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UK-US dictionary needed for the blogosphere!

November 14th, 2008 Posted by Judith Townend in Online Journalism

Journalism.co.uk is starting to think a US dictionary could be useful for this international blog lark.

Completely thrown off track with a US use of ‘chuffed’ in its negative sense…

And of course, there’s the old ‘pissed’ one: you could be drunk in the UK and annoyed in the US. What other confusions have people picked up on the US/UK blog rounds?

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3 Responses to “UK-US dictionary needed for the blogosphere!”

  1. Josh Says:

    November 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Bullish isn’t positive in British English? As in the bullish/bearish divide for stock market prognosticators? Maybe we do need some trans-Atlantic translation service. :)


  2. Judith Townend Says:

    November 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    OK, I stand corrected on bullish! I had checked one online definition, but now (as I should have done in first place) am consulting Collins and yes, it does mean optimistic and positive. I was distracted by these meanings:

    “a. Having a heavy muscular physique. b. Bullheaded.”

    What can I say? Standards of British education are slipping. Sorry.


  3. Judith Townend Says:

    November 14th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Have removed that example now so as to avoid confusion…


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