26 British and American word differences

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Here's your first word.
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What is it?
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Potato chips.
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OK, I call them crisps.
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Whaaaat?
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OK, what's this?
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French fries.
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No, no, no.
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They're chips.
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Wh... what?
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Chips.
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Crisps.
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French fries.
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Chips.
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Hi everybody.
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I'm here today with Super Agent Awesome.
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Thank you for coming.
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Anytime.
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And we're looking at British and American English words today.
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What's this?
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A cell phone.
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OK, and I'd call it a mobile.
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A faucet.
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OK, and I'd say it's a tap.
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What's that?
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An airplane.
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I say aeroplane.
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Cell phone.
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Mobile.
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Faucet.
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Tap.
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Airplane.
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Aeroplane.
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We got candy.
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Oooh, nice.
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And I'd call them sweets.
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We got sprinkles.
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We call these hundreds and thousands.
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Wow.
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A pretty big name for a really little dot.
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And what's this stuff.
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Jello.
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And I'd say jelly.
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Candy.
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Sweets.
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Sprinkles.
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Hundreds and thousands.
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Jello.
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Jelly.
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And what are these people wearing?
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Costumes.
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OK, we'd say they're in fancy dress.
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I wear costumes for halloween.
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And if you dress up very smartly, you might wear this.
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We will wear a tux.
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And we'd call it a dinner jacket.
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Hmmm?
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Costumes.
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Fancy Dress.
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Tux or tuxedo.
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Dinner Jacket.
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What's this thing on the back of the car?
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That's a license plate.
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And I'd call it a number plate.
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This bit of glass in the front of a car.
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It's a windshield.
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A windscreen.
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A license plate.
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Number plate.
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Windshield.
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Windscreen.
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Oh, these are fish sticks.
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We call them fish fingers.
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Fish fingers.
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Like fish have fingers.
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Fish sticks.
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Fish fingers.
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He's doing push-ups.
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He wants to be fit.
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And I'd say he's doing press-ups.
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And, what are these people doing?
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Waiting in line.
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And I'd say they're waiting in a queue.
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Push-ups.
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Press-ups.
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Waiting in line.
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Waiting in the queue.
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He's holding a wrench.
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That's a spanner.
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And, do you know what that's called?
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Uh, I think that's an Allen wrench.
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We'd call that an Allen key.
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Wrench.
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Spanner.
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Allen Wrench.
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Allen key.
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We're looking at thumb tacks.
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And I'd call them drawing pins.
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Oh, they're clothes pins.
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And we'd call them pegs.
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A vacuum cleaner.
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We'd often call it a hoover.
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Why would you call it a hoover?
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It's named after the American firm, Hoover.
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That makes sense.
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Thumbtacks.
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Drawing pins.
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Clothes pins.
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Clothes pegs.
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Vacuum cleaner.
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Hoover.
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We got the laundromat.
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And I'd call it a laundrette.
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And what kind of shop do you think this is?
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Uh... a pharmacy.
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We'd normally call it a chemists.
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Do you also call it a drug store?
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Yeah.
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In British English a drug store sounds funny, because it sounds like a place where you can
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buy drugs.
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Laundromat.
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Laundrette.
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Drug store or pharmacy.
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Chemists.
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Uh, that's a merry-go-round.
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Usually, we'd say roundabout.
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We call this a roundabout too.
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Oh, it's a traffic circle.
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We have a lot of these in the UK.
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Merry-go-round.
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Roundabout.
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Traffic circle.
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Roundabout.
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A woman... a ladies' swimsuit.
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Yes, and we could call it that too.
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Um, would you ever call it a swimming costume?
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Err no, why would we ever say that?
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It's not for halloween.
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We would call it a swimming costume.
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Would you call it a bathing suit?
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Yeah, we would.
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OK, that for us is a bathing suit.
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It's really old fashioned for us.
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That's a bathing suit?
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Yes.
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Swimsuit or bathing suit.
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Swimsuit or swimming costume.
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Bathing suit.
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OK everyone.
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We've finished.
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