we have an Andy here in the office from Bodmin of all places. He's feeling very chuffed.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Stuffed Animals.

Retailers selling artsier ones call them Plush Toys.

ToysR Us calls them "Stuffed Animals and Plush Toys"   

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 
 There. Captured.  

wait... Andy IS your spouse, right?? 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
i used to call them stuffed animals...because mine were always stuffed "animals"

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
No problem. 

 mzpro5 wrote: 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
I would say stuffed toy is the most used term I have heard. Plush toy would be a far second.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

* bump *

sorry but we need this for a translation. UK English is cuddly toy but I think they are called something different in the US.

Soft toy?
Plush toy?
Stuffed toy?
Beryl?

Any idea`?

 mzpro5 wrote: 
This is from Wikipedia (though it may also be conjecture on its author's part):

The hood (US) or bonnet (UK) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles that allows access to the engine compartment for maintenance and repair. In British terminology, hood refers to a fabric cover over the passenger compartment of the car (known as the 'top' in the US). In many motor vehicles built in the 1930s and 1940s, the resemblance to an actual hood or bonnet is clear when open and viewed head-on; in modern vehicles it continues to serve the same purpose but no longer resembles a head covering.

 

 Proclivities wrote: 
A bonnet isn't just a hat, it's a covering - though of course these days its mostly used for headwear. So the bonnet is just a cover for the engine. Over here, a hood is also just a cover, but one that usually attached to something and goes up over something else when required, so the soft-top on a car is usually called the hood. The picture on the left would be a bonnet (because is just a cover being worn by a woman) - if it had a brim or such it would be a hat. The right hand picture would be a hood.

Two nations divided by a single language, as they say. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
If you stand a car on end (rear of car on ground) the top is like a head and covered by a "bonnet"  the rear is on the ground and thus a "boot".

Be advised this is pure conjecture on my part, Absolutely no facts to back it up.

 Proclivities wrote: 
In Kentucky, at least ...time and place... I lived there, it was boot and bonnet, as well.

 Sadfish wrote: 
Don't your cars also have "bonnets" on them?  Here they only come with "hoods".  I never knew why the auto industry used a name for headwear - that part of the car is not even on the top of the vehicle.

Um, what do you guys call cuddly toys?

 jadewahoo wrote: 
Parliament are considering a law on the subject, while the US Congress is not.

 jadewahoo wrote: 
I've been wanting to ask this same question. Also "A" hospital.

 jadewahoo wrote: 
Because Britain has a Marxist healthcare system, they actually have more than one hospital to go to .

On the local public radio station today, BBC World News, the newsperson said "Tiger Woods was taken to hospital today..."

What's with this British thing of dropping the 'the' before a noun? I hear it frequently, and it is annoying as hell.

 samiyam wrote: 

they have them in toronto.
Only there they are called fans.

 BasmntMadman wrote: