American VS British English Words
hello everyone welcome back to english
with lucy today I want to talk to you
about 10 vocabulary differences between
American English and British English so
let’s get started the first one and a
lot of you might know this one is what
the British call football and what the
Americans call soccer now of course we
will understand each other it can get
confusing because Americans have
American football which is a completely
different game number two chips and
crisps
for us crisps are these crunchy fried
potatoes which are usually served cold
but Americans call them chips it’s even
more confusing when we get onto number
three because what Americans call french
fries we then call chips so french fries
for Americans and chips for the British
are hot fried soft potatoes these number
four what we call trousers Americans
call pants however it gets even more
confusing because when we get to number
five what Americans call underwear we
call pants so pants for Americans are
trousers something you wear over your
underwear number six gas versus petrol
for us petrol is the liquid petroleum
that you put into your car and Americans
call this gas gets confusing because gas
for us only refers to something that is
in its gaseous form something that’s
neither a solid nor a liquid a gas the
next one biscuit and cookie for the
British we refer to one of these as a
biscuit and the Americans call it a
cookie number eight trunk versus boot
for us the compartment in the back of a
car is called a boot which is also a
word that can refer to a specific type
of shoe but for Americans it’s just
trunk number nine what we call a jumper
America
we’ll call a sweater so make sure you
remember both of these ones so this for
me is a jumper but for Americans it
would be a sweater and number 10 high
school versus secondary school in
Britain we call it the final school that
you attend secondary school but in
America they call it high school alright
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