phrases - What's the correct term for potato chips?


In school I learned to say 'crisps' but I don't want to mix it with french fries. So what's the correct term for potato chips, and what synonyms are there?



Answer



Wikipedia has a nice list of Terms at the beginning of their article:



Potato chips (known as crisps in British and Hiberno English; either chips or wafers in Indian English; and chips in American, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Singapore, South African, and Jamaican English) ...



They chose potato chips as the article's lemma, which seems to be the least ambiguous term in common use.


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