Questions for Brits

["Hammond, Mark" <Mark.Hammond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 16:45:00 +0200
> > From: "Leatherbiker" <leatherbiker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Questions for Brits
> > 
> > "I'm chuffed" = I'm delighted, over the moon, veryhappy/content.
> 
> If you're "chuffed" you tend to sit there grinning like the Cheshire
> cat.  What's interesting is the use of "a bit" as an intensifier: "a
> bit chuffed" = extremely happy.  "I'm fed up" = I'm bored, "I'm a bit
> fed up" = [also British] I'm p****d off.
> 
> > "naff" is one of those very English words
> 
> Yes, and there is a clothes company, I don't know where it makes the
> stuff but its products are marketed in Germany, called "Naff Naff"...
> 
> Say no more
> 
> Mark
> Linz, Austria
> 
> 

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