Those mean nothing to me. Hmm. I need visual aid. What do you do with American jam again? *can't be bothered to look up and find out from your confusing posts*

Jam and Jelly can be used for almost the same things(like sandwhiches), but they have very different textures to them.

It's in the same family as jelly. Jelly, jam, marmalade, fruit preserves, they're all congealed fruit mush and sugar spreads.

EDIT: Three minute ninja'ing. Oi.

So I guess you just distinguish the two for no reason.
And call jelly the wrong name.

The actual difference is we don't have american Jelly over here, only Jam and Marmalade. Certain types of Marmalades over here have a consistency closer to American Jelly.

Shiri: Basically American Jelly is Jam with Gelatin in it.

A qualified person with a degree in Pharmacology is a Pharmacist, they run a Pharmacy. The colloquial term for a pharmacy is a Chemist, it is also the name for someone with a Degree in Chemistry that does Chemistry for a job (I have a Degree in Chemistry, but I don't do it as a Job, I am not a Chemist) it also the Colloquial term for a Pharmacist.

A Cookie is a very specific form of biscuit, usually soft, though can be hard, made from an exceptionally sugary doe frequently (in fact ALMOST exclusively) with chocolate chips in it.

A Biscuit is anyform of hard confectionary that uses a dough base. This includes Crackers, which are a specific form of biscuit for eating with cheese. Crackers are also things you pull at Christmas Dinner.

Dinner is eaten at noon when it is dinner time, not at 6pm when it is tea time (except in South britain where it is Lunch then Dinner)

Apartments and flats are two different things. Apartments are open plan, with usually only a seperate room for the Bathroom. Flats are houses built on one floor in blocks, so the kitchen, lounge, bedrooms, bathrooms are all seperate rooms.

A bathroom is a place you have a Bath or Shower, your toilet lives in the toilet or WC depending upon the region you come from. Though most likely your Bathroom also includes a toilet.

We have Swedes, Aubergines and Marrows not Rutabaga, Eggplant and Zukini.

See in Britain we don't need different words to tell the difference, we understand context.

Oh and one more thing, the language is called English for a reason.

...wow. I've never even heard of zukini. Then again I don't come across marrows much either.

EDIT: And thanks for the jelly explanation. >_<

Marrows are just overripe courgettes.

EDIT: in fact even that is simplifying it. Marrows are a family of Squash, a courgette is a specific type of Marrow that is picked when it is small, this is what americans call a zucchini (zukini). In britain if a Courgette is left to grow oversized and overripe we call it a Marrow, americans still call it a Zucchini.

And english airports have "Alarmed doors" signals that makes tourists think they scared the poor door somehow.

Wasn't tea time at 5pm?

I'd just like to say that I'm from Scotland, even though i now live in the U.s and no longer have the sexy accent *sniff* and my speech usually has random Brit-isms thrown in inadvertantly, which tend to confuse people. I remember yesterday having to explain the word 'git' to a bunch of people in game, it got rather silly.

Damned straight. Bloody northerners.

Dinner time and teatime are synonymous up here...in East Midlands. Some people say dinner for lunch, but that tends to be when it's cooked lunch, you don't have sandwiches for dinner. So it goes lunch or dinner THEN tea or dinner.

Alright, so back to grilling and broiling.

Grill!

Broiling is a setting on this!


EDIT: Wow, that's a big grill. Doesn't it all look tasty, though?

That first picture is freaking huge.

And you know, you can grill inside one of those too...

NO! Bad badger/whale! Grilling is done only over an open flame!

I'm pretty sure you/America just made that up...

That would explain your confusion, anyway.

All that blood mixed in with your food and other such garbage you people eat and consider "edible" has polluted your brains. The American attempt to redefine English into a more feasible language is difficult for you to grasp because you likely have mad cow. j/k

Heh. I don't actually know anyone that eats black pudding...ever.

Or that other crap that's supposedly archetypal English food.

Nor do I eat red meat...but that's just 'cause I don't like the taste, others do.

I suddenly feel myself needing a nice juicy steak.

I just realized that, since the Brits don't have jelly, they probably don't have jelly donuts. Jam just doesn't have the right consistency to stay inside the shell. Now, if that isn't a sign of inferiority, we're going to have trouble seeing eye-to-eye.

I've stopped even trying with him, and have just nicknamed him Cookiebiscuits in an attempt to amuse myself. Shiri is not to be taken as any sort of expert on language or grammar, because while Brits may sound cool, the actual words they say are all nonsense.