Just to clarify - Fag is a slang word for cigarettes over here, not just the British alternative for the word.

Oh and even in Britain there are a lot of different words for the same thing in different regions. For example, I have a child, referred to as a 'bairn' by my Northern in-laws and a 'wain' by my Scottish friends. A few of the obvious ones are:

boot = trunk of a car
deck = balcony
nappy = diaper
sweets = candy
chips = french fries
crisps = potato chips
toilet/loo = restroom/bathroom (and it's perfectly acceptable to use either word in polite company, although the Queen apparently would rather you called it a loo)
arse = ass (and it's just as rude in England as ass is in America)

Oh and some things that are commonly used in American language, are not different from the British, they're actually just wrong, and make no grammatical sense at all such as:

"I could care less". This implies that you DO in fact care and it should be:
"I couldn't care less" (meaning that you care so little that there's no way you could care less than you already do)

I know someone here is going to argue that 'it's not wrong, it's just different' but in the case above, it doesn't make any sense and so clearly is wrong and it frustrates the hell out of me everytime I see it!

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