I would say this, but I reckon the dead-give away between British/American writing is the swear words. The age old ass versus arse debate comes to mind, as well as my over-use of the word 'twat'.
For me, the biggest issue is schools. Where do I begin? We do not have grades, periods, kindergartens, freshmen, seniors or any of those peculiar things. Neither do we have high-schools, elementary schools or principals. And I'm pretty sure what Americans call college is different to what we call college. We Englishy type folk start small children off in nursery (age three or four) and then they go into reception (four or five). Sometimes they two year groups are lumped together as a 'foundation unit' within a primary school and are called F1 (nursery) and F2 (reception.) Then primary school goes from year one to year six (5-11) and then you go to secondary school. After that, it's college/sixth form/whatever crazy scheme the government has decided to use this week, and then University if you so choose. We get holidays (not vacations) and half-terms (small holidays) around three major terms, Autumn, Winter and Summer (holidays being Christmas, Easter and Summer). We have state schools and private schools and now we also have academies which are a nuisance jolly lot of fun. Gah, far too much information. Maybe one day I'll organise this into something more coherent?
Some more Englishisms I have been picked on about lately: Focussed with too many esses. Calling an oven an Aga.
"only chavs sit in front of their house in England." LOL. We once sat on a sofa in the front garden and claimed we were rednecks.
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Date: 2012-04-28 10:10 pm (UTC)For me, the biggest issue is schools. Where do I begin? We do not have grades, periods, kindergartens, freshmen, seniors or any of those peculiar things. Neither do we have high-schools, elementary schools or principals. And I'm pretty sure what Americans call college is different to what we call college. We Englishy type folk start small children off in nursery (age three or four) and then they go into reception (four or five). Sometimes they two year groups are lumped together as a 'foundation unit' within a primary school and are called F1 (nursery) and F2 (reception.) Then primary school goes from year one to year six (5-11) and then you go to secondary school. After that, it's college/sixth form/whatever crazy scheme the government has decided to use this week, and then University if you so choose. We get holidays (not vacations) and half-terms (small holidays) around three major terms, Autumn, Winter and Summer (holidays being Christmas, Easter and Summer). We have state schools and private schools and now we also have academies which are a
nuisancejolly lot of fun. Gah, far too much information. Maybe one day I'll organise this into something more coherent?Some more Englishisms I have been picked on about lately:
Focussed with too many esses.
Calling an oven an Aga.
"only chavs sit in front of their house in England." LOL. We once sat on a sofa in the front garden and claimed we were rednecks.