English Inventions #2

HAHAHAH!

that's why it clarifies the quiz is not only about inventions but also discoveries

Didn't Lamarck postulate evolution? So it ought to be French! Darwin's theory of evolution is just more evolved. Survival of the fittest?

It is still spelled in correctly, it really actually is logarithmic, though I understand why people make the mistake. (or even try logorhythmic)

I was stuck on "school bus" at first. Pfft.

Yeah, except that (who would've thunk it) Johannes Gutenberg wasn't English.

The Chinese made the printing press first, and then Gutenberg, who wasn't English anyway. Also, cricket is on here already.

Maybe because I don't drink coffee or tea. I couldn't even think of a drink I would put in a thermos. I guess that makes sense.

I can't imagine putting anything but a drink in a thermos. Coffee, tea and hot chocolate for cold days; milk and water keep nice and cold in them as well.

How do you pour spaghetti through the little opening???

@symmetrik cant tell if you are joking or not, I seriously have NEVER heard or seen anyone using it for any of those things... (and how could you get it clean, yuck, washing up brushes generally dont fit in it.)

Yep, kept trying flask for ages, Thermos is just a brand, the item is a flask. Even Thermos themselves are quite hot on stating it's a brand name, not the item.

Vacuum flask worked for me - I didn’t try flask on it’s own though ;)

A flask is where you put your whiskey or gin etc in. (and I sincerely hope people dont put spaghetti in their flásks ! like someone in a comment above did with their thermoscan haha, you would have an even tougher time getting it in a flask than in a thermos)

I agree with the stroller. I first tried buggy, and then was trying to think of perambulator, but didnt get further than ambulator..

If the uk writes a word different from the us, that doesnt only affect the uk (and its commonwealth) but it could affect everyone that is learning english (partially depending where you are from and what you are exposed to. When in europe and don't watch a lot of movies you will probably now solely british english. When you're from the americas and watching a lot of series and movies you probably are more inclined to american english)

Just saying, it is not just one small country that deviates from the usa with its words. It affects the rest of the world that learns english aswell (both through schools and exposure).

I personally watch more bbc than I do any local channels so I ve been exposed to a lot of british english.

It'd be a minor tweak, but I agree 100%, Duzza. I'd never heard of "pram" before watching Monty Python as a kid...and then never heard "stroller" from a Brit ever since. I just knew "pram" would be the answer, so that's what I entered. Quite shocked on a quiz about English inventions to see the American term be the displayed answer for an object that has distinctly British and American terms for it.

It's a missed opportunity for American quiz-takers unfamiliar with the English terminology to expand their horizons. Accept "stroller", but display "pram", IMHO.

Prams and strollers are slightly different things (at least where I come from) - In a stroller, a child sits upright and faces forward; in a pram the child is usually lying down

That would be tea *cosy*