I instantly started singing Mary Poppins and then awed in that pigeon ladies do really exist in England. I also found out a tuppence is like a penny :)
Gypsies also exist....
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The Adventures of Amy in Europe
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Things in England that are different than Salt Lake
- Dr. Who rules
- things aren't shipped out, they are dispatched
- if you're "knackered" then you're tired/worn out
- they pronounce garage "gay-ridge"
- they often omit "the" such as "I go to university" and "He's at hospital"
- weird flavors are really popular like ginger and blackcurrent
- they have balls, as in dances
- nobody really dances (real dance)
- a hot day is 26 degrees, which is really 80 degrees
- no fettucine alfredo
- still have not found any root beer and no one has had a root beer float
- if your phone has been nikked, it was stolen
- people don't make chocolate chip cookies, they makes things like carrot cake and cupcakes
- a theatre is live and the movies is the cinema
- vacation is called a holiday
- when crossing the street you look right left right
- instead of "how are you?" it's "are you all right?"
- they don't use measuring cups when cooking, they weigh everything
- clothes sizes are different
- pop cans are smaller
- you don't get a ride somewhere, but a lift
- more nutella, less peanut butter
- the most common kind of potato chip is salt and vinegar
- no Mexican food really
- doors that you push and doors that you pull look exactly the same and most of them don't tell you which one....
- dinner is "tea"
- music notes are called semi-breves, minims, crotchets, quavers and semi-quavers
- whole milk has blue lid, 2% green and 0.75% purple; haven't found 1%...
- the university hands out fliers advertising this weekend's rave
- no pandora
- no Cafe Rio
- no one has ever heard of gelato
- zucchinis are called "courgettes"
- mathematics is called "maths"
- binders are only 2-ring
- the normal paper size is slightly bigger
- elementary schools are called primary schools
- one doesn't go to the bathroom but the "toilet"
- there are double decker buses
- "dodgy" and "brilliant" are some of the most common words
- they have much more history
- they keep their houses and buildings ten degrees colder
- Celsius and the metric system rule
- they use pounds and pences
- 7:00 PM is really 19:00
- vacations are "holidays"
- there are 11 digits in a phone number and they aren't broken up
- underwear are "pants" and pants are "trousers"
- it's always raining
- the washing machines are in the kitchen and look more like dishwashers
- everyone has tiny cars, most of them hatchbacks
- everything is much smaller (houses, cars, roads, stores, etc.)
- houses down one road can all look exactly the same
- they drive on the left side of the road
- there are much more bakeries and little shops
- the light switches are backwards
- they always keep the fork in the left hand and knife in the right
- you do much more walking
- no hulu
- the outlets are HUGE!
Did you take a picture??
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