English words that mean different in US and UK..

However riding Bareback has a different meaning and nothingto do with horses. @SW-User

@SW-User [quote] Americans are stupid and need explicit instructions[/quote]

Trying to restart the Revolutionary War ? 🤨

@bijouxbroussard the one where we kicked ass? 😅

@bijouxbroussard maybe they were just being a troll
cause every english person knows, its the queens english o.O

@bijouxbroussard [quote]"destroying the King’s English". 😳
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This does sound like they meant it seriously. Sounds like they were a bit nutty, pedantic, and traditionalist. They also don't get that American English is different and has been for a very long time. We don't own how the language is used outside our borders.

@bijouxbroussard The whole thing is confectionary but that's a word that's seldom used. It's subdivided into either chocolate (usually a single bar of) or chocolates(as in a box of), or the anything else is called sweets. Not sure where you guys got the word candy from, you have such a diverse population the etymology would be interesting.

@bijouxbroussard in Ireland we call candy 'sweets'

@TheSirfurryanimalWales No, I was asking about the PHOTO chips

@Yulianna Thank you. It was not clear, which part of which of my comments you were agreeing with.

@Really you asked me only one question...

@Yulianna Crystal Clear....🤣🤣🤣

@Really You are very intolerant. I speak English very well, though I learnt it in school, being in the UK. And growing up in Welsh.
Your questions are not clear.
Please itemize them and I shall answer.

@Blodyn I don’t know wtf you and “Mr. Old and Curmudgeonly AF”, are talking about, but thongs are naughty underwear in the US too. Flip flops are also called flip flops here.

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@travelguy01 Don't feel bad. You wouldn't be the only one here who doesn't know what others are talking about.

@Burnley123 I love the Lancashire, Irish and Scottish accents 🙂

@Burnley123 feast 😂😂

@somedude15 Whaaay. At least someone got that.

@helenS true 🙂

@nedkelly 😆 hi ned you come to join in kick the scousers i see 😆😆😆😆

@nedkelly Common sight around Anfield:

@Nimbus 😆 what are you moaning about nimby at least they never nicked the whole thing 😆😆

@ozgirl512 It's been mentioned several times. Maybe hasn't made it across the date line yet. 😜

@nedkelly can't argue with that

@Really oops... Guess I should have kept reading lol

@Really [quote] only year-month-day makes sense: [/quote]
That's the format used in Sweden (possibly elsewhere too). It's also a common way to store dates in computer files.

@Really One minute past midnight is still 12.01 am here in Britain and 12.01 pm is one minute after midday.I have no clue where you read it as the other way around.The origin of am is anti meridiem,the Latin for before midday.Post meridiem is the Latin for after midday,abbreviated to pm meaning the sun had passed the meridian as in past midday.Day month year or year month day are logical.

@RubySoo, @tallpowerhouseblonde : I didn't read it anywhere. It's just what I seem to remember from my life in Britain; more than 40 years ago now. Or It's just the way I've always thought of it without realising I was the only sensible one in the whole country 😄 ! Or maybe it's changed over time to fit the American-dominated 'mid-Atlantic' culture with everybody singing like a cowboy. 🤠 Haha.

As for what's logical I'll try an analogy although I know they always have a flaw that can be attacked ...

I'm counting apples - one apple, two apples, three apples - but when I have twelve apples and I add one more I call it an orange. Yeah I know it's a poor analogy, but if you genuinely try to understand what I say about the am/pm thing you will 'get it.' Otherwise probably not and you'll see it as ridiculous.

But finally, why is one minute into the new day not written as 0.01 ? 🤨

@BoredDarkLord It [b]should[/b] mean that here, too. 😅

@MasterLee what does a nappy drive mean?

@RubySoo no not all

@Dusty101 I want to know too!

@4meAndyou good ones :)

@HakunaMatata Thank you!

@Really Lol, fuel vs. flatulence ? 🤭

@Blodyn And I meant 'subway' as generally used on both sides of the Atlantic. Why are you "responding" with/about a Welsh phrase no one has raised?

Subway In America does not necessarily mean train. One can take the subway or one can go through a subway or one can excavate a subway etc etc etc.

@Really Ok. But here one cannot take a subway. It makes no sense. A subway is is a footpath under a road. A sottopassagiria as my Dad would say. He's from Brindisi!

@Blodyn OK

@Thodsis In my language it means what girls have.

@Blodyn And for the wrong'uns it's an arse.

@Thodsis So it's different in our two languages.

@WintaTheAngle That’s true. And other countries’ languages have been incorporated into the U.S. dialect of English, as well as indigenous terms.

@helenS maybe one day I'll shock you, a post will appear!

@TopOfTheWorld Looking forward! 🌷

@helenS @TopOfTheWorld

This post was supposed to be about English words.

Curriculum Vitae is Latin
Resumé is French

Signed
The Pedant 😂😂😂

@HakunaMatata UK - mirror. USA - meer. 😂

Road rage / aggressive behaviour more than the actual riding surface @Thodsis

@scorpiolovedeep Was thinking of the flat surface. Pavement in the UK is walked on.

@Thodsis There are loads of words that are different. But the question was words that have different meanings in the two languages.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether 'Getting laid' is an American term imported to the UK like so much else. I could list maybe a dozen genuinely British phrases meaning the same. But I won't. Some are quite disgusting.

OK? 😄 Guess where that came from.

@scorpiolovedeep Muffler muffles sound but you can still hear it. Silencer you can't.

👍@Blodyn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffler

@scorpiolovedeep yup its fixing muff

@bijouxbroussard he also said the British haven't spoken English for years!

@BluntSm0ker Yes, 75 years ago we were saving the world from a very unpleasant form of right wing aggression. Thankfully the USSR was on our side and absorbed about 75-80% of Hitler's army and airforce. Britain took care of most of Hitler's navy, plus the Italians, Iraquis, etc that sided with Hitler. The world owes the USSR a major debt for that.
I believe that the US joined in after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour?

@BluntSm0ker Saved and being saved. Stepping in when nobody else would and doing what no other nation had the moral or physical courage to attempt.
Thank God for the USSR- and the Commonwealth. At one time the only fully armed and equipped force ready to face Hitler's Right Wing monsters was a Canadian division based on the south coast of England- while the RAF, of course, inflicted the first defeat on the Fascists.

@Stereoguy [quote]USA toilet paper. UK Loo roll[/quote]UK; Also toilet paper

[quote]USA Boot: a shoe you wear. UK: trunk of a car.[/quote]UK: Also heavy footwear

And pissed can mean urinated, anywhere.

@Dusty101 great ones 🙂

@dontbekoi good ones 🙂

@Fairydust Oh, like what?

@Nimbus Like firewood?

@Really Oh yea 👍