Words you don’t get in America…


It’s great – you can ramble incoherently and people think your are just using words they don’t know.

Some that you don’t get here: fortnight, Bollocks, gobsmacked, boffin

Then pavements are sidewalks and roads are pavements, chips are fries and crisps are chips…

Still the hardest thing of all is ordering a glass of water (even harder getting it without a ton of ice) because somehow I can’t say “water” in a way that people understand…

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