Emu Egg to Butterfly?

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How do you get a butterfly from an emu egg?

Do you know how big an emu egg is?

(Incidently, pronounced ee-mew, not ee-moo for you yanks who can't speak the Queen's English)

Hey!! We speak the English invented by Benjamin Franklin the way god intended!!

I blame Webster.

I will give in and spell centre, "center" when...
Well when the hero in a western calls out "Circel the wagons!"


When you've seen one big American shopping centre, you've seen...

Well I'm from the South (of North America), and we speak English that's closer to the Queen's than any other American demographic. I know how to pronounce "emu," not to mention "y'all" and "Earlamae." I also know how to turn words like "damn," et. al., into polysyllabics.

It's the rank they gave you. Hope this helps...

In America, we use the Queen's English, too. It's just that all of our queens live in Greenwich Village, NY and San Francisco.

very good

Ours are mostly in Sydney

I am in Victoria.

(not that I am anti - a school friend died from Aids)

Hey!! you forgot West Hollywood!!

My apologies to any queens I've neglected. I was trying to keep the list short.

I had a great-aunt from Boston. She said that Bostonians' thought they didn't have an accent. She claimed she could tell what State someone was from by their accent, except Ca. Ca was too homogonised or something.

Don't know why I am saying this or where this threads going

Your great-aunt had a good ear. While I can differentiate between English accents (i.e. between Australian and British accents), I am no linguist and I can't tell what state someone is from by their accent. Bostonians definitely do have an accent, but then again, so do most people. There is a proper way to speak English, but I don't hear it too often.

The course this thread has taken:
Original question---language---homosexual hangouts---language.
I can't wait to see where it goes next.

By the way, I would have thought most of your queens are in Queensland.

There are outposts everywhere:

www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=50. ... 000&icon=x

The little Cornish spot of Indian Queens.

Queenstown New Zealand, an ex-Queenstown in Eire... (Now there's a thought!)

Another perhaps little-known fact, for those outside the UK. The ceremonial unit used for royal salutes was known as "The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery" due to King George VI's initiative in keeping this horse unit for such a purpose. When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, rather than change to... She requested they keep their name as a mark of remembrance to her father.

And don't forget Queens, New York, not to mention the former Queens County in Ireand, now County Laois.

I am reminded of a Monty Python poem:

Australia is a lovely place
Its full of bonza blokes
There's lots of beer
And no-one's queer
Except in pommy jokes.

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Translation:
Bonza = good. Bonza bloke = "good 'ole boy"
pommy = English/Brittish.

We love/hate the english. Love to beat them in cricket and rugby. Hate to be beated by them.
Generations of us with no uncles hate them for using them for canon fodder in their wars. I never understand why Canadians don't feel this way.

i lovee real strong american accents theyre cool lol

like 'you took our jobs!' - yu t-kurrr- jawbs! (from south park)

I think that type of accent is far from me. That's more of a Southern accent.