Yes, I think I heard the hospital thing as well somewhere before. It's really interesting talking about all this! I got quite a response over at the community I asked, overall they said that it was used a long time ago, nowadays not so anymore, and mainly in the health business, for people who are or feel superior to others. Like nurses and patients.
Oi, that sounds difficult. I guess my posts are all over the place with BE and AE as well. I used to speak AE, since I learnt it all with "Stargate", but now that I also watch British shows and have become a John Barrowman fan, I adopt a lot of words he often uses... like "snogging", when I used that on Gateworld once everyone laughed at me and I did not know why ;) I mean, yes, I know the differencies between trousers and pants and cinema and movie theatre, but there is so much more outside.
But as long as we all understand each other! It's not my fault the languages have seperated so much. I'll be careful to not mix up rubber and eraser ;)
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Oi, that sounds difficult. I guess my posts are all over the place with BE and AE as well. I used to speak AE, since I learnt it all with "Stargate", but now that I also watch British shows and have become a John Barrowman fan, I adopt a lot of words he often uses... like "snogging", when I used that on Gateworld once everyone laughed at me and I did not know why ;) I mean, yes, I know the differencies between trousers and pants and cinema and movie theatre, but there is so much more outside.
But as long as we all understand each other! It's not my fault the languages have seperated so much. I'll be careful to not mix up rubber and eraser ;)