By Gabriel Osoba

American English (AmE)         British English (BrE)

Hood                                                   bonnet

high school                                     secondary school

period                                                fullstop

course                                                 module

drunk driving                                drink driving

can                                                           tin

windshield                                      windscreen

mail                                                       post

fall                                                      autumn

muffler                                               silencer

corn                                                     maize

potato chips                                       crisps

fender                                                bumper

crazy                                                     mad

wing mirrors                                 side mirrors

cookie                                                 biscuit

overpass                                            flyover

Some words mean different things in the two varieties of English. Examples are:

Mean: American English – nasty guy, bad humoured

British English  -tight fisted , not generous

Rubber: American English (informal) – a condom (male contraceptive)

British English – tool used to erase pencil marks from paper