It has been my experience that the children who are not taught to address an adult by title (Mr., Mrs., etc) are also far less respectful of adults than their title-addressing counterparts. If that is not true of your own children, then I will concede you have done well. Unfortunately, my experience of children not taught that form of etiquette has not been a positive experience.

i noticed mainly black people tend to use the miss or ms in front of their first names. I had a friend and she told her sons to call me Miss Tamika. She told me that she tought her sons not to ever call someone by their first name alone. I thought that was the most retarted thing ever. I am just a friend no one special that needs the curtosy (sp?) of miss. Plus when you are only 22 the Miss made me feel old.

Some people still teach their children proper address etiquette. Which includes a Miss before the first name if the person being addressed doesn't want to be called Ms. or Mrs. (Last Name). It's simply proper etiquette that has been thrown to the wayside through the years that some people still want their children to learn.

what does fanny mean in the UK?? I was watching the view on ABC today and I missed what the british guy said it meant. In the US a fanny is a butt. What about other countries what does it mean?


Do you know any other words that mean one thing in one country and other things in another??? Do you have any funny stories where you used these words and made an idiot of yourself when it was taken another way?

fanny=vagina
chips=crisps
french fries=chips
pants=under wear not trousers
stroller=push chair
diaper=nappy

so a stroller is a wheel chair and a pram is what americans call a stroller??

A stroller is still the same thing, it just has a different name, not a wheelchair, a pram and a push chair are totally different things. A pram is for new borns and are for flat laying, push chairs are for sitting up and normally forward facing.

oh ok so what you call a pram we call a buggy.

When I was in the US visiting my Dad & Grandparents we were going out for the day. My Grandma said to me "I'm just going to get my fanny pack" and I was looked at my Mum and was like WTF?!?!?! LOL When she came back I was relieved when I saw a bum bag (that's what we call them) - it was such a funny moment but you had to be there lol

hahaha that is funny.

We say 'flat'. You say 'apartment'. (Although we sometimes say apartment too, if it's a modern one, or a holiday apartment)

We say 'chips'. You say 'fries'.

We say 'rubbish'. You say 'garbage'.

Oh, and when we say 'school' we're referring to high school, not university. University is just university (or 'uni').

And college and university are two different things here. University means higher education (a degree usually). But colleges can be either (a) 6th form college (an English thing. Don't really have them in Scotland. But they just teach the same as the final two years of high school) or (b) further education where people can get higher national certificates or diplomas (a lower level of qualification than a degree).

'College' to Brits is probably also similar to what the Australians call 'TAFE'.

you say holiday we say vacation.

so if pants to you is underwear what is the UK word for pants? what about shorts?

Trousers! Or jeans. Or cutoffs. Or combats. Etc.

And shorts are shorts.

Or bottoms! ;D

I only say 'flat' when I am referring to a high rise. I think because the word 'flat' to me just conjures up those images! For anything else flat-like, I say apartment.

Haha! I remember being in NJ, and this guy goes to my friend Jonny "I like your pants! Where did you get those?" And Jonny was like: "THAT GUY CAN SEE MY PANTS!?" haha!

hahahaha.

I didn't know about that term until quite recently. To me anything besides my denim jeans are 'pants'. Then there are the nice ones I wear to work, and sometimes those are called dress pants...but that seems like something entirely different than office attire in that case. LOL.

Yes, yo! You most certainly wouldnt go to work in your "dress pants!" in the UK! haha!