What is subway in British English?

British/American underground / subway / metro / tube. A city's underground railway system is usually called the underground (often the Underground) in British English and the subway in North American English.

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What is London slang for subway?

London has a famous underground railway system which we locals call the 'Tube'.

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What do British people call subway trains?

Some speakers of British English also use subway to refer to a British railway system like this, but the London system is usually called the underground or the tube.

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What is line called in British English?

Such a group of people is known as a queue (British usage) or line (American usage), and the people are said to be waiting or standing in a queue or in line, respectively.

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Do Brits say subway?

A city's underground railway system is usually called the underground (often the Underground) in British English and the subway in North American English. Speakers of British English also use subway for systems in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries.

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English Vocabulary Lesson on American or British English (subway/underground - eggplant/aubergine)

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What is the Tube in British slang?

The Tube commonly refers to: London Underground, a rapid transit system serving Greater London and environs. Television.

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What is the Cockney slang for train?

Hail and Rain is Cockney slang for Train.

In use between 1920s and 1970s.

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What is the Cockney slang for husband?

'Man' in cockney rhyming slang, heard almost exclusively in the phrase 'my old pot and pan', meaning one's husband ... PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com).

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What is a call girl in British slang?

A call girl is a prostitute who makes appointments by phone.

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What is London slang for toilet?

The bog. One of the most commonly known and albeit, cruder terms has to be the “bog”. To simply put it, the term “bog” comes from quite a literal sense back in 1789 from the 'boghouse', which is British slang meaning to defecate.

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What is the British slang for clap?

Share This. “The clap” is a slang term for gonorrhea. People also call gonorrhea, “the drip.” These words can stigmatize and shame someone for having an STD.

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What is cookie in British?

Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US)

In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.

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What is the British word for corn?

Maize is more commonly used in Britain than in the United States to talk about corn, but most Americans recognize the word.

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What do they call the bathroom in Australia?

Loo. Toilet. An outdoor toilet is a Dunny and an indoor toliet is called a loo.

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What is a posh way of saying toilet?

'Lavatory' is a good option for people looking for a very formal word to use in very formal occasions​.

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What do British boys call their girlfriends?

British terms of endearment: 'Sweetheart', 'love', 'darling'…

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What do British guys call their girlfriends?

'Dear' is the only real addition to the standard 'darling' that most couples will need, with perhaps a 'love' and a standard 'darling' thrown in here and there. Come the 60-year anniversary, many British couples are content with a few grunts over the breakfast tea and toast.

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What is a white girl British slang?

Outside of its racial stereotyping, white girl has been used as a slang for cocaine or heroin since the 1970s.

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What is Cockney slang for drinking?

"Tumble down the sink" (drink)

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