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Another one I've run across here on MFP:
US drive-through > UK Take-away
A take-away here just means food to eat at home from a Chinese/Indian/Italian, etc, restaurant. We get them delivered too. We have drive-through McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, etc, just the same as the US.0 -
My favorite will always be that they call a chick a bird.
First time a British man said 'toodle pip, pretty bird' to me, I almost had a stroke.0 -
UK Roundabout = US Rotary
I've only heard them called roundabouts in the US. Rotary is a club (Rotary International).
Depends on the location in the US -- here in New Jersey they're called Circles.
a few more:
profiterole = cream puff
bum = bottom, rear end
on the dole = on unemployment compensation
custard = pudding
pudding = dessert (various)
tea (not the beverage) = lunch or supper
dust bin = trash can
rubbish bin = garbage can (although not too many towns have you separate the two anymore)
bin diving = dumpster diving0 -
Has fanny been mentioned yet? Means something different here in Ireland than in the US.
Oh and thongs in Oz are something different than here too :laugh:0 -
My husband laughed the other day because he'd never heard the term 'throwing a wobbly' before. XD
I love that expression!
My American friend found it a bit strange when I told her me and my ex "had a Barney"
She wanted to know what we were doing to the purple Dinosaur!0 -
UK Roundabout = US Rotary
I've only heard them called roundabouts in the US. Rotary is a club (Rotary International).
I know they are Rotaries in the Northeast. My wife is from Boston and I grew up in the UK so we argue all the time about it.
Weird, I'm from the NE and we don't even have roundabouts (which is what they'd be called if we did). Of course, Boston is a bit of an aberration...0 -
I have to book meetings all the time with our UK counterparts and this is my favorite.
US: Calendar = UK: Diary
I love how it sounds in a british accent, and it makes me giggle and think back when I was 10 and would write in my diary evening before bed.0 -
If someone is taking a long time to tell a short story we say they're going "round the houses"0
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I am from Connecticut and my side of the family calls them rotaries. My husband's family calls them traffic circles.0
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Well, I'm from Alabama so I don't want to play. :laugh:0
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Well, I'm from Alabama so I don't want to play. :laugh:
In the UK, we call that sulking0 -
Well, I'm from Alabama so I don't want to play. :laugh:
In the UK, we call that sulking
Here, too. Or pouting. Interchangeable. :-)0 -
Question for the British: What do you call the cart you put your groceries in while shopping? We have a few variations between northern and southern US. In the north, it is either carriage or shopping cart. In the south I have heard people call them buggies.0
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In my old job, had to work with a few Americans and I found the way they said 'Niche' quite odd. Took me a while to figure out what they were saying as they seemed to add a t into the word so it sounded like nitche.0
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In my old job, had to work with a few Americans and I found the way they said 'Niche' quite odd. Took me a while to figure out what they were saying as they seemed to add a t into the word so it sounded like nitche.
That's regional. I say neesh. It's French, after all. But I have heard it pronounced nitch.0 -
Question for the British: What do you call the cart you put your groceries in while shopping? We have a few variations between northern and southern US. In the north, it is either carriage or shopping cart. In the south I have heard people call them buggies.
Shopping trolley. Generally-speaking.0 -
I remember being in Florida for a holiday when I was about 6. I was in a shop with my parents and I'd been allowed a lollipop and had just unwrapped it. Being a good little girl I knew not to litter so I went up to the checkout and asked the lady if there was a bin I could put the paper in. I Had absolutely no idea why this lady though that was a confusing question but she had no idea what I meant until my mum came over and explained that I was looking for a "trash can". That was the first time in my life I discovered that American's had different words for things than we do in the UK even though we both speak English lol.0
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trump - fart
That brings a whole new meaning to my old Top Trump card sets.
Or Donald Trump, I think it fits him though.0 -
Question for the British: What do you call the cart you put your groceries in while shopping? We have a few variations between northern and southern US. In the north, it is either carriage or shopping cart. In the south I have heard people call them buggies.
I'm from NY, so they're carts. But some people here in VA call them buggies. Also, they put my groceries in bags, but Southerners' in sacks.
What about when something is on the opposite corner from another thing? Where I'm from, that's "kitty corner" (and I have no idea why) but here in the South they say "caddy corner".0 -
I remember being in Florida for a holiday when I was about 6. I was in a shop with my parents and I'd been allowed a lollipop and had just unwrapped it. Being a good little girl I knew not to litter so I went up to the checkout and asked the lady if there was a bin I could put the paper in. I Had absolutely no idea why this lady though that was a confusing question but she had no idea what I meant until my mum came over and explained that I was looking for a "trash can". That was the first time in my life I discovered that American's had different words for things than we do in the UK even though we both speak English lol.
Now, see, in context she should have been able to figure that one out. Some people aren't quite as quick on the uptake as others.0
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