American To English Translation Quiz by Tobler

Can you name the American To English Translation?

created by Tobler

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Some of these words may be sometimes used in the UK, but the words are really from America!
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American	English/British/UK
acetaminophen/tylenol
Blacktop
Candy
Drywall
Elevator
Fries (eg. Fries and fish)
Garbage
Howdy
Jell-o
Ladybug
Math
Narc
Overpass
Parking Lot
Rappel
Scotch Tape
Take Out
Upscale
Vacationer
Zucchini
Fall
Cotton Candy
Lima bean
Recess (school)
Principal

American	English/British/UK
Lost and found
Diaper
Penitentiary
Gasoline
Sidewalk
Shot
Freeway
Zip code
Pants
Baby buggy
Duplex
Jump Rope
Couch
Monkey Wrench
tic-tac-toe
Traffic circle
Muffler (Car)
Attorny/Solicitor
Liquor
Scallion
Semester (school)
Stop signals
Car Trunk
Car hood

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American To English Translation Quiz

by Tobler

Created Oct 26, 2011 in Language
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	Sapphira:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 09:09 GMT		-1 points
	Postcode is used more often than postal code.

	Tobler:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 09:19 GMT		2 points
	@Sapphira, yes i agree, i have fixed that! Thanks for the comment!

	Tobsodan:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 11:51 GMT		2 points
	I spent two years in an American elementary school and there we definitely had recess... So I'm not so sure all of these really are differences between American and British or can also differ within the two. Nice quiz though!

	Teblor:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 12:18 GMT		7 points
	Nice quiz. I'm English, but have never really used the term recess. It has always been break for mid-morning, or lunch break for the obvious. Also, although you accepted petrol, the answer still shows gas. We use exhaust for silencer, and solicitor is a more commonly used term for attorney.

	chriskotx:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 12:29 GMT		-2 points
	Blimely! that frightful red on black has my knickers in a knot - it's bloody unreadable.

	craitman17:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 12:55 GMT		3 points
	Recess = American. Break = English.

	Evil44:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 12:57 GMT		2 points
	Americans use a lot of the words you have in the UK column: sofa, purse, traffic lights, tadpole, lawyer (I thought the UK term was a barrister), pavement, recess, autumn, and tarmac, so I'm not sure those make for good questions in this quiz. The other ones are fun, though. I'm surprised that some of the more well-known differences (bobby/policeman, car hood/bonnet, car trunk/boot) were not in this quiz.

	Tobler:	Oct 26th, 2011 at 18:10 GMT		3 points
	@all. Tyank you for the comments! i agree especially with the recess, that was my mistake so sorry about that. Thank for the suggestions i have fixed them all i hope. Even the colour chriskotx!

	bowsntoys:	Nov 1st, 2011 at 19:23 GMT		3 points
	bobby/policeman are backwards. Fun quiz. :)

	WyvernSabres:	Nov 1st, 2011 at 21:02 GMT		3 points
	Good quiz, and I learned a few things from this! However, it still doesn't have the correct answer for recess (should be break), still says gas is the UK word for gasoline (we never say that), and still says Bobby is a US word for policeman (it's definitely of UK origin: named after Robert Peel). I thought Howdy meant Hello: "How Do?" may be common in parts of Northern England, but that's not general to the whole UK. I presume you mean Swiss Roll and Jelly Roll. I really hope this post doesn't seem like a catalogue of moans, because I like the quiz but want you to make it even better!

	Tobler:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 19:48 GMT		3 points
	WyvernSabres- thank you im glad you liked it and I hope i have fixed those things for you!

	Toby123:	Jan 17th, 2012 at 08:02 GMT		2 points
	good quiz, well done! I learnt a lot from the quiz and think it deserves a little more recognsion!

	zeppelinoid:	Feb 2nd, 2013 at 09:22 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz. Needs some tidying up. "How do" is not common in most parts of the UK ("hello" or "hi" are universal). "Narc" generally relates to grassing up someone for drugs possession to a "narc" (narcotics officer). "Sticky tape" is not used in general English other than Blue Peter ("sellotape" is universal). A "lima bean" is a "butter bean" in the UK ("fava beans" are "broad beans"). "Prison" is "prison" in US English ("penitentiary" is just a more complex name for "prison"). "Gasoline" is "petrol" in UK English ("gas" is a US term). "Injection" is more common in UK English than "jab". "Solicitor" in the US means salesperson and is obsolete relating to "lawyers". In the UK an "attorney" can be a "solicitor" or a "barrister" (they are all called "lawyers" in both the US and UK).