Six Words With Contrasting Meanings in the United Kingdom and the United States

Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond explored how the meanings of certain English words differ between the United Kingdom and the United States, noting how terms such as to table, public school, and pants can have drastically different or even opposite meanings across the Atlantic.

Many words have completely different meanings between Britain and America. But there's also a special category of words that have the exact opposite meaning on either side of the Pond. In today's video, we explore six of them.

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