mbryant869 t1_jec7d4h wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:11 PM

Why would you call a grocery cart a trolley? Trolleys carry people. A cart can carry anything. A buggy is southern slang but what we called it in Mississippi. Which is not accurate at all. But trolley is dumb. So is calling a truck a lorry. Wtf?

jet_heller t1_jeclt7g wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:58 AM

You should hear what they call cigarettes!

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za_jx t1_jedbjne wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:34 AM

Well the British kinda invented English so...

CantReadDuneRunes t1_jedcaad wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:42 AM

Why the fuck would you assume the rest of the World is just like America? An how do you fuck up a language so badly by simply moving across the Atlantic Ocean?

HandsOnGeek t1_jedky4f wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:23 AM

Why would you assume that the rest of the world is just like England?

America tends to speak English the way that it was invented. Instead of fucking it up without even the excuse of moving across the Atlantic Ocean.

Seriously. American English tends to use Georgian or even pre-Georgian vocabulary instead of adopting the latest fashionable Victorian or Edwardian terminology.