British English – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:48:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 British English – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 The Great British Baking Show Translator https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/31/the-great-british-baking-show-translator/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/31/the-great-british-baking-show-translator/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:04:28 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34147 Continue reading The Great British Baking Show Translator →]]> Why do we like The Great British Baking Show? It lacks a chef who’s whole shtick is to be an asshole. The judges are fair, consistent, and open, even if the White Supremacists at The Sun are annoyed when a British-born Bangladesi from Bedfordshire wins. The judging process is meant to be entertaining, educational, and encouraging, if sometimes very baudy. The contestants reflect interesting diversity in both their own backgrounds and their diverse approaches to cooking. There is interesting and evolving interaction between the people on the show. We like the tent and the challenges it creates, especially in some seasons.

And of course, many of us watch the show to see the crashes.

Without further ado, a glossary. Add more to the comments if you’ve got em.

A few centimeters
About an inch
AlooMINium
Aluminum
Aubergine
Eggplant. This is the term used for eggplant everywhere but the US.
Baked Icing
Does not really exist
Bargepole
Ten-foot pole (to not touch something with)
Bees Knees
Excellent
Bev
Good looking bloke
Bevvy
A drink, usually a beer
Biscuit
Cookie
Bloke
Dude
Bloody
Very
Bog
Toilet. Bog roll is toilet paper
Bonkers
Crazy
Bread and butter pudding
Bread pudding
Brownies
A thing that apparently can not be correctly baked
Car journey
Road trip
Car park
Parking lot
Carpet
Rug
Caster sugar
Superfine sugar
Cheeky
Rude
Cheesed off
Upset
Chickpea
Garbanzo
Chilis
Chili pepper
Chips
French fries
Chuffed
Delighted
Cider
Hard cider
Cock-up
Mistake
Cordial
see Squash
Coriander
Cilantro, which in the US is a leafy spice resembling parsley at any distance, or coriander, which is the seed of the same plant, often ground.
Corn flour
Corn starch
Corn syrup
Karo Syrup ®
Courgette
Zucchini
Crack on
Keep going
Creche
Daycare
Crisps
Chips
Crumble
Crisp
Cuppa
Tea
Daft
Stupid
Dodgy
Questionable
Donkey’s years
A long time
Eejit
Idiot (Irish)
Faffing
Screwing off
Flogging a dead horse
Beating a dead horse
Football
Soccer
Full Fat Milk
Whole Milk
Full of beans
Vivacious
Gherkin
Pickles, generally
Git
Unpleasant person
Gobby
A person who talks a lot but maybe should not
Gobsmacked
Shocked
Green Onion
Scallion (called “green onion” in the US upper midwest and plains)
Gutted
Devastated, ensaddened.
Haricot bean
Navy bean
Horses for courses
To each his own
I’m happy with that
Oops, out of time
I’m off to bedfordshire
I’m tired, want to go to sleep or take a nap
Innuendo
Everything they say and do on the show
Icing sugar
Powdered sugar, Confectioner’s sugar
Innit
Isn’t it?
Izzit
Yeah, uhuh
Jam
Jelly or jam
Jelly
Jell-o or similar substance
Keep your hair on
Calm down
Lad
See Bloke
Lemonade
Lemon soda, like Sprite
Lost the plot
Acting like your cake just fell off the counter and you are really mad
Marrow
A green summer squash similar to zucchini.
Maths
Math
Medium Egg
Large Egg
Meter
Yard (approx)
Mince
Ground Beef
Minging
Gross
Mug
A fool or idiot
Muppet
Clueless sod
Naff
Poor taste, cheap
Nosh
Food, snack
Oh my giddy aunt
“Oh my god” without the blasphemy
Peppers
When used by itself “pepper” usually means bell pepper
Pip pip
Goodbye
Pissed
Drunk
Plain flour
All-purpose flour
Playgroup
Daycare
Post
Mail
Prat
Self centered sod
Proper
Very
Pudding
Dessert, especially but not exclusively referring to pudding
Queen of the south
A mouth
Quid
A few bucks
Red sauce
Catsup (see ToMAHto sauce)
Scone
Biscuit
Self-raising flour
Self-rising flour
Semi Skimmed
0.02
Silverbeet
Chard
Skive, skive off
Go somewhere to avoid an onerous task or responsibility
Slag off
Make fun of
Slowcoach
Slowpoke
Sod
A man referred to in an express like “you freakin’ sod” or “lucky sod won the lottery”
Sponge pudding
Steamed sponge pudding
Spotted Dick
Sponge Pudding made with raisins or currants
Spring Onion
Scallion
Squash
Fruit concentrate
Stock cube
Bullion cube
Strong flour
Bread flour
Sultanas
Raisins, usually Golden raisins
Ta
Thanks
Taking the piss
Being sarcastic
ToMAHto sauce
Ketchup
Touch wood
Knock on wood
Trapesium
Trapezoid
Treacle
Light molasses
Trollied
Drunk
Trow a wobbly
See “Lost the plot”
Vegetable Marrow
see Marrow
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