English Words That Are Different in the UK and USA

"Nip" or "snog" to mean "make out"?

Wilde:

"Nip" or "snog" to mean "make out"?

I remember the first time I'd ever heard that word was in an interview I was listening to. The host was talking about being with his wife and he was like "yeah, we were on the couch." and the person he was interviewing was like - "were you snogging?"

I had no idea what it meant, but it sounded like some sort of reference to how people do drugs

Chris Martin:

I remember the first time I'd ever heard that word was in an interview I was listening to. The host was talking about being with his wife and he was like "yeah, we were on the couch." and the person he was interviewing was like - "were you snogging?"

I had no idea what it meant, but it sounded like some sort of reference to how people do drugs

Yeah, I really don't like that word.

But when I first heard "nip", I thought people were takling about like when you pinch someone

Icky Thump:

Everything already seems to be mentioned.. The only one I can think of right now...
Americans pronounce sone 'scowe-nuh'
The English pronounce it 'skon'

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I've never pronounced scone like that. I and everyone else I know say sk-own.

Depends where you're from. People from the North (of England) say it 'skon'. I'd get ripped if I pronounced it 'scohne'.

I'm from the US and I've never heard it prononced scowe-nuh.

chuffed? My english camp counsler used that to mean excited or glad...

Syd Barrett.:

The term "fag" means "cigarette" in Britain, but in America it means a gay man or boy.

I don't know if this has been mentioned - taken from the first page - but 'fag' means cigarette and a homosexual person. But it's generally cigarettes, but 'fag' is slang.

When I was younger, I thought 'making out' meant having sex, and 'making love' meant kissing passionately. But of course we [English] use the same words like 'fuck', 'screw', 'bang' etc. It's hard to say really because petty slang words such as 'dude' and 'rad' have been copied from America.

'Mad' in England means 'weird' as well as 'angry' - does it in the States?

Fallen From Grace:

Bloody can be used in both contexts here in the UK. Like if you say 'i've got a bloody finger' it'll be obvious you're not swearing and you're talking about actual blood.

Yeah, unless you were surprised you had a finger...

Vampyr.:

'Mad' in England means 'weird' as well as 'angry' - does it in the States?

Actually around New York I've heard people use mad a word for making something seeming cooler. Like "mad skills" Its sort of weird I know.

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I've heard that too. I tend to say "mad wicked" or "mad rad" to enhance a word meaning 'awesome'.

I'm sure it's already been said but here in New Zealand [and I imagine in the U.K also]a fanny is a vagina and in the states it's a bum.
I always thought the nanny theme song was hilarious because I thought she fell on her vagina.

Shot and injection/jab.

beefeater:

Shot and injection/jab.

It's jag in Scotland.

arse is ass.
pissed is drunk.
kip means nap...
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I'm from Canada, but I watch loads of british shows, so I tend to be influenced a lot by their vocabulary.
I tend to say, "me" instead of "my".
"owt" or "nowt" instead of "anything" or "nothing".

I type like a common manc half the time. :P

We don't tend to say stroller in the UK we tend to say pushchair, buggy or pram.

college in england is like sixth form, but in america it's university right?

Faeces spelled as Feces in America
Oesophagus spelled as Esophagus

When I was young, I kept wondering why the Americans take away alphabets in words like colour = color.