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 135 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 21 - 25 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 21 | Lammy | 35% | 2:24.7 min. | 2008-08-26 |
| 22 | PLV | 25% | 0:44.7 min. | 2007-11-02 |
| 23 | wdwhitejr | 25% | 1:12.8 min. | 2008-11-16 |
| 24 | delfa12 | 10% | 3:31.2 min. | 2008-05-28 |
| 25 | horselover | 5% | 1:13.4 min. | 2008-03-05 |
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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.