Would like to know some U.K .language terms that .....?

we don't or possibly wouldn't know or use here in the United States? One of them is wheely bins!http://members.aol.com/gavinpaulbinboy/2...





I had to look that one up because of a yahoo question here!


But, what else can you teach us? I know that a Lorry is a truck, a brolly is an umbrella, Rubbers are rain boots,(or wellingtons), a biscuit is a cookie, ices are, sorbet,chips are french fries, crisps are potato chips, treacle is either like molasses, or it is! I know that there are more...please help! also give me any web sites as well! I think that there are many other people on ask yahoo whom would benefit from this , as well!





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Would like to know some U.K .language terms that .....?
One quite confusing one is that what Americans call the first floor is called the ground floor in the UK, and what they call the second floor is called the first floor here.





It would appear that Americans use the word gravy differently from us too (or at least to cover a wider variety of sources). I have some US friends who were waxing lyrical recently about biscuits and gravy. To British ears, that sounds like what you might call cookies in meat sauce. Mmmm...





Another interesting one is roommate. In the UK, this literally means someone you share a room with. If you share the same house or flat, but have different rooms, we say housemate or flatmate. Oh yeah, flat's another one: what Americans call an apartment.





What else...? Well, pants and suspenders are an old joke. In the UK they mean underpants and garters. Only women and transvestites wear suspenders in Britain. Men wear braces (and a teenager might have a brace on his teeth -- or sometimes braces).





I would add that for lot of Brits, the words cookies and fries are used and mean something different from biscuits and chips. A cookie to me is chewier (and usually larger) than a biscuit, which tends to be crisper, or possibly more crumbly. I would never call what you get from the chip shop fries; but I would call what you get from MacDonalds fries: they're thinner and longer. Chips tend to be chunkier.





And finally, this isn't the same thing, but how come so few Americans have ever heard of leeks? I'd be shocked to meet someone from the UK or Ireland who hadn't, but about 90% of Americans I ask haven't heard of them -- and I'm pretty sure there's no other word for them.
Reply:Jelly (US) is Jam at least it is in Australia so I assume its the same as they have a band called The Jam.





Cotton Candy is fairy floss I dont know if that has anything to do with fairies flossing their teeth with it
Reply:Knickers! - underwear


Roundabout - Rotunda
Reply:Chavs





This is the term for the UK equivalent of a redneck or the typical woman who has 5 kids to different Dads and is on welfare and is only 22! Wears nasty clothes, looks 'trailer park' - no offense to anyone who lives in a trailer.





In Australia we call them Bogans
Reply:candy floss -- cotton candy


dodgems -- fairground bumper cars


knackered -- exhausted


loo -- toilet


pram -- baby carriage
Reply:In a car, the english bonnet is the hood, and the boot is the trunk. The windscreen in the windshield.


To yield on the road is to give way here.


The footpath is the sidewalk


Diaper is a nappy


Biscuit is a cookie


and mmmmmmmmmmm ....


look up here


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wor...





and here


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ame...





Hey I'm reading it now ... it's amusing
Reply:It's hard to guess at what you don't know, as we take for granted that everyone knows it.





We call 'aluminum' aluminium; 'sidewalk' is pavement, 'plaid' is checked or tartan and 'obesity epidemic' is 'eating too many pies'. ;-)
Reply:Americans say 'freight train' and Brits say 'goods train' - Americans fill up their car with gas and Brits fill up their car with 'petrol', American men put on their 'prophylactics' before intercourse and British men put on their 'condoms', Americans have their 'trash cans' emptied by the garbage men while Brits have their 'dustbins' emptied by the 'dustmen'. But the difference between jam and jelly has me puzzled. I spread jam on my bread and make jelly as a dessert but I believe Americans spread jelly on their bread and make jello as a dessert. Americans travel 'coach' on the plane but Brits travel 'economy'
Reply:Motorway (uk), autobahn (germany), freeway (us)



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