Word Meanings - Page 4

Cadbury's Crunchie...yep, I buy that sometimes too!

A lot of the Cadbury candy bars are available here in Canada. We have Hershey's as well. I'm quite fond of their peanut butter cups!

Canadian/British - chesterfield
American- sofa

And I believe the yanks say 'soda' while we prefer to say 'pop'.

British - hoover (brand name that became a verb!)
Canadian/American - vacuum

Scottish - jumper
Canadian/American - sweater

My parents got a bit of a  culture shock when they were travelling in the southern states. It's quite common for your waitress to come and fill the coffee cups before she even takes your order, but my parents prefer tea, and prefer it at the end of their meal.

So, when the waitress came over, they asked for tea, and would she please hold it until they were finished their meal.

When she brought the tea, it was iced tea, rather than hot tea! She never even asked which they preferred, she just assumed no one would want to drink hot tea on a hot day!

I say pop. 

I normally take into consideration where the person is from and the context of the words being used.  I have worked, and socialized, with so many from so many cultures around the world that I'm not easily thrown by a "word".  I usually give the benefit of the doubt which sometimes isn't the case!

 Ah yes, I had no idea what my in-laws (Canadian) meant when they talked about the Chesterfield!  I think they also say "jumper" and so did my Aussie friend (last name O'Reilly).

Yep, where I grew up, all carbonated beverages were called cokes... I never could remember if it was the yankee city folks or the southern city folks who called it pop and who called it soda.

Where I'm from, "y'all" is the high-falutin' word.  The down-home word is "you-uns".

And "fixin" as in "I'm fixin to go to the store" means "I'm about to go to the store."

Sunsilver:  "When she brought the tea, it was iced tea, rather than hot tea! She never even asked which they preferred, she just assumed no one would want to drink hot tea on a hot day!"

Nonono... she woulda done that on the coldest day of the year too, believe me!  When I was a kid, at dinner time there was a pitcher of tea on the table and that's what everyone drank - and yes, it was sweetened and then ice was put in.

You MUST put the sugar in first.  You put in as much sugar as will dissolve, while it is still hot.  THEN you put the ice in.  You can't get enough sugar to dissolve if you try to do it after it's cold.  That's why when yankee waitresses say "No we don't have sweetened tea but there's sugar on the table" that doesn't cut it.

(ETA: And we had "tea spoons" at dinner to stir up any sugar that might have sedimented out, before each sip.  The things most people call tea spoons are actually coffee spoons.  Tea spoons are long, to reach to the bottom of a drinking glass, not a coffee cup.  :) )

You KNOW you're in the South when you go through a drive through or go to a restaurant and ask for "tea" and you get the drink exactly as I've described above.  You can start in Raleigh, NC and drive toward Virginia... a little ways after crossing into VA you can no longer get sweet tea when you ask for "tea".  If you keep driving north, you'll start getting hot tea when you ask for "tea".  Keep driving until you get to Canada, and you can get sweet tea again... but only because it comes from a powder mix, it isn't fresh brewed.  They have not a clue how to make ice tea from scratch.  Which is funny, seeing as how it's "just add water".  LOL

(I can make fun of canucks, I'm married to one bless his heart!    )

A Chesterfield Sofa is a plush leather Sofa with deep indentations in a criss cross pattern, Personally i find them uncomfortable to sit on, Give me an armchair that i can sink down into with a foot rest which comes up at a touch of a button,
Mind you i do not have such a chair but can always dream i may get one some day
Steve

I still make the marinated cukes, like animules, but I sometimes add thin sliced white onions, too. It gets better each day.

When I was in London, I asked for Ginger Ale, thinking I'd get a a clear, tangy, bubbly "soda". Boy was I in for a shock. I remember ice was pretty much non-existent in their refreshments, one had to ask for it, each and every time. And of course, the beer was always warm. At least they didn't add salt like my German grandpa.

LMFAO. I never heard the expression used before as you did, and I figured it out pretty damn easily. It doesn't take a rocket scientist.  Some folks have nothing better to do.