Originally Posted by freetors

I get slightly annoyed at hearing Brits' and Aussie's version of a knobby tire, the "knobbly".

They do the same thing for the carburetor. Our shorthand word is "carb", there's is "carby".

They both sound like something a child would say.

Originally Posted by john m flores

It's from the same people that brought you "chai tea latte" or "tea with milk tea milk"

But I'm actually ok with groupset. Sounds vaguely British.

EDIT: As a bit of a word nerd, I delved further. While Newspapers.com is by no means definitive, looks like "groupset" first started being used in the 1980s in, as I had guessed, the UK.

Here's an ad from the South Wales Evening Post, Fri, Oct 10, 1986


Macclesfield Express Thu, Mar 31, 1988




Birmingham Metronews Fri, Nov 24, 1989



Someone in Atlanta started using "groupset" in late 1987 - see the Bataglin
The Atlanta Journal Thu, Nov 12, 1987





Within Newspaper.com's print dataset, "groupset" as a term died at the turn of the century.

Originally Posted by freetors

I get slightly annoyed at hearing Brits' and Aussie's version of a knobby tire, the "knobbly".

They do the same thing for the carburetor. Our shorthand word is "carb", there's is "carby".

They both sound like something a child would say.

Originally Posted by Camilo

The Aussies and maybe the Brits and others? call a Mercedes a "Merc" pronounced Merk. It took me a while to figure that one out while watching an Aussie tv series. I thought they were referring to a Mercury car, formerly marketed by Ford in the US (and elsewhere?). Or a Mercury outboard. That's what real American English uses the word Merc/Merk for.

Originally Posted by kcjc

"Chai" is English for tea in Mandarin. "Latte" is short for caffè latte, espresso with steamed milk. So "chai tea latte" is tea tea with steamed milk. I cringe every time I hear "chai tea..