I have lived here for X & I still have trouble with...

I think the Cambridge group are probably Reform, the women don't have hair covers or wigs.  The men don't have Payot.

But it is also the little things, I said oy vey once and everyone looked like I had three heads.  Surely most people in the US know what oy vey is supposed to convey, if only from Seinfeld.

I would expect that in a major Jewish part of Glasgow that you would meet a lot of Jewish people, but I just lived in a city in PA.  So Kosher part of Giant and fun with Purim and friends.

I think we should start pushing the UK Jewish heritage.  More holidays!

Yeah, more holidays!  My husband didn't know 'nosh' was a Yiddish word.  He thought it was a 'New York thing', but that's pretty close!

Any religion that has a holiday where some children get to dress up, make noise and eat cookies gets my vote.

I have lived here for nearly six years, and I still can't get my head around using stones for weight.  Ironically, I've been able to use kilos fine, so that works for the doctors office as that's what they usually use anyway, but I can't talk about weight with girlfriends, since they have no idea how kilos work.  I think kilos were easier for me because I spent six months living in Spain where that's what they use, and because it's nearly a 1 to 2 ratio with pounds.

I'm also another who struggles with the music terminology, which is problematic since I play the violin and sing.

Ahhh!!!! I can't remember the one I thought of that nobody had listed yet! So frustrating!

Ah!  It came to me!

I've been here for nearly six years, and I can't pronounce Barry/Berry/Bury the UK way! You wouldn't think this would really be a problem, but for two years I commuted to Barry, in South Wales, for work.  When I would talk about the town, it always got twisted up in my mouth if I tried to say it how the locals say it, and if I said it how I would as an American, people just looked at me with a baffled expression.  I had one of my friends who once confided that she thought for a while I was going out to Bury St Edmunds everyday for work because of how I pronounced it, which would add around 8 hours to my daily commute!!  I finally gave up and started talking about working in the Vale of Glamorgan, and all was well after that.

I can usually hear the difference when others are talking, I just can't quite get it to not sound too forced coming out of my mouth.

The same holds true with saying the names Sean/Sion/Shawn/Sian--all popular here in Wales.  I know that they are totally different sounds to the locals, and I've got where I can tell the difference usually between Sion and Sian (which is good since one is male and the other is female), but I just can't get it out of my mouth right!   Sometimes it does, but I often overthink it, which makes it sound not quite right and I have to repeat myself to be understood.

The same holds true with saying the names Sean/Sion/Shawn/Sian--all popular here in Wales.  I know that they are totally different sounds to the locals, and I've got where I can tell the difference usually between Sion and Sian (which is good since one is male and the other is female), but I just can't get it out of my mouth right!   Sometimes it does, but I often overthink it, which makes it sound not quite right and I have to repeat myself to be understood.

Ha, I get this one. When I say Greg and Craig, it sounds the same except for the first letter. This has only been a problem when I started my current job 8 years ago as one of my colleagues is called Craig. Apparently it should be pronounced 'cray-ig' and I say it like 'creg'. It really bothers some of my colleagues. Thankfully not the one called Craig.

Ah!  It came to me!

I've been here for nearly six years, and I can't pronounce Barry/Berry/Bury the UK way! You wouldn't think this would really be a problem, but for two years I commuted to Barry, in South Wales, for work.  When I would talk about the town, it always got twisted up in my mouth if I tried to say it how the locals say it, and if I said it how I would as an American, people just looked at me with a baffled expression.  I had one of my friends who once confided that she thought for a while I was going out to Bury St Edmunds everyday for work because of how I pronounced it, which would add around 8 hours to my daily commute!!  I finally gave up and started talking about working in the Vale of Glamorgan, and all was well after that.

I can usually hear the difference when others are talking, I just can't quite get it to not sound too forced coming out of my mouth.

The same holds true with saying the names Sean/Sion/Shawn/Sian--all popular here in Wales.  I know that they are totally different sounds to the locals, and I've got where I can tell the difference usually between Sion and Sian (which is good since one is male and the other is female), but I just can't get it out of my mouth right!   Sometimes it does, but I often overthink it, which makes it sound not quite right and I have to repeat myself to be understood.

I get that with some things, such as Hertford Street. It has an 'e', so I say it as 'her'. I get corrected all the time that it is pronounced as 'Hartford'. Odd. Same with derby being 'darby'. Drives me nuts. If I mention the Kentucky Derby, some can't resist the urge to tell me it is a 'darby'. I tell them they may have a 'darby' but in Kentucky it is a 'Derby', and us Indiana folk call it a 'derby' too.

With the name thing, my niece gets it a LOT in the States, because her name, although spelled Shanna, it is 'Shawna' in sound. Most people pronounce it to be 'Shayna' or with an 'Anna' sound to it. Most of the time, if people get anywhere near, she just lets it go.

I have to laugh at when they mock me for not being able to get certain names, and yet very few pronounce my name as it is here--even when I sit and coach them on it, they can't seem to get their heads around saying "Jana." I'm Gemma, Johna, Janet, etc.  It doesn't bother me at all.  I just view it as a regional/accent thing.

If they will learn to live with me not being able to always tell the difference between Perry and Parry, Berry and Barry, and occasionally forgetting and calling Graeme/Graham an American pronunciation of Graham, then I can forgive my name being different in everyone's mouths.

Although I did laugh when I sat with a woman in a new job and she tried valiantly to get it right, making me repeat it over and over, to no avail.  When I asked what her name was, she replied "Jan."  I said "well, there you go.  It's "Jan" with an uh sound on the end.  She went "Oh! Johnna!" I tried very hard not to laugh there and then.  If Jan couldn't pronounce Jana, it just wasn't going to happen.  Their heads were just too set in their idea of how my name "should" sound.  I think that's why I still sometimes get a little hesitant to say certain names, even after more than five years.

I get a lot of 'Toma' instead of Tama, and I can't tell you how many people think my name is Tomorrow, when I am introduced as Tamara, because the locals pronounce them both the same, sort of a tuhmarrah sounding oddity.

I can sort of understand why you two would have some problems, they're not common names here but I'm called Ashley and I sometimes get problems. I've been called Ashleen and Ainsley before. People just don't listen.

I suppose if you get desperate, you could say 'you know, like Ashley Cole' or some other footballer named Ashley. It intrigues me how popular it is as a man's name here.

Ha, I get this one. When I say Greg and Craig, it sounds the same except for the first letter. This has only been a problem when I started my current job 8 years ago as one of my colleagues is called Craig. Apparently it should be pronounced 'cray-ig' and I say it like 'creg'. It really bothers some of my colleagues. Thankfully not the one called Craig.

Haha!  Craig is my married surname and I pronounce it 'Creg'.

Ha, I get this one. When I say Greg and Craig, it sounds the same except for the first letter. This has only been a problem when I started my current job 8 years ago as one of my colleagues is called Craig. Apparently it should be pronounced 'cray-ig' and I say it like 'creg'. It really bothers some of my colleagues. Thankfully not the one called Craig.

LMAO, we have a friend Craig, and my husband is always telling me I say it wrong! Now I purposely over pronounce the name. Craig laughs. I told him I was changing his name...as I just can't get it to come out properly most times.

That's ok, my poor husband is Glyn, and the way his name was mangled in the States was really amusing.

Ground floor. Its the first floor in my head. Always. I get confused when people say 1st floor!

Ground floor. Its the first floor in my head. Always. I get confused when people say 1st floor!

Me too!

I still struggle with breakfast out-- I really don't like fried eggs, only like scrambled, a ham and cheese omlete would be a lovely treat!! Choices locally are very limited!

Me too!

I still struggle with breakfast out-- I really don't like fried eggs, only like scrambled, a ham and cheese omlete would be a lovely treat!! Choices locally are very limited!

The only time I've ever been "out" to breakfast is when we've gone to Little Chef when Hubby has picked me up from Manchester Airport. They do have scrambled eggs. Not sure how they are. Little Chef reminds me a bit of Dennys back in the States.