Words you wish your language had.

Undertoad · 03-08-2011, 01:11 PM

I have thought about this, and here are the Brit words that America needs to start using.

Bin - this can be a free exchange with "dumpster". It's far more elegant than "trashcan" or "garbage can". What I especially like about this one is its migration into a verb ("bin it"), something that only the best words get to do.

Torch - much more colorful than our "flashlight", especially since the light is almost never intended to flash.

Plaster - to avoid the proper noun Band-Aid.

03-08-2011, 01:11 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I have thought about this, and here are the Brit words that America needs to start using. Bin - this can be a free exchange with "dumpster". It's far more elegant than "trashcan" or "garbage can". What I especially like about this one is its migration into a verb ("bin it"), something that only the best words get to do. Torch - much more colorful than our "flashlight", especially since the light is almost never intended to flash. Plaster - to avoid the proper noun Band-Aid.

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