American VS British English Words

Hello everyone welcome back to

English with Lucy, today I want to talk to you

about ten vocabulary differences between

American English and British English

So, Let's get started

The first one and a lot of you might know

this one is what the British call football

and what the Americans call soccer

now of course we will understand each other

can get confusing because Americans have

American football which is a completely different game

Number two "Chips" and "Crisps"

for us crisps are these, crunchy fried

potatoes which usually served called

but the Americans call them "Chips" it's even

more confusing when we get on to number three

because what Americans call "French fries" we then call "Chips"

so french fries for Americans and chips

for the British are "Hot fried soft potatoes"

these

Number four what we call "Trousers"

Americans call "Pants" however it gets even

more confusing because when we gets to

number five, what Americans call "Underwear"

we call "Pants" so pants for Americans

are trousers, something you wear over your underwear

Number six, "Gas" versus "Petrol"

for us petrol is the liquid petroleum that you put

into your car, and Americans call this gas

Yes confusing because gas for us only refers to

something that is in its gaseous form

something neither a solid nor liquid a gas

The next one "Biscuit" and "Cookie"

for the British we refer to one of these

as a biscuit and Americans call it a cookie

Number eight, "Trunk" versus "Boot"

us the compartment in the back the car is

called a boot, which is also a word that can

refer to a specific type of shoe, but

for Americans it's just trunk

Number nine, what we call a "Jumper" Americans

will call a "Sweater" so make sure you remember

both these ones, so this for me is a jumper

but for Americans, it would be a sweater

Number ten, "High school" versus

"Secondly school" in Britain we call the

final school that you attend secondary school

but in America they call it high school

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