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We sometimes use "strap" to mean "a belt."

We never use "a temper" alone. "Temper" always has to be accompanied by another word. "Bad temper," "Temper tantrum."

When we are sad, we say we are "blue."

In the UK suspenders are want women use to hold their tights up, and pants are underwear...so when an American man talks about his pants and suspenders we can't help but titter.

Your "pants" are our "underwear/underpants." Are boxer shorts "pants" in the U.K.?

"Stuffed" means pregnant. In America, it means you are full.

Boxers, to us, are a very specific type of underwear--more like shorts than briefs---though we do have "boxer briefs."

Regular fruit-of-the-loom type "undies" are never called boxers, nor are the bikini-type underwear that men sometimes wear.

Women always wear panties. Knickers are what kids (and men in previous times) wore: a type of trouser which ends just above the knee.

Pants were called trousers in the old days in the US.

Pants comes from "pantaloons," which were form-fitting trousers worn by men during the earlier 19th century.

I'll be stuffed later.

I'm gonna get a big fat scran from the Chinese chippy.

Stuffed means f****d.

As in shouting at someone: "get stuffed"

Also, can't be stuffed = can't be bothered.

Fascinated by languages and cultural differences!

I like how in the UK collective nouns can be singular or plural but in America they are only singular.

Example:
'England are great at football'
'America is great at football'

I've always found the term "lorry," for truck, to be funny.

But don't you call lorries trucks, too?

Your "goods train" is our "freight train."

I also believe a person on your side of the Pond could be "knackered," whereas we can be "drunk."

Knackered also means f****d, but i think that's more of an old fashioned view and hardly anyone is offended by the word 'knackerd' anymore.

Knackered generally means tired rather than drunk.

I was thinking more of ways of talking when I started this ratger tgan words.

I can tell when an American writer writes an article for The Guardian for example because of the sentence structure and ways of wording things. Occasionally I need to re-read sentences in the NY Times because the syntax is so weird to a British English speaker.