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Originally Posted by gryoung
Mo779, Although we all believe that we're speaking the King's English, there are words and expressions which we (Yanks) use in everyday conversation which may have a very different, somewhat unusual meaning in another country. For example, I've heard folks from Ireland say, "Why don't you join us for some good crack?" They're inviting you to get together for drinks and laughs. Yet, in the USA, crack only means one thing these days, drugs. So put that way, it raises everyone's eyebrows. Since TV has a pretty good cross-section of people, have you heard (or overheard) anything which didn't make sense to you? Are there accents which are totally unintelligible to you?
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Well, I still find it very hard to understand the Yorkshire dialect. And yes, things do have a different meaning in the UK to here. Brits often ask their neighbor, on their way out to work in the morning, to knock hard on their front door as a wake-up call.
"Knock me up" when you are leaving (for work) means exactly that!!