BBC Learning English - The English We Speak
snail mail
- 'Snail mail' is the traditional letter delivering service in which you have a postman and a post box. It's different from email or electronic mail, when the message sent on the computer travels quickly to its destination.
I'm sending my auntie Marge this lovely birthday card via snail mail. She lives in Japan.
I much prefer using email these days. All I get by snail mail are these marketing leaflets!
post
- If you write an opinion on a social media website - you 'post' a comment - your comment is… well, 'a post'!
This website's all about how trendy it is to wear fur. I don't like it at all. I think I'll post a comment!
Mary has a blog about food and she publishes new posts every day.
hard copy
- 'Hard copy' is what we call the paper version of a document you write on your computer or of a digital picture you take.
I'll give you a hard copy of my report, Mary. You can read it on the bus, on your way home.
I have a digital copy of my wedding picture as a screensaver at work but I much prefer my hard copy in a frame. It's much nicer.
nosh
- In British English, 'to have some nosh' is a slang phrase which means to have some food or to have a meal. The word 'nosh' literally means 'food' or 'a meal'.
Our canteen serves good nosh.
She likes her nosh.
Do you fancy a bit of nosh?
There was a lot of nosh at the party last night.
I like to nosh when I watch TV.
How can she ever lose weight? She noshes all the time!
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