Hood! Yes, thanks. Actually I've realised I'm unsure what a fender is, is it the wing (the bit over the wheel) or is it the bumper (the chrome or plastic strips across front and rear).
I guess we get so much US media, films, music and TV that we know most things you say. We also did a half ****ed job of ditching imperial, and my parents old enough to still work in imperial, so I know 1mm is 40 thou, 25.4 make an inch, 12 to a foot so 30cm, 3 to a yard which is close to a metre, 22 to a chain which is the length of a cricket wicket (that's a game similar to..... baseball I guess!), 568 ml makes a proper English pint (20fl Oz boys, not 16) so a proper gallon is 4546 ml and in metric land we buy stuff in 5litre bottles (not jugs). 1 litre is a much better measure than a quart, and our quart is 20/16 bigger then yours ( and you Americans think you have the biggest of everything
. Shall I go on? Then there's chips, fries and crisps... That gets confusing. As I said, separated by a common language!
Spindles, definitely spindles.
Then there's the pronunciation. We say fillet as filling, not fill-ay. We don't like the French that much so we don't keep their pronunciation. Left Tennant is a half rank, an army captain is fairly junior, a Royal navy captain fairly senior .... Actually you might do service ranks better then us, ours are a bit confusing! British army uniforms are all different depending on regiment (different shades of green or brown, different braid, belts etc) what's that about?! You do uniforms better.... Yours look much smarter.
Yep, we are definitely very different!
