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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2458823" data-attributes="member: 30035">I thought a spanner was what Americans call a wrench? A tool for tightening nuts? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  The "wanker" bit reminds me of my amusement on watching "Four Weddings and a Funeral" one day on network television. When it got to the scene where Hugh Grant goes off into a side chapel prior to his wedding and has a meltdown, pacing the chapel and repeating, "Bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger!", my fiance and I burst out laughing in disbelief that the network censors had allowed that term to remain in the film. That would be like an American programme allowing a character to say the F-word repeatedly on network television. Either the censor didn't know what it meant or assumed that no one in the audience would know. I recall a trip to London, staying with a family in Wembley Park a number of years ago. I pride myself on knowing quite a bit of British English, but my hostess lost me when she asked her children what they would like for pudding one night, then proceeded to offer them the choice of peaches or ice cream. I had been waiting for her to ask if they wanted chocolate or butterscotch. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />   That was when I learned that what we call pudding the Brits would probably call custard. Other fun things I learned on that trip: in the UK you have to go upstairs to reach the first floor of a building, and sandwiches come with nothing on them but the meat and maybe some butter. Oh, and don't eat pizza with your hands (although this was 15 years ago so that may have changed). Other "Britishisms" I enjoy (British on the left, American on the right):Biscuit = cookieCracker = a thing you open at Christmas that makes a loud noise and has a prize inside.Pram = baby stroller Stockings = pantyhoseKnickers = underwearCrisp = chipsChips = french fries Oh, and try watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail sometime with the Japanese-to-English translations on:"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" becomes "I can tell what kind of people your parents were by looking at you". <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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