With the exception of the first list of foods - not one of my obsessions - most New Zealanders understand all of the other pairs, and in fact the site should probably have been called "NZ terms for confused USns", because that's the direction most of the confusion exists in! There are also a number of significant errors in the various lists.

You could say that thanks to TV and the endless deluge of other American media most NZers would have absolutely no problems in the States (and no, I didn't ask for a rubber. Do I look stupid?), but I know from experience that many US tourists in NZ spend a lot of their time completely flummoxed by the differences in idiom.

The biggest problem we had in the States was our accent.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...