Originally posted by Bethy:
Also, another same word/different meaning -- pissed. US = angry. UK = drunk.
Not to mention "crack":
- U.S. = cocaine; UK (Scottish) = (roughly) fun conversation or chat (My understanding is that it is an Anglicization of the Scots word "craic")
LabRat, could you confirm the precise meaning of that?
There's also one that I am somewhat hesitant to bring up, since it is *not* polite in the UK; but Americans should be made aware of it if they don't already know it, if only to avoid inappropriate use of the term. That is "fanny". In the U.S., it is slang for the portion of the human anatomy upon which one sits. In the U.K., it is a crude reference to a nearby portion of the female anatomy. (Actually, another meaning for "crack" in the U.S. is pretty much the same as "fanny" in the U.K.)
Joy,
Lynn
