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Originally Posted by lowlight
I guess british english is so old, it has picked up a lot of slang and colloquial terms...
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I feel you need to go and educate yourself about the meanings of the words "slang" and "colloquial". You are not using them in a way which is correct in any dialect of English (even North American ones).
On the word "chop" you will find it in any dictionary (use
http://dictonary.reference.com as a start), and you can see that the etymology is from the Hindi word for what was previously more often called a seal in English. There are plenty of words in the English language that were absorbed into the language from those spoken in the former Empire.