US vs. UK English

I've spent the past, like, two hours on the wikipedia page(s) for "List of words having different meanings in British and American English". It's damn comprehensive and damn interesting!
A-L M-Z

hm

no ass in the UK?

I think some here would differ.

Ibby;821720 wrote:

I've spent the past, like, two hours on the wikipedia page(s) for "List of words having different meanings in British and American English". It's damn comprehensive and damn interesting!
A-L M-Z

Jolly good, now let's have some spotted dick and a pint of Bitter, and discuss whether the next round of Doctor Who episodes should be called series 7, or season 33.

John R. Sellers;821746 wrote:

Jolly good, now let's have some spotted dick and a pint of Bitter, and discuss whether the next round of Doctor Who episodes should be called series 7, or season 33.

This post is full of win.

I had a British computer science professor who used a US-UK dictionary as an example program. His example sentence was:

British Professor wrote:

Lawks a lawdy, lord love a duck! My moggie has popped it's clogs!

DanaC;821749 wrote:

This post is full of win.

Thanks. My mom visited your lands recently.

The couple I checked seemed good, they did biscuit/cookie quite well, a biscuit and are cookie are different things, not different names for the same thing.

Interestingly they didn't have beer, the drink commonly decribed as beer in the US is called lager in the UK. Common beer in the UK is bitter.

John R. Sellers;821746 wrote:

Jolly good, now let's have some spotted dick and a pint of Bitter, and discuss whether the next round of Doctor Who episodes should be called series 7, or season 33.

or we can pretend we had our own time machine and and gone back and prevented the current abominations and the Doctor faded out with Sylvester McCoy.

Beest;821790 wrote:

... or we can pretend we had our own time machine and and gone back and prevented the current abominations and the Doctor faded out with Sylvester McCoy.

Sorry, I need to have this translated. Beest has obviously been abroad too long and is spouting complete nonsense :sniff:

Beest;821790 wrote:

or we can pretend we had our own time machine and and gone back and prevented the current abominations and the Doctor faded out with Sylvester McCoy.

Don't like the new Who, huh? Ok. Cool. But I do, so...whutever n stuff.

I loved old Who. I still do. I love all of them, and listen to the audio plays too.

But I also love nu-Who. Tennant was a brilliant Doctor. Didn't always agree with the direction RTD took the stories, but Tennant's portrayal of the Doctor was excellent. And the current run with Matt Smith has been awesome. Excellent storytelling from Moffatt and a Doctor who sits very comfortably in my mind alongside the best of the Classic series.

Originally Posted by British Professor
Lawks a lawdy, lord love a duck! My moggie has popped it's clogs!

Bloody hell, fuck a duck, the cat's cactus.

Speaking of classic Who...

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Always through Romana I was a bit of a pratt. Liked Romana II, though.

wolf;821995 wrote:

Always through Romana I was a bit of a pratt. Liked Romana II, though.

I think you missed the point of the video. I assume you watched the whole thing.

Mary Tamm died last Thursday.

Rhianne;822024 wrote:

Mary Tamm died last Thursday.

Yes,, this is why I posted the video, wolfmeister.

She died after losing an 18-month battle with cancer. She was a great lady and she will be missed.

She was "the noblest Romana of them all."

Beest;821790 wrote:

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Interestingly they didn't have beer, the drink commonly decribed as beer in the US is called lager in the UK. Common beer in the UK is bitter.

--snip

Common beer in Seattle is IPA. :yum:

Funnily enough, in conversation beer is now generally assumed to be lager - bitter needs to be specified.
"Coming for a few beers after work?"
"I'm just going to sit in the back garden and have a few cold beers."

But it's still true that if you go into a pub and ask for a pint of beer you will either have it queried (by a good barmaid) or get a pint of bitter. In fact any decent pub should query it as they will have more than one type of bitter anyway.

I noticed something similar in Leicester. The local use of cob meant a white crusty bread roll. But in general terms a cob was any bread roll. When I worked in the bakery I always checked whether someone asking for a bacon cob really wanted a bacon bap (soft bread roll). Not being pedantic - I learned in my first week that people got quite cross if you got it "wrong".

Oh, ditto rum.
Rum & Coke could mean Bacardi or Captain Morgan, but you were always in the wrong if you didn't pour what the customer expected!

What an imprecise language British English is...