Yanks Need Interpreters for British English
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Author's Game Description
Can Yanks understand Brits?. In a previous game we used American English. Here we will use British expressions.
Category: Linguistics
Tags: british, english, linguistics, colloquialisms, slang
Created by RonaldDerGrosse November 2, 2007
5 ratingsPlayed 125 times | 2 Fav's
Game Comments (3)
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kaxell 22 hours, 48 minutes ago
Forderella August 6, 2008
One of the questions says "what is a jam sandwich?" so I clicked bread and jelly, but the answer says a police car! I don't think so!
NB if you call jam jelly, what the hell do you call jelly? Always wondered this.
lupine77 December 25, 2007
as a brittish person, there were a few expresions id never herd of, but on the whole it rang true
| Highscores - Yanks Need Interpreters for British English | Place 1 - 10 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | sarah | 100% | 0:26.1 min. | 2008-02-22 |
| 2 | Jen-Jen | 100% | 0:27.9 min. | 2008-01-20 |
| 3 | BoboLo | 100% | 0:33.0 min. | 2007-11-03 |
| 4 | Zugzwang | 100% | 0:33.6 min. | 2007-11-05 |
| 5 | tickman | 100% | 0:38.8 min. | 2007-11-05 |
| 6 | kaxell | 100% | 0:38.9 min. | 2008-11-20 |
| 7 | martinho | 100% | 0:40.6 min. | 2008-02-23 |
| 8 | josquin | 100% | 0:45.5 min. | 2008-06-10 |
| 9 | KariKari | 100% | 0:57.7 min. | 2008-10-27 |
| 10 | RonaldDerGrosse | 100% | 1:25.4 min. | 2007-11-02 |
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wdwhitejr, 4 days, 6 hours ago
If you look in wiktionary it says the following for jam sandwith (apart from the obvious meaning):
(UK, slang) (from the common UK colour scheme of white with a red reflective horizontal band) A police car.