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Hi, and welcome, from one newbie to another!

Can we please have some of your sunshine over here - its rather grey and drizzly at the mo!

ATB

Sim

Welcome to FBUK our colonial friend

Hello Earl...welcome to the forum.

:)

Welcome to Full-Bore.Co.UK! I am some what of a new member from Rhode Island. This is a most interesting site! It may take a while to get used to Brit-Speak. Example: CRAV. A crav is a punk,bling,hoodie,gangsta type person usually in their late teens and into their 20's/30's.

A Chav???

Picture this a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, fag in one hand jewellery al over the over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like a rugby player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says “Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling” when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad p*** himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav

Erm.. probably best to point out that 'fag' is slang for a cigarette.

So, it's not Crav, but Chav? Just curious,where does that word come from? What I would really like to know is where does the not so nice word "Limey" come from? ( my apologies ) In polite society do you call that word The "L" word?

Yes I am enjoying the forums around here especially the new slang words, I watch Law and Order UK on the BBC America and pick up a few new words the forums are much better. I have also had to break out my dictionary, paucity is one word we do not use much in the States I think I'll start, "honey the paucity of our bank account frightens me" one example, and yes I had to know what a corvid was, now I know there are 141 members of the family. Thanks for the opportunity to join in. :cheers:

I think legend has it Limey was the American word for English sailors because they used to eat Limes to prevent Scurvy but I could be very wrong...

Thank you Ovenpaa. Seems like it makes sense. Also, to refer to a English person as a BRIT or the English people as BRITS is that O.K. in general especially coming from a YANK?