Man: Hey! Nice pants!
Woman: Excuse me?
Man: I said, ‘nice pants.’.
Woman: You can’t see my pants, can you?
Man: Of course I can.
Woman: How can you see my pants?
Man: They’re on your legs!
Woman: Ha. You haven’t been to America recently, have you?
Man: Oh, I, er, have, actually. I’veI just got back from LA! That’s ‘Los Angeles’ by the way.
Woman: I know.
Man: Yeah, I picked up some of the American words, and now I forget which ones to use! So
confusing!
Woman: Well, we call these ‘trousers’ in Britain.
Man: Of course we do. You know, there are so many things, though. It’s like a completely
different language sometimes!
Woman: Really?
Man: Yeah!
Woman: Would you like a crisp?
Man: Crisps? In the States, they’re ‘chips’!
Woman: Oh. So if I want to order our chips in America, what do I ask for?
Man: French fries!
Woman: I see.
Man: And you know what that is, don’t you?
Woman: A fizzy drink.
Man: That’s a ‘soda’!
Woman: Hmm …
Man: You know the lift over there?
Woman: Yeah?
Man: That’s an ‘elevator’‘elevator.’
Woman: Oh really?
Man: You know in the States, you don’t go to watch a film ...
Woman: You watchsee a ‘movie’!
Man: Exactly! And you don’t walk on the pavement ...
Woman: You walk on the ‘sidewalk’!
Man: You got it!
Woman: I’ve watched a lot of films ... oops ... movies!