Bath plug = tub stopper. Which I eventually discovered after an elaborate mime exercise and plenty of head scratching between me and the very helpful chap in Home Depot.

And it still makes me worried if a colleague says "I like your pants".

My husband's English and quite a few of these are wrong. I've never heard of a cupcake being called a fairy cake. Yet I had to explain what fairy bread was!

Fairy cake is right but what is fairy bread?

This is how I see a fairy cake (though I should point out, mine never look as elegant as these)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.bakinginspiration.com/recipes/large/MCD00021_500x356.jpg?1290516205

That's it exactly Books - butter icing and butterfly wings with hundreds and thousands (sprinkles to the Americans)

And as far I'm concerned, if it's not got the butterfly wings, then it's a bun. Like this http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/7/7/1278515929248/Fairy-cakes-006.jpg

My little sis was a menace for eating all my mum's hundreds and thousands. (I preferred those solid little silver ball things.)

I love British terms.