| British | American | Definition |
| anywhere | any place | in, to or at any place, when it is not important or does not matter where |
| barman/barmaid/barperson | bartender | a person whose job is to serve alcoholic drinks at a bar |
| biscuit (dry) | cookie | a small flat thin crisp cake that is sweet and found in many shapes, eaten widely |
| bookshop | bookstore | a shop where mainly books are sold |
| carrier bag | shopping bag | a bag one is given in a shop to keep the things one has bought |
| certainly | sure | without fail; true |
| cinema (hall) | movie house/movie theater | a building where films (moving picture) are shown |
| class/form | grade | a group of students, with almost equal levels of understanding, taught together in a school |
| clever | smart | (of a person or animal) having the quality of being quick at thinking good; intelligent |
| director | president | the head or chief of a large business establishment |
| doctor | physician | a qualified medical person who treats sick people with medicine (not by operating) |
| dynamo | generator | a machine that changes other forms of energy directly into electricity |
| essay | report/paper/essay | a piece of written prose about three thousand words submitted by a student |
| examination/(in short) exam | test | a number of questions, problems, etc. given to a person to find out his/her cleverness or knowledge |
| film | movie | motion/moving pictures |
| 1st year/first year undergraduate | freshman | a student in his/her first year of a degree course at a university |
| flat | apartment | (apart from other meanings) a group of room or a portion in a large building rented or bought by a person or a family |
| government | administration | the method or system of ruling a country; the people who rule a country |
| homework | assignment | lessons or work given to students to do or learn at home |
| Ill | sick | (of people and animals) not feeling well; suffering from a disease |
| lavatory/toilet | bathroom/restroom/wash room | a seat-like bowl fixed to the floor of a room used for getting rid of a person’s body solid waste matter (toilet seat) |
| lecturer | assistant professor | the different teaching ranks at a college or university |
| long essay/paper | thesis | a long piece of written prose usually about ten thousand words on a particular subject (topic) submitted by a student for a higher university degree |
| marks | grades | the points given after judging a student’s performance in an examination |
| phone-in (programme) | call-in (program) | a radio or TV programme in which people make telephone or cell phone calls to participate in the programme when it is going on in the studio (live programme) |
| postcode | zip code | a set of letters (letters of alphabet – A B C D E …) and numbers or only numbers that indicate a particular place, written along with the address on letters, etc. for easy and quick identification and delivery |
| postman | mailman/mail carrier | a person whose job is to collect and deliver the letters, messages, parcels, etc. the are sent by post |
| primary school | elementary school | a school for children between five and eleven or thirteen years old |
| Shop | store | a place where a person can buy things |
June 11, 2011
English UK vs US
