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Have you replaced any British words with their American versions? (feddit.uk)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, switching out the word 'boot' for 'trunk', or ditching the word 'rubbish' for 'garbage'.

This is something I've noticed my 6 year old does pretty regularly. We went through a stage where 'sweets' became 'candy', 'holiday' became 'vacation' and 'courgette' became 'zucchini'.

That last one didn't happen but if you're still reading you've got my respect, or as the Americans might say '...mad props'.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I use loads of americanisms and their spelling for words like color, the way I see it most the world is using English so least we can do is meet them 0 001% of the way on cresting a global odious language

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I noticed in Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Gromit cares for a vegetable in his garden that they either call a ‘marrow’ in British English or ‘melon’ in the localized American export of the film.

“How’s that marrow/melon of yours coming on?” -Wallace

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m American. I couldn’t come up with trunk so I called it a boot. Thanks to all those episodes of Top Gear I’m sure. Bonus is that my wife and I watch enough Dr. Who so that she knew what I was referring to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've picked up "bloody" - as in "bloody hell" or "you're a bloody idiot."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I love this one. It has a great cursing sort of feel, but nobody gets on your case about language.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Are you in a rental?" That turns up so much that I'm struggling with the proper way. Do you rent? Are you a tenant? Do you have a landlord?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

"Do you rent?" is usually the way people say it in the US.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m in Australia now and it’s zucchini and eggplant here, though in general words are much more like British English. No idea what’s going on with the pronunciation of “cache” here though - I work in tech and it’s mental how they say that. Like, Brits and Yanks are in full agreement about that word.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm Australian and it's always been zucchini and eggplant.

I don't know what's wrong with the way we say cache though. How do you pronounce it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's supposed to be pronounced as "cash" or "kaysh". Americans often pronounce it as cachet (ie. "ka-SHAY"), which is a different word with a different meaning. Needless homophone that introduces confusion.

I'm guessing that's been picked up by Australia in recent years, but not when I still lived there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'm American and I've only ever heard it pronounced like "cash", whether that's someone speaking or in tv/movies.

It's not a very popular word and most of the times I've heard it is on the topic of geocaching.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah I'm a cash person along with everyone I know.

I have heard cashay though.

But I prounce sachet as satchet-et so I'm all over the show.

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