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Irritating American names for things

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  • #52
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Tush.


  • #53
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    Pronouncing route as rout.

    The weird way they say buoy, they pronounce it boo-ey instead of boy.

    That weird vocal fry thing that every woman (and now increasingly every man) under 40 does.


  • #54
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    Are they annoying or just a different word to describe the same thing?

    Apart from pattys day. That's annoying


  • #55
    BobbyMalone
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭BobbyMalone


    boo-ee for buoy. But I'm pretty sure they pronounce buoyant as we do.

    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Diaper.

    Really where did that come from.


    Diaper is the original (old English) word - nappy replaced it in the UK.


  • #56
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Cups. As a measurement.

    Yes, they cannot weigh anything. But it works for them and is something we should do too. No problem with that, since all our recipes here are in kilos or derivitatives and need a weighing scale. If you are that bothered.


  • #57
    fishy_fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭fishy_fishy


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Obviously the person who intervened was Irish, and the waitress must have been foreign. Lots of people in Ireland know about Newbridge Silverware.

    Nope and nope.

    And whilst people have heard of Newbridge silverware, I have genuinely never heard silverwear used to request basic cutlery from anyone this side of the Atlantic. You might mention wanting to get out the good silver for a fancy dinner... But never have I ever heard a non-American refer to bog standard cutlery as silverwear. Plus, I've heard them use it for plastic cutlery, which just seems bizarre.


  • #58
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    They work all hours and days and get two weeks off if lucky.

    There are many religions and none that home school. Some countries cannot wait to get their kids out of their hair. But guns might be an issue for sure in American Schools as we have seen.

    Yeah, they don’t really work all hours, they’ve great presentism, as in come in early and work late, but they’re no more productive in those long hours than we are in our standard days. They kinda waste time IMHO, oh and I should say are paid vastly more for the same type of role.


  • #59
    JimToken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭JimToken


    Pringles


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "Math" seems to be gaining traction this side of the pond. And those who use the term "soccer" to describe a football game should be forced to operate a hotdog stand in an abandoned carpark.


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  • #61
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Drugs and drugstore
    Instead of medicine and pharmacy


  • #62
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    First responders.


  • #63
    Eduard Khil
    Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    Color

    Where's the U gone


  • #64
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Farenheit.
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  • #65
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Shooter instead of mad bast@rd with a gun


  • #66
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    BobbyMalone wrote: »
    boo-ee for buoy. But I'm pretty sure they pronounce buoyant as we do.


    Diaper is the original (old English) word - nappy replaced it in the UK.

    So it was the Plymouth Brethren who brought Diapers to the New World. But Old English was way before that like in Chaucer's time.

    Anyway.... who cares.


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  • #67
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Collateral damage.


  • #68
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    screamer wrote: »
    Drugs and drugstore
    Instead of medicine and pharmacy

    Chemist.


  • #69
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    fishy_fishy wrote: »
    Nope and nope.

    And whilst people have heard of Newbridge silverware, I have genuinely never heard silverwear used to request basic cutlery from anyone this side of the Atlantic. You might mention wanting to get out the good silver for a fancy dinner... But never have I ever heard a non-American refer to bog standard cutlery as silverwear. Plus, I've heard them use it for plastic cutlery, which just seems bizarre.

    I have often heard it referred to as silverware. I checked a few online dictionaries, and none of them list it as being American English only. And I also knew that it has become a general term for eating utensils not made out of silver.

    silverware
    The tools you use to eat your food, including spoons, forks, and knives, are called silverware. Some silverware is actually made of silver, but silverware made of stainless steel is much more common these days.


  • #70
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    "Freedom"...for doing whatever the fcuk they want.


  • #71
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Farenheit.

    Yes indeed. I cannot understand FH now anymore. But they are stuck with miles and FH. Ah well it is their country after all.


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  • #72
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Farenheit.

    Not spelled/spelt like that.


  • #73
    JimToken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭JimToken


    Big Mac


  • #74
    JimToken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭JimToken


    Soda pop


  • #75
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    screamer wrote: »
    Drugs and drugstore
    Instead of medicine and pharmacy

    That one caused a lot of confusion with one of my grandparents when a US relative was over. She started getting very cautious about stuff, watching her handbag and so on.

    One of the cousins had said “oh yeah! He’s on a lot of drugs these days.”


  • #76
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Not spelled/spelt like that.

    Apologies - Fahrenheit.

    Sincerest apologies. :rolleyes:
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  • #77
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Apologies - Fahrenheit.

    Sincerest apologies. :rolleyes:

    Not at all. And it is good to see America sticking to the older measure, and not the new fangled Celsius.


  • #78
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Pants, ( it's an Irish thing as well unfortunately) - they are trousers. Pants are knickers.

    Backyard rather than garden. A yard is a hard surface area.


  • #79
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,977 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    JimToken wrote: »
    Soda pop

    This is a funny one, as these are two different terms that don’t tend to get put together in common use anywhere in the US... whichever term for soft drink you look at, more of the US doesn’t say it than does.

    ‘Soda’ is mostly just said on the west coast and north east coast.

    ‘Pop’ is mostly just said from the Midwest across to the northwest.

    And the weirdest of all - just calling all soft drinks ‘coke’ (like the way we call all vacuums ‘Hoovers’), is said everywhere else, right across the south


  • #80
    D3V!L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Turn signal (indicator)

    Transmission (gearbox)

    I think you're a little confused. In English the transmission is the gear box, clutch, drive shaft and diff. In American transmission means simply the gearbox.


  • #81
    Jenna James
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Jenna James


    Panjandrums wrote: »
    Sweater, they were fascinated by the word "Jumper"

    https://youtu.be/_2PuhzO_whY


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  • #82
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,026 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Math" seems to be gaining traction this side of the pond. And those who use the term "soccer" to describe a football game should be forced to operate a hotdog stand in an abandoned carpark.


    Football is played in Croke Park. Soccer is the correct Irish term for the Dalymount game


  • #83
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Irish people saying ''dude''.


  • #84
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,541 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Beef Patties , here we call them burgers.


  • #85
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    the one that annoys me the most is legos . no its Lego. it is its own plural.


  • #86
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Football is played in Croke Park. Soccer is the correct Irish term for the Dalymount game

    Dalymount, as in the Home of Irish Football, as it's known. Home to Bohemian FC, as in Bohemian Football Club? One of the many teams under the umbrella of the FAI i.e. Football Association of Ireland?


  • #87
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,977 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Gas, for a flammable liquid that isn't a gas.

    (it’s short for gasoline)


  • #88
    monty_python
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭monty_python


    D3V!L wrote: »
    I think you're a little confused. In English the transmission is the gear box, clutch, drive shaft and diff. In American transmission means simply the gearbox.

    I think your the your the confused one


  • #89
    freewheeler
    Registered Users Posts: 301 ✭✭freewheeler


    EYE-raq (Iraq)


  • #90
    JimToken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭JimToken


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Irish people saying ''dude''.

    dude


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  • #91
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,026 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    freewheeler wrote: »
    EYE-raq (Iraq)


    This is the worst one.


    If you are going to bomb a country into oblivion at least learn how to pronounce it first


  • #92
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Lets go to the Mall , I love the Mall

    MAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL


  • #93
    ~Rebel~
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,977 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    In fairness to them, one I think they’ve nailed is ‘Hood’ instead of ‘Bonnet’.

    Since I’ve been forced to think about it after being questioned on it, I now can’t avoid the image of a large, floppy, probably floral, women’s hat whenever it comes up.

    I’m sticking with ‘Boot’ till I die though (even if ‘Trunk’ perhaps makes more sense).


  • #94
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    'Flavo(u)rful' is very annoying and I hear it creeping into British shows too. Flavoursome is a much better word and does not sound made-up.


  • #95
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Rest room/Wash room/Bathroom (when there's obvs no actual bathtub in there)

    It's a bleedin toilet.


  • #96
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Mall


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  • #97
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Gas, for a flammable liquid that isn't a gas.

    Thing is, petrol, as it's called this side of the pond, doesn't light as a liquid. Only the vapours (gaseous) light. So in a way, 'gas' is correct.
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  • #98
    Jenna James
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Jenna James


    Dope.. that's buggin'


  • #99
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Candy ! It’s sweets ffs


  • #100
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Caucus and primary: seemingly endless presidential fcuking about.


  • #101
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,026 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Candy ! It’s sweets ffs


    Its not as bad as using sweets for desert


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