‘Gasping. Like “I’m gasping for air cup of tea”.’
–Commercial-Life-9998
15.
‘Faff.’
–Fine-Dragonfruit-351
16.
‘Knobjockey.’
–Rockfords-Foot
17.
‘I was taken off guard the first time a guy told me he was going to wear a jumper.’
–JustAnotherDay1977
18.
‘I never realized that “cheers” often means “thanks”.’
–Whatever-ItsFine
19.
‘Twat. The Yanks struggle with this one. Mostly because they can’t pronounce it properly. They pronounce it “twot”. Loses all it’s punch and snap when said like that.’
–KamikiriLives
20.
‘I love when British people call someone a melt. I have no idea what it actually means in the literal sense, but it sounds so dismissive… “You absolute melt”.’
–ProfZussywussBrown
21.
‘Squinny. As a southerner I saw mardy mentioned and if my mum weren’t a northerner I’d never have known what it meant. But lots of northerners might not know squinny, so I’d wager it’d be rare for Americans to know it.’
–Imtryingforheckssake
22.
‘Lurgy – used all the time over here but I said it to my American colleague and he thought I’d made the word up.’
–Milwambur
