Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten, Dan Weingarten & David Clark

simpsonfan2 said, 5 months ago

Lift. In the U.K. anyway.
Boot: Americans wear them, Brits have them on their cars.
Chips are what they call fries, they call chips crisps.
They call cookies biscuits.
At least not as wild as the Australians are.
palepink said, 5 months ago

Well, duh, because you don’t lift an elevator; it lifts you.
finale said, 5 months ago

Ranting linguist! Run away (from her; outwards, in any direction).
Stephen Gilberg said, 5 months ago

I think it’s merely a shortening of “pocket watch” and “wristwatch.”
What I really want to know is how baseball arrived at the unimaginative, potentially confusing term “ball” for when the pitch goes outside the batting zone. Surely they had a better name once upon a time, but my research has come up short.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

Just let the chips fall where they may.
GSJ Olé said, 5 months ago

And a jumper is the U.S.’s cardigan, and a ’needle and cotton" is “needle and thread”.
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