Across the Atlantic begins a promised series of posts about words that have very different meanings in different languages. Go see the photo.
American readers will be familiar with a chain of stores called ” Fanny Wrappers ” which always slightly worries UK visitors.
And we all know that the common English phrase ” Can I bum a fag ?” will cause a little head turning in the US.
AS Oscar put it, two countries divided by a common language.