My mom is southern and says "boot" instead of "trunk"

[Ichinisan]

Confront your mom. Demand to know where she picked these englishisms.

If OP hasn't done this already, I demand to know why.

 

[esquared]

Does she say "it's time to fill the lorry with petrol" or use any terms such as these below?

British <=> American Automotive Translations

British term American term
----------------- -------------
accumulator ----- battery
actuator ----- switch or servo
Artic ----- articulated lorry = "tractor-trailer"
baulk ring ----- synchro ring
bonnet ----- hood
boot ----- trunk
bulkhead ----- firewall
choke tube ----- venturi
core plug ----- freeze plug
crocodile clip ----- alligator clip
crosshead ----- Phillips
crown wheel ----- ring gear
cubby box ----- glove box or glove compartment
damper ----- shock absorber
drive shaft ----- half shaft or axle shaft
drop-head coupe ----- convertible version of 2 door coupe
dumpy screwdriver ----- short screwdriver
dynamo ----- generator
earth ----- ground
estate ----- station wagon
fascia ----- dashboard
fixed-head coupe ----- 2 door coupe
frogeye ----- bugeye
Gallon (Imperial) ----- 5 US Quarts
gearbox ----- transmission
gudgeon pin ----- wrist pin
hood ----- convertible top
jointing compound ----- gasket sealant
lorry ----- truck
mole wrench ----- Vice grips
monocoque ----- unibody
MOT ----- DOT
Ministry of Transport ----- Department of Transportation
nave plate ----- hubcap
nose ----- front of car
paraffin ----- kerosene
pinking ----- knocking or pinging
prop shaft ----- drive shaft
petrol ----- gasoline
prise ----- pry
proud ----- above or raised
quarterlight ----- vent window
rev counter ----- tachometer
ring gear ----- flywheel gear, or starter gear
roadster ----- car that only comes in a convertible style
roundabout ----- rotary, traffic circle
RoStyle ----- type of steel wheel (as opposed to wire)
saloon ----- 2 or 4 door sedan
scuttle ----- cowl
side curtains ----- removable side windows
silencer ----- muffler
sill ----- rocker panel
Shooting Brake ----- station wagon
spanner ----- wrench
split pin ----- cotter pin
spring washer ----- lock washer
squab ----- part of seat
suction advance ----- vacuum advance
sump ----- oil pan
thrust bearing ----- throwout bearing
tickover ----- idle
top gear ----- high gear
torch ----- flashlight
trunnion ----- sliding or rotating joint (suspension)
Tyre ----- tire
wheel nut ----- lug nut
whitworth ----- Brtish thread measuring standard
windscreen ----- windshield
wing ----- fender

 

[phucheneh]

Some of those Brit terms are actually 'more correct' (e.g. 'damper') or at least in common usage (bulkhead). Some, like 'boot,' are just unused but well-known British (or Canadian) alternatives.

...and some are 100% WTF and make me assume someone threw them in there just to fuck with people.

Stuff like accumulator, actuator, thrust bearing...those have pretty concrete meanings, and they sure as hell are not what's listed above. Then to be really absurd...paraffin? Scuttle? 'the fuck?

And since when is 'roundabout' British?

 

[phucheneh]

...no...no...nothing about this adds up at all.

Here's the well-known real guide:

 

[Fritzo]

The only American I have ever heard use those British equivalents was from Maysville Kentucky. Maysville is just across the river from southern Ohio.

How close to Maysville was your Mother raised?

Very close, near the southern-most tip of the state. So, it may be a regional thing.

 

[IronWing]

The only American I have ever heard use those British equivalents was from Maysville Kentucky. Maysville is just across the river from southern Ohio.

How close to Maysville was your Mother raised?

Cool fossils in Maysville.

 

[Fritzo]

I would invite you to re-read my post and point out where I said what they were doing is "wrong" or they need to change. You don't have to look for long though because as I'm sure you've gathered by now, I never said anything like that. All I said was they are not located in the south regardless of doing typically "southern" things so calling them southerners is flat out wrong.

That region considers themselves southern, and you said they're not southern, so you need to go inform them all of their mistake.

 

[shortylickens]

Actually Cold on a Cob sounds quite awesome.

 

[Charlie98]

Typical ATOT discussion:

"This post is about A. Minor details about A are b, c, and d."

"Oooooo....b, c, and d are shiny!"

You knew that was going to happen... :whiste:

 

[phucheneh]

Actually Cold on a Cob sounds quite awesome.

I say whimsy flims mark and scribblers all the time.

And I have also, in fact, ordered clammy rogers at IHOP. And I don't even fucking like blueberries.

Or pancakes.

 

[Soundmanred]

Is your mom Madonna?
That dumb bitch tried to be British for years.

 

[sourn]

I've known a lot of hicks and rednecks those terms arn't often used if ever.

The only time I've heard bonnet is for amish people the cap the women wear on their hair. Boot are boots and biscuits are biscuits.

To be honest I probably would've thought the same thing as your daughter and since I've moved around I'm pretty good getting things from the context. But tell me to grab something from your boot I'm gonna tell you to piss off.