British Vs. English

Tube=Subway
Metro=Subway
Telly=TV

all I know

 

queue= line

 

...British is actually the original English, so British vs. English doesn't make any sense XD
Anywhosits whatsits,

Sofa = Couch
Crisps = Potato Chips

I should know more of these XD
But i'm drawing a blank. >.<

 

I've noticed none of the posters in here are British .

 

I wish i were British...does that count? XD

 

Pavement -> Sidewalk

I don't really care about a lot of these differing words one way or the other with the exception of pants/trousers. Pants sounds horrible, especially when you're reading some fantasy novel set in a ye-olde pre-Industrialised Europe sort of setting and it seems really incongruous.

 

Lol. I've convinced two ski school classes that I was British... researched slang and Americanisms and everything. I learned the accent from Harry Potter.

 

I get what you mean but from what I've seen it's like in America you don't even have the option of using 'trousers' if you want to refer to them in a more formal-sounding way. It's not like we're all "trouser this" and "trouser that" in the UK, we have other words for them too.

 

mum = mom (that's obvious)
trolley = cart
bloody hell = I'm not sure what context to use this in exactly. I guess when something goes wrong.
bullocks - I'm guessing it means bullshit (somebody correct me if I'm wrong)

Funny enough, I do use some British idioms in American English.

 

a lot of the words are the same, they just aren't as common in english, like trousers.

water closet=bathroom
i think lol

 

From an Aussie perspective:

jelly = jello
jam = jelly
thongs = flip-flops

 

Actually we call it either the toilet or the lavatory. The bathroom is actually the room which has a bath in it!

 

I think "bullocks" means testicles, but someone from Brittain correct my if I'm wrong

And I don't think British people actually call the toilet a water closet, but I think that used to be the dignified and subtle way of saying it. Some places still have the toilet marked as WC (water closet) on maps/blueprints

Now, this place might help you, although it's more to do with the technical differences between the languages

 

Bollocks means testicles, bullocks are baby bulls :roflmao:

Pants in English actually means your underpants (in American) so logically trousers should actually be pants otherwise we should say undertrousers for underware. Is there no logic to these crazy English!

 

:roflmao: its so weird to think about people not using the same language. bloody hell is just a way of swearing. as is bollocks.

 

by subway do you mean underground? as in a train that travels underground?

cus where i live the metro is a tram, that travels on roads with overhead cables...