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'Candy' - sweets

'Season' - series

'Cookies' - biscuits

Anyone else find this sh*t annoying? :x [##]
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'Fanny pack' - bum bag :evil:
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Mom. Mum. And yes, annoying.
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I've given up the fight re; season v series. But biscuit is a hill I will die on.
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Biscuits- scones
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Theatres- cinema
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Vacation - Holiday
Silverware - cutlery
Sidewalk - Pavement
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Joint, something the British eat on a Sunday. Yanks smoke it

Fag, we smoke it, yanks poke it
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I always get a bit irked when I hear people calling takeaway 'takeout'.
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Calling the shitter a "bathroom" should get you straight to hell.
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Freeway- Motorway
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School - shooting range.
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Anyways - anyway
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Fries-chips
Chips- crisps
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In US at the moment. Democracy seems the strangest Americanism
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I could care less about math.
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Fawcett = tap
Drapes = curtains
Sidewalk = pavement
Drug store= chemist

Do they speak English, or what?
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Spellings eg tires, favor, center, theater, harbor, Biden spelt Brandon.
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Anthem of Hope is a Space Cadet
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cymruO wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:58 pm Spellings eg tires, favor, center, theater, harbor, Biden spelt Brandon.
Struggling with wordle mate?
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Hood - Bonnet
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Molly = MD/pingers.
Apartment = flat
Calling everyone bro
Upward infections
Like as a filler word.
And all the ones I do without even realising it, playing my own part in the gradual obliteration of real English.
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