I've never 'got'

chipples.

I'm now thinking about pickles with chips inside.

Or chips with pickles inside.

Just chips really.

So much this. Gardening, chainsawing etc I want to have mobile arms but a warm core. Also handy for small hand tools, phone etc so trouser pockets don’t become overloaded.

On this topic, I've never got why 'mericans call chips "fries". And crisps, "chips". Fucking sort it out.

Actually, my biggest bugbear with American English is the word EGGPLANT. What kind of egg looks like that?!?

It is especially annoying as I don't live in the US but all the english around me is US English and it's starting to take hold.

The white ones do look like eggs

English people getting annoyed with people around the world using language differently.

I’m with you on that, US terms increasingly dominate here in HK as well. Cornflour confusion was high recently.

Carmel!

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Also what is it about herbs and spices that diverge in pronunciation so much in us English?
Basil/ cilantro / oregano / and the classic 'erbs.

We almost had a fight in the office over the concept of flapjacks.

Haha - I actually really love variation in language (whether english or other languages, I could bore on about it for hours...) but it's annoying when I say "meet you by the lift!" to a colleague and they look at me in terror thinking I'm going to pick them up and carry them away.

Because "FREEDOM Chips" isn't alliterative. We're a very poetic nation.

Flapjacks with fruit and syrup? I went to the snack bar thinking fruity gooey flapjack, not scotch pancakes.

Graham. And the insistence Graham Crackers are like digestive biscuits.

And the rhyming of the names Greg and Craig can get to fuck

Also what is it about herbs and spices that diverge in pronunciation ... cilantro ...

Pronounced so differently that it's an entirely new word

To be fair, anybody with those names can probably get to fuck too.

Try 'hot chips' and 'chips'... 😐

Going beyond food, Americans don't use the word Rota. This week the phrase "Support Rota" caused a lot of confusion.

To explain it I ended up googling "Tea Rota" and got the most British search results that have ever existed.

Can’t say for pronunciation, but different names for herbs and plants usually comes from America often adopting the name from a different root language. Cilantro being the Spanish for Coriander for example.