Just for fun, American words for thing you love and hate

[CherryCherries]

Mine are, I love "stroller" as opposed to our "pushchair" and "take out the trash" as opposed to our "take the rubbish out."

I don't like "pants" as "trousers" or "pantyhose" as opposed to "tights." Or "fanny" for "bottom".

What are yours?

"Gotten" is just one of several older forms of British English that came over in colonial times that Americans kept and that were eventually dropped from British English. Other related words like "forgotten" were kept on both sides of the Atlantic.

Gotten. - Need I say more

I’m inclined to think the UK is the only English speaking group of countries that don’t use ‘gotten’.

I certainly use it.

Yes, gotten has survived elsewhere too. It's very widely used in Ireland, especially in speech, though not so much in formal writing. Previous threads have indicated that it's still used in some areas of the UK as well.

@AlTempleton

In Stephen King's latest novel, one of characters swatted a minge. Turns out minges is American for midges.

Oh my gosh - this has made me laugh so much!! Brilliant.

Yes buoy as boo-ee is hilarious. See also soh-der for solder.
I like zee instead of zed
And rutabaga for swede.

People I work with like the way I say taco. Apparently it should be tahhh- co

People I work with like the way I say taco. Apparently it should be tahhh- co

How else would you say it?

@FierceBarrie

People I work with like the way I say taco. Apparently it should be tahhh- co

How else would you say it?

Tack-oh

Oh!

I’ve never heard it pronounced any way other than tah-co.

Yes tack-o. Maybe I am weird then. Though if I did say tah-co they'd like the posh English way I said it rather than with a background American drawl.

It’s a Spanish word. The Spanish pronunciation has the long ‘a’. It’s not ‘posh English’ to pronounce it tah-co!

@FierceBarrie

It’s a Spanish word. The Spanish pronunciation has the long ‘a’. It’s not ‘posh English’ to pronounce it tah-co!

Spanish doesn't have a long a in taco

According to that quiz, I come from Chattanooga. Not the Midlands at all.

@UnaLength

I like dish soap instead of washing up liquid, it seems to make more sense to me.

I lived in Canada and ‘ washing up liquid ‘ used to make my friends laugh. It does sound strangely formal when it is pointed out. Another one was ‘swimming costume’ instead of their ‘swimsuit ‘

I do love the Yiddish words ( that are widespread now in America) a previous poster pointed out.
There is no better replacement for chutzpah, tchotchkes etc. Great words.

I like that 'bathing costume' is several decades again behind 'swimming costume'. Pleasingly antiquated.

@ScribblyBaller

I like that 'bathing costume' is several decades again behind 'swimming costume'. Pleasingly antiquated.

In my part of Canada, we have always said bathing suit.

YYY to chutzpah and tchotchkes, @Tacono1.

Swimsuit is a term used around here - I've never heard 'bathing costume', and 'swimming costume' seems to be more of a UK thing.

A question - is 'swimming togs' a purely Irish term? Or is it also used in Oz and NZ?

Tack-o (taco) using that short A as in apple is just wrong.

In my part of Canada, we have always said bathing suit.

Same for my part of Georgia. But I have noticed some of the young folk saying swimsuit.

That quiz says that I am from Alabama. Considering that we Georgians often like to make fun of the way people in Alabama speak, I am not happy with that result.

I am from Yonkers, Jersey City, or NYC.

Give or take 3,176 miles...

Spanish doesn't have a long a in taco

Spanish speakers don’t pronounce it tack-o!

I took the quiz and I could be from Long Beach, Cali or Glendale, Cali or Honolulu, Hawaii.

That's interesting.

@SenecaFallsRedux

In my part of Canada, we have always said bathing suit.

Same for my part of Georgia. But I have noticed some of the young folk saying swimsuit.

We say bathing suit or bathing costume in England too - or swim suit. Some people say, 'Cozzie'. All quite normal.

In parts of the UK , mostly southern England, aunt is pronounced more like 'aren't' ( the abbreviation for 'are not.').