Brit Speak: Garden of Sherbert & Evil

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No: HPFGUIDX 41051

Ignore that title, it was just my warped attempt at some humor.

Subject: Brit Speak-

1.) Gardens - British people seem to have an aweful lot of gardens;
gardens in front, gardens in back, gardens everywhere. This makes me
wonder if the British don't use the term 'garden' differently that
Americans. 

There is a garden wall in front of the Dursley's house and other
references to gardens and the area in front of the house, as well as
references to gardens in back. Based on Harry working in the garden,
my impression is that the garden is back is a normal vegetable garden.
But what about the gardens in front? Certainly could be a flower bed,
but the implications make it seem like more than a row or small plot
of flowers. 

So I wonder if British people refer to their lawn as a garden? In back
is a garden where they grow vegetables and in front is a garden where
they grow grass and maybe a few flowers. Essentually, using garden as
a broad term referring to any place they are growing anything
including lawn grass.

Can someone clear this up for me?

2.) Sherbert - OK, we already have the distiction between 'sherbert
lemon' and 'lemon drops'. Sherber Lemon is a hard lemon candy that has
a powered effervescent (fizzy) center. To any Americans who can't
quite comprehend 'fizzing' candy; think of 'Pop Rocks'.

Now 'Frizzing Wizzbees' which is a sherbert. So is it a sherbert in
the American sense of ice cream like substance, or in is it in the
Britsh sense of a hard candy with a fizzing center?

Anybody have any idea? As an American, I understood the 'sherbert
lemon' distiction but alway assumed 'Frizzing Wizzbees' was ice cream
sherbert. ???????

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