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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:17:35 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:17:46 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:18:44 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:18:54 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:20:38 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:21:15 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:21:25 AM   
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do you eat a roll, a bap, a batch, a butty, a stottie or a breadcake? (I grew up eating rolls, for a short while at university I flirted with eating Stotties, and nowadays I suffice with a butty for my lunch)

What you call "biscuits" is roughly approximate to a scone, "sausage" is nothing of the kind in the States,  tea is somethng you drink hot with milk and sugar in ... an English Muffin is practically non existent over here.

I cook using the cooker, not the stove. Dont even get me onto tights/nylons pants/trousers shirts/tops and all the rest.

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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:24:09 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:24:55 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:26:06 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:27:15 AM   
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I feel like making up wordage like plinkards now just to make people do inane websearches.


You can't say a word like that on a public forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:27:49 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:29:43 AM   
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Quite obviously our side of the pond has better words for things lmao!!!

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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:30:42 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:31:11 AM   
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He REALLY had a laugh over that!!!

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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:34:01 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:34:15 AM   
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ORIGINAL: GabrielleSlave

Trunk = boot
Hood = bonnet

Quite obviously our side of the pond has better words for things lmao!!!


yearrrrrrrrrrrs ago the bonnet thing got me....... back in college (university for those across the pond) I had a MG midget, it broke down on the side of the road ( I know big shock) I looked everywhere for the hood latch and all I found was what I thought was the emergency brake release as it was marked with a big B.
boy did I feel like a real moron when the tow truck driver pointed out it was a bonnet not a hood.

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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:34:31 AM   
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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:38:14 AM   
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back in college (university for those across the pond) 


When Americans ask where you went to school, do they mean University??

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RE: Terminology across the pond - 10/21/2008 10:40:13 AM   
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It is amazing that people who are so alike, as the cultures of the US and the UK, often have such trouble understanding each other sometimes.... or the cars....in my place...lol

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