My wife was struggling to ask for stamps when she was in the US. She then said, you know those things you lick and put on an envelope!
“Mieor”
Funny
We got told “learn to speak English” in a McDonald’s in Florida one time because they couldn’t understand our fairly mild central belt accents… It was a tad unexpected!
First week I lived in Canada I asked some lads outside the bar if I could tap a fag off them
You’ve never seen Canadians heads swing so fast
Stenhousemiuor.
Hi, american. I heard metal, until you said mirror in american-english, then listened again and got mirror.
We suck, I apologize.
This is frankly ridiculous and offensive.
I am not a native English speaker and I can understand you perfectly.
And then add differences in vocabulary. A mate moved to the States for work and took his primary school-aged daughter shopping for school supplies at Walmart. He got a very shocked look when, standing there with his young daughter he asked the clerk “Excuse me, where the rubbers at?” (Rubbers being condoms in US lingo)😂😂
Eleven
E l e ven
Mirrors and meercats
my family when to florida once, we tried getting food but no one understood us, so my mum who is from sweden had to talk to most people in the united states. will say though most the people there were nice and understanding
I’m Scottish and grew up overseas, so when people ask and I say I’m Scottish they say, “Well, you don’t sound Scottish.” Yes, because if you live overseas and you speak in a Scottish accent you will just end up repeating yourself 10,000 times. So kid me just cut to the chase and adopted a more general accent when I’m speaking to non-Scots.
I once phoned jet 2 about changing my flight after 2 mins or so of me trying to talk to this woman she said gives a minute IL get a German translator and Im Scottish 🙄🤣
What a shock! Someone from thousands of miles away goes to a place and isn’t easily understood. Americans are so stupid!
🙄🙄🙄🙄
I was in a smallish town in Australia asking where I could buy a bike and the folk were like… a bake? What kind of bake? Like a cake? We went back and forth for an embarrassingly long time before it occurred to me to say “bicycle”.
To be fair how things are pronounced in Scotland can change over very short distances, I worked part time in a diy store had a guy asking for fire smint, ended up giving up after a few questions and getting another person to help him, he was wanting fireplace cement, I lived 20 miles from him for 30 years and family were trades, still had issues understanding him.
Kyle mcdaid
Fun fact, that’s the word I rip out every time an American makes fun of an English person for how they say “a bottle of water” or keeps telling me how I’m supposed to say “donkey” when I don’t say it like how they want me to.
They get so confused because they don’t understand.
It’s hilarious.
Oh a meer? Aye a MEER YOU and heidered her into oblivion
Let’s put this into context, you asked a Wal-Mart employee for help. That was the first mistake. Second, you disturbed her while she was doing something far more important, browsing her social media on her phone.
This isn’t just a mistake foreigners make coming to the US. Thousands of Americans make this mistake daily shopping at Wal-Mart.
To her credit, she didn’t just stand there dumbfounded looking at you like she couldn’t understand what language you were speaking, which happens to Americans as well, but she asked you to repeat yourself. Normally a Wal-Mart employee would just stand there confused if you were an American until you walked away.
Now try and buy some biscuits. I recommend sausage gravy and homestyle buttery biscuits. After that you’ll understand why we call them Cookies and not Biscuits. We reserve the word biscuit for exactly one thing and one thing only.
Until you’ve eaten biscuits with sausage gravy, you haven’t eaten. Nothing before or after will ever taste as good. Sorry.
For laughs, grab a can of sausage gravy from the gravy isle, then head to the cookie isle and ask where the homestyle or southern style biscuits are. Insist, biscuits are cookies. If Wal-Mart has pre-made biscuits, they’ll be in the bakery section. Otherwise, refrigerated unbaked ones will be in the refrigerated food section. Pillsbury would be a named brand to look for. You have to bake them, but they’re quick and easy. Do so and you’ll experience one of the best comfort foods in your life.
Cheers!
It’s meer-rawr in Texas.
It happens to me all the time here. Get asked where I’m from, I immediately stop talking, and just let the awkward silence happen. Then I say I’m from North Dakota and grab my stuff and walk away.
Boris Johnston has fallen on hard times.
When my sister lived in California I tried calling her one day. Her American roommate answered then hung up. Told my sister it sounded like a drunk Mexican.
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The look of pure bewilderment on her face made me laugh lol
‘Meer’
Edit – To clarify, I am not OP. Original video link [here](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdDXvEv9/)
“A Meeore”
That’s brilliant.
The fuck is a meer?
My wife was struggling to ask for stamps when she was in the US. She then said, you know those things you lick and put on an envelope!
“Mieor”
Funny
We got told “learn to speak English” in a McDonald’s in Florida one time because they couldn’t understand our fairly mild central belt accents… It was a tad unexpected!
First week I lived in Canada I asked some lads outside the bar if I could tap a fag off them
You’ve never seen Canadians heads swing so fast
Stenhousemiuor.
Hi, american. I heard metal, until you said mirror in american-english, then listened again and got mirror.
We suck, I apologize.
This is frankly ridiculous and offensive.
I am not a native English speaker and I can understand you perfectly.
And then add differences in vocabulary. A mate moved to the States for work and took his primary school-aged daughter shopping for school supplies at Walmart. He got a very shocked look when, standing there with his young daughter he asked the clerk “Excuse me, where the rubbers at?” (Rubbers being condoms in US lingo)😂😂
Eleven
E l e ven
Mirrors and meercats
my family when to florida once, we tried getting food but no one understood us, so my mum who is from sweden had to talk to most people in the united states. will say though most the people there were nice and understanding
I’m Scottish and grew up overseas, so when people ask and I say I’m Scottish they say, “Well, you don’t sound Scottish.” Yes, because if you live overseas and you speak in a Scottish accent you will just end up repeating yourself 10,000 times. So kid me just cut to the chase and adopted a more general accent when I’m speaking to non-Scots.
I once phoned jet 2 about changing my flight after 2 mins or so of me trying to talk to this woman she said gives a minute IL get a German translator and Im Scottish 🙄🤣
What a shock! Someone from thousands of miles away goes to a place and isn’t easily understood. Americans are so stupid!
🙄🙄🙄🙄
I was in a smallish town in Australia asking where I could buy a bike and the folk were like… a bake? What kind of bake? Like a cake? We went back and forth for an embarrassingly long time before it occurred to me to say “bicycle”.
To be fair how things are pronounced in Scotland can change over very short distances, I worked part time in a diy store had a guy asking for fire smint, ended up giving up after a few questions and getting another person to help him, he was wanting fireplace cement, I lived 20 miles from him for 30 years and family were trades, still had issues understanding him.
Kyle mcdaid
Fun fact, that’s the word I rip out every time an American makes fun of an English person for how they say “a bottle of water” or keeps telling me how I’m supposed to say “donkey” when I don’t say it like how they want me to.
They get so confused because they don’t understand.
It’s hilarious.
Oh a meer? Aye a MEER YOU and heidered her into oblivion
Let’s put this into context, you asked a Wal-Mart employee for help. That was the first mistake. Second, you disturbed her while she was doing something far more important, browsing her social media on her phone.
This isn’t just a mistake foreigners make coming to the US. Thousands of Americans make this mistake daily shopping at Wal-Mart.
To her credit, she didn’t just stand there dumbfounded looking at you like she couldn’t understand what language you were speaking, which happens to Americans as well, but she asked you to repeat yourself. Normally a Wal-Mart employee would just stand there confused if you were an American until you walked away.
Now try and buy some biscuits. I recommend sausage gravy and homestyle buttery biscuits. After that you’ll understand why we call them Cookies and not Biscuits. We reserve the word biscuit for exactly one thing and one thing only.
Until you’ve eaten biscuits with sausage gravy, you haven’t eaten. Nothing before or after will ever taste as good. Sorry.
For laughs, grab a can of sausage gravy from the gravy isle, then head to the cookie isle and ask where the homestyle or southern style biscuits are. Insist, biscuits are cookies. If Wal-Mart has pre-made biscuits, they’ll be in the bakery section. Otherwise, refrigerated unbaked ones will be in the refrigerated food section. Pillsbury would be a named brand to look for. You have to bake them, but they’re quick and easy. Do so and you’ll experience one of the best comfort foods in your life.
Cheers!
It’s meer-rawr in Texas.
It happens to me all the time here. Get asked where I’m from, I immediately stop talking, and just let the awkward silence happen. Then I say I’m from North Dakota and grab my stuff and walk away.
Boris Johnston has fallen on hard times.
When my sister lived in California I tried calling her one day. Her American roommate answered then hung up. Told my sister it sounded like a drunk Mexican.
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