England tour of South Africa 09/10

[CaptainOZ]

Well dip my balls in icing-sugar! Never have thought it would be a British slang word....never heard of it!

The Wiktionary insists that "sanger" is indeed Australian, just as I suspected. Your term - the "sarnie" is British.

So to recap this extremely off-topic discussion, here are the the slang terms for sandwich:

Australian

sammie
sammo
sanger
sango

British

sarnie
butty (LOL - you gotta be kidding me?)
piece (if plural)

South Africa

sarmie

Ireland

sambo

 

[barmyarmy]

If it helps "piece" is Scottish (like Gavin Hamilton who scored a pair again SA here 10 years ago).

 

[Cricketdude]

The Wiktionary insists that "sanger" is indeed Australian, just as I suspected. Your term - the "sarnie" is British.

So to recap this extremely off-topic discussion, here are the the slang terms for sandwich:

Australian

sammie
sammo
sanger
sango

British

sarnie
butty (LOL - you gotta be kidding me?)
piece (if plural)

South Africa

sarmie

Ireland

sambo

I haven't heard any of these.

 

[Ollie_H]

I'm not sure I would have included Colly for this test, Carberry certainly is a good player, but it is incredibly clear Colly isn't fit. You shouldn't play your best fielder and then whack him down fine leg for a fair amount of the innings. Fair play for him to stick it out, but Carberry shoulda got the nod IMO.

And to add to the sandwhich discussion, I have herd of all the ones such as; sanger, sarnie and butty, But normally only refer to the latter two when talking with bacon in mind.

 

[-D-S-B-]

Sammie and butty are used a bit in NZ..... I've heard of Bacon Butty :laugh

 

[Dutch]

It must be pretty unique that all of the English top six have a batting average in tests of over 40! Time for a couple of them to show that right now!!!

@Captain OZ...very useful inforamtion!! Thank you!

Edit: make that the top 7....Prior is over 40 as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That must me a unique-entricity! (new word of the week)

 

[CaptainOZ]

It must be pretty unique that all of the English top six have a batting average in tests of over 40! Time for a couple of them to show that right now!!!

@Captain OZ...very useful inforamtion!! Thank you!

No worries. Oh, and thanks for reminding me that there are cricket matches going on. :laugh

Bacon butty - that sounds incredibly unhealthy!

 

[barmyarmy]

@dutchad - please don't use "pretty" unique ever again

10 more to avoid the follow on...

 

[Dutch]

@dutchad - please don't use "pretty" unique ever again

10 more to avoid the follow on...

Darn! I am pretty sorry for that!

dutchad added 1 Minutes and 24 Seconds later...

No worries. Oh, and thanks for reminding me that there are cricket matches going on. :laugh

Bacon butty - that sounds incredibly unhealthy!

Chip Butty is even worse!!! Lots of butter, stuffed full of hot chips....yumville!

 

[CaptainOZ]

dutchad added 1 Minutes and 24 Seconds later...
Chip Butty is even worse!!! Lots of butter, stuffed full of hot chips....yumville!

And if you have it with a diet coke, it cuts down on the calories

 

[TumTum]

The Wiktionary insists that "sanger" is indeed Australian, just as I suspected. Your term - the "sarnie" is British.

So to recap this extremely off-topic discussion, here are the the slang terms for sandwich:

Australian

sammie
sammo
sanger
sango

British

sarnie
butty (LOL - you gotta be kidding me?)
piece (if plural)

South Africa

sarmie

Ireland

sambo

Those words hardly ever get used.

If you wanna live in Australia, don't confuse the word "barbie" :laugh and you'll be alright

 

[CaptainOZ]

Those words hardly ever get used.

If you wanna live in Australia, don't confuse the word "barbie" :laugh and you'll be alright

For the Australian words, "sammie" and "sammo" were used a lot more by our parents. But "sanger" is still quite commonly spoken here.

 

[Dutch]

Those words hardly ever get used.

If you wanna live in Australia, don't confuse the word "barbie" :laugh and you'll be alright

The worst mistakes are to be made when a Dutch person needs to ask things in English but doesn't quite know the right words:

For example: in Dutch a chocolate bar is a "reep", pronounced "rape" and a childs bed is called a ledi-kant, pronounced "lady-kunt"!!

As in "I need a reep and a ledikant please!"

Also a "subject" or "profession" is "vak", pronounced "fuk!"

 

[TumTum]

Also a "subject" or "profession" is "vak", pronounced "fuk!"

I need a good vak here :laugh

 

[Dutch]

I need a good vak here :laugh

Yeah, well England seem to be vakked at the moment too!