US vs UK

[majm1241]

sleepsuits..
https://www.babystuffnow.com/image_manager/attributes/image/image_5/41112914_9051823_thumbnail.jpg

vests..
https://www.unique-kids.co.uk/acatalog/0030-01.jpg


xx

Top pics are Sleepers and Bottom pic is Onsies.

Oooooh I remembered another little thing from emailing Amygwen..
Apparently putting kisses ('xxx's) at the end of posts/emails/texts isn't really done as much in america whereas here we do it on like everything.. and I think you can tell by looking at the posts sometimes x

X's are Hugs and O's are Kisses here.

XOXO Hugs 'n Kisses!

i thought onesies were sleepsuits! :O

X's are kisses here and O's are hugs
xxx

Well don't you see why we are all confused! We are all backwards!

 

[majm1241]

Oh yeah, y'all call Coke Fizzy Juice right!? I am from Texas and ALL Soda's, Pops, Fizzy Juices are called Cokes! You ask for a coke, we say what kind ya want!

 

[AriannasMama]

Oh yeah, y'all call Coke Fizzy Juice right!? I am from Texas and ALL Soda's, Pops, Fizzy Juices are called Cokes! You ask for a coke, we say what kind ya want!

Thats different even in different parts of the US...in the midwest we say pop for all fizzy drinks, but pop is just general for that, still use coke, sprite, pepsi, etc.

 

[majm1241]

Oh yeah, y'all call Coke Fizzy Juice right!? I am from Texas and ALL Soda's, Pops, Fizzy Juices are called Cokes! You ask for a coke, we say what kind ya want!

Thats different even in different parts of the US...in the midwest we say pop for all fizzy drinks, but pop is just general for that, still use coke, sprite, pepsi, etc.

Yeah, my Northern friends call it Pop or Soda, depending on where they are from.

 

[AriannasMama]

Even the southern part of my state calls it soda, while we call it pop, haha. so strange.

 

[majm1241]

LOL

 

[stuffymuffy]

Even the southern part of my state calls it soda, while we call it pop, haha. so strange.

It's the same here, up north they call it pop and and where I am they call it soda. Although I call it pop because we're from the south

 

[stuffymuffy]

Confused.com.

I find it weird how in America college is university here. Like a college degree in the US, is the equivilent of a UK university degree. Whereas in the UK a college degree is not the equivilent of a university degree.
I also don't get home in America you don't have to specifically pick a subject to 'major' in when you first go to college/univeristy and can just choose that later. Whereas in the UK you apply for the subject you will graduate in and then pick other modules if needed.

And the whole graduate school in the US confuses me. In the UK a doctor/dentist trains for 7 year at university as well as placement and that's them. A lawyer does the same. However, in America to do this you have to go to one college and then off to another.

Wow I didn't realize that! Unless you're going to be a nurse of go into a trade ( plumber, construction etc.) you don't apply for the field. Even if you're going to be a doctor or lawyer you don't really have to major in that field there are just certain classes you have to take. Like my cousin is in his first year of med-school and he was a music major in college.
And if you want to be a doctor/lawyer etc. you go to college for 4 years as pre-med or pre-whatever you want to do and you have to get your bachelors degree. Then you apply for grad school or med school, both of which are really hard to get into. Idk about other fields but you do about two years of medical school before you start a residency, which is like a student doctor but you still get some what paid for it. And residency can last from 4 to 8 years depending on what you want to do.


Aidan's Mummy - Idk about them liking to hire english trained nurses, I know in order to be an RN or LPN here you have to have a liscense from whatever state you're working in. But almost every hospital has nursing shortages around here.

 

[mum#1]

We say pacifier and you say dummy....that one took me a bit to figure out...LOL

I'm guessing that what we call a trunk is what you call a cars boot?

LOL, i'm in Australia and we call it a dummy, but the only reason i knew you called it a pacifier was from the movie 'the pacifier' with vin deisel

 

[Jadelm]

Sneakers = Trainers

Candy = Sweets

Can't think of anymore yet x

 

[FayDanielle]

I love this thread....
Just wondering, do any of you girls (not in hull) know what a patty is? (You get it from the chip shop) and ever had chip spice?! and what do you called a breadcake?!!!
Lol.


other american words we say different in the UK.

Band-aid = Plaster
Hood of a car = Bonnet of a car!
Jello = Jelly
Jelly = Jam
Zip code = Postcode

 

[Youngling]

I love american houses. Why do they always seem so much bigger then our houses.
Even their small ones are big!
xx

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

I don't even know what a patty is and I live in Hull

But I am from Milton Keynes
xx

 

[FayDanielle]

I don't even know what a patty is and I live in Hull

But I am from Milton Keynes
xx

But tell me you've had chip spice?! lol
aka seasoning salt! x

 

[LizzieC]

Haha we have some cousins living in America, it's all I can do to understand them sometimes

Zucchini = courgette

I can remember that causing confusion...I thought they had a whole new vegetable over there!

Also, from what I can remember 7th grade is not the same as year 7 here but rather year 8. You always add one on to the grade to get the year here, as your 12/13 in year 8, 11/12 in year 7.

 

[PleaseBaby]

This thread has blown my mind

So you AMerican ladies I have a question. KNow if you went to hospital with say a broken arm, can they refuse to treat you if you don't have insurance?

 

[vintage]

i love the whole uk/us thing one thing i say; the grass is always greener on the otherside
you guys seem to have better sweets (candy another one!) than we do, but americans i've spoke to think we have better so i dunno, you have better theme parks & weather xx

 

[x__amour]

In the US if you go to the ER with a broken arm they HAVE to treat you regardless of insurance or not. It's the law, haha. It's on a sign on every single ER in the country.

 

[vintage]

our A&E/accident & emergency is america's ER x

 

[x__amour]

Ooh, I learned something new today!
Haha, I want to visit the UK so bad!