Britspeak Quiz

[trysail]

Have you got what it takes to pass as one of Her Majesty's subjects?

Can you engage in witty repartee with the dolf? Are you capable of catchy conversation with Butters? Have you got what it takes to follow Fata?




Test your knowledge of Britspeak by taking this quiz offered up by those wonderful people at the Oxford English Dictionary.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/10/british-english-quiz/

A common people separated by a common language.

-George Bernard Shaw​

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[unregistered]

 

[DesEsseintes]

'10/10. Brilliant! You're practically a native! Wait...are you British?'

Curses! Discovered.

 

[JudasIscariot]

8/10

As soon as shitty rugby was brought up I was always gonna be cabbaged

I guessed two correctly n all. Could of been embarrassing for a 'native'

 

[xtinelauren1]

5/10. I was so confident, too.

 

[ryan8558]

9/10

 

[unregistered]

 

[pete]

7/10
listening to BBC1 radio helped me out a little.

 

[Bad_Doggie]

9/10

Never heard of any of the cake examples.

Woof!

 

[parodyluvr75]

8/10 I need some Brit in me.

 

[The Greek]

7/10

Probably not good enough to chat up Dolf

 

[shewantsmore]

10/10 im quite pleased with myself,i knew all those years at school were not wasted

 

[Aquagal]

8/10

What's cream cake?

 

[JudasIscariot]

8/10

What's cream cake?

A cake with cream in

 

[Vikingstone]

8/10

What's cream cake?

Ha! I missed that one also.

Icecream cake yes, but not just cream cake.

 

[shewantsmore]

icecream cake? icecream and cake but together whats that

 

[Fata Morgana]

A cake with cream in

Pity the fools.

 

[Vikingstone]

8/10.

A strop is something one sharpens ones straight razor on!

 

[Fata Morgana]

8/10.

A strop is something one sharpens ones straight razor on!

I have loads of strops.

 

[Vikingstone]

icecream cake? icecream and cake but together whats that

You get them at Dairy Queen. Punishingly sugary. Not my favorite.

 

[Killswitch]

5/10.

 

[Vikingstone]

I have loads of strops.

Frequent periods of ill-temper?

 

[JudasIscariot]

Instead of strop on we say a cob on.

A cob is a crusty barm, no idea how it relates to being upset.

English people are weird.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Frequent periods of ill-temper?

Yep. That's me!

 

[Fata Morgana]

Instead of strop on we say a cob on.

A cob is a crusty barm, no idea how it relates to being upset.

English people are weird.

Don't say cob much round here, apart from sausage cob. We say face on, chin on or thrown a paddy.