It's been a while since I posted and I felt like it was time.  

First off I felt better about not knowing what English words meant because of something that happened this weekend.  I was working with a few people and they were looking at our newsletter about Connolly's New Employee's.   This is posted about every three months and one of the things that is asked and then posted is Favorite Things to Do.  One of the US new employess posted Tailgating, playing sports, cooking, etc.  My fellow peers were discussing this and committed that they couldn't believe someone had actually said they enjoy "tailgating", meaning to the English following another car too closely.  I rather enjoyed explaining to them what this really meant.  I'm not sure they really got it, but it was nice to hear that they didn't always understand things we said.  I'm sure they all go to a Pub before and after a game and didn't really understand the concept of sitting in a parking lot and basically drinking and eating just as they do in a Pub with friends.  We all really do the same thing just in a different way.   We're really not so different, we all enjoy our friends and sports don't we?

They also seem to think we let our teenagers drive to early (I wonder about that myself) and that we all walk around with guns and shot each other.  They may have it right about the gun thing too.  While I believe we do have a right to carry arms, I do question what kind and how easy it is to get them.  Many have said they feel our education system is a bit better.  I don't really understand enought of theirs to have an opinion about that. 

Some words that they spell differently and we feel our spelled wrong and vice versa are:

enquiry
tyre
centre
colour (I know this one because I spelled it wrong on a claim)
whilst (for some reason I like the sound of that one and try to use it as often as possible)

I wonder when we decided to change the spelling, you know it was us!

There are more, but I can't seem to think of them at the moment.

Oh, and then there was the talk of they have refrigerators without freezers.  I don't get that, what do you do about ice and ice cream?

Pam