British English – American English – Tnpsc General English Questions
9. BRITISH ENGLISH – AMERICAN ENGLISH
British English American English
Aeroplane airplane
angry mad
Anywhere anyplace
autumn Fall
About face about turn
aerial antenna
Aesthetic esthetic
ageing aging
Aluminium aluminum
analyse analyze
Anticlockwise counterclockwise
archaeology archeology
Argument argument
axe ax
Biscuit cookie
bonnet (of a car) hood
Book stall stand
boot (of a car) trunk
Braces suspenders
blinkers blinders
Bar of chocolate candy bar
break recess
Barrister attorney
behaviour behavior
Bicentenary bicentennial
bookings reservations
Caretaker janitor
carriage car
Chemist’s shop drugstore
chemist druggist
Chip fries
cinema house movie theatre
Cloak room check room
coffin casket
Corn grain
corridor passage
Cot crib
cotton thread
Crematorium crematory
Crisps potato chips
Cross road intersection
Currency note bill
Cute chick
Cyclist cycler
Cranky bad tempered
Confectioners candy store
Cannon carrom (billiards)
Clothes peg clothes pin
Cornflour corn starch
Camp bed cot
Candyfloss cotton candy
Caravan motor home
Cooker oven, stove
Casualty emergency room
Car park parking lot
Curriculum vitae resume
Consultant specialist
cotton reel spool
Deal in handle
Dialling code area code
Dressing table dresser, vanity table
Draughts checkers
De-ice deforest
Dipped headlights low beams (car)
Drawing pin thump tack
Defence defense
Dessert/sweet dessert
Dialogue dialog/dialogue
Diversion detour
Doughnut donut
Elastopast band aid
Engine driver locomotive engineer
Exercise book composition book
Excited Bold, impudent
Eccentric bad tempered
Enrol enroll
Estate car station wagon
Film movie
First floor second floor
Flat apartment
Fortnight two weeks
Full stop period
Fly-post fly-over
Foot stool hassock
Firefly lightning bug
Fibre fiber
Fitting fixtures
Flyover overpass
Free phone toll free
Frock dress
Full stop period
Garden party lawn party
Goods train freight train
Ground floor first floor
Guard (passenger train) conductor
Guard (goods train) brake man
Grill broil
Goose pimples goose bumps
Gases gasses
Gauge gage
Goal jail
Goods train freight train
Grey gray
Grill broiler
Ground floor first floor
Hand bag purse
Hoardings billboard
Holidays Vacation
Harbour harbor
Hire rent
Hoarding bill board
Hob stove
Holiday vacation
Ill sick
Icing frosting
Instalment installment
Jam jelly
Jug pitcher
Jacket potato baked potato
Jelly jello
Jewellery jewlry
Judgement judgment
Jumper sweater
Kennel dog house
Lift elevator
Lorry truck
Larder pantry
Level crossing grade crossing
Leader editorial
Lager beer
Launderette laundromat
Licence license
Lie in sleep in
Litre liter
Mad crazy
Main road highway
Main line trunkline
Maize corn
Mean stingy
Motorcar automobile
Marquee tent
Marvellous marvelous
Maths math
Medieval medieval
Mementoes mementos
Memorise memorize
Metre meter
Mobile phone cell phone
Motorway mom
Nappy diaper
Nib penpoint
Number engaged line busy
Nativity scene creche
Normality normalcy
Neighbour neighbor
Nil zero
Number plate license plate
Odour odor
Omelette omelet
Paraffin kerosene
Pavement sidewalk
Pedestrian crossing crosswalk
Petrol gas, gasoline
Police constable patrol man
Post mail
Post man mail man
Prison penitentiary
Public prosecutor district attorney
Public convenience comfort station
Public toilet rest room
Puncture flat
Post code pin code
Push car stroller
Promenade broadwalk
Put through connect(phone)
Pudding, sweet dessert
Primary school elementary school
Pinafore dress jumber
Public school prep-school
Peadiatric pediatric
Pitch fiald(sports)
Plaster band aid
Plough plow
Porridge oatmeal
Postal code zip code
Practise(verb) practice
Pram baby carriage
Param stroller
Pretence pretense
Programme program
Queue line
Railway rail road
Return ticket round-trip-ticket
Rise raise
Rubber eraser
Rubbish garbage, trash
Ring up call
Round about traffic circle
Rancour rancor
Read study(verb)
Reverse charges call collect
Rumour rumor
Shoe-lace shoe-string
Shop store
shop assistant clerk
shop walker floor walker
single ticket one-way-ticket
solicitor, barrister barrister
stand for office run
station master station agent
street beggar pan holder
stupid dumb
subway underpass
sun rise sun up
sun set sun down
sweets candy
skipping rope jump rope
sellotape scotch tape
secateurs pruning shears
skillet frying pan
sports man athlete
saloon sedan
saviour savior
serviette napkin
silencer muffler
skilful skillful
spanner wrench
speciality specialty
starters appetizers
taxi cab
terminus terminal
timber lumber
time table schedule
tin can
torch flash light
trousers pants
tube(underground) subway
tick checkmark
tissues kleenix
teat nipple(baby bottle)
tights panty house
tail back traffic jam
traffic light stop light
tariffs rates, prices
telephone box telephone booth
theatre theater
trinned canned
toilet rest room
trainers sneakers
tyre tire
veranda porch
vest waistcoat
visiting card calling card
vapour vapor
water tap faucet
wind screen wind shield
working class blue collar
washing laundry
waist coat vest
wardrobe closet
wollen woolen
yoghurt yougurt
zip zipper
zebra crossing cross walk
chopping board cutting board
dustbin garbage
power cut power outage
return journey roundtrip
vacuum flask vaccum bottle
watch strap watch band
Hints : American English use-ize instead ise only in verbs derived from Nouns or Adjectives. Eg. Modern 🡪 Modernize. But the following words are not derivatives. So both British English and American English use only -ise.
Replace the underlined word with its equivalent American English word
1. The aeroplane skipped off the runway.
Answer : aircraft
2. Trekkers pitch their tents anywhere which is convenient.
Answer : anyplace
3. Leaves turn brown in autumn.
Answer : fall
4. Children prefer cream biscuits to butter biscuits.
Answer : cookies
5. Horses have blinkers to have their eyes ahead.
Answer : blinders
6. The caretaker of the museum is prompt in his duties.
Answer : janitor
7. Cinema houses are usually houseful at a new release.
Answer : movie theatre
8. I found a wallet with credit cards and cash on the corridor.
Answer : passage
9. The cyclist is practising every morning for the race up the mountains.
Answer : cycler
10. Add a tablespoon of cornflour to thicken the soup.
Answer : corn starch
11. We hired a caravan on our holiday trip.
Answer : motor home
12. His curriculum vitae was so impressive that he was called for an interview at once.
Answer : resume
13. The dressing table in our adjacent room in the hostel has the latest facial creams and beauty soaps.
Answer : vanity table
14. The meat from the freezer has to be de-iced before cooking.
Answer : de-frosted
15. We shall be facing our semester exams in a fortninght.
Answer : two weeks
16. Little Tommy needed a footstool to have a peep through the window.
Answer : hassock
17. The whole place from the portals to the house is well-lit for the garden party in this evening.
Answer : lawn party
18. The grilled fish was topped with celery and tomato slices before it was served.
Answer : broiled
19. The hoardings by the beach were blown away by the hurricane.
Answer : billboards, tornado
20. The larder which was full in the morning was empty after the party.
Answer : pantry
21. Empty lager cans were found floating on the waters as the holiday cruise sailed away.
Answer : beer
22. I found my manager’s number engaged for a long time when I tried to contract him.
Answer : line busy
23. The murderer had doused the victim with petrol before setting him on fire.
Answer : gasoline
24. The police constable stopped the two youths on bike for not wearing their helmets.
Answer : patrol man
25. Taking a walk down the promenade with the sea breeze blowing through your hair in the early hourse is a please.
Answer : broadwalk
26. My father has booked three return tickets on train for our holiday this December.
Answer : round-trip tickets, vacation
27. Burning rubbish in open yards causes air pollution.
Answer : garbage / trash
28. I saw smiles when I placed a currency note in the street beggar’s tattered hat.
Answer : bill, panhandler
29. At sunrise and at sunset, beautiful hues cover the sky.
Answer : sunup, sundown
30. The sportsman with his spikes and sportsuit was all set for the race.
Answer : athlete
31. I could see the cars speeding on the flyover.
Answer : overpass
32. Brazilian youth are the best fans in football.
Answer : soccer
33. The baby stained her frock with chocolate.
Answer : dress
34. My grandma loves fish cooked on the grill.
Answer : broiler
35. The strong wind blew away the hoardings at the entrance of the arch.
Answer : billboard
36. The manager hired a taxi to be in time to board the flight.
Answer : rented
37. Willy was too ill to attend class as he was down with measles.
Answer : sick
38. Mun grew angry seeing little Bob’s face all smeared up with jam.
Answer : mad, jelly
39. Jacked potato with roasted chicken topped with cheese will be yummy.
Answer : baked potato
40. Dressed in jumpers, the boys went skating on the frozen lake.
Answer : sweaters
41. Trekkers lie in tents or sleeping bags at night.
Answer : sleep in
42. The accident on the motorway held up the traffic for an hour.
Answer : highway
43. The car thieves managed to escape after changing the number plate.
Answer : license plate
44. There was nil attendance due to the strike.
Answer : zero
45. My aunt took her baby in a pram for a stroll in the park.
Answer : baby carriage.