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British and American English

British: American:
1. anti-clockwise  counter-clockwise
2. autumn fall
3. car boot sale garage sale
4. caretaker janitor
5. cashier teller
6. chap guy
7. dustman garbage man
8. film movie
9. fire brigade fire department
10. football soccer
11. girl, lass girl
12. high street main street
13. holiday vacation
14. jumble sale yard sale
15. ladybird ladybug
16. loo bathroom, restroom
17. mum, mummy mom, mommy, ma
18. mate buddy
19. parcel package
20. phone box phone booth
21. pitch field
22. plaster band-aid
23. policeman police officer
24. post mail
25. postcode zip code
26. postman mailman
27. queue line
28. rucksack backpack
29. sellotape sticky tape, scotch tape
30. sideboards sideburns
31. solicitor lawyer, attorney
32. spot pimple
33. ice lolly popsicle
34. mobile phone cell phone
35. takeaway takeout
36. braces suspenders
37. fizzy drink soda pop
38. zebra crossing cross walk
39. crisps potato chips
40. tea towel/ tea cloth dish towel
41. dummy for baby pacifier
42. sweets candy
43. rubbish garbage (trash)
44. drawing-pin thumb tack
45. dustbin trash can
46. chemist’s drugstore/ pharmacy
47. railway railroad
48. off-license liquor store
49. diversion detour
50. flyover overpass
51. road surface pavement
52. parcel package
53. zed zee
54. curriculum vitae/ cv resume
55. solicitor attorney at law
56. caravan trailer
57. pocket money allowance
58. pram baby carriage
59. public toilet restroom
60. dustbin man garbage collector
61. cinema movie theater
62. pitch sports field
63. telly tv (television)
64. return ticket round-trip ticket
65. trolley shopping cart
66. bonnet hood
67. a full stop a period
68. an exclamation mark an exclamation point
69. round brackets parentheses
70. square brackets brackets
71. curly brackets curly braces

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