If you want proof of "2 countries separated by a common language", just read the following story..

http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.c...o-nations.html

Bloody hilarious!!

Oh classic , i will never think of the little robot spastic in another way ever again LOL
john

Firstly, Harry and Mrs. Spider, welcome to the USA. I'd like to add my twopenneth, despite it not being a popular thread to some, (the list is endless..) but, like in England, there are variations on a theme and these can get you into even more trouble.
For some reason, my husband calls a spigot - a spicket - and was telling me what I needed to tell the plumber when he came, (I wouldn't have even used spigot - and fortunately just showed the plumber what was wrong!!) but when my husband said spicket.. I said, do I have to say that? It was after much probing that spicket = spigot, but imagine if I had taken my husband's cute little Americanisation and said spicket, I'd look so daft.

There are so many more I can come up with as a vegetarian it is so hard to find anything that doesn't have meat in it. Chicken broth in vegetable soups- and so you have to look for vegetarian vegetable soup. Of course you find your way; but I was like one poster who said she was in tears looking for cream paint once and I know exactly what she means.
It used to take me so long to shop it was a very tough experience. I personally think I can speak 4 languages now, my own English, American English, my husband's American English - and Canadian. With a few distant relatives in Canada, I am a frequent visitor across the border and they call things different again!!
Now I've been here 5 years but things are still tough Harry.
Our little tiffs are the worst/funniest, as all my English slang rises to the fore -how can you get mad when your partner laughs at you mid-rant because you say he "Has a cob on??"

Enjoy the differences, and good luck to you. :-) By the way, I have found a few "stores" that sell Brit food now.

His best friends are Retardobot and Mong.

Seriously, who really thought that was a good idea?

I'm gobsmacked they're not renaming it in the USA as well.

I HATE that word. I always, always correct people when they use it to be insulting. It's an awful word.

Which one? Which ever it is I agree with you G.

All three, actually, but I was initially referring to the S... word. Horrible, horrible word.

Agreed.