Traveling to the UK? Actually, you’d be “travelling” to the UK. Time to learn the Queen’s spelling.<\/p>\n
Here are some words that are different in the grandmother country. Tuition<\/strong> – Tutelage, not money. If you want to improve your golf game, you might get some tuition.<\/p>\n Subway<\/strong> – Not the underground train (that’s the tube). These are the walkways that go under the road to get non-drivers safely through a roundabout (Boston-level-crazy traffic circle).<\/p>\n Cr\u00e8che<\/strong> – Nursery. For the little ones during church.<\/p>\n Barbie<\/strong> – Barbecue. Probably not as good as a Texas BBQ, but it will involve grilled meat.<\/p>\n Dodgems<\/strong> – Bumper cars. Apparently Americans emphasise the bumping and Britons the dodging.<\/p>\n Take away<\/strong> – Take out, i.e. from a restaurant.<\/p>\n Constructor<\/strong> – Construction worker. This is so logical, I’m not sure why we don’t use it.<\/p>\n Tomato sauce<\/strong> – Ketchup. The watered down tomato paste we know as tomato sauce is not a concept in British cooking.<\/p>\n Table<\/strong> – If you table a discussion, that means you start talking about it (unlike in the States, where it means the opposite).<\/p>\n Momentarily<\/strong> – Generally means “for a moment” rather than “in a moment”.<\/p>\n Paracetamol<\/strong> – Exactly the same thing as Acetaminophen (i.e. Tylenol). Oddly, the dosing is different. The British don’t seem to worry as much about their livers.<\/p>\n Kerb<\/strong> – The noun “curb”. You still curb behaviour, but your car runs over the kerb (a more frequent occurrence in the UK).<\/p>\n High Street<\/strong> – Main Street.<\/p>\n Overleaf<\/strong> – Other side of the page. Such a beautifully concise term. Needs to be adopted in the States.<\/p>\n Midday<\/strong> – Precisely noon.<\/p>\n Flapjacks<\/strong> – Bar cookies. Not sure whether I’m disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Traveling to the UK? Actually, you’d be “travelling” to the UK. Time to learn the Queen’s spelling. Here are some words that are different in the grandmother country. \u200b Surgery – Doctor group office of General Practitioners (GPs). Confused me terribly when I was just trying to find the closest family doctor and didn’t want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSurgery<\/strong> – Doctor group office of General Practitioners (GPs). Confused me terribly when I was just trying to find the closest family doctor and didn’t want to get operated on.<\/p>\n