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Words that are quite different between Canada and the UK

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I'll start with these lame ones:

Loo (washroom)
Lift (elevator)
Wuss

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Fag

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Bonnet
Boot

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Torch

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Wanker

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Rubber

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Cottaging.

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Fanny

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coke

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trunk

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Buy the book

Divided by a common language

It got pages and pages on this.......

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Common sense

:p

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Fortnight

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Shag (dramatically different meaning on either side of the pond). If a young man in the US (esp the South) picked up his date and told her father they were going shagging he would likely be wished well by her father.

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Pants and vest