Meanings of british call in English

Gathering the Corn-theBritish call it Maize, the old Yankee farmer Indian Corn.

And how did the Provincials, as the British called the Americans, regard the situation?

The British call theirs "lyddite," the French "melinite" and the Japanese "shimose."

The Americans and British call this number a quadrillion, although the European name is a billiard.

The British called him the Swamp Fox.

These veterans could "grouse," as the British call it.

It was accordingly decided to make an attack on Platrand, or Waggon Hill, as the British call it.

What do you British call it?

However, the United States and European Nato allies have so far rebuffed French and British calls to contribute more actively.

This what the British call Uncle Sam Lease-Lend-Army, consists of thousands of American civilians-contractors, engineers, construction bosses, truck-drivers, and laborers.

This language echoes British calls for open borders but also EU insistence that nothing can be as smooth as EU membership.

A couple of doors away was a shop that sold jumpers and I thought: Why do the British call them jumpers?

Led by Andrew Pickens, Thomas Sumter, and Francis Marion whom the British called the Swamp Fox, they won many desperate fights.

Friction between Britain and Iran has increased because of a dispute over Iran's nuclear programme and British calls on Iran to respect human rights.

BERLIN -The United States and European Nato allies yesterday rebuffed French and British calls to contribute more actively to the air war in Libya.