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Jul 2017
8:59pm, 3 Jul 2017
5,452 posts
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Pompey Paul
How much is a beer ITG? (in the Queens English if you please :-))
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Jul 2017
8:59pm, 3 Jul 2017
5,535 posts
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XB
That's not easy to get your tongue round
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Jul 2017
9:00pm, 3 Jul 2017
4,267 posts
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Icelandic Trigirl
'bout a tenner depending on the exchange rate. Maybe 8 quid at happy hour.
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Jul 2017
9:00pm, 3 Jul 2017
4,268 posts
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Icelandic Trigirl
oooo er... XB, this is a family site!
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Jul 2017
9:01pm, 3 Jul 2017
5,454 posts
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Pompey Paul
Wow, still very expensive then
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Jul 2017
9:03pm, 3 Jul 2017
13,281 posts
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Columba
According to my dictionary, a helicopter is awyren hofran (aeroplane hovering), but patio isn't in. They probably use the same word.
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Jul 2017
9:07pm, 3 Jul 2017
9,077 posts
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Rosehip
Love the language lesson 
Having "done" russian, latin and french at school and being married to a Hungarian, languages are fascinating - but I'm still crap at remembering vocab and daft grammar!
sh*t, forgot all else, better read back again in case I've missed anything important
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Jul 2017
9:13pm, 3 Jul 2017
13,282 posts
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Columba
The traditional way of counting in Welsh is ok up to 10, then there's 1 on 10, 2 on 10 etc up to 14; 15 is a word of its own (pumfeg), then 1 on 15, 2 on 15, - then, inexplicably, 18 is "two nines" (dau naw), then back to 4 on 15.
Further along it does odd things like French, but I've forgotten the details.
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Jul 2017
9:18pm, 3 Jul 2017
35,690 posts
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Fierce and Fearless Fleecy
That's even more bizarre than French! Four on fifteen?! Sounds like counting on your fingers...
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Jul 2017
9:24pm, 3 Jul 2017
13,284 posts
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Columba
RH - eldest son lived in Hungary for a few months; he said it was an incredibly difficult language and has about 52 declensions. And is related to no other language except Finnish.
(And BTW, I had a terrible struggle with autocorrect, writing those Welsh words).
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