little UK vs US things

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I don't hear Americans use 'lovely' like we do. Waiter asks 'is everything ok?' 'mmm lovely! thanks!'. Always. Or: 'he's a lovely bloke'. If I hear Americans use it it sounds like an affectation.

We're way out of line with 'rocket' (for the salad leaf) too. It's a variation on 'rucola' pretty much everywhere, including the US. Where the fuck did we get 'rocket' from?

There's two.

Note how I'm wee-weeing in my OWN garden. For starters, at least 🙂

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An American girlfriend thought it was ridiculous I'd say 'fruit and veg' (or some variation) referring to the section in a supermarket.

Apparently in the US it's 'produce'. Still not sure she's right

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UK doesn't get all the nuances of "motherf$^ker" the same way we don't get the 'c' word.

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Nov 4, 2021 22:05:55 GMT oh oooh said:

An American girlfriend thought it was ridiculous I'd say 'fruit and veg' (or some variation) referring to the section in a supermarket.

Apparently in the US it's 'produce'. Still not sure she's right

Fruit and veg would be something one would hear in the parlance of  pro kitchen, a restaurant, caterer, supermarket, etc.,

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US Possibly has more gun oriented slang, but that might have gotten spread around the world via tv, film and  Video games: Lock and Load, flash in the pan, loaded for bear/moose, caught in a crossfire, jump the gun, parting shot, silver bullet, shoot your mouth off, son of a gun, straight shooter, sweating bullets, stick to your guns, etc.,

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Expressing enthusiasm - things like 'super psyched' or 'stoked' I can't see ever catching on here.

Mind, you never know...

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Saying 'super' and 'stoked' seem to have fallen off, just saying 'psyched' is still in use.

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Plumbing on the outsides of houses.

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Football

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This one I wonder about, basically looking in fromm the outside: The national anthems, or rather the use of, internal respect of, emotional attachment to.....and so on, thereof?

Going back to fruit & veg for a sec, I believe, in the UK, many items there are referred to by their European counterpart, beit French, Italian, Spanish, ... (courgette is French for instance), only sometimes using the anglophone version, (where courgette is zucchini). This seems to me to be rare in the US. For meals, perhaps, but not fruit and vegs.

[tory]

When Americans say wanker you know they're a knob.

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'sorry for your loss' - we don't really have a standard response like that

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Nov 5, 2021 8:47:09 GMT oh oooh said:

'sorry for your loss' - we don't really have a standard response like that

I wasn't aware that was American. We say it as well don't we?

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Nov 5, 2021 9:26:29 GMT @madcyril1 said:

Nov 5, 2021 8:47:09 GMT oh oooh said:

'sorry for your loss' - we don't really have a standard response like that

I wasn't aware that was American. We say it as well don't we?

I don't see it used as a 'scripted' thing so often. Not like 'pleased to meet you', or 'have a good day' or whatever. 

I notice on Facebook posts (for example) when someone dies, Americans tend to respond with that, you get a string of them, it's standardised. We're a bit lost, we tend to go with whatever feels right, maybe 'oh I'm so sorry to hear that' or 'oh what awful news'

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"My condolences" is very British.