British-English to American-English 'translation' thread

[Treeb]

Here's a new one for me. Someone just mentioned "pencil crayons" in the advent calendar thread, which I'd never heard of. A bit of thinking and I realized this is probably what we would refer to as "colored pencils".

[Brigitte]

[shye]

twee is hard to explain...my understanding of it (as a canadian in the uk) is cheesy, kitsche kind of thing....

[AntiRuth]

bacon in Australia is really long ( the streaky and the back joined!) just the back part is called shortcut. That said it's not very good, more like ham than bacon!
I'm in Aus, originally from UK

[Nix]

I love this thread-so fascinating!

[jvnt]

[busmother]

[StJuniper]

[StJuniper]

My post won't post! I didn't use the k word...

[ToothFairy]

I've approved it for you StJ, no idea what's going on there!

[Brigitte]

[Cazfay]

UK suspenders = stretchy over-the-shoulder straps to hold up your trousers (I mean pants)
US suspenders = something to hold up lingerie stockings

Not quite right

UK suspenders also hold up your stockings (we do wear stockings and suspenders in the UK)
It's BRACES that hold up your trousers / pants

[StJuniper]

Suspenders also hold up pants here, but braces are only for your teeth.

[Treeb]

I'm in the US and have only heard of suspenders as straps to hold up your pants. I don't pay attention to lingerie enough to know the terms for things. And like StJ, braces are for your teeth.

[Marrow]

Braces can also mean brackets ({[]}) <--- like these