words in england that mean something totally different in america!!
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curborough
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The one I find funniest is fanny pack! I mean..come on, it's a bum bag!
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Well "Bum"mer said the the "Butt" of all jokes0
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Chips are what we call crisps. So if you go to America and ask for chips you're gonna be disappointed!0
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I was educated this week that juice means something else in England.0
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stanmann571 wrote: »I was educated this week that juice means something else in England.
What was you told it meant?..having said that half the words the kids use here nowdays us older ones don't understand!1 -
blueyandcrazee wrote: »Chips are what we call crisps. So if you go to America and ask for chips you're gonna be disappointed!
A little off topic
Speaking of england, pants apparently mean underpants. which makes all the jokes on 8 out of 10 cats/UK tv make a whole lot more sense. "I was standing there in my pants" and I am thinking so what, you have trousers on, but they mean underpants/nickers/panties3 -
Yes pants are underwear to us!..trousers are your pants! Also those crazy satnavs that tell you to exit at the next 'ramp'..whats that all about!?1
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blueyandcrazee wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »I was educated this week that juice means something else in England.
What was you told it meant?..having said that half the words the kids use here nowdays us older ones don't understand!
I was advised that juice could mean liquid fruit flavored non-caloric water additives and not just the product produced by pulping/juicing a fruit.
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stanmann571 wrote: »blueyandcrazee wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »I was educated this week that juice means something else in England.
What was you told it meant?..having said that half the words the kids use here nowdays us older ones don't understand!
I was advised that juice could mean liquid fruit flavored non-caloric water additives and not just the product produced by pulping/juicing a fruit.
Yes we do call that juice or sometimes squash. It's the stuff that you dilute with water.0 -
blueyandcrazee wrote: »Chips are what we call crisps. So if you go to America and ask for chips you're gonna be disappointed!
A little off topic
Speaking of england, pants apparently mean underpants. which makes all the jokes on 8 out of 10 cats/UK tv make a whole lot more sense. "I was standing there in my pants" and I am thinking so what, you have trousers on, but they mean underpants/nickers/panties
I think that person is just simple. I'm Australian and call all those things by names other than "chip"0 -
An oldie and a goody is "boot". Not only in England but in the 20th century extent of the British empire. My cousin, a woman from Texas, had emigrated to Kenya for her career as a university educator. Her story of an encounter with a Kenyan police officer who wanted to examine the contents of her 'boot' is hilarious.1
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Yes, I have gotten no end of grief and hilarity from pants and fanny.
I remember once on a hair care board I announced to my international friends that I wanted to grow my hair down to my fanny. OMG I was tortured for that one for probably a month.
Then of course there are all the obvious ones...
Chips (French fries...U.S. chips are potatoes, corn chips, etc.)
Biscuits (cookies...our biscuits are fluffy things)
Veg (vegetables..."veg" means to chill out mindlessly)
Car park (parking lot)
Mate (buddy...mate would be romantic/sexual)
...and so on.0 -
Yes, I have gotten no end of grief and hilarity from pants and fanny.
I remember once on a hair care board I announced to my international friends that I wanted to grow my hair down to my fanny. OMG I was tortured for that one for probably a month.
Then of course there are all the obvious ones...
Chips (French fries)
Biscuits (cookies)
Veg (vegetables)
Car park (parking lot)
Mate (biddy)
...and so on.
Think you may have meant buddy... biddy is an old chicken
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First time I came to America on holiday(vacation!) I heard a woman ask her husband in one of the Disney parks if her fanny looked big! It just sounded so odd...and so wrong!0
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stanmann571 wrote: »Yes, I have gotten no end of grief and hilarity from pants and fanny.
I remember once on a hair care board I announced to my international friends that I wanted to grow my hair down to my fanny. OMG I was tortured for that one for probably a month.
Then of course there are all the obvious ones...
Chips (French fries)
Biscuits (cookies)
Veg (vegetables)
Car park (parking lot)
Mate (biddy)
...and so on.
Think you may have meant buddy... biddy is an old chicken
I think I was already editing this while you posted.
It was an autocorrect.
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A biddy is an old person to us1
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blueyandcrazee wrote: »A biddy is an old person to us
It is to us* too. It was an autocorrect on my Kindle.
*And here I corrected yet another bad autocorrect. I will never buy a $79 Kindle again.0 -
blueyandcrazee wrote: »First time I came to America on holiday(vacation!) I heard a woman ask her husband in one of the Disney parks if her fanny looked big! It just sounded so odd...and so wrong!
Okay, well...you know...nobody wants a big fanny.
Just sayin'.0 -
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Bird (for a girl) (we might say "chick")
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