If your better half witters on (gabs and gabs), tell them you're knackered (exhausted) and it's been donkey's years (ages) since you've slept. After washing up (doing the dishes) and hoovering (vacuuming), you can have a plate of biscuits (cookies) and, if you're so inclined, a neat (straight) whisky.
Too much of that whisky will get you sloshed, paralytic, bevvied, wellied, ratted, popped up, or even pissed as a newt.
Then, there's the question of accents. These days accents are trendy in Britain. Politicians, newscasters and movie stars have been favoring deep accents over the Queen's English.
It's hard for American ears to pick out all the variations -- and some accents are so thick they sound like a foreign language -- but most Brits can determine what region a person is from by their accent.
All across the British Isles, you'll encounter new words, crazy humor and colorful accents. Pubs are colloquial treasure chests, Church services, sporting events and local comedy shows are linguistic classrooms.
The streets of Liverpool, the docks of London and children's parks throughout the UK are playgrounds for the American ear. One of the beauties of touring Great Britain is the illusion of hearing a foreign language and actually understanding it ... most of the time.
--RoadParalytic
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