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[johnslat]

"20 BRITISH WORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT IN THE U.S.

Here in the United States, we speak the same language as our ye old predecessors in Great Britain, but we don't always speak it the same way. So, we asked our oh-so British receptionist, Ryan Lovett, to give us a crash course in some of the more notable discrepancies.

Here are 20 words (along with some accompanying Bigstock images) that have pretty different meanings in Great Britain than they do in the U.S."

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/blog/20-british-words-that-mean-something-totally-different-in-the-us

Regards,
John

[Sashadroogie]

Dear Johnslat

This list is fundamentally flawed as many of the American meanings also exist in Britain, e.g. braces, bogs. It is just that they can have more than one meaning in the UK - the richness of meaning in the UK as opposed to the poverty of expression elsewhere : )


Best wishes

Polysemous Sasha

[Mikalina]

And one for the ladies (mostly) - purse. It's what I put my money in before I put it into my handbag (or American purse)...

[BadBeagleBad]

Though I have heard the smaller one called a change purse in parts of the US.