Professional Documents
Culture Documents
American British
American British
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lawyer soliciter
leather neck (sl. US Marine) jollies (sl. Royal Marines)
legal holiday +bank holiday
leveling levelling
license licence (n.; v.= license)
line que
lining up queueing
lodgment lodgement
long distance (telephone) trunk call
looney dottie (sl.)
loot boodle, swag (sl.)
luggage +baggage
luster lustre
mail post
mail letter
mailbox postbox or pillar box
mailman +postman
maneuver manoeuvre
marvelous marvellous
men's room gents (sl.)
messy shabby
meter (unit) metre
meter (as in voltmeter) meter
mist damp
mold mould
molder moulder
molt moult
mom (mother) mum
movie +film
movie theater +cinema
municipal judge magistrate
neighbor neighbour
newsstand kiosk
notary public commisioner of oaths
nuts (sl. crazy) dotty (sl.)
offense offence
orchestra seat stall
organize organise
overdraw (an account) overdraft
overpass (highway) flyover
pad (sl. house) digs (sl.)
pal (sl. friend) +fellow, chap (sl.)
pants +trousers
paralyze >paralyse
parking lot motor park
penny (cent) pence
picked up (arrested) nicked (sl.)
pharmiscist chemist
phone booth call box
phony phoney
photo flash flashlight
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plain moor
plow plough
practice practise (v.; n.= practice)
pretense pretence
program programme
pulled up drew up
radio wireless
railroad car railroad carriage
rain cape ulster
raincoat mackintosh (or mac sl.)
research scientist boffin (sl.)
red hair ginger hair (sl.)
restroom +lavatory
rigor rigour
root beer ginger beer
rubber boots +gum boots
rubbers +galoshes
rumble seat dickey seat (sl.)
savor savour
sawed sawn
scallion spring onion
schedule (SKED-JEWL) scedule (SHED-DUAL)
Scotch tape celotape
scratch pad scribbling block
second floor first floor
sepulcher sepulchre
set the table lay the table
sewers drains
sidewalk path or footpath
shoes boots
shoeshine boy bootblack
shorts (underwear) pants
show up (sl. arrive) pop in (sl.)
shower +shower bath
smelled smelt
smolder smoulder
somber sombre
space heater electric fire
speakeasy (sl.) off licence (sl.)
specter spectre
speedboat engine boat
stand (law court) dock
station wagon estate car
stool pigeon (sl. informer) grass (sl.)
store +shop
story (as in: three story) storey
streaked with... shot through with...
streetcar tram
subway underground
subway station tube station
suspenders braces
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