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Words that are quite different between Canada and the UK

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I'll start with these lame ones:

Loo (washroom)
Lift (elevator)
Wuss

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Fag

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Bonnet
Boot

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Torch

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Wanker

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Rubber

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Cottaging.

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Fanny

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coke

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trunk

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Buy the book

Divided by a common language

It got pages and pages on this.......

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Common sense

:p

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Fortnight

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Shag (dramatically different meaning on either side of the pond). If a young man in the US (esp the South) picked up his date and told her father they were going shagging he would likely be wished well by her father.

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Pants and vest

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Cannot bring myself to say "panties".

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Competence

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Homely (havent you got a homely house I have said on more occasions that I can bear to think of now that I know it means ugly here ) :huh:

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Baking/boiling (hot day)

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what do you say in place of "panties"?

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Underwear or knickers.

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"at the weekend"

vest (when referring to children's clothing)

jumper

rucksack

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Girls calling other girls their Girlfriend (not in a gay way)

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if arranging to meet someone on the next day ..........

I'll knock you up in the morning




Plus, it isn't always the word(s) used, but the way they are pronounced.

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Wimbleton

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That black sauce Lea and Perrins makes that you put in a Caesar drink as most people can't even pronounce it correctly.

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Of all the above/foregoing words, "rubber" is that one that always causes a double-take to non-Canadians. From time to time I find myself reminiscing about life in Toronto (I was married there in January 1967; so was my wife, as it happens...), and among the native eccentricities I relate is the custom of putting one's rubbers on before going outside in the snow. I expect that most readers of this thread have encountered the usual shock reaction - namely, "You what, John???"

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Geezer, Boozer , Bollocks my list goes on forever

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It's a good old sauce, good in beans too. Soy sauce is another, but far less complicated to spell. I tell kids it's the black stuff they squeeze out of grasshopper heads.

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I had to do the bollocks vs dog's bollocks explanation the other weekend.

I have also introduced her to the wonder of 'cockwomble'.

She did also wonder why I was laughing at someone's name on a list, it was "John Thomas". Yes, I'm childish, and I explained the joke, which she duly notified the person about, to some hilarity!

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Charlie
Toot
Whizz
Gear

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Now, class, I want you to use all these words in one sentence.

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Well, I can't say whether this is an orthodox Canadian example, but I will offer, "Charlie went on a toot and forgot to take his gear off before having a whizz." How many marks out of ten, Caretaker?

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Pants

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I think you have the Canadian version correct, but the English version is entirely drug references.
technically 10 out of 10

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As a relatively new (naturalised) Englishman, I feel ashamed of not knowing that!

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Don't ever change. :starsmile:

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We called it bug juice.

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Someone asked me if I wanted a cheeky livener as they had some charlie, so we went and had a toot in the toilet, when we'd gone through that, I asked if they had any other gear and they said they had a little whizz left, so we did that too, I said, "thanks nan."




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Lairy!