I'm so confused. What a language barrier.

Torch, I think, but it does the same thing as a electrical one?

I mainly call my mom mom but sometimes mammy - usually when I'm after a favour [emoji14]

Unnecessarily large pic of one.


Theres usually a couple hundred in a town that the public use instead of small individual ones outside houses

Yeah this

Oh, I'd still call that a mail box but I think some people may call it a post box or drop box. Post office mail box :joker:

Looks pretty different though lol.

Ours are the same except they're green :hee:

Those are good, late collection times 6:00pm and 0:00. A lot of the ones here were put back to about 9 in the morning.

Oh yeh, I guess these are the same as postboxes. I'll let your internet image off this time, but I'll be waiting to readily scrutinise the next one.

Can't go wrong with green, strong choice.

Yeah mine too. God knows where this postbox is. Imagine a postman saying he cant go to the pub, he's on the late shift! What a world.

I remember being in a group convo on MSN back in the day, and all the Americans said sidewalk, the British people said pavement and they made fun of me because I said footpath :joker:

:laugh2:

why footpath?

I say footpath too :love:

Must be an Irish thing :laugh:

Where are you from? I'd say pavement nearly all the time, but footpath if its muddy like

Well I mean it makes sense doesn't it?

Yes sidewalk! Ha footpath, that's a new one for me too. :joker: Also isn't pavement kinda broad since all kinds of ground can be considered pavement? :shrug:

Do you have another word for street/road too?

That's a trail :laugh:

Who was it that said "America is the only country that couldn't translate English into English without making mistakes"! Cos this is why!

:joker:

You might be right on this one tbh because by definition I think a trail would be more like footprints left behind.

When they're advertising Oreos in the UK do they say Oreo biscuits?

no, they say 'wonder if I gave an oreo'

not 'wonder if I gave an oreo biscuit'

I think of them as a cookie even though they're technically a sandwich biscuit but that's just me!

So start and I'm warning you @TS

They're technically this?

https://images-gmi-pmc.edge-generalm...262c5768e9.jpg

no bc that's a scone

It's savoury not sweet plus it's softer

I'm so confused

Based on google search this is an American scone:

http://www.thewhistlingkettle.com/in...5666_Small.jpg

Which I think would be a harder, sweet version of a biscuit if that's what I think it is.

that looks digusting

Well, it looks like a scone.

Yeah I don't eat US scones (I may have once or twice without knowing it was called a scone) but biscuits >>>>>

US Biscuits are soft, buttery, savory... a lot of people like adding either honey or gravy to them and I don't mind that but I actually just like them most when they're plain, they're that good.

I say mom too, every one I know does

most American words like pants and sidewalk were actually used here first and have changed but have stuck in America due to America being a much, much younger country

Exactly

I'd never heard the Jam/Jelly one before, I thought americans said jam? What do they call jelly?

Jello I think

I thought boot was tailgate :suspect:

Yeah lots of people from the West Midlands say mom (I do too)