What I learnt in America and other stories.
Cribas are crisps but are actually chips. And chips which are chipos are actually fries. Bikis are crackers which are biscuits. But biscuits are actually like scones.
Boots are for feet and trunks are found in cars and on elephants. The roundabout is a rotary and since there be no zebras walking, we dodge cars on crosswalks. The bonnet is the hood and the exhaust is the muffler and well prepared chicks should have at least one wrench which is is a spanner.
Ketchup is for fries as tomato sauce is for cooking pasta. The kio or the shop is the store. Petrol is gas and still costs over $2 a gallon. The first floor is the ground floor and no one uses the lift as they’re all on elevators.
Peanut butter and jelly is peanut butter and jam and what we call jelly is Jello- which means that jam is probably preserves. Purus which are sweets are candy but sometimes chocos are also candy. We don’t take leave, we go on vacation.
Jungus are not Europeans but Caucasian (at least during censuses).
TGIF, thank God, is still “Thank God it’s Friday”
Barikiweni.
