This document compares terms used in British and American English, providing different words used to describe similar concepts in each dialect. It lists pairs of terms like biscuits and chips, cookies and fries, crisps and corn that have different names in British versus American English as well as objects like trucks, gas stations, elevators, movies, and money. The overall message is that while the dialects use different words, both British and American English speakers understand the underlying concepts.

1. British or American English?

2. Biscuits and chips Cookies and (French) fries

3. Crisps and corn Chips and maize

4. sweets A lorry candies A truck

5. The motorway and a petrol station The highway and a gas station

6. The sidewalk and a fire truck The pavement and a fire engine

7. A crosswalk Apartments A zebra crossing Flats

8. A car park and the shops A parking lot and the stores

9. The lift The bill The elevator The check

10. A film A cinema A movie A movie theatre

11. luggage A flashlight baggage A torch

12. The subway The fall The underground The autumn

13. The mail, the mailman A thumb stack The post, the postman A drawing pin

14. The curtains The bonnet The drapes The hood

15. A banknote A bill!!

16. But we all understandMONEY!!!!!