Americanisms...

[GWhizz]

These is mainly about words actions or whatever is exclusively american and completely different to the rest of the world.

Why do Americans call biscuits cookies? Or are cookies biscuits?

Is it flavour or flavor?

Football or soccer?

Is everything really super-sized in the states?

etc...

:dunno:

Discuss.

 

[calpoon]

Cookies are things with chocolate chips in them. Biscuits are things that you get at KFC.

It's Flavor. we don't believe in "U" in America, only "I".

Football is a sport played by men on a field with a ball. Soccer is a game played by children and weird foreigners.

Nothing is Super-Sized anymore because of negative publicity from the film. Of course all fast food places allow you to upgrade to larger sizes, they just stopped calling it that.

 

[roronoa3000]

Why do Americans call biscuits cookies? Or are cookies biscuits?

We dont. Cookies are tasty treats, you eat biscuits at breakfast

Is it flavour or flavor?

Flavor. Why place a u in a place in dosent need to be.

Football or soccer?

The sport with the round ball you kick is called soccer in America (like it or not)

Is everything really super-sized in the states?

Hell no, you got to pay extra for that.

 

[ThatRedWing]

These is mainly about words actions or whatever is exclusively american and completely different to the rest of the world.

Why do Americans call biscuits cookies? Or are cookies biscuits?
Biscuits are biscuits and cookies are cookies.
Is it flavour or flavor?
It's flavor.
Football or soccer?
It's soccer here but call it what you want, I don't care.
Is everything really super-sized in the states?
Only my penis.
etc...

:dunno:

Discuss.

:hatsoff:

 

[Ace Bandage]

Bill Bryson discusses this rather well in "Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States." (see here). Most of your questions are answered here. It's a great read, highly recommended. Not all of his anecdote and histories are correct, but he gets most of them right.

 

[mrtrebus]

Fuck you Bill Bryson!

 

[roronoa3000]

Bill Bryson discusses this rather well in "Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States." (see here). Most of your questions are answered here. It's a great read, highly recommended. Not all of his anecdote and histories are correct, but he gets most of them right.

I refuse to read the rants of a Neocon!!

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

The word NeoCon has become as American as Apple pie.

 

[roronoa3000]

The word NeoCon has become as American as apple pie.

:1orglaughI didnt even know that word until I came here. Now I use it all the time for no reason what so ever. Damn you Hellraiser!!

 

[titsrock]

A lot of these things were created to differentiate ourselves against England. Today, with modern globalization being a corporate america jizzbomb, a lot of these differentiations get in the way of "business" :dunno:

Apparently somewhere in our Constitution it says it is our "god given right" to be the fattest nation on the planet.

 

[STDiva]

Catsup?

 

[mrtrebus]

Catsup?

Dogsdown?

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Cookies are things with chocolate chips in them. Biscuits are things that you get at KFC.

It's Flavor. we don't believe in "U" in America, only "I".

Football is a sport played by men on a field with a ball. Soccer is a game played by children and weird foreigners.

Nothing is Super-Sized anymore because of negative publicity from the film. Of course all fast food places allow you to upgrade to larger sizes, they just stopped calling it that.

and high school students who couldn't even make the marching band!

:rofl2: :rofl:

 

[roronoa3000]

and high school students who couldn't even make the marching band!

:rofl2: :rofl:

Or color guard.

 

[jod0565]

Just sayin' - is a prime example of this.

 

[Facetious]

Cars have "bonnets" in the UK ?

You can smoke fags in the UK and not be gay ? !

Main Entry: lab·o·ra·to·ry
Pronunciation: \ˈla-b(ə-)rə-ˌtȯr-ē sometimes ˈla-bə(r)-ˌ or lə-ˈbȯr-ə-ˌ, <- correct


Laboratory UK pronunciation • lə-ˈbär-ə-t(ə-)rē\ <- incorrect ! :nono:

 

[roronoa3000]

Cars have "bonnets" in the UK ?

You can smoke fags in the UK and not be gay ? !

I smoked a fag once.
He never woke up again.

 

[Will E Worm]

Biscuits are to be eaten with breakfast.

Cookies are sweet snacks.

Is it flavour or flavor? Flavor Flav?

Football or soccer? Two different sports. I orefer Baseball, Bowling, and fishing.

Is everything really super-sized in the states? Yes, just about.

I smoked a fag once.
He never woke up again.

 

[Facetious]

It's Flavor. we don't believe in "U" in America, only "I".

That's right, so selfish that we go so far as to aid ($$$) and abet our sworn foreign enemies. :glugglug:

 

[gunslingingbird]

It's Flavor. we don't believe in "U" in America, only "I".

There is no "I" in "fuck you". :thumbsup: