Comments on: 10 Things Brits Say…and What Americans Think We Mean

By: An American

An American — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:44:00 +0000

A lot of these are American idioms as well. “How do you do” is a common greeting here as well, for example, not a genuine request for health status.

This article should probably be called “10 things Brits say…and what we think Americans think we mean”.

By: no,wedon't thinkwe'rebetter

no,wedon't thinkwe'rebetter — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:04:00 +0000

I got off with this fit bird…… I made out with a attractive girl…we’re not all that daft. -people of the united states

By: no,wedon't thinkwe'rebetter

no,wedon't thinkwe'rebetter — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:04:00 +0000

I got off with this fit bird…… I made out with a attractive girl…we’re not all that daft. -people of the united states

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:24:00 +0000

I never thought that’s what any of the expressions mean nor has any other American I’ve met.

By: AboveAverageAmerican

AboveAverageAmerican — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:46:00 +0000

Really awful list. A lot of these are shared by Americans (1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 being the most egregious).

By: Shannon McKee

Shannon McKee — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:08:00 +0000

I don’t know about Northern or Western states, but here in the South if someone asks “How do you do?” most people reply “I’m fine, thank you. And you?” “I’m fine” “That’s good”. Then we end with “Have a nice day” and they reply “You too”.

By: Newsjunkie

Newsjunkie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:58:00 +0000

So true! I uses to work at Walt Disney World and we had a lot of English guests. They were always saying “cheers” to me and I never could figure out what it meant (as they were obviously not toasting me!). Fortunately, I had an English manager who cleared it up for me. He also explained treacle tarts, something I only read about in the Harry Potter books.

By: jonny fart knocker

jonny fart knocker — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:05:00 +0000

english is the true spoken language and america has only a small dictionary of pointless made up words to make it there own, and its prenounced aluminium not the way u yanks or hill billys say it it

By: reddit

reddit — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:52:00 +0000

I’ve never seen anybody get upset over this article.

By: Jacqueline O Moleski

Jacqueline O Moleski — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Yeah — that’s a good one!