Crisps (UK) / Chips (US) Americans and Brits fight over this one all the time! In the UK, the thin round slices of fried potato that come in packets are called crisps, while in the US these are called chips.
If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
French fries (US) are called "chips" in the UK, and "frites" in French-speaking countries. In the UK and Ireland, what people in America call French fries are called "chips" and are famously served alongside fried fish.
In the UK we have a worryingly high number of words for different types of potato foods. We call French fries just fries, and thicker-cut fries that come from a chip shop are called chips.
Other well-known examples in everyday usage are found mainly in the food area: "Chips", in the United States - as in Germany - describes a snack made of thin fried potato slices, but in the UK it refers to French fries. They call the tasty snack "crisps", while the Americans call chips "(French) fries".
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
Usage notes. Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
A biscuit is a cookie. A British person would only call chocolate-chip biscuits a cookie. Scones are a baked item made of firm dough. They are neither soft like bread or crisp like a cookie or a biscuit but are somewhere in between, a bit like the shortcake in strawberry shortcake, or American biscuits, except sweet.
Why do Australians call fries chips? American chips are what the British call crisps, while our British chips are usually shorter and more chunky than the sort called French fries; Australians use chips for both the American and British sorts, distinguishing the latter by calling them hot chips.
Fish and chip shops are called "chippies" in British slang. By 1910, there were 25,000 fish and chip shops in the U.K., and they even stayed open during World War I.
'Crisps' are potatoes cut so thin that when they are fried they are 'crisp'.
The modern fish-and-chip shop ("chippy" in modern British slang) originated in the United Kingdom, although outlets selling fried food occurred commonly throughout Europe.
AmE) convenience store in the video, the Doritos are crisps, but when referring to Doritos and the like on their own, BrE speakers often use the American import tortilla chips.
Did you know they call cigarettes fags in the U.K.? You probably did. He takes short, quick drags, racing to the filter – to the fix.
For example, in the United Kingdom, sneakers are known as trainers. But, it doesn't stop there… High-tops: Shoes that rise above the ankle.
A female kangaroo is known as a 'flyer' or a 'doe' and a male kangaroo a 'buck' or a 'boomer' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs.
The shoe known in Australia as a “thong” is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.
Here in New Zealand, a biscuit is a cookie. Chips – French fries. Potato chips are referred to as “crisps”, Kiwis will also call a snack like Doritos a “corn chip”.
Rubber. This is an informal way of saying condom on the US – so a rubber is a contraceptive. We just call them condoms in the UK. And we use rubbers to remove pencil marks from paper.
Courgette (UK) / Zucchini (US)
But it's also used in almost every English-speaking country. In England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, India, Canada (usually), and New Zealand, Z is pronounced as zed. It's derived from the Greek letter zeta.