Saturday, June 26, 2010

English-South African Dictionary for the Confused

yoghurt (pronounced yog-urt) - yoghurt ( yo-gurt)
trainers (tray-nerz)- takkies (tack-eez)
satsumas (sat-soo-mahz)- naartjies (nar-cheez)
data (day-tah) - data (dar-ta)
football (foot-borl) - soccer (sock-er)
crisps (kriss-pss) - chips (ch-ipss)
chips (ch-ipss) - slapchips (ss-lupp-ch-ipss)
trousers (tr-ow-zerz) - pants (pan-tz)
pants (pan-tz) - panties (pan-teez)
pasta (pa-sta) - pasta (puh-sta)
pizza (peetz-ah) - pizza (pit-zah)
yeah (y-air) - ja (yar)

5 comments:

  1. u could put crisps - chips and frenchfries - slapchips
    luv abi
    xx

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  2. HAHAHAHAHHA
    interesting indeed.
    put kokies on there - like felt tip pens
    and pants as in trousers. not pants as in panties

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