A - E F - J K - O P - T U - Z
American English | British English |
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F | |
face cloth | flannel |
fall, autumn | autumn |
faucet | tap |
favorite | favourite |
fender | wing |
field hockey | hockey |
fields day | sports day |
to fill out | to fill in |
fire department | fire brigade |
first floor | ground floor |
fish-sticks | fish-fingers |
flavor | flavour |
flight attendant | air hostess |
freeway | motorway |
freight train | goods train |
French fries | chips |
from Monday to Friday from Monday through Friday (all of Friday is included) |
from Monday to Friday |
front desk | reception |
frosting | icing |
funeral director | undertaker |
G | |
game | match |
garbage | rubbish |
garbage can | bin, dustbin |
gas | petrol |
gas pedal, accelerator | accelerator |
gas station | filling station |
gear shift | gear lever |
generator | dynamo |
German shepherd | alsatian |
grade (school levels 1st - 12th) class (top 4 levels 9th - 12th = freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) |
class, form |
grade school | primary school |
ground | earth |
ground wire | earth wire |
to guess | to suppose, to think |
H | |
hairdresser (women) | hairdresser |
ham | gammon |
hamburger meat, ground beef | mince meat |
harbor | harbour |
heavy cream | double cream |
high school | secondary school, grammar school |
highway | main road |
hockey | ice-hockey |
home, at home | at home |
hood | bonnet |
human resources department | personnel department |
humor | humour |
I | |
to inquire | to enquire |
inquiry | enquiry |
instalment plan | hire purchase |
intermission | interval |
intersection (city or country) | crossroads |
interstate | motorway |
inventory | stock |
J | |
jail | prison |
janitor | caretaker |
jelly (no pieces in it) | jam |
jewelery | jewellery |
John Doe | Joe Bloggs |
joint | roast |
jump rope | skipping rope |