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  1. 04-24-2008, 08:53 PM #16
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    Fall, Autumn..........I refer to it as OCTOBERFEST!!!!!!!!!



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  2. 04-24-2008, 09:32 PM #17
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    coure YOU do lol jk
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  3. 04-24-2008, 10:18 PM #18
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    I suggest getting this thread moved to General. Let the rest of TG in on the fun!

    How about the spelling, with US using color and UK using colour, or center versus centre.

    Then there's:

    flashlight => torch
    trunk => boot
    hood => bonnet

    Two nations separated by a common language!

    (I watch a lot of Doctor Who, so I tend to pick up this stuff. )
    Dude, seriously, WHAT handkerchief?

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  4. 04-25-2008, 04:30 AM #19
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    This makes no sense, and not even in a 'LOL DRIVE ON THE RIGHT LOL' kind of way.

    [media]http://www.groveport.org/sections/affairs/Affairs%20Photos/Town%20Hall%20Sept%202005%20b.jpg[/media]

    Behold! A three-story building. It has three floors. Count them. One, two, three.

    Now in England, do you call this a two-story building? But when you count, it only has two floors!

    Now, I found this picture of the buttons in British lift!

    [media]http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4585/img1872333x500hn9.jpg[/media]

    How profound! The Lobby is the 'ground floor', yet it is followed by the 'second floor'.

    [media]http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/projects/disability/images/lift.jpg[/media]

    Another one!

    [media]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/No_13th_floor.jpg[/media]

    ... uh oh.

    [media]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/ShanghaiMissingFloors.jpg[/media]

    It's getting worse! Help!

    [media]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Odd_lift_buttons.jpg[/media]

    Oh ****!
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  5. 04-25-2008, 11:13 AM #20
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    It was our language first!

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  6. 04-25-2008, 11:24 AM #21
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    Quote Originally Posted by draeh View Post
    Apartment => Flat
    Hmm not sure about the UK but Ireland has apartments and flats. Apartments are a 'posher' word, it usually refers to a more expensive place but the line is a bit blurry.

    Quote Originally Posted by Uranium - 235 View Post
    Behold! A three-story building. It has three floors. Count them. One, two, three.

    Now in England, do you call this a two-story building? But when you count, it only has two floors!
    Simple it is a 'three-storey building' yet it's floors are Ground, 1st and 2nd.


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  7. 04-25-2008, 01:38 PM #22
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    Quote Originally Posted by draeh View Post
    Ok... I have a couple for you...

    US => UK

    Elevator => Lift

    Apartment => Flat
    In england you can use either for all of these examples really...


    And Uranium, it is a three storey building. It has 3 floors. Yet the bottom floor is called the ground floor, then the 1st and 2nd floor.

    By the way, we drive on the right side of the road. Steering with your left hand is just annoying as hell.

    The main one for me is soccer and football. Come on, you use your feet to kick the ball, and you chuck the ball in American football...

    Yh, I've seen and heard a lot of pointless arguments about this stuff with American and Northern people about how they talk and their vocabulary, at the end of the day, as long as you get your point across, even if it's in Japanese, who cares. But Silver, you were right to point this out, just to make sure that everyone remembers.
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  8. 04-25-2008, 01:41 PM #23
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    I'm waiting for someone to bring up football...



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  9. 04-25-2008, 01:50 PM #24
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    pic below are called pants in US and trousers in England


    pic below are called pants in England


    so if you are US and meet an English man, dont say "nice pants !"

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  10. 04-25-2008, 02:14 PM #25
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    When are you going to explain the phrase "taking a piss"?
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  11. 04-25-2008, 02:33 PM #26
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    Do you mean taking the piss?

    Otherwise...it's pretty self-explanatory.
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    What about the UK slang for cigarette?



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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    Just grette (take out the "ciga"), but that's for Gs like me .

    Most people say "fags", but that's just stupid.
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  14. 04-25-2008, 04:21 PM #29
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    oh no wonder i got killed when i went to the first floor i think the US version makes sense maybe thats just because im american so...
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    Re: English vs USA phrases

    once my british friend said throw me a rubber. so i flicked a rubber band at him lol. he was reffering rubber to eraser lol
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