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louannabraham · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 13

Yes, Carol, it's sidewalk in the US. Also parking lot instead of car park, faucet instead of tap, and potato chips, or just chips instead of crisps.

There's pronunciation too. Like toe-mah-toe and toe-may-toe. We have an English friend who loves to tease us about that.

Louann

paulabear1948 · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 12

and I embarrassed myself, while in Canada, by asking the train attendant to "knock me up" when we were reaching the Rockies. Embarassed

Needless to say, he knocked on the cabin door and beat a hasty retreat.

bestpi · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Tucson Arizona USA

Yes, I wasn't even going to go there. Ha!

ok, so what is toe-may-toe?

And pissed in the UK is drunk
pissed in the US is angry.

So one could conceivably be pissed in the US about not being able to be pissed in the UK.

louannabraham · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 13

John,
I must not have done a good job of giving phonetic pronunciation if you didn't recognise two different ways of saying "tomato". Laughing

Louann

carolan · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 52

Paula, I did exactly the same many, many years ago when I was in New York - suggesting, in all innocence, that my cousin and I "knocked up " the fellows in the apartment opposite when we got in from some evening out or another...... Embarassed

And they weren't even worth thinking about that way.... Laughing

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