Literature The British English vs American English thread!

[kazyeeqen]

So many posts!
Snot rag is so yuck. :bleh:
I've never heard 'bic', we just say pen.
When I was in Spain they said Tampax, which was annoying because I didn't even know the real word for tampon.
Normally I would call the regular clear tape just tape and other tape would have describers (masking tape, painter's tape, duck/duct tape, packing tape...) Never heard anyone say stickytape here.
Poster putty is the blue stuff I hang posters with.
Post-it note or stickynote is pretty interchangeable in my world.
And I say soda cause pop sounds like I've been transported to the fifties and sofa and couch are interchangeable, but I only recently learned what settee is.

 

[SummerRain]

Maybe I made the bic thing up then!

 

[kazyeeqen]

Maybe I made the bic thing up then!

I recognize the brand name though, so probably someone somewhere uses it as the name.

 

[Alice-Bee]

I just saw a girl posting on Tumblr that she couldnt live in England because we eat 6 meals a day.
lulwut? Do we...?

 

[ledboots]

I just saw a girl posting on Tumblr that she couldnt live in England because we eat 6 meals a day.
lulwut? Do we...?

Breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, and two.snacks?

 

[Amy SF]

I think the Brits have two breakfasts, a quick one and a full one?

 

[hungryraccoon]

Didn't know that cling film was called something different in America. Well I never! You learn something new every day.

6 meals a day. That sounds fun

 

[kazyeeqen]

6 meals a day. That sounds fun

Hell let's all do it! International revolution!

 

[Muggle]

Guys, it's because we eat like Hobbits!
Breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and supper.

Oh wait, that's 7 meals. I don't what she's talking about then.

 

[Muggle]

Oh wait, wiki is telling me that Hobbits eat 6 meals a day.

Oh screw it, I'm going to carry on having 7 meals on Hobbit Day (22nd September), highly doubt hobbits would disapprove of that

 

[Amy SF]

Some of those "meals" are undoubtedly just between-meal snacks.

 

[FortyTwo]

Well, fictionalized medieval Europe is Middle Earth...

Second Breakfast.

 

[Envy]

Second breakfast isn't all that uncommon for people who work early.

 

[Amy SF]

It's nice to know some people eat two breakfasts. Because there are some people who choose to eat no breakfast at all. I have no idea how they manage to get any work done before lunch.

 

[Muggle]

I don't tend to eat breakfast during the week. I eat breakfast and second breakfast at the weekend.

Because I work at weekends So I eat breakfast at about 6:30am before I leave for work at 7am then at work we have a break at about 10am after we've done all the cleaning and fed the dogs, so I have second breakfast then. We don't actually call it break, we call it breakfast.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I forgot about elevenses, mmm, now I will want tea and a biccie at 11 tomorrow.

 

[thefadedone]

The name brand thing drives me nuts. My mother has always called pads Kotex and tampon Tampax. It confused the hell outta me when I was younger since I didn't realize those were actually brand names.

I say soda and refuse to say pop.
I say sneakers and not tennis shoes (WTF is up with that? Are you actually playing tennis in them?)
I say shopping cart and not buggy (a buggy is something Amish people ride in).

 

[Calliegirl]

Tissue
Tampons
Pads
Pen
Post-its
Couch
Soda
Both sneakers and tennis shoes, usually tennis shoes when I'm talking about cheap sneakers.
Plastic wrap
There, I think I'm caught up.

I call hard candy on a stick a lollipop, not a sucker or tootsie pop
Frozen flavored ice pops are Popsicles.
Ice cream with a flavored sauce (butterscotch, caramel, hot fudge, etc) poured over it is a sundae.
Aluminum foil is just foil.

 

[Amy SF]

Some people say tin foil, but I don't. I say aluminum foil.

Tennis shoes were what we wore when we were kids back in the 1960's when we were going outside to play. Sometimes they were called sneakers, but in our house they were tennis shoes.

 

[SummerRain]

I say shopping cart and not buggy (a buggy is something Amish people ride in).

In the UK it's a trolley, and a buggy a push chair.

But we do not have any Amish communities

I'd say kitchen foil usually for foil, and ice lolly for a flavoured ice on a stick thing.