h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not to mention the greasy spoon extra known as 'splash'

This is what our waffles look like, although they can have other shapes than round. Some people have waffle irons that make them heart shaped. Mine makes square waffles.

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Oh, another way to serve waffles is with chicken. No, it's not a sweet dish, it's a main dish for dinner. The chicken is cut up in chunks in a thickened gravy.

We kinda freaked out Clive his first night in the States last summer when I made chicken and waffles for dinner, but as much as the concept shocked him, he declared them good.

Yeah, and in the south of England we have salt and vinegar on 'potato' chips but in the north they have gravy!!

Yeah, and in the south of England we have salt and vinegar on chips (the fat french fries)but in the north they have gravy!!

There's an awful lot of waffling going on here

I started compiling this ages ago ... and it got out of hand, and I haven't had time since ...

I'm sorry if I've stepped on your toes . I'll take down the entry or hand it over to you if you like.

Ooh, an entry. Gosh. Sorry to nitpick, by the way, but MPV is "multi-purpose vehicle" not "multi-person". I have never had it explained to me exactly what all those purposes are, though.

Don't worry about it, IiII! Keep it up! I'm glad you compiled it ... like I said, I started a very long time ago, and haven't had the chance to fiddle with it in a while!

A common term for an MPV over in England as far as I can tell is People Mover. Well, you might well ask what it does but I couldn't tell you.

That or People Carrier. I think "Mover" is preferred in adverts for some reason.

US: Cleats.
UK: Football(soccer) boots.

This one is probably here already but I recently encountered it.

Sorry to wake you Shea

What are Bleachers and why? I keep coming across the word in American novels. It seems to refer to something in sports ground or open spaces generally.

In UK it would refer to folk in a laundry if anything.

Have a Easter egg as a pennance for waking you

Bleachers are a kind of stadium seating, can be indoor or out, and consist of rows of long benches. Good for running up and down as kids, or for smoking and making out under as teenagers. So I hear

Thanks. Is there an Americanism for "something a little bird told me"?

Although different in construction bleachers seem to fulfil some of the functions of that no person's land behind the school bike sheds

Ooooh ooooh oooh.
I think I may have said this before but I saw one in the bok shop the other day so;

UK: Where's Wally,
US: Where's Waldo!!

What a wally/waldo.

Is Wally as y a name in the UK as Waldo is in the US?

Is 'you Waldo" a term of mild abuse in the US?

Not where I come from!