <br />proofed waterproofed <br />Pub bar, saloon <br />Punt gamble (means kick or skip in American) <br />purse pocketbook <br />pylon utility pole <br />queue line <br />Quit behave <br />radiogram stereo <br />ramble walk, stroll <br />Rate tax <br />Read out read aloud <br />reader's ticket library card <br />ready, steady, go! ready, set, go! <br />recap Retread <br />reckoning machine cash register <br />recorded delivery Return receipt requested, certified / registered mail <br />remould Retread <br />return ticket round-trip ticket <br />reverse charge collect call <br />ring pull a can's tab <br />ring up Call <br />roll neck turtle neck <br />round sandwich <br />Roup auction  <br />rubber eraser (means condom in American) <br />rubbish bin trash can <br />Rug Blanket <br />running knot slip knot <br />rusticated suspended (punishment) <br />salt beef corned beef <br />salt pot salt shaker <br />sandpit Sandbox <br />scent Perfume <br />scrape butter or margarine, thinly spread <br />scurf Dandruff <br />self-drive car rental car <br />semi-detached house Duplex <br />service lift dumbwaiter <br />serviette Napkin <br />Shop gazing window shopping, browsing <br />side (billiards) English <br />silencer  (vehicles) Muffler <br />silent number unlisted number <br />single ticket one-way ticket <br />singlet T-shirt <br />six-over-six 20-20 vision <br />Slide barrette (hair) <br />Slip men's underwear (means women's undergarments in American) <br />smart well-dressed (means clever in American) <br />snowslip Avalanche <br />spanner Wrench <br />spatula tongue depressor <br />spirits alcohol (liquor, brandy, whiskey) <br />spool cassette, tape, reel, roll <br />squails tiddlywinks <br />squib firecracker <br />stance taxi stand <br />Stop late stay late <br />Stop open stay open <br />strapping Bandages <br />subject Citizen <br />suction cleaner vacuum cleaner <br />sugar soap paint remover <br />sun-filter cream sun-screen lotion <br />surgery doctor's office (means operating room in American) <br />surname last name, family name <br />suspenders Garters <br />sweater Sweatshirt <br />sweet oil olive oil <br />sweeties, sweets Candy <br />swiss bun Danish <br />swiss roll jelly roll <br />Swot study hard, cram <br />Table a proposal discuss a proposal (opposite of American meaning) <br />tablets pills, medicine <br />Take a decision make a decision <br />Take with take out, to go (fast-food restaurant) <br />Take-away carry-out (fast-food restaurant) <br />Tap Faucet <br />taxi rank taxi stand <br />telephonist telephone operator <br />Telly television, TV (pronounced tee-vee) <br />Tick check mark <br />tights Pantyhose <br />timeous, timous early, timely <br />Tin Can <br />tinkle telephone call (means urinate in American) <br />to time on time <br />toothful Sip <br />torch Flashlight <br />Tot add, calculate a total <br />touch wood knock on wood <br />tower block Skyscraper <br />Town centre Downtown <br />tradesman Storekeeper <br />Tram trolley, streetcar <br />treacle Molasses <br />treacle sponge Gingerbread <br />trolley shopping cart <br />trousers Pants <br />trunk call toll call, long distance call <br />Tube of candy roll of candy <br />Tube station subway station <br />tunny tuna fish <br />Turn off discharge, fire <br />Turn out a room thoroughly clean a room <br />underground Subway <br />unmade track dirt road <br />vacuum flask thermos bottle <br />Vest T-shirt, undershirt <br />victualler Innkeeper <br />waist coat Vest <br />Wall safe food cupboard or cabinet in the kitchen <br />water ice Sherbet <br />white coffee coffee with cream <br />whole time full time <br />Wind cheater Windbreaker <br />windscreen Windshield <br />wire wool steel wool <br />zed the letter zee (z) <br /> <br />many thanks to Bora! <br />