slang and HP was re Reckon

[yalithb223]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:
Ali writes:
> Bboy muses about UK/US language differences:-
> 

>  
> >>> garden instead of yard or lawn>>>
> 
> Here you confuse me. A garden is not the same as a lawn. I have a 
> lawn in my garden. A lawn is the grass area. What do you mean by a 
> lawn?

A lawn is typically all of the land (usually containing grass) that 
surrounds a house or building.  We can have a garden with flowers or 
veggetables on our lawn.  But the entire property (excluding the 
buildings) is termed lawn.

> >>> marks instead of grades>>>
> 
> We use both marks and grades, but they mean different things. For 
> example, an exam could be marked out of 100, but anyone who 
achieved 
> more than 70% would get a grade "A". Our exams, O'Levels, GCSEs, 
> A'Levels etc are all graded. Certainly in my generation (cough, 
> splutters "30 somethings"), we were never told what marks we got in 
> O'Levels etc only the grades. 
> 
> In what way are the words used in the US?

We don't really use the term "marks".  More or less we refer to 
everything as grades, both the percentage and the letter grade A, B, 
C, etc.

Jessica I.