British English Vs American English: 24 Differences Illustrated

In the UK we also call jumpers sweaters and have done for years

We too have french fries (what you get in McDonalds) chips are different. We also use peckish and hungry they indicate a degree in our state of hunger.

I always thought gray was the other way around.

In the UK jacket and baked potato are interchangeable terms

Labeling of floors in elevators in both the US and UK is a permanent cause of confusion for continental ppl lol

Charles Franks is obviously an English language scholar. Please consult him before writing these articles

In the philippines, we call it signal lights lol

One of my sister in laws had a period of schooling in the states and had the class in fits of laughter when she asked for a rubber to rectify a mistake she had made not realising that a rubber was slang for a condom. Very red faced.

Autumn is widely used in the US. Basically holiday means a public holiday (what would be called a bank holiday in the UK) whereas vacation is your time off work. Actually that seems pretty reasonable.

Estate wagon sounds so much better. Would probably sell better too. You can't call a '78 Oldsmobile station wagon a 'sports wagon'...estate wagon would totally work tho

A parlour is a nice room in your house for special guests (bit old fashioned), you generally don't by ice cream there.

We use both TV and telly

sweets/candy in Australia = lollies, candy floss= fairy floss, ice lolly = icy pole,

I use many of these terms and I've never been to England.

Poor letter U

In the U.S. we use the word pitch in soccer, field in football.

The southern U.S. version of dish towel is "cup towel," even though you dry other dishes with it. And if we are betraying our roots, we say "dishrag" or "washrag" instead of dish cloth. I have to be really cautious to say the fancier one.

In the U.S. mid-west a wash rag or dish rag would be the cloth used in the water to scrub the dishes. Dish towel is the drying cloth

Tic tac toe is probably used more in the UK than noughts and crosses

I just call it "towel".. 😐😐

That's an impossible game of tic tac toe.

The "U" is getting to me now...

I always tried to spell mustache as moustache because it looked right to me, but autocorrect says it's incorrect! I guess I wasn't wrong, I was just a little British :D

Zebra crossing sounds like it would be way cooler than it actually is.

Postcode not postal code

So basically S's become Z's and we drop the U's

Diversion was a nightmare when I first moved to England! We were lost for 2 hours because the highway just closed and we had to exit! We had no clue what to do. Finally we saw a tiny sign that said diversion. We followed it and made it home!

Plaster=BandAid/bandage. Carriage=Pram