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I completely understand. Americans use the same alphabet but the language is often very different. When I stepped off the plane after arriving in the USA the very first words I heard were when I passed by someone walking in the opposite direction who stopped and said "Man , that button gave me a buzz". The woman I was with explained that I was wearing a badge that had a hologram image and that the movement of the image surprised the fellow and made him a little confused. Buttons were the roundels we fastened coats: my coat was fastened with a zip and a buzz was something that a buzzer produced and I most definitely did not have anything with me that was buzzing.