A small linguistic cry of confusion - help, USA-based friends!

[heliophile_oxon]

Well I thought I knew ... that when people in the USA say "yard work" they mean what we Brits call "gardening"

But what is the difference in the USA between yard work and gardening?

I have to translate, would you believe a sentence from USAnian to Brit-speak, that refers to doing "yard work or gardening" and one that refers to "digging in the garden

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[heliophile_oxon]

Aha, thank you for that - I feel pretty confident now that the intention of the questionnaire is to make sure that everybody who does do any kind of outdoor work - of whatever type - is going to tick yes, and avoid any possibility of people mistakenly under-reporting their physical exertion because they feel the question doesn't mean them ("I can't tick this one, because I don't do gardening I only do yard work" sort of thing, or vice versa "I only do gardening, somebody else does the yard work"). It's been extremely helpful being able to get these responses from a range of people - thank you so much!

Eh, I'm pretty bloody shocked too to learn there is no mandatory paid holiday time in the USA. And no mandatory pregnancy leave - afaik the only first-world country in the world not to have any! All of which is particularly close to home right now, with our shoot-ourselves-in-the-head brexit disaster going on, that I see a lot of our tory party apparently hell-bent on copying only what's bad from the USA (like gutting the NHS even more than they already have). We need to copy the best from you instead, like not hesitating to speak up! :-)