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May 19, 2011, 05:11
BobHale
UK/US difference in a quiz question
I watch too much daytime TV while I'm waiting for my new job.

This question was on one today and I couldn't help thinking that if asked as it is on a US quiz show it might take on an slightly different
emphasis. (Note, just in case you don't know, c) in the UK can ONLY refer to the garden implement.)

Which of the following words can mean a fashionable but dissolute young man?

a) Rake
b) Fork
c) Hoe


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
May 20, 2011, 03:49
arnie
quote:
c) in the UK can ONLY refer to the garden implement

Although anyone who listens to rap music (and many who don't) will be aware of the opportunities for confusion.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
May 20, 2011, 06:18
<Proofreader>
In the US a hoe is a garden tool; a ho is a tool for seeding.
May 20, 2011, 06:42
zmježd
With all the sticklers after apostrophes, I've always wondered why the older of the two weren't written who'e?


—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
May 29, 2011, 20:56
Kalleh
Remember Don Imus's "nappy headed hoes?" Link
May 30, 2011, 00:59
arnie
quote:
Remember Don Imus's "nappy headed hoes?"

Nope.

What does nappy headed mean? Confused


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
May 30, 2011, 05:38
<Proofreader>
quote:
What does nappy headed mean?

Hair having a texture like steel wool, common to many black Africans.
May 30, 2011, 06:31
BobHale
quote:
comical format which critics labeled as racist, misogynist, homophobic and anti-semitic.


Sounds a wonderful chap.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 02, 2011, 21:04
Kalleh
He's a jackass, to be sure.