Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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I don't know about bollocks, but the phrase "pop in" has caught on, at least in NY. As in, "I have to pop in to the store to buy some milk." Also "bloody" as in "that bloody cab almost ran me over"

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I didn't even think of this as a Britishism.

I've heard it all my life, and I grew up in Guam and Hawaii. Now I live in California and hear it once in a while over here too. I've never seen anyone not understand it.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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Occasionally Americans use Britishisms just for fun or to try to sound sophisticated. Gays and pretentious males seem to fall prey most to this anomalous use of language the rest of their peers don't even understand.

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how rude.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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Don't you just hate it when the English go around messing with the English language. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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We have to add a new word for every one that gets banned.

Mack

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

ain't no bollocks on MY tongue!

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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I first learned the phrase from the Sex pistols album (For all you fools who know one of the greatest bands ever: Never Mind the Bollocks Heres's hte Sex Pistols) andI ve used it ever since. I use it in the chat box because no one else knows what it means and then I can make fun of them, because thats how cool I am.

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You really think:

a) there are many people people that don't know who the Sex Pistols are?

and

b) there are many people that don't know what bollocks means?

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Don't give him such I hard time. When I was 14, I also felt cool for having a knowledge of punk bands that no one at my school had heard of.