English Words That Are Different in the UK and USA

are their any british equivelants to the words cu'h or ike?

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After finding out how to use it, I think 'ike' = 'mate'. I have no idea what 'cu'h' means or how to use it, though...

In Ireland :

Gaff = house.
Bure = girl.
Feen = boy.
Feek/fla = had sex with someone / or calling someone sexy looking.

torch - flashlight
trainers - sneakers
jumpers - hoodies

uhm, those are mainly the ones i remember from my counselors from the UK. there were many more, i mean some were just different spellings.

like aluminum vs. aluminium. personally, i like the latter more. it sounds better :D

Apparently ramps that you exit off of are called slick roads. I can thank my GPS for this one, considering it kept telling me to "take slick road" and I was looking for a street named slick. haha

^ In Britain they're slip roads.

I don't know whether this counts...
Mum = Mom

Is it me or do Canada share more slang with UK than with the US? I hear Canadians saying bum rather than butt quite a bit. Stuff like that.

My favourites between the UK and US are the swearing variations.
Shite > Shit
Arse > Ass

From Ireland:

Bure - Girl
Feen - Boy
Fla - sex/sexy
Mog/Muppet - Idiot

Alex; oxytocin.:

Is it me or do Canada share more slang with UK than with the US? I hear Canadians saying bum rather than butt quite a bit. Stuff like that.

My favourites between the UK and US are the swearing variations.
Shite > Shit
Arse > Ass

Arse has a bit more...rarr to it than ass. That and ass just sounds silly which is why I can't take the slang "asshole" seriously.

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Some Scottish Slang!

Fitpad - Unpleasant person.
Hoormaister - Manslut/Pimp.
Eejit - Idiot.
Glaikit - Stupid-looking.
Ya Dancer!/Yaldi! - Exclaimation of delight.
Skiving - Slacking.
Numpty - Idiot.
Steamin' - Drunk.
Blootered - Drunk.
Gallus - Brilliant.
Crabbit - Misery-guts.
How - Why. (i.e. How no? / Why not?)

Not Britain but in Ireland we say
Gogo/Bobble- hair ties
The jacks- toilet (mainly used by older men xD)
To meet someone- french kiss them
To shift- to make out
Scobe- chav/ slut
Rapid- cool, neat, as opposed to fast
Press- a cupboard Taking him off- to imitate someone/ mock them
That's grand- that's fine/ that's okay

If the whole biscuit, cookie, scone thing hasn't been cleared up, here's what I've been taught in culinary school

US cookies are pretty much the same thing as UK biscuits and vary about just as much. Biscotti are cookies, or biscuits, that have been baked twice.

US biscuits are about as dry as a UK scone but are normally cut instead of dropped, although either or can be interchangeable and UK scones tend to be on the sweet end (I think) while US biscuits are pretty much always savory.

US style scones are like muffins in the shape of triangles but tend to be a little more dry and are sweet. The batter is thicker then that of a muffin as well, allowing to be baked without anything but a sheet pan.

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In the US, we pronounce the letter "z" as zee, but in Canada, they pronounce it as zed. Is it different in the UK too?

@ Ktulu
We pronounce it zed. I can't stand when someone says zee.

According to Emma Watson, a "rubber" in Britain is like a pencil eraser, whereas a "rubber" in America is a condom.

gonna hear dru roar.:

According to Emma Watson, a "rubber" in Britain is like a pencil eraser, whereas a "rubber" in America is a condom.

My German foreign exchange student learned British English, and when she asked a teacher [here] for a rubber the teacher almost died.

@ castiel's vessel
lol, I've been singing the ABC song in my head and it just sounds too definite in calling "z" zed

I say 'pants' when something's bad. Like 'this film is pants!'

Snog.
Trousers
Knickers
Joggers = sweatpants

Oh, and I call going to the cinema or the movies 'going to the pictures' but I've no idea if it's even just a British thing, but I never see Americans saying it.

@ Carpe diem;

Lol, my dad says "going to the movies" as "going to the show house"

@ Ktulu
Well I've never heard that one before.

I hope no one else has said this already.

What I've noticed is that when shortening the phrase "I have not" in a sentence, a person from the UK is more likely to say "I've not" while a person from North America is more likely to say "I haven't" ... has anyone else noticed this?

ex. I've not called mum about the broken lift, vs I haven't called mom about the broken elevator.