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21 Dec 2019, 5:18 pm
21 Dec 2019, 5:23 pm
Darmok wrote:
fluffysaurus wrote:
Darmok wrote:
There's a British-vs-American English thread going elsewhere, but this made me laugh...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
fluffysaurus wrote:
Half way home from work last night, I could hear sirens. The nearer I got to my estate...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
That little thing? no here's my estate.
Oh hang on, wrong picture, this is more like the housing estate I live in.
In English an estate can be any size such as when someone dies what they leave is referred to as their estate where as places like where I live are properly called housing estates. They are collections of houses built together by the same builders post war. I'm guessing they were often built on the land of large estates (sold off for death duties) possibly the reason for the name being used for both.
I think our US equivalent is "housing development." This is not to be confused with "housing project," which is now a US synonym for urban slum or ghetto. Best to stay away from "the projects."
(Your country estate reminds me of an old cartoon featuring an elderly gentleman in his dressing gown, reading the morning paper in a wing chair in the corner of a gigantic room, with the butler standing nearby. "My god!," he reads. "It says here the east wing burned down last night!")
Mine's Blenheim Palace, seat of the Marlboroughs, birthplace of Winston Churchill.
What's yours? looks a bit mock-Froggy.
Lots of our housing estates are or were council estates, built by councils to provide housing for the working classes.
They also bought individual houses to have as part of their stock so not all council houses were on estates. In the
1970's a third of all housing in the UK was council owned. A lot of us grew up in council houses, there's no stigma
for most. Some estates were notoriously sh*t though. Then in 80's Thatcher brought in 'right to buy' which gave all
our parents and grandparents the right to buy their council houses at low prices, which most of them did. They
didn't build any more council houses though, which is why I'm stuck renting from a private landlord and have to
have inspections
21 Dec 2019, 5:25 pm
21 Dec 2019, 5:28 pm
it's called the "glasgow subway" officially lmao it's in the name - you can check this
anyway.
they look like this:
if you're over 6 feet, watch your head
21 Dec 2019, 5:31 pm
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21 Dec 2019, 5:46 pm
21 Dec 2019, 5:49 pm
^^ "Mock-Froggy" is now my favo(u)rite expression.
Mock-Froggy, Real-Mousey:
21 Dec 2019, 6:02 pm
Kiprobalhato wrote:
it's called the "glasgow subway" officially lmao it's in the name - you can check this
anyway.
they look like this:
if you're over 6 feet, watch your head
anyway.
they look like this:
if you're over 6 feet, watch your head
lol I was joking.
21 Dec 2019, 6:13 pm
Darmok wrote:
^^ "Mock-Froggy" is now my favo(u)rite expression.
Mock-Froggy, Real-Mousey:
Mock-Froggy, Real-Mousey:
Real-Mousey or Mock-Bavarian, but it's extreme mock so how about 'Mousey-Mock-Bavarian'.
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