This or that

[tcmsecretuseid]

Okay.

I'm assuming it is okay to post about the different names of everyday things. 

I couldn't remember what the Australians call a valance. It's a pelmet. I just learned that one last year. 

What else? 

Trunk-boot

cilantro-coriander

Pullover sweater- jumper? 

undershirt-vest? 

cookie-bikkie?

Do you call potato chips-crisps? 

We call rubber sandals-thongs in California. lol. Weirdly enough, we  call those string undies, thongs, too. It can get confusing. 

I once told a Scottish friend that she could borrow my thongs, if she wanted to go to the pool. She gave me a look of horror. 

[serendipityricho]

Well Lurker-sure beats ..black pudding and rollmops and other pommie tucker.....Richo.

[justpolls]

Barret and bangs are right. Fringe seems funny to me....when I hear that word I think of that song from Oklahoma 'a surrey with a fringe on top'. : )

I think we just get used to certain things a certain way and when something different is presented it may seem odd to us but not necessarily bad. Just simply different. 

[justpolls]

black pudding and rollmops and other pommie tucker

Okay, I'm sorry, but black pudding sounds disgusting and, just based on that alone, I don't want to even know what rollmops and pommie tuckers are.  There's 'different' and then there's gross. 

[lionrose.7]

No Body but poms eat that stuff, Yuk Yuk Yuk.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Bangs for me is the weirdest of them all. 

I could adapt and change for all the others. Not bangs.

Thanks polly re the straw, And that club sandwich looks way better than any pizza!

[j*oono]

Black pudding is eaten in  Britain, Italy, Finland, Croatia, Ireland,Sweden, Estonia and Latvia and "hellmendya" (hell mend you, as my mother-in- law say's) for calling a Scotsman a Pom.

[imastawka]

I remember TV's Laverne (Laverne and Shirley) bemoaning the fact

that she didn't have a mother to teach her how to shave her legs.

If she'd had a mother to teach her, she wouldn't have bangs on her knees!

Didn't make sense at the time,   funny now though

And a black pudding is a sausage made of blood.   blerk

[gleee58]

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@imastawka wrote:

I remember TV's Laverne (Laverne and Shirley) bemoaning the fact

that she didn't have a mother to teach her how to shave her legs.

If she'd had a mother to teach her, she wouldn't have bangs on her knees!

Didn't make sense at the time,   funny now though

And a black pudding is a sausage made of blood.   blerk

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Yes, the butcher used to give me black pudding on every visit to his store when I was a child.  I don't know if I could come at it now.  :D:D

What about swim wear.  We have loads of names for it here, depending on which state you're from and what your family name for them is.  

swimmers

bathers

togs

speedos

budgies smugglers

board shorts

rash suits

bikinis

tankinis

swim suits

cossies (short for swimming costume)

Have I missed any?

[lionrose.7]

My Husband was a Pom and liked Black pudding, I told him to cook it himself, would not even touch that stuff.

[lionrose.7]

Yes you missed Bathing suit.