We are going through the Britishisms alot lately, not only due to picking up
Harry Potter while on vacation in Italy, so it is the British version, but
due
to just how small the world is. My 13 year old daughter's friend was
visiting
England. She wrote a postcard to my daughter, addressed it, and gave it to
her mother to mail. Her mother lost the postcard, and it was found by two
young ladies in the Oxford train station. The young ladies packaged the
postcard, as well as a rebuttal (they really thought English food wasn't so
bad) and included i-zone pictures of themselves as well as their email
address,
mailing it all off to the one address they had, my daughter's. Well, they
all
started instant messaging, and lo and behold, they are all the same age,
going through the same things. My daughter does have a few hiccups
communicating, in attempting to decipher "cheeky" she responded with
a few apparent americanisms they hadn't heard.

The amazing thing about Harry Potter in England was it was everywhere. We
got to London one week after the latest had been released, and my eight year
old was discussing it with every cab driver we ran into. Apparently cab
drivers need a book for waiting, and Harry Potter seemed to be the book of
the week. We also saw many a professionally dressed worker on the tube,
with their Harry Potter book for the ride.
"me again" wrote in message
...

Far more Britishisms this time around, (or at least non-midwesternisms)
'trainers' for shoes, heh

our trainers are your sneakers. Sweaters are usually called jumpers over
here.

whatever the British word is for 'sweater'
were among those that caught my eye.

Robert