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In 68 years of life, I’ve never ever heard of a beaver moon .. until this week! Is it to celebrate the election of Trump?

I think it's something quite rude (in Canada)

Just another import from across the pond. As if prom nights and hash browns weren't enough.

C’mon, hash browns are one of the rare positive imports from ‘merica.

I am however horrified that Prom Might is a thing here these days.

Prom night has been a thing for a while.

Hash browns are an abomination that's infiltrated fryups.

In the east midlands, I believe it's the Belvoir moon.

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Hash browns in America and UK hash browns are very different things.

I'll give you prom nights though, and throw in baby showers.

A FB 'memory' popped up on 4th Nov, from 2017, noting the 'beaver moon'. So that makes seven years...

I am trying not to think about another sort of 'beaver moon'...

Are you sure as to me you can't beat a bit of beaver by moonlight.
 

when i'm teaching algebra now almost every kids pronounces z as 'zee' it makes me feel sick, I put them on detention.

I assumed it was a native American porn star.

Seems a complex situation. I imagine you could make an argument for it. 🤣

I agree.  Complete waste of money. Babies grow up in no time and can use a normal shower.

Yes. I've come to realise that "biscuits and gravy" is a different thing in the USA from how we would imagine it over here .

I looked at the beaver moon, it needs waxing.

And routes pronounced rowts.

I'll see your baby showers and raise you with gender reveal parties.

We used to have prom nights, we just called it an end of term disco. We didn't arrive in a tux, on a helicoptor or in a stretch limo though.

Whenever I climbed in the States it was 'stem the dihedral' which always made me smile. Especially delivered with a country and western accent.

That's awful and another reason to think I retired just in time.

I've not yet got past gotten.

Ill gotten gains suspect some of these words are actually archaic english

“My bad” is another one, I distinctly remember the first time I heard it. It’s almost ubiquitous now rather than ‘my mistake’. 
 

I just look at them and say “my bad what?”

Perhaps next time a kid pronounces z as zee, I’ll tell him to “get real, pronounce it as ex.”

Beaver is a new one on me - 50% of the Aussie population has a 'map o' tazzie' *, although  I gather  much of their maps have been groomed so much its unrecognisable now.

* Map of Tasmania.   

Yes we had a sixth form prom in the mid '90s. Nothing like they are now though, with kids missing out because they can't afford the dress code.

When I finished school in 1988 we got tanked up in the 6th year common room, got kicked out and had subsequent 6th years banned from having a common room as well.

None of this prom nonsense.

There is a school of thought that 17th & 18th century English is reflected more in modern American speech than it is over here.

Hang on a sec..  eg: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-britis...

Don’t you mean gotten past gotten?

Gotten is actually in the IoW , so maybe Robert hasnae made it further south?

Split Wet?

As opposed to the Belvoir Hunt...

Is it Brenda's beaver, the one that needs a barber?

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