British/English Dictionary ...commonly used words - brit-ified :) by BjAuth

AMERICAN ENGLISH Apartment Flat Appetizer Starter ATM Cash point Band-aid Plaster Bang (hair) Fringe Bathrobe Dressing gown Bills (money) Notes Burner Hob Candy Sweet Cart (shopping) Trolley Cash register Till Cell phone Mobile phone Check Bill Check Cheque Chips (potato) Crisps Closet Cupboard or wardrobe (bedroom) Comforter Duvet Cookie Biscuit Costume party Fancy dress party Cotton candy Candyfloss Couch Sofa/settee Cordial Squash Crib Cot Diversion Detour Drapes Curtains Drugstore Chemist Dumpster Skip Elevator Lift Eraser Rubber or eraser Fall Autumn Faucet Tap Flashlight Torch Flatware or silverware Cutlery Freeway Motorway Garbage/trash Rubbish Gas Petrol Gas pedal Accelerator Grade (school) Year/form (e.g. first form) Gum Glue Gumshoes Plimsolls High school Secondary school Hood (of car) Bonnet Jell-O Jelly Jelly Jam Jellyroll Swiss roll License plate Number plate Mall Shopping centre Mail Post Mailbox Letterbox Molasses Treacle Mom Mum Movie Film Movies Cinema Pants Trousers Pantyhose Tights Parking brake Handbrake Parking lot Car park Period Full stop Popsicle Ice loll Purse Handbag Public holiday Bank holiday Range or stove Oven Realtor Estate agent Restroom Toilet/loo Rubber boots Wellington boots Schedule Timetable Scotch tape Sell tape (or) Sellotape Sherbet Sorbet Sidewalk Pavement Sneakers Trainers Soccer Football Soda/pop Fizzy drink Subway Underground/Tube Sweater Jumper Take out Take away Teller Cashier Thumbtack Drawing pin Trashcan Dustbin Trunk (car) Boot Vacation Holiday Vacuum cleaner Hover VCR Video recorder Vest Waistcoat Washcloth Flannel Windshield Windscreen Yard Garden Zip code Postcode

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