| AMERICAN | BRITISH |
| Airplane | Aeroplane |
| Aluminum | Aluminium |
| Apartment | Flat |
| Band-Aid | Elastoplast |
| Entree, | Starter |
| Eraser | Rubber |
| Expensive | Dear |
| Call (on the phone) | Ring |
| Checkers | Draughts |
| Hamburger Bun | Bap |
| Jail | Gaol |
| Jello | Jelly |
| Jelly | Jam |
| Napkin | Serviette |
| Nudist | Naturist |
| Sneakers | Trainers, Plimsolls,Pumps |
| Soccer | Football |
| Stroller | Pram, Pushchair |
| Suspenders | Braces |
| Sweater | Pullover, Jumper |
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
One people, divided by a common language
Grandmere Mimi is going to have to learn a new dialect: British. The number of women who have come to grief over the definition of a rubber! Here 's some help:
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how about "trunk" and "boot"
Thank you for doing this BTW.
Not to mention "fags" or cigarettes which most of us have abandoned for health's sake.
First Floor - Second Floor
cookie - biscuit
candy - sweets
supper - high tea
french fry - chip
chip - crisp
Will MP or Doorman Priest knock up Grandmere Mimi?
Taking a "drag off a fag" has a sharply different meaning in this country.
I remember how concerned I was as a child to read of Pooh admiring Christopher Robin's "braces". I thought it must mean that he had had polio.
I always found the kids carrying torches fascinating though I half knew what they really were.
But you guys use candy to mean chocolate too, don't you?
And jelly is jam? Jelly is jelly, what you get when you strain your boiled fruit and sugar through a piece of muslin.
Jam is what you get when you pot the content of your preserving pan without straining the fruit out of it.
Don't you Americans distinguish that?
How about
US - - UK
bum - tramp
bum - arse
sidewalk - pavement
elevator - lift
thunderclap - fart
She's staying in Leeds! None of this matters as she won't comprehend a word anyway. The Hamburger bun/bap is just as likely to be reffered to as a barm cake.
Just to defent Yorkshirespeak...
Oh, maybe not.
But then I'm from the south originally.
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