Phrases that throw people (but especially Americans) (sale, pre-k)
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The world's getting smaller by the day. The OP's list wasn't the best examples. All of them are either used in the States or fairly easy to follow.
Some words that might throw Americans are when common words have different meanings. An example would be 'pissed'. It doesn't mean drunk here in the US..So it might throw us off to hear a Brit use it.
Yeah thats what I was thinking.
I was going to put up some words but i'm not sure if they are American or British anymore, it seems to me that nowadays a lot of American words are mixed in with our vocabulary so its kind of hard to tell whats what.
Surely words like 'sorted' would be easy to work out. Any Americans that I know or who have been here haven't really struggled to work out what the words mean.
I understand that Brits stand for office, instead of running for election.
I am trying to stay away from obvious slang. Just words where either one of them makes sense.
For instance Americans ride a roller coaster. The reason they are called that is back in the 19th century there was a single ride built with rollers that operated for about a year. It was too dangerous and was shut down. But for some reason the tracked vehicles built since then still bear the name.
Spain, France, and Italy call the Russian Mountains. Pretty obviously hundreds of years ago, the Russians built mountains that you could sled down in the cold winter.
I don't know what Brits call them.
But it isn't really slang, just a vocabulary that developed independently.
To be honest nearly every other country says 'herbs' I don't really get why Americans pronounce it like that because the letter 'H' is there its not spelt 'erbs'.
Its a bit tacky to be honest and makes them look like prats.
Go ahead and ask for 'herbal' tea when you visit your beloved America. You'll get funny looks.
No it means a bad ****. (like the baby is acting up).
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