the post instead of the mail, using the 've contraction too much, paracetamol, greggs, chips, overuse of public transit in american settings that wouldn't have that, etc

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Colour

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That happened to me today 😂 The word was trousers

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torch when referring to a flashlight

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Why is a demon so violently American coded played by someone born and raised in California saying “bloody” or “jumper”? Nope

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I like using both American and British slang interchangeably so that no one can tell which I am 😻😻

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mum is the biggest one, always throws me bc no way Dean Winchester would say that lmao

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Stranger Things fic that called the trunk of a car the “boot”. I had to stop reading atp

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behaviour

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sachet and packet haha

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My favorite is when characters go to the canteen for lunch. Like no babe they go the cafeteria

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reading the cues yall puttin in the comments has me questioning my grasp of english

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"they left the car park and walked into the waffle house" meanwhile fic takes place in Colorado, which has no waffle houses and it took me a minute to figure out what they meant by car park 😭😭😭 (they only put in waffle house bc lana del rey worked a shift there lol)

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Whilst

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Love as a pet name

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Like those characters are from Indiana they are not calling their mothers “mum”

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torch

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As an American, I use some of these and spell mostly British but use so much American slang. I used to get in trouble in high school for adding u’s to my words

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For me it’s when an American character says bloody. Excuse me that man is from Iowa, he would Not

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IM SORRY IM SORRY I CANT HELP IT 😭

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“ the lot of them” BRITISH

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It’s using a bunch of u’s for me 👎👎

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Practise

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“X year” instead of freshman, sophomore, junior, senior

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