britvic

Gawd .....such a long time ago mind you most of them toilets were kept spotless by some old dutch who had her little office come tea room in there I remember the marble and polished up brass and as a little kid it was so different to spend a penny underground

Sally Redux

Yep, none of those flimsy partition doors, you're so right about the lady with her own little underground empire

rebs

Have we done this one?

Queue - line
Jumping the queue - cutting in line

Sally Redux

Oh yes that's a good one. If you help out in elementary school, the kids are always shouing about others 'cutting'.

meauxna

aka 'taking cuts'.

Sally Redux

Another school one is 'switching out' for changing subjects.

nethead

Could probably do a whole dictionary for school terms, and another for toilet/bathroom terms.

How about

University/Uni - school.

rebs

That's a good one - in general I hear 'swap out' or 'change out' here in the US where I would perhaps say 'swap over' or 'change over'.

Sally Redux

I was wondering if some groupings of words/expressions by subject would also be useful.

All those are good.

It took me a while to get used to 'filling out' rather than 'filling in' a form.

meauxna

Oh yeah, and the whole university/college dilemma too. (they're pretty interchangeable in the US)


Oh, and Sally reminded me another (two actually)

Here you would 'take a class/course', over there you 'go on a course'.

And 'twigged'. I like that one.
Caught the drift. Caught a clue. Caught on. "Realized"
(eww, urban dictionary says something else.. it usually does tho)

Sally Redux

'Go on a course' would suggest to me something vocational or that you did through the workplace. I think you'd still 'take' a university course of study.

elfman

and that reminds me: Americans take a shower, Britons have a shower. Same goes for taking/having a pee as well.
In my experience.

Sally Redux

and cut the light up

meauxna

Ah.. well that explains why I've heard it for work courses.
I don't know any fancy Uni people. <g>

Xebedee

???? ????

Where on earth do you live?
Jersey?

How about: "You say zuccini - I say courgette"

or

"You say bacon sandwich - I say what the hell is that burnt offering in the middle?"