On 03/08/2013 13:59, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 11:50:38 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

Wodja mean "foreign in all but language"? I reckon Bernard Shaw had it
right when he described the UK and USA as 'two nations divided by a
common language'.

When I was in the RAF we were working hand in glove with some Americans.
One bright spark compile a USA/English dictionary.
Words like, side-walk, black top, elevator amongst others. The last one
was "jeet" this translated as "Have you yet partaken of your lunch."
This came about as the Americans supplied our lunches, come lunch time
the cook walked down the corridor, banging on the doors and shouting
"Jeet". It had us all, Americans included highly amused.