I wasn't sure if they didn't use the word in America or this person was just a bit dim! Please enlighten me! (I'm from the UK)
2006-09-26 04:16:40 · 26 answers · asked by claire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
no one in the US uses that. what exactly does that mean?
2006-09-26 04:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by lovely 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The only reason I knew the word was from watching British TV shows such as Keeping Up Appearances. I actually thought a lorry was a bus but now I read the definition and it's a a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides or a a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides. I guess we would just call it a truck and a trailer.
2006-09-26 11:23:21 · answer #2 · answered by jelly-bean 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are some English & American words for the same things: lorry & truck, bonnet & hood, spanner & wrench, vest & T-shirt, waistcoat (or weskit) & vest, chips & French fries, etc. There was a bird called a lorry in Lewis Carrol's "Alice In Wonderland".
2006-09-26 11:30:36 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In USA they say Truck not Lorry. They probably never heard the word before.
2006-09-26 15:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Americans and Canadians for that matter do not use the word Lorry we use the word truck.
2006-09-26 11:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by minvikingroughrider 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the word Lorry isn't used in the States.
2006-09-26 11:24:02 · answer #6 · answered by Star G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure they have a friend or sister named Lorry but no the word lorry is not used. Atleast not around me and I am American. I don't even know what it is. Enlighten us on the meaning please.
2006-09-26 11:24:52 · answer #7 · answered by ♥c0c0puffz♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No claire,
The americans I ever spoke to, never knew what a lorry was.
But they knew what a truck and a tractor trailer was.
Lorry is a british usage.
2006-09-26 11:19:54 · answer #8 · answered by mescorpion80 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
born and raised in the US, and I never heard the word Lorry, unless a person's name.
2006-09-26 11:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Americans say "truck". One of the meanings of the word is a small wheel.
2006-09-26 11:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by john b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, sorry we never use the word Lorry.
2006-09-26 11:24:41 · answer #11 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋