Could you give me the meaning of a word used in your country that means something different in another country?
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"Fag" in American means a male homosexual. In England it's a cigarette.
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Rubber, in other countries, that is an eraser.
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In Britian, a "chip" is a piece of Potato cut into a rectangular shape. And it's not a fry like the Americans have, it's usualy thicker.
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We call it Petrol, Americans call it Gas
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In Europe we call the compartment at the back of a car the boot in the US it's called the trunk and what the US call the hood we call the bonnet
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The one that causes the most consternation is fanny, which is female genitalia in the UK. In the USA it seems to be what we in the UK would call a bum, but that also has an entirely different meaning between the two countries.
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Football in the US is a game played with an oblong ball and very seldom is kicked. In England (and lots of other countries) it's what people in the US call soccer and is a round ball and is almost exclusively kicked.
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Pavement in britain is what the pedestrians walk on nasdrave in bulgarian is straight on, in russian it means to the right dog in russian means Great Dane in english
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