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<blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 2452004" data-attributes="member: 22784">A number of&nbsp; Welsh words are just English ones which are spelt differently (to account for the vast difference between Welsh and English pronounciation)For instance &quot;Siop&quot; for &quot;Shop&quot; and &quot;Garej&quot; for &quot;Garage&quot;.In the case of &quot;garej&quot; this also required &quot;borrowing&quot; the letter J, which previously didn't exist in the Welsh alphabet. I think geographical proximity is probably very important. No point inventing a new word if your neighbours have a perfectly good word for it already. Any Canadians here to confirm if you use &quot;trunk&quot; and &quot;sidewalk&quot;, or &quot;boot&quot; and &quot;pavement&quot;?For the benefit of all Americans, all phrases ending in &quot;____ off&quot; mean pretty much the same thing and none of them are particularly polite.Sodomy and buggery are genuine words (i.e. not slang) which appear in UK dictionaries, but I wonder if the same is true in America. (But if you don't know what they mean I am not going to tell you ....)For example, Spike's language in Buffy can be pretty bad (certainly much worse than anyone else's), and at the end of &quot;Once more with Feeling&quot; he says something along the lines of &quot;Bugger this!&quot;. I can only assume that if American audiences knew what buggery is then the phrase wouldn't have been allowed to appear in the script.I seem to remember that the aliens in Ender's Game were also called &quot;Buggers&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="amethal, post: 2452004, member: 22784"] A number of Welsh words are just English ones which are spelt differently (to account for the vast difference between Welsh and English pronounciation) For instance "Siop" for "Shop" and "Garej" for "Garage". In the case of "garej" this also required "borrowing" the letter J, which previously didn't exist in the Welsh alphabet. I think geographical proximity is probably very important. No point inventing a new word if your neighbours have a perfectly good word for it already. Any Canadians here to confirm if you use "trunk" and "sidewalk", or "boot" and "pavement"? For the benefit of all Americans, all phrases ending in "____ off" mean pretty much the same thing and none of them are particularly polite. Sodomy and buggery are genuine words (i.e. not slang) which appear in UK dictionaries, but I wonder if the same is true in America. (But if you don't know what they mean I am not going to tell you ....) For example, Spike's language in Buffy can be pretty bad (certainly much worse than anyone else's), and at the end of "Once more with Feeling" he says something along the lines of "Bugger this!". I can only assume that if American audiences knew what buggery is then the phrase wouldn't have been allowed to appear in the script. I seem to remember that the aliens in Ender's Game were also called "Buggers". [/QUOTE]

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