Just What Are You Saying?

I stumbled across a blog today called Cat's Cradle that had an interesting an educational list of some English terms...I mean UK English terms. If you happen to be travelling to Great Britain...this may be of some use.

Here are a couple of examples..but you'll have to visit here for the rest.

Jumper:In the U.S. we call them “sweaters,” and you’ll get strange looks if you try to indicate that a person was wearing overalls by saying something to the effect of “he ripped the knee of his jumpers when he leapt off the tractor.”

Lorry:People in the US would call this a “truck,” an “18-wheeler,” a "semi," a “Mack truck,” or a “tractor trailer,” and probably a variety of other names that I do not know about. What I’m pretty sure we don’t call it, however, is a “lorry.”In the UK the word “truck” refers only to a pick-up truck, and definitely never, ever to a lorry, because that would be ridiculous.