British American Translation
A-Star Equivalent of A+
Aubergine Eggplant
Bap Soft dinner roll (looks similar to a hamburger bun)
Bin Trash can
Biscuit Cookie
Bobbies Police
Brilliant Common expression, can be used to mean great,
good, excellent, etc.; can also be used
merely to acknowledge a statement
Brolly Umbrella (more common)
Bumber Shoot Umbrella (less common)
Chav Sleezy person, usually really dirty and grungy, who
wears sweatpants all the time and doesn't wash
their hair. We don't really have an equivalent.
Chips French Fries
Cheers A common expression, can mean hello, goodbye,
excuse me, now then, or great.
Crisps Potato Chips
Courgette Zuchini
Crumpet Sort of a cross between an English muffin and pancake
Flat Apartment
Gobsmacked Amazed
Hash The # sign (which we call pound)
High Street Equivalent of Main Street
Hoax Calls Prank Calls
Hob Stove
Let Rent, as in "To Let this building, call..."
Mind Watch or watch out, as in "mind your step" or
"Low ceiling - mind your head"
Miss (or Sir) Teacher
Pants Underwear
Plat Braid
Pulses Beans
Quid A pound (money)
Revise Review
Rubbish Trash or junk
Squash Juice
Surds Simplifying square roots: ie, sqrt of 27 = 3 sqrt 3
Trapesium Trapezoid
Trousers Pants
