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What are the differences between British English and American English?
Woodlands Junior School is in the south-east corner of England
Food Are you Peckish? (Are you Hungry?) What's for afters? Have you had your pudding yet? Are you feeling peckish (hungry)? That food looks very scrummy (delicious)  British English  American English Scone Biscuit Fairy Cake Cup Cake Courgette Zucchini Sweets Candy Sausage / Banger Sausage Crisps Chips Chips (French Fries in McDonald's) French Fries Starter Appetizer Puddings / Afters / Dessert / Sweets Dessert Jacket Potato / Baked Potato Baked Potato Jam Jelly or Jam Jelly (a dessert in the UK) Jell-o (flavoured gelatin) Aubergine Eggplant Sandwich / Butty / Sarny Sandwich Ice lolly Popsicle Bill (at restaurant) check Grill (oven grill) Broil (oven broil) Food / Grub / Nosh Food Rasher A slice of bacon Eggy bread (fried) French Toast Runner beans Green beans broad bean lima bean Soldiers (We dip soldiers in our soft boiled eggs) Finger sized slices of toast. bap hamburger bun Take-away Take out biscuit (sweet) cookie corn flour corn starch desiccated (coconut) shredded icing sugar powdered sugar icing sugar confectioner’s sugar kipper smoked herring marrow squash semolina cream of wheat sorbet sherbet Swiss roll jelly roll black treacle molasses black or white?(coffee) with or without? candyfloss cotton candy Flapjacks in England are oats mixed with honey and/or golden syrup and baked then cut into slices. sometimes raisins are added to the mixture. Find out more: about the food we eat in England and in the rest of the UK about British Slang words Can't find a word? See our blog post Translating the British English  British and American Vocabulary Clothes Parts of a Car At School In and around the House On the Road People Buildings / Shops Sport Let's Eat! A- Z British to American British and American Spellings
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