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Icebox=refrigerator/freezer......sammich=sandwich......battry=battery. .....the dump=landfill......geewiz= (the PC JHC) LOL.....stool=toilet......busted=broken......pop= soda (ie Pepsi or Coke). Wow, I'll have to think of more. They have been gone for quite a few years.
This has been an interesting thread... and as another poster pointed out, many of the words/phrases put forward are still used in the UK, and in Australia. I go to the dump when I have rubbish; a can is a tin here; a fortnight is a very common term for two weeks, and it's not uncommon here to refer to a bar of soap as a cake of soap. Although the term isn't used much in Australia, many British people have a downstairs 'cloak-room' in their home - usually just a toilet and sink, for visiting guests to use.
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Originally Posted by in_newengland
Hey! We say pocketbook all the time. In the stores the signs even say pocketbooks. I was in the ER yesterday and there was a sign about taking your pocketbook with you. Purse sounds pretentious to me or it's something an effiminate man would say. Even Oprah says pocketbook.
This one has always confused me as a 'pocketbook' is neither a book, nor does it fit in one's pocket! Does anyone know how a handbag came to be called a pocketbook in the US?
"snow"........not the weather....but on the TV screen!
"hi-fi set" these were wooden cases/big piece of furniture that held the record player.....usually with a hinged top that kept slamming down .... even if you thought you had tightened the thumb screw....that supposedly held it up
"breeze-way" I dont know if houses still have those screened areas between the garage and the kitchen door
"rathskeller" a room in the basement often outfitted with a bar...perhaps a ping pong table or music .... used for informal entertaining, sort of a game room.
"pant stretchers" metal frames used to put a crease in wash pants.
"mangle".....or an "ironing machine"...... a sit down apparatus for steam ironing clothes.
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They have been gone for quite a few years.
Does anyone know how a handbag came to be called a pocketbook in the US?
