In the UK there are sales and specials in the shops this time of year. One of these specials is a 2 for 1 offer known as ‘Buy One, Get one Free‘, or BOGOF.
This is a little tongue in cheek because the term “Bog off” is a playful version of “Fuck off“. Reserved for your kids pre-moving out age.
Then “Fuck off” is perfectly acceptable.
Anyway, in America they have the same offer, but it’s called BOGO.
So you ‘Buy One, Get One‘. Isn’t that just ‘Buy one‘?
I mean, if I buy a car, I get a car. That’s what buying something is…isn’t it?
So why leave out the word’ Free‘? It’s not like America doesn’t like that word.
Well, except maybe ‘sugar-free’
Head In A Blender 
As every, we are two nations divided by a common language.
I kept ranting for years about Microsoft’s English(International) language setting. 🙂
There is English. And then there’s American.
That’s a baffling one that I’ve been up against ever since I got here.
“Speak American!”.
I don’t have the strength to point out that American isn’t a language. Also, did you know a lot of people in Vegas speak ‘Mexican’?
(shakes head slowly)
As long as its free then I am happy lmao
Because it’s America and America has to be different than everyone else 😉
Or… Or… Maybe it’s the UK that’s different!
(whispers) It’s America.
I saw this funny picture on the internet that compared the USA to the rest of the world and I think everything about it was different except for driving on the right side of the road. The U.K. is the odd one out on that one. 😂
Yeah, we’re in the minority there! #correctsideoftheroad
So the rest of the world is wrong and the U.K. is correct? I see how it is. XD
Yep.
They call that British pomposity 😉