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Yes it was Little Britain, Matt Lucas went to her wedding ha ha!
Candy in the UK gets translated into sweets or sweeties, but in the north all sweets/candy are 'toffees' - whatever kind, not necsessarily made of toffee...
But in Australia (in my experience) all sweets/candy/toffee are 'lollies' - and sweet drinks are lolly-water!
The Gov after 911 wanted us to called them Freedom Fries & Freedom Toast. What BS.
Wow This tread is Hot.
I'd love to say 'only in America', but the British Royal family changed their previously German family name to 'Windsor' in 1917, because of anti-German feeling......
I'm glad TimoMc already translated 'biscuit' for me - that would just be weird on our biscuits! "Here's your kit kat... here's the butter..." "what???"
Oh Kit kat, thats candy bar here.
Cookies - Biscuit. As in Chip ahoys, Orieo's, Oatmeal raisins, Chocolate Chip.
But funny all the same Thanks for the laugh.
Here's you Kit Kat... Here's the butter.... What???? LOL
As are Fries yeah thats used. Whole term though is (your going to laugh) French Fries Oh we even have French Toast here to.
It's OK, the whole phrase came here, but we don't tend to use the French bit in my experience. We have french toast too, I wonder if it's the same? Bread soaked in egg and fried is my understanding, but then I'm a fairly basic sort of cook so I may be missing something.
Oh Kit kat, thats candy bar here.
Cookies - Biscuit. As in Chip ahoys, Orieo's, Oatmeal raisins, Chocolate Chip.
But funny all the same Thanks for the laugh.
Here's you Kit Kat... Here's the butter.... What???? LOL
OK I screwed up. I couldn't think of a type of biscuit/cookie that would translate, and kitkats are almost a biscuit! OK Oreos. You wouldn't put butter on that either, unless you really liked butter.
I have another question for our American friends. Do people say burglarized?
Here it's burgled and I suppose, thinking about it, that's technically no more sensible, but every time I've heard burglarized I just thought it was a random frivolous extension of the word, like sometimes happens.
Talking of frivolous extensions, here's one for brits: why does everyone say stylee now instead of style?? I know it's a pop culture thing but it's getting really pervasive. Weird.
My guilty habit is mixing tinterweb (Peter kaye) with intermaweb (Homer Simpson) so the former internet is now the snappily titled tintermaweb.
(that'll make sense if you get to watch any of it.)
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