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jayes_musings) wrote2008-04-03 10:04 am
jayes_musings) wrote2008-04-03 10:04 am
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Okay, I'm doing English English and American English
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
* English: stream
* American: creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
* English: shopping trolley
* American: shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
* Lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
* English: pan, frying pan
* American: skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
* English: sofa, settee
* American: couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
* gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
* English: patio
* American: patio, porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
* English: soda, fizzy drink
* American: soda
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
* English: pancakes
* American: pancakes, crepes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
* English: sub? Not sure.
* American: sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
* English: trunks,
* American: swimming trunks, swim shorts
12. Shoes worn for sports.
* English: trainers
* American: sneakers, tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
* tidy a room, clean a room
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
* English: firefly
* American: lightning bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
* English: woodlouse
* American: roly-poly
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
* English: seesaw
* American: teeter totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
* Cut it into eighths, and pick up and eat it with my fingers, unless I'm in anything nicer than a fast-food restaurant, then it's with a knife and fork.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
* English: Car boot sale
* American: Garage sale, yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
* English: dinner, tea
* American: dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
* cellar, basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
* water fountain
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
* English: stream
* American: creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
* English: shopping trolley
* American: shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
* Lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
* English: pan, frying pan
* American: skillet
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
* English: sofa, settee
* American: couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
* gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
* English: patio
* American: patio, porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
* English: soda, fizzy drink
* American: soda
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
* English: pancakes
* American: pancakes, crepes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
* English: sub? Not sure.
* American: sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
* English: trunks,
* American: swimming trunks, swim shorts
12. Shoes worn for sports.
* English: trainers
* American: sneakers, tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
* tidy a room, clean a room
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
* English: firefly
* American: lightning bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
* English: woodlouse
* American: roly-poly
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
* English: seesaw
* American: teeter totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
* Cut it into eighths, and pick up and eat it with my fingers, unless I'm in anything nicer than a fast-food restaurant, then it's with a knife and fork.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
* English: Car boot sale
* American: Garage sale, yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
* English: dinner, tea
* American: dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
* cellar, basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
* water fountain