Things that Americans find odd about the UK

I find it weird when some English (not all) pronounce "schedule" as shhhedule. :S

I find it weird when they say "skedule".

I find it weird when they say "skedule".

I think it was General Eisenhower who said it depends which 'skool' you went to.

Mine is the use of "floor" where I would say "ground".

My UK mother in law told me once that when she was young you were on the floor when you were indoors and on the ground when you were outdoors and she really hated the modern "Estuary English" way of saying "floor" for everything.

getting "knocked over" by a car. I'm sorry, if the animal was merely knocked over by a car, it would have survived?

Depends how hard it was knocked, I guess? Maybe it's Britsih understatement? Anyhow, my friend from London says "run over" and older Bristolians used to say "hit down"... maybe they still do?

I find the way that my df says et rather that eat hard to get used to and I don’t know that I will ever bring myself to say maths.  However, I used to cringed a bit when he’d say so and so is “doing me ‘ead in,” but now I’ve started to say it.  

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I'm odd, DH is odd, we're all odd, odd, odd.  Or some might even say weird. 

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, let's call the whole thing off.

It's Chit Chat.  Just be nice and think before you post, everyone.

Back to your regularly scheduled, friendly Chit Chat about how odd we all are.

I really did a double take - whaaaa?!  The first time I heard someone say (here) - that someone 'cut me up' in traffic.  

As opposed to cut me off.  

Both incitements to road rage, I suppose, but the former sounds far more painful.  

I'm going to try this again... As I just cooked something..!

A difference I find odd, is that on rice packages in Britain, the instructions say to "drain the rice", whereas with American ones, the rice is suppose to absorb all of the water. I find it less of a hassle to just let the rice absorb the water.

Edit: I suppose that's because American ones give the measured amounts of rice to water, so it can all be absorbed correctly and then fluffed. With the UK ones, it's just throw some rice in a pot of water, boil for certain amount of time and then drain. o.O

speaking of cooking...

I find it odd that almost everything I open says once open consume in 2 days or something VERY short...I think geeez that salami is good till April but if I open it, it best be gone in 2 days - so what if it is 1 pound 

speaking of cooking...

I find it odd that almost everything I open says once open consume in 2 days or something VERY short...I think geeez that salami is good till April but if I open it, it best be gone in 2 days - so what if it is 1 pound 

I agree. When I buy hummus it tends to last much longer than "please consume three days after opening". Also, I thought teriyaki sauce lasted way longer than the UK says it does on the bottle.

I'm going to try this again... As I just cooked something..!

A difference I find odd, is that on rice packages in Britain, the instructions say to "drain the rice", whereas with American ones, the rice is suppose to absorb all of the water. I find it less of a hassle to just let the rice absorb the water.

Edit: I suppose that's because American ones give the measured amounts of rice to water, so it can all be absorbed correctly and then fluffed. With the UK ones, it's just throw some rice in a pot of water, boil for certain amount of time and then drain. o.O

I'm not so sure this is a 'UK' thing. There is, apparently, rather heated debate about the 'best' way to cook rice. Some are very much in the measure and fluff camp, others in the drain it all off camp.

My mother (American) has been experimenting with all the methods in the hopes of perfecting the perfect serving of rice!!

I'm not so sure this is a 'UK' thing. There is, apparently, rather heated debate about the 'best' way to cook rice. Some are very much in the measure and fluff camp, others in the drain it all off camp.

My mother (American) has been experimenting with all the methods in the hopes of perfecting the perfect serving of rice!!

I'm not entirely sure either! I just remember the differences in instructions. I thought my husband was inept the first time he was making the rice when were cooking together, and it turned out he was only reading the instructions on the UK packaging, lol.

I know many of my friends use rice cookers. But I believe my friend from Vietnam even used the method of the rice absorbing the water. It is interesting what all you can do with rice.

Has your mother found the perfect way to make rice?

speaking of cooking...

I find it odd that almost everything I open says once open consume in 2 days or something VERY short...I think geeez that salami is good till April but if I open it, it best be gone in 2 days - so what if it is 1 pound 

The milk in my tea at this moment is seven days past it's sell by date and it still tastes fine!   

The milk in my tea at this moment is seven days past it's sell by date and it still tastes fine!   

DH is *super* adamant about sell by dates/use by dates. His parents are as well. I always want to laugh and tell him to relax. We had a jar of salsa that said "consume 3 days after opening". We noticed it in the fridge and he was all panicked about it. I ate it with some tortilla and said, "it's fine! if i die or get sick, then we know there's a problem and throw it away." and laughed.

If its not fuzzy or smells funky I eat it! 

Here's what I find odd - music!!!  That is- reading music is pretty universal, you read treble clef, bass clefs, tenor clefs, alto clefs, etc, and actually reading it is the same notation etc.

But- here everything I have learned as whole note, half note, quarter, eighth, sixteeen, etc- is called things like breves, semi-breves (not sure I've even spelt that correctly), quavers, semi-quavers, etc.  I am constantly in a state of  at what they're talking about and have to ask my neighbours what passage they're talking about.  You'd think after 3 years of playing over here I'd get it, but it still makes my head hurt.