American ... English?

Question

I served some Americans at work today and it got me thinking. What differences there are between English English and American English.

For example.

They say...We say

Chips...Crisps

Pants...Trousers

Candy bar...Chocolate bar

Fries...Chips

Jello...Jelly

What others are there??

Answer 1

Gas - Petrol

Faucet - Tap

Tomato Tomato pronounced Tamato

Car boot - bonnet.

Eye glasses -Spectacles

Side walk - Pavement.

Cab - Taxi

I call the pub i go to my Local like lots

do in the UK,would like to know what

Yanks call there local watering hole,pub.?

Maybe - Bar.

Answer 2

American   -   British

Bathroom - toilet

Stop light - Traffic light

Freeway - motorway

Sidewalk - pavement

Nylons/hose - Tights

Binky - dummy

Answer 3

How about:

Eraser...Rubber

(rubber to Americans is slang for condom)

Answer 4

Sidewalk...Pavement

Guy...Man

Tire...Tyre

j******f...Wanker

Vacuum...Hoover

Mail...Post

Soccer...Football

Football...Rugby

Cap...Hat

Candy...Sweets

Answer 5

movie-film

state-city

Answer 6

Elevator - Lift

bandaid - plaster

apparentment - flat

biscuit - salty scone thing

Cell phone - Mobile

cotton candy - candy floss

candy - chocolate/sweets

cross-walk - pelican crossing

diaper - nappy

trash - rubbish

trunk - boot

jelly - jam

mailman - postman

pacifier - dummy

sidewalk - pavement

Um thats all I could think of lol

Answer 7

well: English is very important As Languages spoken here of

course we know the Answers Society & Culture helps  others

with Learning Social Skills ( Common Unity ) among

other- Society & Culture Groups  

Answer 8

its just a different way of saying thing every one got they own way of putting things.

Answer 9

Trunk- boot

hood- bonnet

vacation - holiday

centre-center

color-colour

restroom-toilet

this list could go on for ages

Answer 10

Trunk- boot  

Bonnet- hood

colour-color

holiday-vacation

Answer 11

cotton candy....candyfloss

Answer 12

elevator - lift

cash register - till

i don't know if i made that up or if it's true :|!

Answer 13

f***y....Bum I think

Answer 14

sidewalk - path

diaper - nappy

pasifier - dummy

Answer 15

In the UK, what we call biscuits, the Americans call cookies. To them, a biscuit is more like a savoury scone that you have with gravy.

I was in the USA a few years ago and I needed a knife and fork; I asked for cutlery which the waitress didn't understand. The Americans call it silverware. To me, that is what you'd call cutlery in an upmarket restaurant!

Also - zip code/post code

           and a topical one: Foreclosure - repossession!

Answer 16

sneakers- trainers

***- ****

oil- petrol  

Answer 17

Lots or loads of the differences.  Like when the Brits say, I feel peckish, we wonder if they are saying something obscene.   Or the bit about  opening the boot of a car?  We wonder if they didn't pay their traffic tickets and are now jimmying loose something the police put on their tires.  Or posting a letter--we wonder  if they are stapling it on a telephone pole down the block ?

LOL, good fun, mate!