Regional differences in English are fascinating. For example what Americans call a tap, Brits call a faucet. To make sure your conversation partner can understand you, use the local meaning! i.e. you might say, I faucet my Forest to add 1 green mana
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At restaurants I always ask if "faucet water" is available.
aug 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 3 0 • view
I like table as a good example of the differences. To table something in British English means to formally discuss something. To table something in American English means to postpone discussing something.
aug 28, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
calling my Hoodie a Bonnie
aug 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Where’s my jumper?
aug 28, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I say faucet here in the US.
aug 28, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Have never known anyone call it a faucet, I assume you mean the other way round?
aug 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm an American who says "faucet." We do call it "tap water" though.
aug 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 3 0 • view
What do Americans call a wanker ?
aug 28, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Paul Reubens
aug 28, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
A tap is what you get beer from. A faucet is what you get water from. Generally it’s a faucet when in the bathroom, tap in the kitchen. I use “tap” in the kitchen, ‘cause I get my “tap water” from it. Born & raised in Chicago IL
aug 28, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Angry Brits in the comments saying "we say tap instead of faucet" presumably because they didn't read to the end of the post
aug 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 24 0 • view
Before replying to this post please take a big sip of faucet water.
aug 28, 2025, 5:44 pm • 9 0 • view
we can sidestep this issue by drinking from the hose
aug 29, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
don't let the haters get you down, keep on lorrying.
aug 28, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
You can’t just gently tap a square joke into a round skeet. You gotta faucet in there.
aug 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 8 0 • view
Why don't they just call it a spicket like civilized people
aug 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 4 0 • view
Had to look that one up! It’s a US regionalism for spigot.
aug 28, 2025, 3:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, this pronunciation was actually known in English all the way back to the 1400s (affected by the usual vowel shifts), where it is recorded as "spyket".
aug 28, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm an American and I don't say tap because I'm a beast. 🤼♀️💪
aug 29, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
You have that in common with Onfim, a boy from 800 years ago
aug 29, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
This must be one with a map of which term is dominant where in the USA. I grew up calling it a "faucet" but I've met people who call the one inside a tap and the one outside, that you connect the garden hose to, a "hydrant"
aug 28, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s a hose bib gdi
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 4 0 • view
British people never say faucet.
aug 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 2 0 • view
And in Baltimore, a faucet is what wooder comes out of.
aug 28, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view