just when I thought I knew all the ways American and British English differ...
Americans seem to use the word 'yard' or 'backyard' a lot for what the English would call a 'garden'. We (the British) also use the word 'yard' sometimes but typically it would only be used to describe a small, paved-over area outside a small house. If we were referring to the place where flowers grow and there's a lawn and trees etc, we'd say 'garden'. I wondered when Americans use the word 'garden'?
Also, I notice Americans use the word 'cream' for the white liquid that comes from cows, the stuff you put in tea. The British call this 'milk' - to us, 'cream' is the thick substance you put on your cakes or scones - what do Americans call this stuff?
2011-05-16T05:06:17Z
sorry, to clarify, by the thick substance you put on cakes, I don't mean icing or butter, I mean like when you have a dessert/pudding, the thick gloopy sweet stuff you'd pour or spoon on top. (eg strawberries and cream)
busterwasmycat2011-05-16T04:47:18Z
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yard is the outside property. garden is an area specifically dedicated to growing either ornamentals (flowers) or foodstuffs (vegetables). You may have a vegetable garden in your back yard. Not all flowering plants and shrubs constitute a garden, it has to be an area completely dedicated to growing such things.
When we visited my grandfather, we were told to play in the back yard but to be careful to stay out of the garden.
Cream is the high fat portion of raw (whole) milk that rises to the top if the milk is left alone. You make butter from cream, or you can use cream for your coffee (it is sweeter and richer than plain milk; milk we buy is usually the part left over from partially removing the fatty solids). I do not know what you mean by a thick substance unless you mean butter, and I do not think you do. Do not the brits have butter?
scones are very much not an american thing either. scones are some sort of biscuit as far as I have ever been able to figure it. (biscuits are not cookies, or crackers, in american english, which is what you would call biscuits I think)
Americans (and Canadians) use the word garden to refer to the part(s) of the "yard" that has planted flowers or vegetables in it.
Americans put cream in coffee, and sometimes even in tea, it's just not as thick as the stuff you'd put on cakes. Coffee cream is about 10% fat. We would call it "milk" up to about 4% fat. If it's about 8% it might be called half-and-half. about 20% fat=cooking cream about 30-40% fat= whipping cream more than 40% fat= I would call it double cream
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So American call gardens a place where we plant vegetables, fruits and flowers. They keep the vegetables and fruits for there family and do not usually sell them.
For your "cream" that you put on cakes, we call that icing.