Odd question from an American new q post 91

[Dimplenose]

I always think the lack of double L in American spelling is a bit odd. Why pick on the L? Other wordrs that need double consonants have them but not if it's an L. e.g. traveler

Cockney rhyming slang is complicated futher by not actually saying the rhyming part, so apples and pears are stairs but they are referred to as apples. A suit is a whistle (and flute) etc.

 

[hildasmuriel]

Cockney rhyming slang is complicated futher by not actually saying the rhyming part, so apples and pears are stairs but they are referred to as apples. A suit is a whistle (and flute) etc.

.....like calling someone a berk

 

[Dimplenose]

.....like calling someone a berk

I hadn't heard of that one soI looked it up and

 

[almburr]

Lou, do you mean loo? A loo is another word for a toilet. Instead of saying "I'm going to the bathroom" which perhaps Americans might say, we might say "I'm going to the loo."

A que is a line, as in you stand in a que at WDW when you are waiting for a ride.

As for the last one, I'd love to know what got starred out!!

Yes I meant Loo, the word that was not allowed was the word for a cigarette. also I have always known what hagas was how scary is that

 

[almburr]

Do you use jelly, jam, or preserves?

 

[hildasmuriel]

jam


Jelly is something you eat with ice cream

 

[Snowy-girls]

Yes we have Jam-strawberry jam on toast for me .

What do you call our gravy over there?.As i know 'gravy' to you is that white stuff you have with biscuits.As when i ask for gravy with my mash i get a funny look .x.

 

[almburr]

here jelly jams and preserves are basically the same thing just with diffrent fruit chunk levels. Jelly made with no fruit chunks, jams and preserves have nice big chunks of fruit.

 

[almburr]

Yes we have Jam-strawberry jam on toast for me .

What do you call our gravy over there?.As i know 'gravy' to you is that white stuff you have with biscuits.As when i ask for gravy with my mash i get a funny look .x.

Are your mash the same as our mashed potatoes? If they are then we put beef gravy,chicken gravy,turkey gravy, and pork gravy on it which ever the main meat of the meal is. When I make chicken fried steak I make a white gravy.

 

[almburr]

jam


Jelly is something you eat with ice cream

What is your jelly?

 

[paulh]

What is your jelly?

a wooberly like subsance which if you tried you can eat with a straw(belive me my son enjoys that)if anything its a bit like jellow(tink speld right)but not as firm
Jam is a preserve spread on toast
Paul

 

[Tricia819]

a wooberly like subsance which if you tried you can eat with a straw(belive me my son enjoys that)if anything its a bit like jellow(tink speld right)but not as firm
Jam is a preserve spread on toast
Paul

JELLO

Americanized spelling is ridiculously inconsistent.

 

[Tricia819]

I always think the lack of double L in American spelling is a bit odd. Why pick on the L? Other wordrs that need double consonants have them but not if it's an L. e.g. traveler

As an English teacher you'd think I'd have all the spelling rules memorized, but alas I'm also a notoriously bad speller. Then there is also sooooo many exceptions to American spelling rules that they become, in the words of the great Barbosa, "more like guidelines than actual rules."

 

[Tricia819]

What do you call our gravy over there?.As i know 'gravy' to you is that white stuff you have with biscuits.As when i ask for gravy with my mash i get a funny look .x.

Not always, gravy is the drippings from whatever meat you happen to be serving thickened using corn starch and usually (look I doubled an L!!) poured over mashed potatoes. The white gravy is sausage gravy which is traditionally (Oh another double L) served over biscuits or chicken fried steak. Maybe they looked at you funny because you called mashed potatoes "mash". Mash here refers to a side dish made from corn meal that has a similar texture to grits.

 

[almburr]

pudding and gelitan (jell-o) what do you have?

 

[Dimplenose]

here jelly jams and preserves are basically the same thing just with diffrent fruit chunk levels. Jelly made with no fruit chunks, jams and preserves have nice big chunks of fruit.

I'd say the same was true in England but we also call a fruit flavoured gelatine dessert "jelly" and that that is what most people will think of first.

A child's birthday party without jelly and ice-cream is unthinkable!

Pudding can mean dessert (usually of the stodgy with custard variety), but so can dessert,afters and sweet.

Sweet is a little old fashioned and my mother thoroughly confused my children when she offered it to them as they thought they'd be getting sweeties/candy when really they were having dessert.

 

[scojos]

pudding is a type of desert, this however depends very much from region to region.
sweet is "candy".
pudding can also be a yorkshire pudding which is savoury.
is any of this making sense to you now??
tracy
ps maybe you should come and visit and well show you rather than explain?

 

[almburr]

pudding is a type of desert, this however depends very much from region to region.
sweet is "candy".
pudding can also be a yorkshire pudding which is savoury.
is any of this making sense to you now??
tracy
ps maybe you should come and visit and well show you rather than explain?

How wonderful that would be. The kids want to do a trip to the UK, Just have to plan it.

 

[Disney MAINEiac]

a wooberly like subsance which if you tried you can eat with a straw(belive me my son enjoys that)if anything its a bit like jellow(tink speld right)but not as firm
Jam is a preserve spread on toast
Paul

here the difference in JAm or jelly is best described thus: Jelly is a semi-solidified spread most commonly used on toast made from the juice of fruits or berries, but does not contain the solid or flesh of the fruit or berry. Jam is very similar, but contains the fruit and/or berry bits and is generally more coarse or hardy.

 

[Disney MAINEiac]

JELLO

Americanized spelling is ridiculously inconsistent.

its actually a trade marked brand name "jell-o" descriptive of the product not meant to be an accurate "american" English spelling.