Words That Mean Something Different When You Say Them In Britain

• "pants"
• "pissed"
• "johnny"

fun evening. after getting back from coventry (post on that forthcoming), choir folks had a noisy dinner at jamal's curry place, dropped by the corpus halloween bop, then hung out in catherine's room and eventually played a game of trivial pursuit. thanks to catherine's brilliance (she was quite impressive--she knew such things as the date of the chicago valentine's day massacre, and that jfk was shot in dallas--but had to ask me what state dallas was in), our team won. it was quite fun. i also had my first gin and tonic.

Things That You Don't Say Unless You're An American

• "folks"
• "automobile"
• "all y'all"