Queue

Why in the world is this word spelled that way? It doesn’t make any sense.

When I first went to London I had a little book that was called something along the lines of “Thing Americans Don’t Know About London”.

One of the things in the book was the phrase “Queue up” meaning get in line. I must admit, I had no idea what that word meant before my trip there.

Some of the other things I learned in London included:

*You better get to the right side of wherever you are if you are going to either stand still or walk slow. Prepare to be yelled at if you don’t. And get your bags to the right too.

*Knackered means tired.

*Everyone will ask you “What are you?” and most people will introduce others by their nationality. “Sid sits in that corner of these office. He’s a scott.”

*Don’t talk on the tube. Don’t sneeze to loud, cough to loud, or breathe to loud either.

*Americans do seem obnoxious sometimes but only because they are out of their element. IE - they talk loud on the tube and stand to the left on the escalators.

*This is not a diss, just a truth I learned while over there, most people in Europe have no idea which states are where in the US. 9 out of 10 times when I told people I was from Michigan they would say, is that by California?

*English people have accents by region the same as we do in the US, except I couldn’t tell the difference. I worked in a PR firm there and when I got off of speakerphone the girls next to me would say “Ohhh my gaaawwwd did you hear how she said the word paper?? Ugghh those northerners”.

*On the same note, most english people think all American’s sound alike. We would play the ”imitate me” game and when I would do what sounded to me like a perfect imitation of them they would roll with laughter. When they imitated me it was a redneck backwoods version, which is how I believe they hear all American accents.