Tap or Faucet

[SalixIncendium]

So what do US folks call cookies? I mean as in the specific biscuit,

Chocolate chip cookie.

These are American biscuits...

 

[Rival]

Chocolate chip cookie.

Bit longwinded.

 

[Vinayaka]

Brits extract water from the tap; Americans extract water from the faucet.

It's a pump.

 

[ChristineM]

****. No one has mentioned **** yet.

(RF is an automated prude asterisking out a perfectly good word meaning cigarette in the UK.)

I didn't mention that because i knew RF auto star software would star it out

 

[Rival]

It's a pump.

Nah, this is a pump,

 

[Father Heathen]

First floor = ground floor. Second floor = first floor.

Carry out = take away
Trash can = dust bin
Truck = lorrie

 

[Rival]

First floor = ground floor. Second floor = first floor.

Carry out = take away
Trash can = dust bin
Truck = lorrie

Lorry with a y

 

[Vinayaka]

That's Einstein's shoe.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Nah, this is a pump,

Pumps in the States traditionally have high heels...

 

[Tumah]

Chocolate chip cookie.

These are American biscuits...

Also biscuits

Ok, I should have probably found a smaller image...

 

[shunyadragon]

Actually the use of the choice of tap, faucet and spigot are not consistent in the USA

 

[Martin]

Why can't them Yanks speak the Queen's bleedin' English, gawd blimey, jellied eels, apples an' pears, etc.

 

[Rival]

Also biscuits

Ok, I should have probably found a smaller image...

Naturally one of the first Yiddish terms I learned from you is 'kvetch'. That's not a term used in the U.K.

 

[Revoltingest]

Us Vs Them
Some I've run into....
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Fanny vs uh....never mind....well, OK....
Hoo hah vs fanny
A car's near side & far side vs left & right
Chips vs crisps
Fries vs chips
Trunk vs boot
Hood vs bonnet <-- Well, lah dee dah!
Elevator vs lift
Aluminum vs aluminium <-- Although too many Ameristanians call it "alloy" (bicycle dweebs).
Suspenders vs braces
Cookie vs biscuit
Line vs queue
Eggplant vs aubergine <-- What the hell?
Apartment vs flat
Drugstore vs chemist
Takeout vs takeaway
Truck vs lorry
Diaper vs nappy
Lavatory vs loo
TV vs telly
Zee vs Zed
Trillion vs billion <-- Although Limeys are coming around to our way.
Why do those Brits get so many things so wrong?
And I haven't even started in on their spelling.

 

[exchemist]

Brits extract water from the tap; Americans extract water from the faucet.

Brits burn petrol in their vehicles; Americans burn gas.

What are some other differences in nomenclature describing the same thing are there across the pond?

Suspenders:

These:

or these:

 

[shunyadragon]

Why can't them Yanks speak the Queen's bleedin' English, gawd blimey, jellied eels, apples an' pears, etc.

The Queen'? or King's? English is bleedin' consistent in the British Isles.

 

[Estro Felino]

Eggplant vs aubergine <-- What the hell?

Aubergine...vient du français....c'est plus chic...

 

[shmogie]

I remember watching Wheeler Dealers a while back and was in the other room hearing them talk about an engine under the 'bonnet.' I came into the room to see what kind of car would have an engine under a ladies hat.

Yeah, we Yanks call it a hood.

US Trunk, UK boot

 

[shmogie]

Here, a college is basically what US folks would call High School. University is after this.

So, that's the reason why Brits aren't impressed with my college degrees ! ( or, it might be just me).

A university is an institution of higher learning that has different schools. You call the schools, colleges.

 

[shmogie]

This might be just an Ontario thing, but hydroelectric generation is so ubiquitous that we call AC electricity "hydro."

When there's a power failure, people will say that the hydro's out. People call their electric bill the hydro bill. Many power utilities have "hydro" in their name.

Interesting