Wednesday, April 4, 2007

More American foibles

So continuing on from the previous post about American English

American English - Australian English

Shopping hours - Trading hours

Bunch of - a lot of

Toosh - bum

Jumper - Sweater

Cart - Trolly

Peanuts - Styrofoam bits that go in box's.

Stocking cap - beanie

Muffler - scarf

Trunk - Boot

Period - Full stop

Parenthisies - Barcets

X-acto knife - Stanley knife

Drug Store - Pharmacy

There's no doubt more to come. Crazy Yanks.

NL/NY

2 comments:

Manolo Blah Blah said...

You forgot:

Bathroom tissue - toilet paper. American's have a real aversion to admitting that they use the toilet.

Anonymous said...

Interesting to know.