Some that are probably obvious:
*A movie is a film
*I've mentioned it before, but now I say gutted all the time. If something upsets you, you are gutted about it. Yeah, like a fish.
*Supper, dinner, tea. Tea is a light meal, usually if you've had a big lunch you will have tea, though people seem to also have pretty heavy meals for tea, so maybe the word is just to make them feel like they aren't eating a lot? It could consist of cheese and crackers (biscuits), pasties (a cheese and potato and sometimes vegetable and/or meat filled pastry and not a nipple cover, this one is pronounced like the vowels in pastel, not like in paste) and salad, beans and toast, generally smallish things. Supper is a heavy dinner eaten late. And dinner, dinner is kinda just whatever. And if someone asks you what you want for tea, no, there is no way to know what they are asking you about. They all seem to just know, but we outsiders need to ask, are they asking you if you would like a cookie or some toast with your cup of tea, or asking what you want to eat for dinner. Its a confusing mystery.
*This one took me a while to figure out, but fanny is not a cutsie name to refer to one's bottom. It means lady parts.
*They don't have any nice cars here. No Mustangs, no Cameros, no hybrid Civics. I can't see me driving in this country at all.
*A van is a 2 seater non-sports car. It is like our van in that it has larger trunk space, but it is still a tiny vehicle, and certainly does not have rows and rows of seats. Someone said once that they could only drive one extra person to an outing because they had a van and I have never been so confused. Our van would be their mini-bus.
*If something is "playing up" it is acting up, like not working right.
*And if something is not working right, it is not working "properly." Proper is used all the time. All. The. Time. To mean the extreme of something, or to convey emphasis. Say, if you want to go out on the town, and someone suggests to see a movie, you could say no, you want a proper night out. Or if you are hungry and someone suggests a sandwich or something, you would say no, you want a proper meal. Its funny.
*Well is also used a lot, in place of very. You can be well pleased about something, or well excited, or well chuffed, if you really want to get in the British spirit.
*We might count down the days until something fun, but it is typical (and adorable) for people here to count "sleeps." Two more sleeps until I go on holiday (cause btw, no one goes on vacation, they go on holiday).
*Have I said carry-out is take-away? I think so, but just in case.
*A phrasing difference. We would go out to the club, they would go for a night out. Or we would go to an Indian restaurant for dinner, they would go for a curry. Or we would go grocery shopping, they would do a shop. Anything one can turn into "a ___" is likely to be used.
*Which reminds me, they don't say grocery, groceries are specifically fruits and vegetables from small markets called green grocers. Otherwise its food shopping.
*A lot becomes a load, or loads. Like, this British lesson is loads less interesting than most.
*To be fair is said way more than it aught to. Similar to how valley girls say like all the time without even knowing it.
And there are a plethora of curse words I could tell you about, if you are curious just ask.
And I still don't understand cricket.
I know I know a bunch more, they just aren't coming to me just at the moment. I will add to this list whenever things strike me.
Shout out to the UK Border Agency who, in their infinite bureaucratic ridiculousness, have now made it so that I can leave the UK, but not return to it. As opposed to the last 4 months where I couldn't leave. Cheers guys.
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