Call It What It Is

Short post today because, well, I'm exhausted. We've been having some beautiful blue skies these past couple of days, but the chill factor is making me realize I either need to triple up on pants and shirts, or just stay inside! My body is so tense from shivering, that when I get back into our warm flat, everything relaxes and I'm out of energy.

Despite the cold, the three of us got out to take a walk to town centre today. The mall in Maidenhead was having some free pumpkin carving for the kids, so we hung around and spent some time getting gooey with the locals.

Since we've been here, I've noticed that while the Brits seem like they speak a completely different "English", their version of English almost makes more sense! In both the US and UK, the place where you go to mail things off is called the "Post Office". In the US, we call the letters we receive and send "mail", while it's simply called "post" in the UK. Here are a couple other ways that the British make more sense by calling it what it is:

US: bathroom, UK: toilet

US: zip code, UK: post code (totally makes more sense!)

US: stroller, UK: pushchair

US: freeway, UK: motorway

US: stove, UK: cooker

Here were some that we found walking around the stores today:

US: soda, UK: fizzy drink (why, yes...it is indeed a fizzy drink)

US: flu vaccine, UK: flu jab (ha!)

 It'll still take a while for me to get used to the terminology here, but I like their logic so far.