The best answer to this question is how the American HP fandom somehow got it in their heads that British people don't say "jeans" and in the UK they're called "denims"https://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1295530510857502720 …
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And they were all being like "You don't have to translate for our sake, we're Harry Potter fans, we speak the Queen's English" and he was still like "what"
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I guess this goes up there with how I learned from you that when SWMNBN writes that a character said "erm" they mean "um", and I adopted saying "urrrm" from the books and did so from like age 11 until honestly still now
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Admittedly, after having learned the British meaning of terms like "jumper" and "trainer" it would be fair for an American to assume that every article of clothing has some kind of weird name across the pond
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