Words Brits use that Americans don't?

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  1. Barry Thrift

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    Have heard but not lately, depends on the company you keep back when I was around my late teens I think, one of the guys I worked with he kind of had a use for it, but then again he had porked a few females in his time.
     
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    Hahaha
     
  3. roadhogg

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    why do americans call football ?soccer ? just a thought ,and another strange word
     
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  5. Candy Gal

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    Oh, there are many more.

    The slang words are the strangest.

    How about Joe Baxi
    Sherbert

    Both mean Taxi
     
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    It’s like you’re speaking a different language:p
     
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    After these two sports spread across the Atlantic, Americans invented their own variant of the game that they simply called "football" in the early 1900s. "Association football" became "soccer" in America, and what was called "gridiron" in Britain became simply "football" in America.
     
  8. roadhogg

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    ok clever clogs ,,where did the word "turbo" come from ?
     
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    I dunno. Go and ask up in chat.

    I am off to watch the box.
     
  10. Barry Thrift

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    Yes and they play with a round ball, the American Ladies team have done very well being there world champions.
     
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    Do you have funny farms?
     
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    You missed a couple Candy darlin' - Dahn the Apples & Pears, Out the Rory O'Moore (Door), Down the Frog & Toad (road) in the Rub a Dub (pub)
     
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    There are loads more Vlad.
    I was hoping you would add more Cockney.
     
  15. Vladimir Illich

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    Okay Candy darlin' - I'll wrack my brain and see if I can remember anymore.
     
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  16. Candy Gal

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    Me too.
    I have to think back on my Nan and my Dad. lol
     
  17. roadhogg

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    depends on what cockney your talking about ,,theres a difference ,between east and west London
     
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  18. Candy Gal

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    True. Just add yours.

    I googled and found this old gem.

     
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    (rub a dub ) aint a pub ,its a nuclear sub ,and the( boozer ) ,is a battle cruiser
     
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