Need some English Help

[TJ13]

I need to know about all the English terms that is different than the americans.

I just found out that a Biscuit is a cookie.

Reason why I say this is yet to be told.

 

[opelgt1969]

Try Google:
http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/british-american.htm

 

[Schwartz]

Feel free to post your questions in this thread.

 

[W3H5]

http://esl.about.com/od/toeflieltscambridge/a/dif_ambrit.htm

This might help.

 

[Famine]

I just found out that a Biscuit is a cookie.

It isn't. A biscuit is a biscuit. A cookie is a cookie.

Biscuits are hard and go soft as they become stale. The name derives from Latin "bis" (twice) and "coctus" (cooked) and the middle French "bescuit" (twice cooked), because biscuits were first baked and then dried out in the oven - cooked twice.

Cookies are, like cakes, soft and go hard as they become stale. The name derives from Latin "coctus" (cooked) and the Dutch "koekje" (little cake).


What Americans call "biscuits" are scones - small, soft leavened bread products that completely miss out the "twice" part of the name...

 

[axletramp]

And 'smoking a fag' isn't the culmination of some hideous homophobic assault...

 

[Small_Fryz]

Bonnet - Hood
Boot - Trunk
Fanny (means bottom in USA, vagina in Australia and others)
Mobile Phone - Cell Phone
Terrace - Bleachers
Indicator - Turn signal
Stick / Standard - Automatic / Manual
Mate - Buddy
Soft Drink - Soda
Flat - Condo
Nappy - Diaper
Autumn - Fall
Petrol Station - Gas Station
Mince - Ground Beef
Barbecue - Grill
Jelly - Jello
Jam - Jelly

Just to name a few....

Heaps more can be googled pretty quickly 👍

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

Crisps > Chips
Chips > Fries

 

[PeterJB]

Pants - Trousers
Faucet - Tap
Semester - Term
Kindergarten - Reception
Wind shield - Windscreen
Restroom - Bathroom
Den - Lounge
Drapes - Curtains
Rainwater Tank - Water Butt
Rubber - Condom

 

[axletramp]

Crisps > Chips
Chips > Fries

Fryz > Drunk

 

[Moglet]

Supersize - Ohgodthatsfartoomuchfood

 

[W3H5]

Protecting foreign oil supplies - war

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I know, the British are just as bad.

 

[Famine]

Car - Compact
Truck - Car
Lorry - Semi
Semi - Errrr...
Everybody - All y'all

 

[W3H5]

Apple is a big company - Apple are a big company
Did you eat? - Have you eaten?
Sub - baguette
Ketchup - tomato sauce
No trespassing - Git awf ma laaaawwn!
Yard - garden
Spigot - tap

 

[Small_Fryz]

Kindergarten - Reception

We call it Kindergarten too... So what do you guys call a Reception in a business?

 

[Famine]

We call it "reception".

It's located on the Ground Floor (US Eng: First Floor).

 

[W3H5]

So what do you guys call a Reception in a business?

-That place where the girl sits with a phone and a computer doing absolutely nothing all day, or reception.

 

[daan]

We call it Kindergarten too... So what do you guys call a Reception in a business?

The atrium of doooom.

We call it "reception".

It's located on the Ground Floor (US Eng: First Floor).

Perhaps he'll need a GeePeeEss (Sat Nav) to find it.

 

[Robin]

University - College
Shopping Centre - Mall
Loft - Attic
Toilet - Bathroom

 

[axletramp]

Protecting foreign oil supplies - war

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I know, the British are just as bad.

Pakistani > A-rab
Egyptian > A-rab
Anyone East of Greece > A-rab
A-rab > Terrorist

Ooo, satire!

 

[Ibonibo]

Fryz > Drunk

 

[W3H5]

Mom - mum
Grandpa - granddad
Grandma - nan
wife - cousin

 

[PeterJB]

Mom - mum
Grandpa - granddad
Grandma - nan
wife - cousin

It's only nan if you speak chav.

 

[W3H5]

I've been saying "nan" my whole life, what you tryin'a say?

It's only anything else if you're posh.

 

[Robin]

I've been saying "nan" my whole life, what you tryin'a say?

It's only anything else if you're posh.

You should be saying, 'oh dearest Granmama'

 

[W3H5]

I suppose that's better than 'the old boot' which I usually refer to her as.

 

[axletramp]

Is that just before you take her last tenner (15.56 bucks) for some fags (cigarettes)?

 

[zedextreme8177]

South Asian - Paki
Paki - Indian

All from personal experience

 

[W3H5]

Is that just before you take her last tenner (ten bucks) for some fags (cigarettes)?

Usually that, or when I'm poncing beer money. My nan's a great laugh but the term 'old boot' is very fitting, she's a tough old girl.

South Asian - Paki
Paki - Indian

All from personal experience

I see you've spent time in London, then?

 

[PeterJB]

Usually that, or when I'm poncing beer money. My nan's a great laugh but the term 'old boot' is very fitting, she's a tough old girl.



I see you've spent time in London the entire British Isles, then?

Fixed.