things that have different names/meanings in america

The obvious one relating to cigarettes?

Wan't it Churchill who said that we were two great nations seperated by a language? If it wasn't it should have been.

F@g, f@nny, pants

Shirt--vest. Tap--faucet. Pavement--sidewalk. Aluminium--aluminum. Jam--jello.

petrol-gas, tactical retreat-we got our butt kicked

train station-subway

Braces - suspenders
Lift - elevator
Trousers - pants
Ground floor - first floor
Garden - yard

Big - grossly overweight
Smart - Thick
Red haired beauty - ginger and ugly
Cute - Ugly, especially small child with a ribbon thing round its head like an Easter egg
Dude - gay
Boys - old men
Guys - morons
Firefighters - fat men with hose pipes
Rocket scientists - either hillbillies with matches or German immigrants
Americans - very intellectually challenged people
Veterans - unlucky people who got shot and are now living on the street or lucky people who had well connected parents and hid behind a desk
the list is endless, it's (dare I  say it) Awesome (sorry!)
I used to live there, I know.

Fortnight = pardon?
Penultimate = come again?
Rest of the World = where?

Eeternaloptimist 16 Aug 14 01:50 Joined: 28 Jun 10 | Topic/replies: 26,439 | Blogger: Eeternaloptimist's blog
Wan't it Churchill who said that we were two great nations seperated by a language? If it wasn't it should have been.


A couple of Freudian slips there Eo?

Queue.....Line
Drawing Pin.....Thumb Tac
Plaster (as in Elastoplast)....Band Aid
Tights.....Pantyhose
Dummy.....Pacifier Dust Bin.....Trash Can/Garbage Can
Panties.....Underpants
Autumn.....Fall
Biscuit.....Cookie
Crisps.....Potato Chips
Bonnet (car).....Hood
Boot (car).....Trunk
Chemists.....Drug Store
Chips.....Fries/French Fries
Estate Car.....Station Wagon
Lift.....Elevator
Holiday.....Vacation
Windscreen.....Wind Shield
Trousers.....Pants
Sweets.....Candy
Carry Cot.....Bassinet
Duvet.....Comforter

F@nny = bum.

Gemma went into a chemists (sorry, Drug Store) in Maryland and asked for a "Blister Plaster".

After some time explaining he said "you mean a "Band-Aid Cushion"!!!

Then again...I went into a chip shop in Chester and asked for a chip butty...

Tramp

Frying pan.....Skillet
Spring Onions.....Scallions
Mobile Phone.....Cell Phone
Give Way.....Yield
Bunker.....Trap/Sand Trap
Happy Xmas.....Happy Holidays

Spring Onions.....Scallions

wife uses that along with
Turnip for Swede
she's from Ireland so maybe that
taken over from here

if she calls a swede a turnip, what does she call a norwegian?

11/9.....9/11

Harvest Festival......Thanksgiving

@rse.....@ss

wenger-arse

The Yanks call swedes rutabagas and courgettes  zucchini.

Not a different word, but they call a bouy a 'boo ee'

Whitsuntide over here  -  don't know wht you're talking about over there
Hotel and restaurants decorated in pastel colours generally over here  -  drab brown and green generally over there
sexy slim secretary who might be able to type a bit over here -  overweight p.a. in crimpeline trouser suit who is very efficient over there (generally) (but usually quite good teeth)

Manual transmission = stick shift!
Wig = toupee

Football (a game where you spend most of the 90 minutes kicking a ball with your foot) = soccer

American football (a game where you spend 99.99% of it with the ball in your hands and hardly ever facking kick it) = football

...but, does it matters as their football is fantatsic, ours is, ah well.........


As a matter of interest, contrary to what people think...much of the vocabulary and phrases used in US are more rooted in older English, which they brought with them....(e.g. Fall (old English). For a couple of hundred years English changed more dynamically in England than it did in the US......initially they changed the language very little.....of course that changed in the 20th century where the language changed more dynamically and independently on both sides of the ocean)......It seems to me to be less independently now with such a shared culture.

Accident - $400 million lawsuit

.....by the way.....in the example it was the English (upper classes I suspect) who began to use and prefer the French word L'automne to their traditional Old English (i.e Geramnic) word "Fall"

...and it was a British scientist (Humphrey Davy, I think) who suggested the name aluminum, as opposed to aluminium.

P*ssy (cat) - P*ssy (not a cat)

For a mild English swear word the americans think they hadn't heard until about the mid 1990s, watch this Hollywood movie from 1939 from about 11 mins 30secs to 11m 40s.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iXg0PR2pg

Crocodile  Clips - Heard Columbo call them Alligator Clamps on  tv tonight.

angry - pissed

bumper - fender

Indians - Native Americans
Native Americans' former homeland - National Parks
night out window shopping in St Louis - looting & rioting

Prom = school disco

chemistry -- iirc the internationally-agreed official name/spelling is aluminium but the Americans won on sulfur.

Casinos -  Native Americans' land given back to them where they can do anything they like without law enforcement to assuage the guilt for mistreatment by  white American forefathers.
Iraq - 50 something state of US
United States - disunited states e.g. South Carolina is not the same as Massachusetts

Aubergine = Eggplant
Nappy = Diaper
Subcutaneous cyst = Justin Bieber

"Subcutaneous cyst = Justin Bieber"

If my missus was American and told me she had missed a period, I would be keeping my fingers crossed that she was referring to her poor punctuation.

In the USA they say President, we say ****.

asked for a pint of Four X  in a Philadelphia bar .... barman said there is a machine in the john ....didn't know they were condoms over there

wanger = w4nker  ....

Thought it was Stroker over there irishone.

The phrase.....full of spunk, means something different in America.

footpath -- sidewalk

napkin (nappie)--diaper

handbag --pocketbook ( !! )

Candy Floss......Cotton Candy

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