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English people, friends of mine, I once again need assistance writing non-North-American characters. One of these days, I'm going to figure this out.
Is a "gaff" an apartment? I've been watching this show online, and this English boy uses "gaff" for literally everything. I think he's using it for both a place and as a gaff (mistake).
A "newsagent's" is a newspaper shop but also like a convenience store sometimes, right?
Is there a more common British word for paycheck?
Which is more common- a stovetop kettle or an electric kettle? (Yes, I'm being very original and having my English boys have a scene where they drink tea.)
What is a really common and really tasty (yet not high on the price scale) dessert-type snack?
What would one call the area of London that's the City of London? Could one say London proper or central London?
Is a "gaff" an apartment? I've been watching this show online, and this English boy uses "gaff" for literally everything. I think he's using it for both a place and as a gaff (mistake).
A "newsagent's" is a newspaper shop but also like a convenience store sometimes, right?
Is there a more common British word for paycheck?
Which is more common- a stovetop kettle or an electric kettle? (Yes, I'm being very original and having my English boys have a scene where they drink tea.)
What is a really common and really tasty (yet not high on the price scale) dessert-type snack?
What would one call the area of London that's the City of London? Could one say London proper or central London?
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It's a paycheque ( note the spelling!) or salary or wages
Electric kettles are pretty much the norm
No idea for what suggest on the desert type snack.. give them a cup of tea and a couple of Hobnob biscuits
The City of London is The Square Mile.. the financial centre.. nobody refers to the city of London in any other sense, ( Except James but he's wrong:). From outside London people sometimes talk about commuting to The City but they don't say " London City or The City of London. It's London.. or you refer to West London, The West End ( it's has a different meaning to West London) South London, North London, Central London, East London , the East End ( it's different). Note there is no South End or North End or the specific area mostly you go by Borough ( Tell me roughly where and how upmarket and I'll suggest some boroughs )
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A gaffe, is a mistake and a newsagent is often a cornershop where you can get all sorts of stuff
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This must be why Gavin uses it so much on Achievement Hunter. He literally uses it for everything. "Oh, look at that gaff. He gaffed it! You want to go have a gaff? Let's go to my gaff!" The other hosts accuse him of not speaking English but speaking "Gavin." XD
Thanks! :D
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Liverpool Street station ( no " the" and not just " Liverpool" cos that's in Liverpool not London ;) It's near The Square Mile but not in it and is a busy commuter station ( trains from here come in there:) ) good underground links too.
Rectory Road Station, again, no "the" We talk about the station or the overground or the underground or the tube but if refering to a station by name there's no the.
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Gaffe is generally used for your house/flat/home, but is quite a lower class/trying to act lower class term.
Electric kettles. The only time you'd ever use a stovetype one is when camping. No self respecting Brit would use one in a kitchen. We even go to university equipped with an electic kettle - as we usually have our own room as well as access to a kitchen.
The City only refers to the Square Mile of the historic city of London. Almost no-one lives there. Its full of banks and other financial institutions. London is a collection of villages and two cities (London and Westminster) all grown together. Chelsea, for instance, even has a green. Its tiny and surrounded by posh shops, ludicrously expensive little houses and a huge social housing complex.
Newsagents usually sell milk and sweets along with cards. Convenience stores tend to sell newspapers as well as sweets but stay open a lot longer.
Cream or jam doughnuts are sold even in small supermarkets.
The City is The City. You might say you're going up to Town, up the West End, down the Kings Road, up to Notting Hill but never Sarth of the River;(
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Though the really good chip shop is still there.
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Good to know! One of the characters works in the City. He's a restorationist at the Guildhall Art Gallery or something very similar to that. XD
I did not spend enough time going about the different parts of London to get a real feel for how the place is set up. XD
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He'd say he works in a gallery.
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Re the restorer. He might well say that he works at the Guildhall but as an arts person wouldn't want to be associated with City types.
The Guildhall is seperate to the Livery Halls of the medieval Guilds, many of which survive and which are used for functions and presentations.
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