Active and Passive Vocabulary

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I wonder how many new words have appeared in AE. Why do Americans say "sidewalk" instead of "pavement"?:?:
 
Harry Smith said:
I wonder how many new words have appeared in AE. Why do Americans say "sidewalk" instead of "pavement"?:?:
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The real question is why the Brits call sidewalks "pavement". :-D
 
MikeNewYork said:
The real question is why the Brits call sidewalks "pavement". :-D
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And why they call the drug-store "chemist's". How many such words have been renamed?
 
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There are many of those "pairs".
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Do they teach in American schools that those words have pairs in BrE or not?. While teaching I always tell my students about these pairs and they try to learn them very well.
 
Harry Smith said:
Do they teach in American schools that those words have pairs in BrE or not?. While teaching I always tell my students about these pairs and they try to learn them very well.
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I don't think so, but it's been decades since I have been inside a classroom as a student.

(Tdol, what are Shermans?)

:)
 
It's Cockney Rhyming Slang- Sherman tank = yank. ;-)
 
RonBee said:
I don't think so, but it's been decades since I have been inside a classroom as a student.

(Tdol, what are Shermans?)

:)
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It's similar to "bloody twits" being Brits. :lol:
 
It's a complete surprise to the rest of the world that the Americans write the date in the format "month/day/year" instead of "day/month/year" like everyone else. So "9/11" is in fact September the eleventh, and not the ninth of november. Even more ludicrous is the practice of writing the time as "minute:hour:second", this causes enormous problems if you work in an organisation which must function multinationally. So much confusion is caused by the crackpot American date and time formats. :lol:
 
curmudgeon said:
It's a complete surprise to the rest of the world that the Americans write the date in the format "month/day/year" instead of "day/month/year" like everyone else. So "9/11" is in fact September the eleventh, and not the ninth of november. Even more ludicrous is the practice of writing the time as "minute:hour:second", this causes enormous problems if you work in an organisation which must function multinationally. So much confusion is caused by the crackpot American date and time formats. :lol:
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Really? I haven't paid attention. We write day\month\year. It's really intersting. Are there any strange differences like this?;-)
 
Harry Smith said:
Really? I haven't paid attention. We write day\month\year. It's really intersting. Are there any strange differences like this?;-)
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Obviously, curmudgeon cannot tell time. :lol:
 
MikeNewYork said:
Obviously, curmudgeon cannot tell time. :lol:
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What way of telling the time is popular in the States: Half past seven or seven thirty? :-D
 
Harry Smith said:
What way of telling the time is popular in the States: Half past seven or seven thirty? :-D
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Both. In Europe it is "the sun's shadow crosses the little line between the 7 and the 8".
 
MikeNewYork said:
Both. In Europe it is "the sun's shadow crosses the little line between the 7 and the 8".
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And how about the date? Do you really write month\day\year?;-)
 
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