IJAM: This picture of british terms.

Chagen · 2011-07-17 17:44:50

While this is hilarious, I really hope that some of these aren't real....

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 17:46:14

Hahah

Yeah the silly ones aren't real.

inb4allofthebritishonesaresilly

In other words. face, pancakes, gun, ice lollies, and pens are silly.

MadassAlex · 2011-07-17 17:46:49

About half of them are.

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 17:48:49

Although cold on the cob sounds brilliant, as does slappy ham.

MadassAlex · 2011-07-17 17:57:22

Personally a fan of "clammy rogers".

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 17:58:37

I've never seen blueberry pancakes over here really though.

Crimson · 2011-07-17 18:02:31

Wait, do you really call windshield wipers, "wishy washies"?

TheConductor · 2011-07-17 18:09:37

I know kids who do, but most adults I know call them windshield wipers.

TheConductor · 2011-07-17 18:10:43

And yeah, what we call cookies, you'd call Chocolate Chip Cookies, everything else is a biscuit.

Also, what you guys call biscuits, well I dunno...they seem kind of like yorkshire puddings.

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 18:13:43

^^

Shh I left that one out on purpose, they might have believed it.

TheConductor · 2011-07-17 18:30:56

Damn.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-07-17 20:04:54

Uh, what we call biscuits, at least at the fast-food chain KFC (a.k.a. Kentucky Fried Chicken), are basically these little flat cylindrical pieces of bread that crumble really, really, disastrously easily.

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 20:05:41

Can you link to a photo please?

Chagen · 2011-07-17 20:06:34

Quick Wiki Walk shows that what you call "Scones" is similar to our Biscuits.

Bob · 2011-07-17 20:06:53

Pictured: A heart attack, sandwiched in between two "biscuits".

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 20:07:33

You get 'scones' at KFC I very much doubt that.

Scones are like sweetish cakey bread things for jam and or cream with tea.

Edit:

They are so not scones chagen.

Chagen · 2011-07-17 20:08:13

"Scones are like sweetish cakey bread things for jam and or cream with tea."

Sounds somewhat similar. Except we usually put butter on Biscuits, not Jam.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-07-17 20:08:57

^^^Technically, I think that's one biscuit cut in half.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-07-17 20:10:04

Well, Ian, what would you call something that looks like a scone, but is meant to be eaten with an entree, is not sweet, and is very crumbly?

Chagen · 2011-07-17 20:11:09

~~NOT MY FAULT BRITISH ENGLISH MAKES NO SENSE~~

I remember someone saying that within 50 years, American English and British English would be completely unrecognizable from each other.

I wonder why they're different anyway. And British English should technically be the "purer" form of it anyway...

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 20:12:24

>Well, Ian, what would you call something that looks like a scone, but is meant to be eaten with an entree, is not sweet, and is very crumbly?

A quick bread.

/makesownbread

Chagen · 2011-07-17 20:12:48

"A quick bread"

AND LO,

THE ANSWER IS HERE

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 20:13:50

I mean it is close to a scone but it isn't actually a scone.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-07-17 20:19:22

> I remember someone saying that within 50 years, American English and
British English would be completely unrecognizable from each other.

The difference between American English and British English is microscopic compared to the difference Cantonese Chinese and Mandarin Chinese.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-07-17 20:25:38

With Chinese, though, every dialect (apparently; I don't actually know Chinese) shares the same writing system, so any two literate Chinese-speakers can communicate.

Chagen · 2011-07-17 20:25:54

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences

That's a large difference than I thought....

Chagen · 2011-07-17 20:30:39

what in the name of christ

don't tell me you speak like that

IanExMachina · 2011-07-17 21:30:20

No-one speaks cockney really.

Well some do, but only the hardcore few in the east end.

Also yeah at wikipedia link.

Crimson · 2011-07-17 21:32:52

You guys still have ~~Orks~~ football hooligans running about?

Stormtroper · 2011-07-17 23:21:42

Haha, flashlight -> Torch

That one's a joke. Right? Right?

Bob · 2011-07-17 23:22:36

Nope.

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