>>>We say "wet" as well. And we DO have cigarettes. I guess your equiv. of "fag" is a "butt" (though that too has similar connotations :-) We also say "ciggy" which I think I've heard Americans say. A butt also here usually means the "dog-end" of a ciggy, but you also say "You got a butt, ?", meaning a whole ciggy.
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>>It's also why you have to be careful to whom you say 'butt out'.
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>Would someone clear this conundrum for me please: if we say "we're heading north", is that the same as saying "we're butting south"?

No, "to head" is not the same as "to butt". If you're a footballer, you "head the ball", which means you're "in charge of the dance", which means you'd better get out of the way quick before you get trampled

- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.