The British-to-American Dictionary
 

I find it amusing how Brits and Yanks both speak English yet have so many different ways of expressing the same meaning.

Example:

What other phrases are commonly used by the two groups and interchangeable?

Mobile phone = cell phone.

Lorrie = Truck

aluminium = aluminum.

Pavement=Sidewalk

chips = fries

Ok, these are the obvious ones. Someone come in here and give us the cool ones.

Edit: Do you guys call your undies pants? I was watching coupling and they had a big pants discussion and it took me a little bit to get that they were referring to underwear.

They're knickers over there, aren't they... and pants are trousers?

Knickers = Womens underwear
Pants / Underpants = Mens underwear
Trousers = Trousers

:)

Autumn - Fall
Advert - Commecial
Jam - Jelly (right?)
Bin - Garbage can
Rubbish - Garbage
Settee - Couch.

Here, jam is more easily spreadable than jelly. Jelly is kind of...more like jello in its consistency I guess. Jam can drip everywhere...it's not really gelatinous. Then you got preserves which is jelly with **** in it.