A baby in your belly is referred to as a bump.
Squash is a concentrated juice, butternut squash you eat.
Pants are your underwear, you wear trousers.
A biscuit is a cookie, they don't have traditional southern biscuits.
A bathroom is called a toilet, you go to take a wee.
A band aid is called a plaster.
A theatre is were you have surgery, not see a movie.
A surgery is a doctor's office.
A shot is called a jab.
A lady bug is called a lady bird.
When you are being bad you are cheeky.
Other Interesting Items:
There are 110 pubs (local bars [but so much more] that serve food) in Cambridge, 1 McDonalds and 2 Burger Kings. One is actually in the hospital.
Cambridge was established around A.D. 40 by the Romans.
Cambridge University was founded in 1209. It will celebrate it's 800th anniversary this year.
Famous People who went to Cambridge: Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin, Oliver Cromwell, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, C.S. Lewis, Prince Charles, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and some 82 Nobel Prize winners.
There are a 110,000 people in Cambridge, 25% of them ride their bikes to work. There are 22,000 students which almost all have bikes. This city is full of bikes. Bicycles are the main transportation followed by walking, buses and cabs.
Every neighborhood has it's own pub and grocery store. Literally you could walk 5 blocks in any direction and you would find both.
There is a Walmart here, it is called ASDA. I have not been there yet.
All major grocery stores deliver. You just go online, get what you want, pick a delivery time, and they bring it to your door for a small fee. It would be impossible to haul a weeks worth of groceries on the bus and then walk to your house. You also have to take your own bags to the store with you, if not you have to buy them there. Most people use cloth bags.
An interesting sign that is found in our neighborhood.
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