American spelling of English words.

[better dead than red]

Norfolk.

Interestingly enough, my family is only 50 miles away from Norfolk, Virginia that is. :)

My years in Alabama are what challenged my ability to understand really really country people.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

That's what I meant :)

Fairy snuff. I'm amazed I recalled that much.

 

[Vic]

The only one that really grates on me is "Man City is winning." The absolute surest sign of a foreign football fan, that is.

or the beeb at their (its) most pedantic.

 

[Vic]

Sneakers is a regional colloquialism much like muffin, barm, roll.etc, etc. I've never used that word. I grew up saying "tennis shoes" (I'm well aware they aren't all used for tennis.). I also will say "coke" to refer to all manners of carbonated soft beverage, and then let you know what flavour/flavor/flayvore I'd like.

Tennis shoes? You mean pumps.

 

[Vic]

The only nine-letter word in Countdown I saw that the contestants didn't was colorized.

 

[Bill Walker]

Tennis shoes? You mean pumps.

Most names of things in Oz are the same as UK like Nappies, Car Parks, Petrol, Pavements etc but one thats different is Sneakers, nobody here knows what Trainers are (except the Brits of course) another one is they call the Motorway a Freeway.

 

[idahoblues]

Interestingly enough, my family is only 50 miles away from Norfolk, Virginia that is. :)

My years in Alabama are what challenged my ability to understand really really country people.

Did you ever make it to Selma?

Alabama at it's finest

 

[Barcon]

Most names of things in Oz are the same as UK like Nappies, Car Parks, Petrol, Pavements etc but one thats different is Sneakers, nobody here knows what Trainers are (except the Brits of course) another one is they call the Motorway a Freeway.

Called running shoes over here regardless of whether you run in them or not.
I just bought a nice pair of New Balance walking shoes running shoes.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

The years......Two Thousand fourteen, No it's two thousand AND fourteen.
A mile is One thousand, seven hundred AND sixty feet, not one thousand, seven hundred sixty feet.
Don't ask, it just is.

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

I’ll write you.

And it’s yoghurt not Yo Gurt. Yo twats.