Dear British ao3 authors- yes I could tell you were Brit before u told us, u used words like jumper and trousers. Yea I do love your writing so don’t stress.
don’t forget torch instead of flashlight (I have read that and thought they were carrying literal torches and was like weird but okay)
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Anonymous15w
there’s always a stray “mum”
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Anonymous15w
Practise <— you can always tell it’s them
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Anonymous15w
Their lifts and flats and defence and favourites
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Anonymous15w
it's always "in the car park" not the parking lot 😭
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Anonymous15w
“having a lie-in” CLOCKED 🫵📸
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Anonymous15w
The “re”s instead of “er”s also piss me off so bad. ‘Centre’ ‘theatre’ ‘fibre’ get the fuck out of here
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Anonymous15w
Kerb instead of curb
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Anonymous15w
I read a Red Dead Redemption fanfic once and the author was British. It was a whiplash reading the western country slang and British slang at the same time.
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Anonymous15w
Also… WHILST … haha it kills me when I’m reading an American based story
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Anonymous#115w
And the u’s (colour)
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Anonymous#115w
WAIT WHAT OH MY GOD 😭 this makes so much more sense now thank you i feel dumb
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Anonymous#315w
it took me a while to figure that out tbh genuinely thought that they were using like actual torches like you use in minecraft
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Anonymous#215w
They love the letter u and fear the letter z
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Anonymous#615w
That spelling makes me wanna fight a Brit so bad. I don’t know why it just makes me so unrationably angry.
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Anonymous#615w
There is NO WAY they actually spell it “kerb”. They’ve gotta be trying to prank us or something
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Anonymous#615w
kerb is too close to kreb makes me think of the kreb’s cycle before thinking of curb
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Anonymous#115w
YES YOURE RIGHT
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Anonymous#115w
as an american it’s the one piece of brit slang that i like
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Anonymous#715w
So true bro I shoulda mentioned thattt
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Anonymous#215w
tbf everybody loves u’s except americans i think (source: am 🇨🇦)
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Anonymous#1315w
Nothing wrong with “whilst” lol 😭 I use it as an American author
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Anonymous#1215w
Aw, the mental image of that is so cute to me! A little park with swings and a jungle gym that cars could play together in. 😭
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Anonymous#1115w
Wait I spell defence like that😭
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Anonymous#1715w
Is theatre not spelled like that in American English? 😭
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AnonymousOP15w
“theater” is a place, “theatre” is an art
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AnonymousOP15w
In British English the proper spelling is theatre for both, in American English the two spellings are used to differentiate.