Thursday, June 09, 2005

A Lesson In British

As most people know, there are two basic forms of the English language: British (which any Brit would argue is English) and American (which, a Brit might say, is a whole other language). Within these two forms, there are various dialects - some of which don't sound like English at all. But, overall, they are very much the same. Sometimes we use different terms for the same item or completely different phrases to say the same thing.
In the interest of fair play - and because I am an Anglophile - I will, from time to time, display the differences between the two.
Here is the first example:

British : kitchen roll
American: paper towels

Not that hard to figure out, eh?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

the one that always gets me is when they say answer phone instead of answering machine. I listen to a lot of European in general and british music and they're alway stumping me on some things.

Tue Jul 05, 06:23:00 PM CDT  

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