In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:53:44 -0500, Meanie
wrote:

I thought this was interesting. Our Brit trolls, er, I mean. friends can
confirm the accuracy.

http://www.playpork.com/mix_british_...n_english.html

It's close.

Americans also say dungarees, taxi, handbag, mad**, public
toilet,.sweets, tap***. timetable****. trousers,

We say garden if has flowers or, I think, specially chosen plants, or
?vegetables, I think? but not just for grass and trees.

We say pavement but it's broader than the sidewalk.

They have some pubs here but I guess they are pretending to be British.
A British guy I worked with went to some bar downtown that had darts,
but I don't remember if it was called a bar, a pub, ot even a saloon

Queue may eventually catch on since it's used in computer-talk, but the
page is right, it hasn't yet.

We say rubbish once in a while but not for something specific like the
Brits do.

We definitely say wardrobe and it means what the drawing shows, a closet
on legs or wheels. An actualy closet doesn't even have a bottom, other
than the floor.

And we dont' say flat for apartment, despite what the page syas.

**Note: Diary of a mad housewife.

***HOME REPAIR!!

****Maybe not so much anymore but we certainly used to.

I put a u in a few words where other Americans only use 'or". I don't
know why I do it.

IIRC, it was Noah Webster who popularized the removal of the u when he
published his dictionary and he promoted other changes too,
simplifications, that caught on. Maybe I should call them choices
instead of changes because spelling was not standardized, even in the
19th century.

I think he also changed centre to center. The successor to his
dictionary is the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Despite lawsuits, they
were not able to stop the use of Webster as a name for loads of other
publications.


The New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune also tried to make
changes but I don't think they had many successes.