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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:13:26 PM
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nicole6598
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LOL Manda we call them cardi's here too.
Nope only "older" people or those from England, Ireland etc call them anoraks or parkers. We call them jackets or coats.
Didn't Barry Manilow write that Band-aid song?
We dont' call them sweaters really they are just jumpers. Or windsheeter (sp?) is another word we use.
Oh and we say "lollies" which is equal to candy/sweets
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:14:51 PM
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Didn't Barry Manilow write that Band-aid song?
Yup.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:19:18 PM
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And I always wondered about the American terms 'scones' and 'biscuit'. They're pretty much the same thing. American 'biscuits' are what the Brits call 'scones'. Mind you, some Yanks call 'em dumplings too 
scones are (usually) a sweet bread that is fried on both sides. Sometimes it is savory (potato scones--mashed potatoes, spices, and egg, fried). Scones are similar to pancakes, but generally from a doughy batter rather than a liquid batter.
biscuits are a bread made with baking powder for levening instead of yeast, they are baked.
dumplings are similar to biscuits, but they are cooked in a soup or stew.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:20:12 PM
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Lollies can also be frozen and will have a wooden stick to hold them.
We call them ice-blocks or icey poles.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:24:27 PM
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scones are (usually) a sweet bread that is fried on both sides. Sometimes it is savory (potato scones--mashed potatoes, spices, and egg, fried). Scones are similar to pancakes, but generally from a doughy batter rather than a liquid batter.
I've never heard of that... the scones we have down south are like biscuits... sometimes with fruit bits cooked in them... and usually only served in tearooms.
We had a friend from New Zealand who got confused by "biscuits." Apparently, "biscuits" there are "cookies."
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:26:20 PM
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Nope only "older" people or those from England, Ireland etc call them anoraks or parkers. We call them jackets or coats.
Actually, we call some people 'anoraks' too. 
From the Wikipedia entry on "anorak (slang)":
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In Britain, people who wear anoraks in their social life are often stereotyped as trainspotters or persons with unimaginative and dull pastimes/hobbies. In slang an anorak is a person, typically a man, who has unfathomable interest in arcane, detailed information regarded as boring by the rest of the population, and who feels compelled to talk at length about this information to anyone within earshot.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:26:16 PM
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Lollies can also be frozen and will have a wooden stick to hold them.
We call them ice-blocks or icey poles.
Our word for those are "popcicles."
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:32:50 PM
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yeah we call them biscuits here too, not cookies, although that word does appear too.
There is this add at the moment for pay tv it has things like "fart beans" for baked beans and things like that, very funny :)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 3/3/2008 8:34:21 PM
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I saw Oreo cookies in my local supermarket yesterday.... never seen them there before...
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,) but I've heard of doing the "washing" in the "laundry"... but I'm more likely to say it the other way.
