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13 May 2007, 1:09 pm

There' another term I remember reading is vastly different. I think its "fill me in". I believe in Britain it means to kick someone's head in but in America it means to tell me what's going on.

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13 May 2007, 4:02 pm

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There' another term I remember reading is vastly different. I think its "fill me in". I believe in Britain it means to kick someone's head in but in America it means to tell me what's going on.

It means both depending on context but I think that the latter is more common in Britain too.

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13 May 2007, 4:37 pm

geezer

a. old man
b. dude

i dont get how that means dude but ohwell. actually i dont get alot of britians word meanings

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13 May 2007, 4:47 pm

I have no idea how we don't have it yet, but
Rubber
A - a condom
B - an eraser

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13 May 2007, 8:10 pm

Knock someone up

A-Get somebody pregnant
B-Knock on somebody's door

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13 May 2007, 8:14 pm

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That machine mounted on the wall from which you can get a drink
A- drinking fountain
B- bubbler

hahahaha!!

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13 May 2007, 8:15 pm

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Antique

A - something over twenty years old
B - something over a hundred years old

thats a good one

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13 May 2007, 8:17 pm

town square

a downtown
b towne centre

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13 May 2007, 8:23 pm

Suspenders:
A - They keep men's trousers from falling down
B - They keep women's stockings from falling down.

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14 May 2007, 4:19 pm

richardbenson wrote:

cowlypso wrote:

That machine mounted on the wall from which you can get a drink
A- drinking fountain
B- bubbler

hahahaha!!

I have only ever heard those called drinking fountains in Britain although they don't seem that common at all over here.

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14 May 2007, 4:36 pm

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Knock someone up

A-Get somebody pregnant
B-Knock on somebody's door

I think it would only be used in the second sense here as a kind of joke; as the first is more common.

Here are a couple more;

Bun in the oven
A - Tasty bread based product cooking in the oven
B - Preggers/up the duff/pregnant

Flex
A - to bend something
B - relax (northern)

Small
A - huge
B - small

Period
A - full stop, used to denote end of sentence
B - part of the female menstrual cycle

Bud
A - friend, pal
B - marijuana/weed

Dead
A - deceased, no longer living
B - very e.g. 'that's dead good'

Pissed
A - annoyed
B - drunk/inebriated/smashed/mashed etc.

Give me a lift
A - please drive me somewhere
B - please lend a hand or help out with e.g. 'John, can you give me a lift with this paperwork?'

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14 May 2007, 5:08 pm

Someone who sells medicines
A. Pharmacist
B. Chemist

The last letter of the alphabet
A. zee
B. zed

To use
A. utilize
B. use

To get
A. gotten
B. got

Gambling machine
A. slot machine
B. fruit machine

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14 May 2007, 5:09 pm

daveyw wrote:

Chips aren't french fries. They're both slivers of fried potato, but chips are shorter and fatter than french fries (also known as "shoestring fries").

Those are still fries. They're called "steak fries" when they're shorter and fatter than other fries.

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14 May 2007, 5:09 pm

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Suspenders:
A - They keep men's trousers from falling down
B - They keep women's stockings from falling down.

Things that stop trousers falling down are called braces

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14 May 2007, 5:14 pm

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matt271 wrote:

i dunno about Brittan but here in Canada we call it pop not soda.

I call it coke, but my mom calls it pop. Then again, she's originally from Wisconson and I'm originally from Texas...

Eeesh, I think that's an entirely regional thing... around here, I usually hear it called "soft drinks".

Yeah, in the US, it might be:

soda
soda pop
pop
tonic
soft drink
Coke

Probably there are other ones which I'm forgetting.

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14 May 2007, 5:17 pm

gelatin desert
A. jello
B. jelly

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