I Hate It When When Americans call chips "French fries". When Americans call crisps "Chips". When Americans call chocolate globbernaughts "Candy bars". When Americans call motorized rollinghams "Cars". When Americans call merry fizzlebombs "Fireworks". When Americans call wunderbahboxes a "PC". When Americans call meat water "Gravy". When Americans call electro-rope "Power Cables". When Americans call beef wellington ensemble with lettuce a "Hamburger". When Americans call whimsy flimsy mark and scribblers a "Pen". When Americans call twisting plankhandles "Doorknobs". When Americans call a breaddystack a "Sandwich". When Americans call their hoighty toighty tippy typers "Keyboards". When Americans call nutty-gum and fruit spleggings "Peanut Butter and Jelly". When Americans call an upsy stairsy the "Escalator". When Americans call forcey fun time "Rape". When Americans call a knittedy wittedy sheepity sleepity a "Sweater". When Americans call rickedy-pop a "Gear Shift". When Americans call a choco chip bicky wicky a "Cookie". When Americans call peepee friction pleasure "Sex". When Americans call a pip pip gollywock a "Screwdriver". When Americans call a rooty tooty point-n-shooty a "Gun". When Americans call a ceiling-bright a "Light Bulb". When Americans call a blimpy bounce bounce a "Ball". When Americans call a slippery dippery long mover a "Snake". When Americans call cobble-stone-clippety-clops "Roads". — Anonymous, 4Chan (This came about after a wave of British and American contributors posting their frustrations with each other languages idiosyncrasies. Personally I prefer the faux British version in nearly every example here.) .