US v UK English - an update

Many thanks to all those of you who have suggested US/UK pairs. As most of you have probably worked out, this is a totally idiosyncratic and non-scientific competition, so I am not going to make any promises only that I will look at as many pairs as I can when I get round to it and if I feel like it.

One thing that some of the comments made me realise, is that I may not be the expert on standard US English I think I am. Because we get bombarded with Hollywood movies, TV sitcoms and computer manuals we tend to think that we know what words US English uses. But the fact that a word or term gets used frequently does not make it standard. There are, for example, plenty of UK uses and pronunciations which are common but far from standard. I do want to make at least a stab at comparing like with like, so I would appreciate if US readers would put me right when I get it right.