When America gets it right.

[popcornwizard]

Most of their spelling and grammar differences are just wrong, but occasionally something it works, and works even better than our version! Dear reader I give you the 'cell' or 'cellphone'. It is much easier and more pleasant than the 'mobile phone' that we linguistically haul around. Is it the only one?

You could have started this thread in a nice way, you chose to be unnecessarily rude

And you could have written your post in a nice way, you chose to be unnecessarily rude. Bored of this now.

BuffaloCauliflower Raise you, Fanny Bag.

Pantyhose makes a lot of sense really. Hose being a, now, rather old-fashioned word for stockings. So they are stockings attached to 'panties'

There's a brilliant clip of Michael McIntyre on Jonathan Ross about how literal American English is, i.e eyeglasses 😂

It's very amusing, although probably not for those of you that are offended by this thread...

Ah I love the Irish for mobile phone. fona phóca. Or pocket phone as bearla!

Bored of the namecalling, not the suggestions. Although the my list is still short

@Ifailed ah! Yeh not sure where to go from there!

‘Erbs annoys me, why don’t they pronounce the H?? (Herbs).

adamnichol I see your point but feel it is a step too far. It is not realistic and English person would not say that and it jars for English viewers. It also causes Americans to be more insular. I am happy to watch American shows and understand americanisms. I like watching Australian shows to and generally understand their “australianisms” too. And if I don’t I might look them up and learn something. But the American viewers are pandered too.

Back in he theme of the thread I like that they spell plough as plow. As an American said to me once about our version “What a waste of letters.”

I was coming on to say fanny bag, but beaten to it.

I think I'd rather wear a bumbag than a fanny pack.

Stroller is better than pram
Washroom is better than toilet

I like pocket book.
Though it’s an odd description, it sounds so Elizabethan.

I love y’all because it’s clear that it’s plural! The agony of being a teenager and someone on the phone saying ‘will you come round?’ and not knowing if it was me on my own or me and DFriend (who lived with us).

A flashlight is very dazzling. I like it.

However, no one should ever be getting off of a bus.

I don't like "purse" instead of handbag. Don't mind most other terms, they're just different.
I have noticed American films and TV using "pissed off" for angry rather than their original "pissed" so it's not all one way!

I had to google pocket book - is it a small notebook? If it is, it doesn't go on the list.

I think I like y'all though, I've travelled through a few southern states so it's not unfamiliar, but it has reminded me of 'Miss' though, where children call you Miss Popcorn in a formal manner.

I am from Lancashire and never came across pants for trousers. In fact I remember the general hilarity when we had a new boy from Canada who announced his pants were dragging on the floor. Some confusion followed while we each made sense of what he meant/why everyone else thought it funny.

'Median' is much more efficient than 'central reservation'.

However, no one should ever be getting off of a bus.

Yet you get out of a car...

You are on a bus but in a car so you should get off one and out of the other.

As for fall (autumn), fall was originally the British English word for autumn but British English evolved and American English didn't.

I believe that Herb is said with a silent H as that is the French pronounciation.

Horse back riding is another one. As opposed to what - horse head balancing?

One that irritates me is entree for main course. It's just plain wrong! I'd love to know how it ended up being used that way.

Zucchini is so much better than courgette. However, aubergine is way better than eggplant.