American English British English

apartment (flat: singled floored

Balcony dress circle

bar pub

barber shop (men) hairdresser

bill note

billfold wallet

bookstore bookshop

to broil to grill

brown bread wholemeal bread

buddy mate

bug insect

bulletin board notice board

Busy engaged

Can tin

candy store sweet shop

Catalog catalogue

cellular, cell mobile (phone)

Center centre

Check cheque, bill

Closet cupboard, wardrobe

Color colour

Commercial advertisement

Congress parliament

Cookie biscuit

Cozy cosy

a deck of cards a pack of cards

Detour diversion

Dialog dialogue

Downtown town centre

Draft draught

Drugstore chemist's shop

elementary school primary school

Elevator lift
emergency room casualty department

eraser rubber

faucet tap

favorite favourite

fields day sports day

to fill out to fill in

first floor ground floor

flavor flavour

flight attendant air hostess

freight train goods train

French fries chips

front desk reception

frosting icing

game match

garbage rubbish

garbage can bin, dustbin

gas petrol

grade (school levels 1st - 12th)

grade school primary school

ground earth

harbor harbour

high school secondary school, grammar school

highway main road

human resources department personnel department

humor humour

inquiry enquiry

instalment plan hire purchase

intermission interval

intersection (city or country) crossroads

interstate motorway

inventory stock

jail prison

janitor caretaker

jelly (no pieces in it) jam

kerosene/kerosine paraffin

kilometer kilometre

Kleenex tissue

labor labour

lawyer solicitor, barrister

laid off redundant

leash lead

legal holiday bank holiday

to line up to queue

liter litre

mail post

main street high street

math maths

mom mum

motor (fuel-burning or electrical devices) engine

motorcycle motorbike

movie theater cinema

nauseated ill

neighbor neighbour

newsstand bookstall

notebook exercise book

overpass flyover

overtime extra time

package packet

parking lot car park

pavement road surface

pay raise pay rise

photoflash flashlight

pin badge

pitcher jug

potato chips crisps

powdered sugar icing sugar

president (business) managing director

prime rate base rate

program programme

public school state school

quiz test

quotation marks inverted commas, quotation marks

railroad railway

raincoat mackintosh

raisin sultana

regular normal

to rent to hire

report card school report

reservation booking

resume curriculum vitae

to give s.b. a ride to give s.b. a lift

roast joint

running shoes trainers

salary cut wage cut

sales clerk shop assistant

Santa Claus Father Christmas

schedule timetable

second floor first floor

semester term

to set the table to lay the table

shot injection, jab

sidewalk pavement

silverware cutlery

skillet frying pan

sled sledge

sneakers trainers

soccer football

social security number national insurance number

station wagon van

steering wheel driving wheel

stingy mean

stock share
stop lights traffic lights

store shop

story storey

stove cooker

streetcar tram

student pupil

subway underground, tube

superstore store

suspenders braces

sweater cardigan

tag label

Theater theatre

Thread cotton

tire tyre

traffic circle, rotary roundabout

traveled travelled

trunk boot

turn signal indicator

turtle tortoise

turtle neck polo neck

tux, tuxedo dinner jacket

two weeks fortnight

underpass subway

vacation holiday

windshield windscreen

yard garden

zip code post code

zipper zip