Inspired by a chat between me and @Spiritual Mask Salesman about Grits (apparently a foods stuff to Maskie but road stuff to me) i wondered what other differences there were between the two, (or other countries) i think we alreasy know about the chips/crisps/french fries one....
Australia is different again. However we do share a few things in common with the British.
I think I'll list as many differences as I can think of between the three.
I know you didn't ask about Australia but I don't care, you're getting all the info
Metric System
US - No
UK - Partially
Aus - Yes
Date Format
US - MM/DD/YY
UK - DD/MM/YY
Aus - DD/MM/YY
National healthcare
US - No
UK - Yes
Aus - Yes
Government based on the Westminster system of Democracy
US - No
UK - Yes
Aus - Yes
Main currency unit
US - US Dollar
UK - UK Pound
Aus - Aus Dollar
Bill of Rights
US - Yes
UK - Yes
Aus - No
Well known National code of Football, usually just called football in their respective country
US - Grid Iron
UK - Football
Aus - AFL
Regional accents exist within the country
US - Yes
UK - Yes
Aus - Partially but they are slowly evolving
Number of poisonous creatures in the wilderness
US - few
UK - few
Aus - many
Side of the road you drive on
US - Right
UK - Left
Aus - Left
Gun Culture
US - Large
UK - Small
Aus - Small
Tipping in places like restaurants
US - Always happens
UK - Sometimes happens
Aus - almost never happens
Sales Tax
US - Different for every state and not included in the sticker price
UK - One national rate and included in the sticker price
Aus - One national rate and included in the sticker price
Number of time zones in the country, not incliding daylight savings
US - 6 (I think)
UK - 1
Aus - 3
Coffee and Tea
US - Mostly coffee often with cream/creamer and/or milk and/or sugar
UK - Mostly tea with milk and no sugar
Aus - A mix of coffee and tea drunk all different ways
Are Counties a thing in each country
US - Yes
UK - Yes
Aus - No
Does each country have states
US - Yes
UK - No
Aus - Yes
Compulsary voting
US - No
UK - No
Aus - Yes
How the countries tolerate the head and cold weather
US - Can't handle the heat but fine with the cold
UK - Can't handle the mild heat they have and fine with the cold
Aus - Fine with the heat but can't handle the mild cold they have
Food Culture
Actually appart from all three having different names for things, it's all mostly multicultural. With no one nationality of food dominating.
Does each country have it's own national genre of cuisine
US - Yes
UK - Yes but it's slowly getting destroyed by the foreigeners
Aus - No
Capital pumishment - ie the death penalty
US - in some states
UK - No
Aus - No
If I think of anymore later I'll edit them into this post.
Australia is different again. However we do share a few things in common with the British.
I think I'll list as many differences as I can think of between the three.
I know you didn't ask about Australia but I don't care, you're getting all the info
Metric System
US - No
UK - Partially
Aus - Yes
Date Format
US - MM/DD/YY
UK - DD/MM/YY
Aus - DD/MM/YY
National healthcare
US - No
UK - Yes
Aus - Yes
Government based on the Westminster system of Democracy
US - No
UK - Yes
Aus - Yes
Main currency unit
US - US Dollar
UK - UK Pound
Aus - Aus Dollar
Bill of Rights
US - Yes
UK - Yes
Aus - No
Well known National code of Football, usually just called football in their respective country
US - Grid Iron
UK - Football
Aus - AFL
Regional accents exist within the country
US - Yes
UK - Yes
Aus - Partially but they are slowly evolving
Number of poisonous creatures in the wilderness
US - few
UK - few
Aus - many
Side of the road you drive on
US - Right
UK - Left
Aus - Left
Gun Culture
US - Large
UK - Small
Aus - Small
Tipping in places like restaurants
US - Always happens
UK - Sometimes happens
Aus - almost never happens
Sales Tax
US - Different for every state and not included in the sticker price
UK - One national rate and included in the sticker price
Aus - One national rate and included in the sticker price
Number of time zones in the country, not incliding daylight savings
US - 6 (I think)
UK - 1
Aus - 3
Coffee and Tea
US - Mostly coffee often with cream/creamer and/or milk and/or sugar
UK - Mostly tea with milk and no sugar
Aus - A mix of coffee and tea drunk all different ways
Are Counties a thing in each country
US - Yes
UK - Yes
Aus - No
Does each country have states
US - Yes
UK - No
Aus - Yes
Compulsary voting
US - No
UK - No
Aus - Yes
How the countries tolerate the head and cold weather
US - Can't handle the heat but fine with the cold
UK - Can't handle the mild heat they have and fine with the cold
Aus - Fine with the heat but can't handle the mild cold they have
Food Culture
Actually appart from all three having different names for things, it's all mostly multicultural. With no one nationality of food dominating.
Does each country have it's own national genre of cuisine
US - Yes
UK - Yes but it's slowly getting destroyed by the foreigeners
Aus - No
Capital pumishment - ie the death penalty
US - in some states
UK - No
Aus - No
If I think of anymore later I'll edit them into this post.
Do explain. The only few things I can think of arw words that end in -our for British end in -or for Americans. Most of those words are derived from Latin though and originally ended in -or anyway. The British changed the ending of those words to -our to match old french spelling of those words. It's not a big difference, the u in the -our words is unstressed in pronunciation, unless I'm mistaken. If the -u isn't silient than the words are spelt that way to mimic an accent, I don't think that is the case, however.
Also lets not forget they are against tea, they also believe anything bigger is better......Food, personality and of course Texas
First of all, the whole thing about tea, plenty of Americans drink tea and enjoy it. I happen to like tea. One of my favorite drinks during the summer is sweet tea. Americans don't hate tea.
Not all Americans have a big personality, or think personalities should be big. Yes maybe we do like bigger portions of food, but we couldn't care less about the size as it really depends on taste. If we can get a big portion of food and it tastes great we're all for it. As for Texas, the only people who rave about how big and great Texas is are people who are from Texas.
As for spelling I saw a video recently that said the reason spelling is different is cuz the printing press charged by the letter and as long as the point got across it didn't matter.
Food, metric system, the spelling of a few but very popular words (but you are getting what we'd call 'aluminium' massively wrong) are what spring to mind instantly as a Brit.
Patriotism and religion seem to be far more widespread and important than in England too.
There are some annoying turns of phrase too. I don't know if this is an Americanism or just widespread bad grammar but "I could care less" really annoys me.
It's "I couldn't care less". Saying you 'could care less' literally means you could care less about something which isn't what the sentiment is implying in its common (incorrect) usage as an expression of negativity.
There are some annoying turns of phrase too. I don't know if this is an Americanism or just wodespread bad grammar but "I could care less" really annoys me.
It's "I couldn't care less". Saying you 'could care less' literally means you could care less about something which isn't what the sentiment is implying in its common (incorrect) usage as an expression of negativity.
I have literally never heard another US citizen say it as "could." Not even once.
Maybe... maybe people just aren't pronouncing or hearing the "-n't" part? But I chalk this up to another flat earther theory thing. Similar to the expected number of actual flat earhters in the world, there are maybe six people in America who actually say "I could care less" and mean they could not.
Anyway, Americans and Brits are basically the same except Brits say everything funny.
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