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Gingerbreadspice · F
I’m from UK and when I type in bonnet it’s still a hat.
There are lots of the same words for different meanings. Like bonnet which can also be car bonnet.
Your chips are our crisps and your fries are our chips, unless we’re talking in restaurants. Where we say fries.
Boot means shoes and can mean car boot.
We say arse but most will understand ass.
Also Southern English is different to northern English in England as well so it’s not just American English which is different. Like an alleyway is a ginnel up north, dinner is tea, cup of tea is a brew, mum is mam but some pronounce mom as like in America but it’s spelt mum.
There are lots of the same words for different meanings. Like bonnet which can also be car bonnet.
Your chips are our crisps and your fries are our chips, unless we’re talking in restaurants. Where we say fries.
Boot means shoes and can mean car boot.
We say arse but most will understand ass.
Also Southern English is different to northern English in England as well so it’s not just American English which is different. Like an alleyway is a ginnel up north, dinner is tea, cup of tea is a brew, mum is mam but some pronounce mom as like in America but it’s spelt mum.
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Gingerbreadspice · F
@Gibbon Start from the bottom and work your way up. 😆
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Gingerbreadspice Oh no way. Just learning the twisted definition of fanny means I could be in trouble along the way.
Gingerbreadspice · F
@Gibbon Yep that’s true.
Cheesecake · 61-69, M
A hood is a kind of hat actually, usually on a coat. Or a Robin.
A trunk is a kind of box for travelling belongings.
And a fanny is a vagina, not an arse! Jeez! 🙄🤭
A trunk is a kind of box for travelling belongings.
And a fanny is a vagina, not an arse! Jeez! 🙄🤭
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Cheesecake What's another word for twisted over there. This is all so twisted I want to argue but can't stop laughing.
Cheesecake · 61-69, M
@Gibbon excellent. That was the intention. Much better for the soul 🤣 🇺🇲🇬🇧
Gibbon · 70-79, M
Petermatureuk2022 · 56-60, M
Isn’t there a famous quote about the US and U.K. being two countries separated by a common language! I like the differences but for me a trunk will always be attached to an elephant and never be anything to do with a car! Lol
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
A boot is something you wear on your foot not the trunk of a car.
Straylight · 31-35, F
And don’t get me started on biscuits!
uncalled4 · 56-60, M
A&E is not just a television network, as it is in the US.
Just don't be saying you're wearing a fanny pack in London.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@NativePortlander1970 Of course. I miss his show. He wouldn't come to the states. But him and Red Skelton would have been hilarious together.
@Gibbon And of course us young boys were smitten by his Hill's Angels ❤
Gibbon · 70-79, M
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