I spent a year living in the UK and these are the British slang words I've permanently added to my vocabulary

I'm enjoying a cuppa at my desk as I write this.Zoe Ettinger

• In the year I spent living in London, I picked up some British slang words that I still find myself using back home in New York.
• Wonky, dodgy, and many others have become mainstays in my vocabulary.
• I've also started referring to French fries as "chips" just like my British counterparts.
• The Brits have so many slang words that are a part of their everyday speech that some hardly seem like slang at all.

I lived in the UK for just over a year, and moved back to New York at the start of this year. There are a few things I miss about living across the pond, and one has to be the British language. Yes, I know it's still English — I'm talking about their slang words.

The British have a way of using words to describe things that are often indescribable. For example, when a painting is just slightly off-kilter on a wall, don't you wish there was a word for that? Well, the Brits have one: "wonky."

Though I may no longer live there, I've brought a bit of London back home with me in my language.