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 134 times | 3 Fav's
Game Comments (3)
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kaxell November 20, 2008
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 11 - 20 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 11 | equestenebrarum | 95% | 0:48.2 min. | 2007-11-08 |
| 12 | feeleej | 95% | 1:40.8 min. | 2008-09-22 |
| 13 | AKA | 90% | 2:41.9 min. | 2008-04-17 |
| 14 | Forderella | 85% | 1:14.3 min. | 2008-08-06 |
| 15 | lupine77 | 85% | 2:04.5 min. | 2007-12-25 |
| 16 | Sab | 80% | 1:32.8 min. | 2008-08-13 |
| 17 | JoshD | 80% | 3:39.3 min. | 2007-12-30 |
| 18 | register2personalize | 55% | 2:40.4 min. | 2008-01-22 |
| 19 | niklas | 55% | 3:25.6 min. | 2007-11-03 |
| 20 | Meravigliosa | 50% | 2:33.3 min. | 2008-06-03 |
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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.