Wherein we ask each other dialect questions we don't quite understand

[tomBitonti]

Potted Shrimp is shrimp set in spiced butter in a small pot. James Bond likes it.

That sounds a lot like what I would call Shrimp Scampi (no idea of where the name is from):

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/shrimp_scampi/

Thx!

TomB

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

So let's talk nonsense.

Now I don't mean nonsense words; I mean words for nonsense.

For example, I hear "rubbish" used in British English for nonsense; while here in the US my experience it that rubbish is a seldom-used synonym for trash or garbage and not much else.

I've also heard "bollocks" from Brits in generally the same usage. I'm not certain -- is that bovine in origin, and thus of the same extraction of the common US "bull(suffix)"?

Along those lines in the US is often "crap" (BS in origin), "quatch" or "qvatch" (Pennslyvania Dutch -- German or Yiddish in origin), etc.

 

[Morrus]

No, you're confusing bollocks with bullocks. It's not a grandma friendly thing to explain, though. I think you'll have to look that one up off EN World.

Rubbish is multi-use. It's primary meaning is garbage/trash. It also means nonsense, as you say, poor quality, or unfortunate.

He's talking rubbish.
He's rubbish at football.
That's some rubbish luck.
His car is rubbish.
That but if bad luck is a bit rubbish.
Rubbish luck.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Can you rubbish something? Sounds like a word that is noun, verb, adjective, and adverb all in one. Quite an achievement, really.

 

[Scott DeWar]

such as to trash out a room or rubbish out a room?

 

[Ryujin]

I've always wondered if English secondary school soccer teams engender the same sort of rabid support that southern American high school football teams do. Sometimes I think that the most prevalent religion in the American south is actually football, not Christianity.

 

[Morrus]

I've always wondered if English secondary school soccer teams engender the same sort of rabid support that southern American high school football teams do. Sometimes I think that the most prevalent religion in the American south is actually football, not Christianity.

Nope. Not even slightly. That aspect of your culture is pretty alien to us.

 

[Ryujin]

Nope. Not even slightly. That aspect of your culture is pretty alien to us.

Well I'm Canadian, but have spent time in the American south

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I've always wondered if English secondary school soccer teams engender the same sort of rabid support that southern American high school football teams do. Sometimes I think that the most prevalent religion in the American south is actually football, not Christianity.

"Sometimes?"

And don't forget, in the American heartland, the divine sport of choice is basketball.

 

[Ryujin]

"Sometimes?"

And don't forget, in the American heartland, the divine sport of choice is basketball.

Well I'm only in the southern US 'sometimes'