American English vs Aussie English vs the Queens English

[Richard Roman]

I don't really count the Aussies as they just shorten perfectly good words such as barbeque to barbie

With the aim of avoiding such fraught linguistic ambiguities, I have produced, below, a list of the British words  along with their American equivalents. God save the Queen!

Wellies: Rubber boots

Newsagent: Newsdealer

Candy floss: Cotton candy

Flat: Apartment

Bum bag: Fanny pack

Holiday: Vacation

Victoria sponge: Sponge cake

Fairy cake: Cup cake

Marquee: Tent

Mobile: Cell phone

Films: movies

Trainers: sneakers

Pram: stroller

Redundancy: severance package

Braces: suspenders

Football: soccer

Jumble sale: rummage sale

Letter box: mail slot

Pharmacy: drug store

[Richard Roman]

Will look to see if I can highlight the US?Uk debate that jason and I had on America and also one on Oz/Uk I did with matt for our students

Monty Python has a sketch about an English-Hungarian dictionary, didn't they... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

On the same theme, try this: 

http://www.jomiller.com/guide/

From around 1996.

[Richard ridealgh]

[Richard ridealgh]

I think your trying to annoy a few Aussies with that remark. I am just walking out the door so don't have much time, but Richard, you should copy and paste the UK/USA ppt you made for the world cup! That was great!