lingerie

Gally - Bottoms up! Enjoy yourself...

Gally

I will never be able to accept a stubbie (beer) from now on without thinking of men's bottoms

Gally and Feetle Pedant alert!
Stubbies are an actual Australian brand selling other gear as well as shorts,
and when we lived in Hongkong they were very popular with our Australian friends.
I'm not sure whether the name was actually used as a generic term, as you imply Feetle
www.stubbiesworkwear.com.au/bottoms-shorts.html

When the subject of undies is ever discussed (not often) in our family we usually refer to female undergarments etc as Lorne-jerry after having become almost hysterical when I took DD1 to get first bra and the posh assistant kept talking about how important 'well fitting Lornejerry' was for developing bosoms!

Tomato, tomayto - let's call the whole thing off. Gillybob we called them 'upper decker, flopper stoppers'

Life's to short to worry!!

Thread reminds me - must cancel the online French course I signed up for when I got back from hol. Enthusiasm worn off.

I thought stubbies were cans of beer! Never heard of shorts called stubbies

TMI

Our Australian friends told us that they all wear thongs at their Lions Club events. They thought the French Lions were very formal.......

"Apparently in Australia "thongs" are flipflops." S'right - thongs and stubbies (shorts) - or, alternatively, budgie smugglers...

Note to GNHQ - remove the link, but leave the rest of the post as an example as "English as she is not spoke"

Apparently in Australia "thongs" are flipflops.

We could do an interesting deconstruction of the text, as it is in the pedants' section.

Should manufacture have "The" before it?
Is manufacture really meant to be the subject of the verb "is"?
How can a manufacture be a power?
What is a black and white season?
Surely the 2013 spring and summer seasons are over?
What is a T station? Are they subject to floods?
Do stripes move in flocks?
Should it be "our retinas" not "our retina"?
A flock of anything to a retina must be very painful to the eyeball.
What is a sleeve joint? Is it a concealed roll-up?
"Luo" = "A member of an East African people of Kenya and the upper Nile valley." Are they famed as beautiful urban women?

Interesting contribution to Pedants' corner!

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Another thing I have noticed is that the French are adopting the greengrocer's apostrophe for English words. I have seen Bit's and Bob's, hairdresser's, fresh fruit's etc. interesting linguistically how that has come to pass.....

Yes and if you have tried to run a small business here you will know that he was right!

Wasn't it President Bush who remarked that the French have no word for entrepreneur??

Sacre bleu! Quelle est la prochaine?

Today I saw, "le low-cost dans les frais funéraires".....

My husband and I were in Paris recently at a play reading in an Irish pub of all places. We were very amused that in the (French) introduction to it there was an apology for the event being "tres low-tech" as the waiters from upstairs had to cross the stage to the kitchen intermittently. We heard several Anglicized words in general conversation over le weekend!