Talk:Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom

message: Airplane is used just as widely, if not more widely, than aeroplane is in the UK. Just thought I should note that...
:No it isn't! Snalwibma 19:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you come here for the five-minute argument, or the full half-hour? (grin) That said, I would tend to agree with Snalwibma. WLD 20:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A thought... The anonymous contributor who started this thread would be correct if he/she had said that airplane is completely understood in the UK. There is no fear of misunderstanding in this case. It's not an American term like fanny or cooties, one of which means something different here, while the other is (I think) completely unknown. But I take it the purpose of this article is not merely to deal with possible causes of confusion but also to point out different usages, regardless of the likelihood of their being known by UK speakers of English. Snalwibma 20:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Airplane?

message: Used as an adjective in "hang-up clothes", or as a noun meaning (I believe) wire clothes hangers. I first heard this in California on my first visit to the US, and never heard it in the UK. -213.219.187.253 02:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not common as I've never heard it before.  I'm  a New Yorker so perhaps it's a "Valley Girl " slang term.  Hang-up is used to mean to end a telephone conversation or as ones psychological foible, though. GCW50 18:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I'm concerned most people in Kansas say "hang-up". As in, "go hang-up your clothes". --Bentendo24 (talk) 20:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: hang-up?

message: The term savings account is very widely used in Britain - in fact, I believe it to be the standard name for this type of account. (I wasn't aware that they were ever called anything else.) AdorableRuffian 09:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree;  a 'checking account' is a 'current account' in UK parlance, while a 'savings account' has always been known as a 'deposit account', to my knowledge Carre 16:04, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

text: The standard UK term can be either savings account or deposit account. I have just checked the Collins dictionary and the Concise Oxford, and both give "savings account" as standard. I therefore think savings account does not qualify for inclusion in this list, and I propose its deletion. Snalwibma 16:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Savings account 

message: As a Brit, I've certainly come across, and used the terms duct and duck tape in place of gaffer tape - gaffer tape being informal/slang, duck being brand name (so maybe should have TM against it?).
Likewise, have come across chapstick, although I suspect a more common usage in the UK would be lipsyl (brand name).
Haven't changed the main page, since I don't know if these are just me, or are common in the UK. Carre 14:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I am aware (and the Collins Dictionary confirms this), duct tape is perfectly standard in British English (though gaffer tape says "Brit", suggesting it should be included in List of British words not widely used in the United States. Actually, I always call it duck tape, and I think most people do. It's a trade name, but it is much easier to say. Standard advice for small-boat sailors: "If it moves but shouldn't, duck-tape it. If it doesn't move but should, WD40 it." I therefore propose deletion of duct tape from this list, and I will add gaffer tape to List of British words not widely used in the United States. Snalwibma 16:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, gaffer tape and duck (duct) tape are two different materials in both "languages."  Duck tape has a plastic liner and was designed by Johnson and Johnson to waterproof metal ammunition cans going to the Pacific in WWII. It's very sticky and leaves a mess when removed.  Gaffer's tape omits the plastic inner layer and has a less agressive adhesive.  It comes off cleanly and was designed for temporarily holding electrical cables in place.  I have rolls of both at home.  GCW50 18:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Chapstick I think should stay just as it is, with an asterisk denoting widely used in GB too. That is exactly what the dictionary says - "chiefly US". Snalwibma 16:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duct/duck tape and chapstick 

message: Is this really a word per se?  It's a reference to a historical event, and since the historical event happened in the U.S., of course it's more commonly referenced in American English.  It's not exactly commonly used in American English, either, apart from the name of a sports team (which is a proper name, so not relevant for this page).  I'm going ahead and removing unless/until anyone objects. --Delirium 00:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that 49er should be omitted as a proper noun (and because it's perfectly well used and understood in the gold-rush sense in the UK). But - just in case 49er makes a reappearance here - note that it is also the name of a sailing boat: 49er (dinghy). Snalwibma 15:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  49er? 

message: I have just reinstated this word. Yes, it is used by some people in Britain (I think the person who deleted it is correct - it is used in British public schools to distinguish it from "rugger") - but it is worth including because (a) it is not the standard UK term and (b) I assume one of the functions of this list is to provide a reference for speakers of American English on which of "their" words are not so widely used "over here". In my experience (coming from Ireland to England and constantly finding myself saying "soccer - sorry, I mean football"), soccer is very much not a standard BrEng word! Snalwibma 08:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: People actually play soccer in the UK?  I thought everyone there played "football".  --LizFL (talk) 17:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soccer 

message: I deleted this entry a while back, and someone has just put it back. I have now asterisked it, because I feel it is pretty standard BrEng usage too. I still think it can be deleted, but this time I'll see if anyone else has any opinions first. Snalwibma 08:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The distinctive AmE usage is as a noun.  It's a (rather old-fashioned) adjective in BrE, but the meaning "instance of turning up late for something (work, school, etc)", particularly the plural, "tardies", is AmE only. Tevildo 18:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My tardies seem much longer from the inside... DewiMorgan (talk) 05:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tardy

message: This has just been added anonymously, and I have asterisked it. Seems pretty standard BrEng too - though no doubt the standard word is "spanner", and "wrench" is normally part of a compound like "monkey-wrench" or "mole-wrench" (are those trade names, I wonder?). In BrEng, a wrench is a spanner with adjustable jaws. Am I right? I am in two minds whether "wrench" should remain in, with an asterisk, or be deleted on the grounds of common meaning and usage. Snalwibma 17:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mole is the maker and is a trade name. Spanner is the normal term for the fixed jaw nut turner, whether a flat thing or a box shaped thing. Socket spanner is a detachable head type of box spanner, but usually referred to as socket. Wrenches are normally adjustable, as in Mole and Stilson types. However some plumbing gadgets (like the one with pegs projecting from a flat head) are called wrenches too. Wrench is never used in the UK for the flat or ring headed spanner. Peridon (talk) 20:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrench

message: I'm an American and I lived in the United Kingdom for a few years and I had a paper route during this time. From my experience both countries call it a paper route - not just Americans. Lngarrett 17:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: paper round is the more common term in the UK 195.10.3.194 14:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Paper Route

message: I would say SUV is fast replacing 4 by 4 as the standard term over here (although many people might not be aware of what it stands for)
::I'd disagree there. MPV has replaced People Carrier, but I almost never hear SUV - and I am connected with the motor trade. Peridon (talk) 20:43, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd disagree too.  Not all SUVs are 4x4's (Not all of them have the necessary 4WD suspension.) --LizFL (talk) 16:53, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: SUV

message: The listing for "sophomore" suggests that the term "sophomoric" comes from the American usage of "sophomore" when applied to a student or a band's music.  One need only consult a dictionary to find the word is from the greek "sophos", meaning "wise", and "moros", meaning fool.  The word itself means "wise moron" and has nothing to do with any cultural connotation imposed upon it.  The writer has got it backwards.  I will make the needed correction. 
Here is the old text:
:sophomore : a second-year college or high school student (Trinity College Dublin has sophister in this sense); (adj.) the second in a series (as in, an athlete's "sophomore season", a band's "sophomore album"); hence sophomoric, conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature (UK: undergraduate has this extended sense)72.78.161.113 19:52, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sophomore 

message: Why not add truck to the list.  I know from watching BBC shows that Brits say "Lorrey."72.78.161.113 20:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Already on the combined list. "Lorry", incidentally. Tevildo 21:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Truck 

message: This page should be moved to List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom or perhaps List of American words not widely used in Britain. Great Britain is an island, not a nation. In fact, the article's (correct) opening sentence contradicts the title: 
   This is a list of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom.
Swedish fusilier (talk) 04:08, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is: List of British words not widely used in the United States Rachel Pearce (talk) 17:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

text: That's not what it says here. Lusanaherandraton (talk) 01:23, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Great Britain" is incorrect in this title 

message: Living in the US I often heard the phrase "four-alarm fire" (or as it may be "three alarm fire" or whatever) in news reports. I was never sure what it meant, but I assumed that it meant a fire so severe that fire tenders were summoned from adjacent areas to assist the main responding brigade. I have just found a nice article on Slate. I will try to condense this into a one-line definition, but where should it go? At the top with the numbers? Under A for Alarm? Rachel Pearce (talk) 11:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  n-alarm fire? 

message: removed my addition "(UK: spinster)".  Edit summary: problem is, 1) spinster is not a UKism and 2) it's not exactly synonymous with bachelorette
Admittedly, I am somewhat surprised at the connotations revealed by various dictionary defs.  But as for point 1, my intention was simply to answer the question "What do Brits call this?" not to comment on whether the word is also used anywhere else in the world.  Is there an unwritten rule against this?
I guess you could well ask whether there is an equivalent British term.... -- Smjg (talk) 01:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not exactly relevant, since the current definition is about the noun "bachelorette", not the phrase "bachelorette party".  -- Smjg (talk) 11:05, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bachelorette v Spinster 

message: Is this term known in the UK?  Corvus cornixtalk 23:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I am a Brit but not sure. I have heard this plenty of times before, but my dictionary (the single-volume OED) lists it as 'N. Amer. informal' User:tinot  —Preceding comment was added at 22:33, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Dog and pony show"

message: I don't think "ballpark" belongs here at all. It would belong in List of words having different meanings in British and American English, except that I don't think it does have a different meaning. The literal meaning is, I believe, reasonably well understood, it's just that there aren't any ballparks in the UK; and the figurative meaning is pretty universally understood. Rachel Pearce (talk) 08:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you delete ballpark because there aren't any ballparks in Britain, then you also delete brownstone! Brownstone (to stick with that example) is probably fairly well understood in Britain, but it is nonetheless a distinctly American word. Anyway, there are ballparks (of a sort) in Britain, but they're called stadiums, sports fields, etc. I think ballpark used literally is specifically AmE. The figurative meaning is shared, but I suspect many people who use it in Britain don't really know what it (literally) means. So I'd support moving it to LOWHDMIBAAE, thus: BrE = blank / Common = a range of approximation or accuracy ("in the ballpark"; "a ballpark figure") / AmE = a baseball stadium. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 09:46, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fair enough. Having lived in both places I'm sometimes inaccurate in my assessments of what most Brits (or for that matter most Americans) would understand by a word. In both directions, actually. Some words I thought were unknown in the UK migrated there while I was living abroad. Rachel Pearce (talk) 09:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballpark 

message: When I was in a restaurant in England we asked for a pitcher of water to be brought to our table and the waiter (and everyone at the surrounding tables) looked as us like we were insane.  The waiter asked, "A picture of water?"  "No, a pitcher, a pitcher." "A picture."  "No.  Pitcher.  You know, something large you hold liquids in; it has a spout and a handle."  "Oh! You mean a jug?"  "Yes. Yes we do."
I'll take that to mean that the word "pitcher" as a liquid container is not commonly used in the UK. --ScreaminEagle (talk) 17:46, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's all dealt with at List of words having different meanings in British and American English, and has been discussed on the talk page there. Pitcher and jug have almost exactly opposite meanings in British and American English. British jug = American pitcher. British pitcher = American jug. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 18:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Having said that, I'm frankly amazed they didn't know what a pitcher was. It's not uncommon to refer to large jugs of water or other drinks as "pitchers" in restaurants in the UK and most people would know what it meant. Was English not their native language? -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, he was very English.  It was just outside of York, too, near the college if I recall.  Maybe he was trying to mess with the stupid American tourists?  We ran into a couple of those along the way.--ScreaminEagle (talk) 22:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pitcher vs. Jug 

message: Many of the differences here are not lexicographical or colloquial in nature and should hence be ommited. For example: Amber alert, amtrac, boombox and so forth.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.227.219.52 (talk) 21:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misunderstandings ..  

message: Can anyone explain to me why this page was moved from the perfectly acceptable and descriptive original title "List of American English words not used in British English" to the less than entirely accurate List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom. What are "American words"? Words are not owned or possessed by a nation or a continent but are formed within the context of a language or dialect. American English and British English are the principle dialects of discussion on this page, both of which are used outside of the USA and the United Kingdom. I'll grant you the addition of the word "widely" may have some merit, but the current page title doesn't work for me. Jooler (talk) 08:05, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears some sort of page shuffling was initiated in 2006 by User:Jack Lumber. Note this query also applies to related articles such as List of British words not widely used in the United States Jooler (talk) 08:10, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move?

message: I have lots of issues with this article. On the whole I think it good but I disagree on many points. I don't want to go hurrying to my reference shelf right away, and in particular the style of the article seems deliberately to be avoiding the use of obscure or non-Engish references or whatever, so I shall attempt to continue that style, but just off the top of my head:
I realise this article is not intended to be a phrasebook. But this and its companion seem to me much better than the tabular style used in the third, listing differences. Feel free to reject, amend, or accept any of these. Having lived in the US, Canada and UK I am kinda used to juggling with them.
401k should we not put fractions into standard style (1/2)?
acetaminophen/paracetemol should we note this as a (generic?) trademark? Or indeed just maybe put Tylenol before acetaminophen.
amtrac: when I worked on them we called them tracked vehicles. I have no citation.
catercorner: I believe this is BrE, at least cater-corner, but can't remember from where. I think maybe in Diary of a Nobody o (authors' -- brothers-- names escape me) or J. K Jerome? (Three men in a boat). Will find if useful.
castup: think this is in Fowler but deprecated.
charge account/credit account: at leats in this part of the UK charge card is now more common than charge account
counterclockwise: also archaic or dialect widdershins
dime: the english expression to turn on a sixpence is also used to be able to reverse one's position quickly-- sometimes literally (e.g. in soccer) sometimes metaphorically.
driver's license: don't think we need "full" before the UK definition though I imagine this has been discussed already.
Emergency brake: I would add "and cables" after "lever"-- the whole point being that it does not require the brake hydraulics to be working.
flatware (holloware) I belive the usual UK spelling is hollow-ware.
gotten: I believe this is in Shakespeare somewhere, but besides "ill-gotten" we also have "forgotten", "misbegotten", "ill-beggotten" (arch. born out of wedlock).
grits: maize is not in BrE sweetcorn. It is just er corn. As in the stuff you make cornflakes of. I think a hypercorrection here.
John Hancock: Occ. in BrE called a moniker, thumbrint.
John Q. Public: The man on the clapham omnibus. This has never become "person on the..." and is probably the only phrase in which "omnibus" is still in common use for a form of transport (it is still used regulary for an anthology).
lerner's permit: L-plate. (UK drivers must display a plate with a large red L on a white background.)
letter carrier: nonsexist language now more common in UK. Not postman but 
P we should add pants. Or perhaps that is best in the words of different meanings article.
postal worker. Obviously it is not the purpose of this article to change language, but it is the case. postgirl or postwoman seems very less common I think just because it lacks euphony.
New York Minute: Not quite sure it is really equivalent but consider jiffy? or a shake of a lion's tail? or something like that? Perhaps best to leave it to the article.
Roustabout: This is still relatively common in my part of the UK.
Shill: I think this has become more common in the UK, perhaps partly down to the term "shill bidding" on eBay. I can't give a citation here but it is just my feeling it has.
station wagon: No problem but while I think of it I don't think on any of the three related sites "estate" in UK = "project" in US/Canada.
two bits: I will dispute "two bob" I have never heard this used in that sence. For "two cents" you can cite Flanders & Swann lyrics The English the English the English are best.. I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.
Yellow light: there is difficulty in grammar here which for me I found confusing. I suggest "The amber and red both light simultaneously before the light changes to green". Though I am not entirely happy with that. I finally worked out that "advance" was being used as a verb, but that in itself was confusing to me. It would not have been in speech but is in writing.
Sorry this has been so long and I imagine 90% of it will be rejected. It is a good article but I think needs some cleanup.
Love
SimonTrew (talk) 23:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of minor points for discussion 

message: I added a definition for 101 before noting that it had previously been deleted. I feel it is certainly as uncommon in the UK as many of the other terms here, furthermore it is particuarly difficult to search for a definition given its numeric nature. It is one of the few terms where I had to actually ask someone what it meant when I arrived in North America.
AndyCivil (talk) 21:53, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Andy - your justification sounds good to me. And I'm neither American nor British. These anonymous IPs are not communicating well. I invite them to try harder here and actually have a DISCUSSION!.  HiLo48 (talk) 11:53, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  101 

message: I belive the British refer to any grain as corn while in the US and Canada corn refers to maize. Should this difference be included?--75.185.247.18 (talk) 19:55, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the British use many different names for many different grains, and have been doing so for many centuries. Most of them have been in use from way before they first heard of corn. HiLo48 (talk) 04:49, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corn/Maize 

message: The entry says - kitty-corner, also catty-corner, see catercorner. I am none the wiser. My native language is Australian English. Can someone translate please? What's it mean? And why? (And, having done that, add the definition to the article please.) HiLo48 (talk) 04:46, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kitty-corner, catty-corner, catercorner. What? 

message: Copasetic 
–adjective.
fine; completely satisfactory; OK.
1915–20, Americanism ;  of obscure orig;  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.131.28.129 (talk) 22:08, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  COPASETIC would be a good word to add to this list. 

message: pigs 
(slang) police officers, a reference to the tightly coiled antennas found on the rear of US police cars, which resemble a pig's tail
It has nothing to do with the antenna on police cars; this couldn't be more made up. Not to mention if the person who spewed that line is referring to cellular phone antennas, those didn't even exist until the 70's.
In fact according to the straight dope, it's much older than that, and actually British in origin!
"If you thought the term pig arose in the 1960s, you're in for a surprise. The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force."
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2209/why-are-the-police-called-cops-pigs-or-the-fuzz  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.201.140 (talk) 16:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree this should be on the list. It's probably more common in the UK than the US. Can it be removed? Turkeyphant 18:46, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pig 

message: "5-O" was used in the 2011 British film Attack the Block. Would a term be used that wouldn't be understood by its domestic audience, or should it be removed from this list?
cffrost (talk) 09:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  5-O 

message: Anybody feel up to adding 'Pavement' to this? It's one of the more confusing ones since it actually means the completely opposite in the US as it does in the UK.
Lawrie (talk) 05:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pavement 

message: I'd like more info or a section on words that originated in Britain but have since fallen out of favor there, while still in common usage in American English.  One such term is fall as synonym of autumn.  I believe "fall" had been used in England up until the Victorian era when it fell out of favor and has become archaic, whereas it's alive and well (an even more common than autumn) in the US.  98.221.141.21 (talk) 09:48, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Words "Preserved" in AmEnglish no Longer used in BrEnglish 

message: Re "Both action man and G.I.Joe are considered separate toy lines, and both are common in the UK.", I believe only film tie-in G.I. Joe products are avaialble in the UK, not Action Man style figures. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:27, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Action Man/G.I. Joe 

message: This word is recognised and understood by anyone who attended a British university, or knows someone who does or did so since them mid-1980s, as almost all British universities divide their teaching year into two semesters.  It therefore doesn't belong here, but possibly in the 'List of words having different meanings in the UK/US' if the American meaning is substantially difference.  LDGE (talk) 02:13, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Well known in UK and the first recorded use is British. Removed PRL42 (talk) 14:35, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semester 

message: Whatever the merits of the terms in question above and the related discussion, the vast majority of the terms in this article have no supporting citations whatsoever. I have now either cited or removed all the terms queried by User:Seanwal111111 and made a token start with the rest by completing entries for "A". I hereby encourage and invite the citation of the remainder, otherwise they are WP:OR. Mutt Lunker (talk) 23:49, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More citations 

message: A two-by-four is a piece of wood of any length according to the standard wood manufacturing size of 2 by 4 inches thickness. I find it used quite a lot in street language here in the US. Is this also used in Britain, or would it qualify for the list?  Maesena ((talk) 17:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Very common expression in Britain although I believe it's inaccurate as wood is cut to metric based sizes. PRL42 (talk) 10:00, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 by 4, two by four 

message: My wife, born in Indiana, knows a barrette to be a "hair clip". Maesena (talk) 17:29, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barrette 

message: Americans use "addicting", English people use "addictive"; to describe something causing or tending to cause addiction. 70.238.219.62 (talk) 03:57, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addicting vs Addictive 

message: I agree with the vast majority of User:Mutt Lunker's edits, but we have a very minor difference of opinion about whether "fender bender" is a term (two words) not widely used in the UK, or is just an extension ("it's elaboration of a term which also has common meaning") of the term "fender" that has a different meaning in the UK.
The removed entry was:
 ; fender bender :  (slang) a minor road traffic accident. (UK: no direct equivalent, but the words bash, bump or prang are commonly used in a similar situation)
It's hardly worth arguing over, but does anyone else have an opinion?  Dbfirs 12:49, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Per my edits summaries, as the term "fender" has common meanings as well as a distinctively American one, the place for that entry is already appropriately at List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A-L. The term "fender bender" is an example of usage of the American term "fender" idiomatically which can appropriately be added to the American def at "fender", per numerous other such idioms in entries at that article. If it's added here, someone assuredly will think that if fender bender is here, the parent word should also be here and add it in again. The idiom is not widely used in the UK precisely because the word has "different meanings in American and British English". Sorry if that sounds pedantic but I'm conscious that these related articles attract well-intentioned clutter (as well as copious OR), so any move that can avert such things is worth aiming for. Nice to see someone putting thought into the matter though. Mutt Lunker (talk) 16:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you on the removal of clutter, and that someone will probably misunderstand, but I still think that the two-word term is distinct from the single word that doesn't belong here because, as you quite rightly said, it belongs in the other article.  Dbfirs 20:12, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fender bender 

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message: As the Outside (Alaska) article doesn't mention or discuss the term "lower 48" and is not an exact match for the definition would a better link for the latter term be Contiguous_United_States#The_lower_48. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower 48 

message: There are a number of terms seemingly widely used in the USA to do with firearm legislation that are very rarely used elsewhere, such as "shall issue", "may issue", "concealed carry", and "open carry". (I'm sure there are more, but they haven't sprung to mind just yet as I write this.) A discussion of some of these recently occured at Talk:Overview of gun laws by nation. Worth adding to this article? HiLo48 (talk) 22:05, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gun law terminology 

message: Don't the Brits say "wog" instead of "Dago"? 109.116.98.112 (talk) 20:11, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No.  “Dago” is generally used for people hailing from the Iberian peninsula.  There’s a wog page which explains it. Mr Larrington (talk) 19:20, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dago (insult) 

message: Are "Badass" (cool and tough-looking person) and "Gravure Idol" (a model on an erotic magazine) terms rarely used in UK?
I recall that "ass" is spelled "arse" in the UK and it's a very offensive word, so having it part of a word meaning "cool" is an americanism (though it may have recently been imported in the UK too).
Gravure Idol, on the other hand, is a term almost unheard of in Europe. 109.115.88.196 (talk) 17:40, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
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message: Wiener means sausage but is also a slang term that means "penis". It's stated by wiktionary to be not used in the UK, at least in its main meanings of "sausage" and "penis". 
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiener#:~:text=(Canada%2C%20US%2C%20colloquial),to%20partake%20in%20certain%20activities. 93.144.189.243 (talk) 19:54, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Wiktionary is WP:USERGENERATED so, like Wikipedia (see WP:CIRC), not a WP:RELIABLESOURCE. What's more, it claims the term does have currency in the UK to mean "An irritating or disliked person". In my experience, the term is not in wide UK usage but I am not a reliable source either. Try an online dictionary (e.g. Cambridge, Collins, Longman, Macmillan, Merriam-Webster) and if it states the usage is mainly US (and not UK), that should suffice. Mutt Lunker (talk) 20:37, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiener