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American English

The English language, but twisted & abused into a barely recognisable form, with half the vowels dropped. The letter 's' is also commonly replaced with 'z' or 'zee'. Also known as 'Wannabee English'.
English: Colour
American English: Color

English: Neighbour
American English: Neighbor

English: realise
American English: realize
by EnglishPatriarchy August 23, 2011
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english malfeasance

Of what this website is guilty
by Thrawn January 5, 2004
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English grammar

Something that Linux users lack since they all dreamt of compiling the kernel while sleeping through their English classes.
An example of poor English grammar is 1337/leet speech.
by former penguin August 10, 2003
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English summer

Supposed to be ironic. English summers typically consist of rain and little sunshine, until 'global warming' changed it. Tradtionally when someone describes weather as 'an English summer' they mean rain when there should be sunshine.
"Pack for an English summer!"
"Out comes the raincoat then..."

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(when raining outside in summer months)
"Typical english summer..."
by brandyboo April 19, 2010
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engine number 9

Totally amazing song by the Deftones which you listen to if some chav is pissing you off or you wanna drown out whiney emo kids
'Hey, engine number 9 is quality, and some kid listening to taking back sunday just walked by, turn up the Deftones'
by robj22 June 30, 2005
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Putting English on the ball

When I went to San Francisco, I heard some guys were playing pool. They put backspin on the ball, and someone said 'Nice English'. I enquired, and found out that putting English on the ball means putting backspin on it.
"Sweet. You put so much English on that ball it went all the way back up your cue and in your mouth."
by Bonny lad November 17, 2004
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English Major

Person 1: What major are you doing?
Person 2: I'm an English Major.
Person 1: I didn't know you wanted to be a teacher.
by Godyr March 20, 2013
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