What are some American words that other nationalities find weird?

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I was curious to know what people from other countries thought about some of the words we use here in America.

My sister went down to Mexico once and they wouldn't leave her alone for using "wicked cool". They just kept calling her Boston XD
 
Here are a list of words I imagine would be foreign.

-Bush, as in the shrubbery, because people expect we mean the president.
-"racism".
-"sexism"
-sophomore
-soda

By the way, 'wicked' is a term used almost expressly in the New England states. I was born and bred in New Hampshire, so this adjective is one I know well. :) Your friend's word choice isn't representative of her nationality, but rather her section of the country.
 
When I was an exchange student in Mexico, I spoke Spanish, but I kept translating idioms from the U.S. into Spanish.

My mom grew up on a farm and I live in a somewhat countrified part of the South, so I use a lot of animal idioms, like "pouring sand down a rat hole," "parking lot vulture," stuff like that.

They were like, whaaaa? I'd tell them about how there were deer wandering around the yard and coyotes and foxes and eagles and stuff and they were like, whaaaaa?

They reacted like I was living in some crazy zoo or something, like the Wild Kingdom popped outta the TV.

Plus, they thought it was HILARIOUS when I'd say "horrible" in Spanish because they said I sounded like this TV character on this goofy show where it was a classroom full of adults playing little kids and one would say "horr-iiiiiiii-ble!" and then I saw it and I totally saw what they were talking about.
 
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