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by j-man on July 29th, 2007

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Do you know any different dialects for different words such as pop is only called soda in different places?

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  • by Irisibis on May 9th, 2009

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    I'm from Lancashire in England.

    I would never use the term pop or soda - it would be a fizzy drink or the brand name. And we don't say we are going to see a movie - we say we are going to see a film at the cinema.

    If you have a sandwich, it might get called a sarnie, and the bread roll you put it in could be a muffin, a barm, a bap or a bun depending on where you are from. Chewing gum is 'spiggie' and a narrow alley between houses is a ginnel. If you are shocked at something you are 'gobsmacked'.

    We don't have ground beef, we buy 'mince' and pies are nearly always savoury - chicken and mushroom or steak and kidney which you get from the local bakery.We have chips with our fish not fries. Potato chips are called crisps.

    We have lorries not trucks and mobiles not cell phones. A jumper is a sweater and what Americans call a jumper we call an all-in-one or dungarees. We wear trousers not pants - although we do wear pants underneath them but we'd call them knickers more often. Don't mention a 'fanny pack' in England because a 'fanny' is a slang term for a woman's erm, private parts not her rear end. If you have a car, you have an acccelerator not a gas pedal, the engine is under the bonnet and you keep your luggage in the boot.

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