British Words Quiz #2

Never heard anyone say Shrove Tuesday in the UK, actually had to Google it to find out what it is. Everyone calls it Pancake Day here. It should at least be an acceptable answer.

Please ignore ShoTheVipa. Shrove Tuesday is well known in the UK.

I second zoidberg's comment.

they call private school public school? then what do they call public school?

Well, that was fun! I got them all. I had no idea that Americans call Shrove Tuesday Fat Tuesday though. That one I knew from the first time I took this quiz. @halfbakedj12 I believe they call it state school.

Mithol we dont call it state school (we dont hav states in uk) @halfbakedj12 we call it primary school or government run schools

nickster3 nobody calls them 'government run schools', they are state schools, probably named as they were funded by the welfare state i.e. free. Private schools and public schools are both fee paying schools, no idea what the difference is though. Primary school is for up to year 6 (age 11), nothing to do with state/private/public.

Also I would say most Brits call it ketchup...that's what it says on the bottle afterall.

I really didn't understand the zee zed one until I saw the answers. People in UK call it Ketchup, although this is only one brand. Sketchy and treasury are also very widely used here. I have never heard anyone call a treasury an exchequer (bar the chancellor of the exchequer)

I have to say I typed in Pancake Day before Shrove Tuesday. I'm American living in the UK and I don't think I've heard Shrove Tuesday used here but I knew it from my Catholic upbringing.

Private school is public school, huh? Interesting to know. I kind of really sucked at this, but it was still fun. x3

i agree, shrove tuesday is well know but for younger people they still use pancake day because it's easier. and dodgy... we use sketchy or iffy to be honest, although the drunk driving and drink driving are equally used - it's a very grey area seeing as we watch so many american tv shows - it naturally becomes vocabulary over here

in the UK public school is the same as American private school, while UK's private school means one not open to the general public. You can only go here with a special invitation or other exception.

Schools that are open to anyone and are government run are called state schools here, because they are provided by the state, i.e. government.

i've heard more people call it "red sauce" than tomato sauce

I really should have gotten all 23...I went to graduate school there and I still speak with a quasi-accent, kind of like Bill Bryson, only not as cool.

We brits actually call them Grammar schools and/or private schools I've never heard anyone call the type of school in question a public school. Also I guessed "independent school" after neither grammar or private was allowed, surely THAT should be an accepted answer

nah, grammar doesn't mean the same as private/public. i went to a state grammar. also, Americans call it fat tuesday?! mental. most people i know call it pancake day and shrove tuesday in equal measure.

unclear could also be sketchy

I thought it was called drink driving in the US...

I'm British and what on earth is a Exchequer???

i say path not pavement personally

I always think of 'dodgy' as being something borderline illegal. Is that what 'sketchy' means in the US? Sketchy here (UK) means something vague. Also would have never got 'Exchequer'.

Dodgy really means unsafe or faulty. @Milk: incorrect, a Public school isn't just any private school, it's a type of old boarding school specific to England. There are plenty of normal private schools there too (ie schools you have to pay for). We usually call non-private schools 'state schools' though. Nobody I know would ever say 'ketchup' to mean tomato sauce. They might say 'tomato ketchup', but only on heinz. I thought ketchup was just a brand name.

I'm English and have never heard of the word Exchequer before. What does it mean?

A biscuit and a cookie are different things. Ketchup is still ketchup, and pants can be pants or trousers depending on where you are from. You should add more common ones too such as faucet = tap, chopper = helicopter etc.

Private school here in the UK is called private school...so is ketchup :/ Disappointed with the amount of people that don't know Shrove Tuesday is pancake day!

is ketchup called private school? now, that's weird :)

I got 20/23 - but then, I am British. I'm surprised so many people didn't get Exchequer, pavement and public school - they were my first 3.