Things that Americans find odd about the UK

The best is how Brits say Aluminum......Alum-ma-nin-ium (I know you know what I mean).......I think is cute -
---back when I was watching The Gaget Show with Matt, they were talking about an aluminum race type car......and they said Aluminum a bunch of times, being from the states I thought is was kinda funny-I am used to it of course, and stuck here in the states waiting for the spouse visa to be approved-thinkin about it I miss my Matt.

I will of been here 12 years in July and i will have to admit.. Aluminium is one of the last words that worked its way into my natural speech here.. I couldna even say it for years rofl.. Ach'd well i go back and now folks canna understand me i just dont know why

I refer to aluminium/aluminum foil as tin foil (I know it isn't really made of tin, but that's the expression I grew up with), just to avoid the whole thing.

They had to say aluminum bc it was about a car, but I say tin foil too, LOL-

 or when I was watching this other show with Matt and they were talking about their "Shhhhheyule"....lol I know it was mentioned on this post before, but that's another word that took me by suprize at first, -when I was in England for the first time on a visitor visa.

My little sister thinks the Brit way of saying stuff like that is funny still though, bc Matt only was in the states twice to visit me, July '10 and April '11 for the wedding (3 weeks each time) so it still entertains my 12 year old sister Zoe.

It used to be made of tin.  I think it is a hold over similar to calling all plastic bandages band-aids.

The best is how Brits say Aluminum......Alum-ma-nin-ium (I know you know what I mean).......I think is cute -
---back when I was watching The Gaget Show with Matt, they were talking about an aluminum race type car......and they said Aluminum a bunch of times, being from the states I thought is was kinda funny-I am used to it of course, and stuck here in the states waiting for the spouse visa to be approved-thinkin about it I miss my Matt.

Thats because is spelt different in the UK - it's aluminIum - note the extra "I"

Yes, because the guy who discovered changed his mind about how to spell about 3 times.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

I didn't know aluminum had an extra 'i'

 I know extra vowel or letter is common though, like colour and flavour, and other words. Like when I did a search for 'jewelry' on ebay uk, I found it was spelled jewellery or something. But UK or US my spelling is awful, unless I am trying, mainly because of texting and technology, it has made me lazy with spelling.

I used to find the phrase "bring to the boil" strange, especially since "the" is dropped in front of words like "hospital" ("I went to hospital" instead of "I went to the hospital")

bring to the boil.....as in cooking?

"on the hob" at 200 C instead of cook at 400 F like for making rice or noodle mixes that was weird to me my first wk in England, but I don't think much about it now either way

I think it's "odd" (more charming than odd, really) that ice cream vans (in the north, anyway) play Italian music.  I'm used to them playing stuff like "Turkey in the Straw" or sea shanties type melodies.  My hubby says this is because traditionally it was Italian immigrants who went into the ice cream van trade. 

I think it's "odd" (more charming than odd, really) that ice cream vans (in the north, anyway) play Italian music.  I'm used to them playing stuff like "Turkey in the Straw" or sea shanties type melodies.  My hubby says this is because traditionally it was Italian immigrants who went into the ice cream van trade. 

He's right. One of my mother's sisters in Wales married into an Italian family and there are about three ice cream shops in Tenby bearing their name that have been in the family since they came over from Italy!

I still wonder when my neighbors ask "Hello. Are you okay,then?" if that is their way of saying "How are you?" and not saying "Are you ill?"
I keep wondering if I should put on some make up for a change or something!

Our ice cream van has "Italian-style gelato" written on the front, but it plays Greensleeves!

I still wonder when my neighbors ask "Hello. Are you okay,then?" if that is their way of saying "How are you?" and not saying "Are you ill?"
I keep wondering if I should put on some make up for a change or something!

haha I get that as well and then I say yeah yeah are you alright and I feel like a complete jack**s
To me its hi how are you but then to say yeah how are you with no further conversation seems so odd in my own head.