Along the same lines:

eggplant = aubergine (I saw this word in a few places in Scotland but don't know if that's only regional specific or the typical Brit name for eggplant)

As far as I know, the fruit known as the eggplant in the US is ALWAYS called the aubergine in the UK. My sister is a keen gardener, and has an advanced degree in horticulture, and she told me that she had never seen or heard the term "eggplant" until she visited the US.

However, when I search in the Oxford English Dictionary for "eggplant," they give several instances of the word "eggplant" in what I believe are British sources, from 1767 to 1861...

"EGGPLANT; A popular name for the Solanum esculentum, originally given to the white-fruited variety, but afterwards extended to that which bears the purple fruit or Aubergine.
1767 J. ABERCROMBIE Ev. Man own Gard. (1803) 102 The choicest kinds [of tender annuals] are the double balsams..ice-plant, egg-plant, etc. 1794 MARTYN Rousseau's Bot. xvi. 202 When this [its fruit] is white it has the name of Egg-Plant. 1847 MRS. SHERWOOD Life xv. 273 Soup made of a glutinous vegetable, and the egg-plant roasted before the fire. 1861 DELAMER Kitch. Gard. 125 There is the purple-fruited egg-plant, and the white-fruited egg-plant."

That's what the thing is called in Germany, too (aubergine).

Here's a couple farming ones

UK - US

corn - wheat
maize - corn
sweet corn/corn on the cob - corn ( the ear )

brambles - blackberries

This is called corn in the UK?

Yes - corn is one of those basic German or Old English words that goes back more than a thousand years. It means more than just wheat; any small hard grain (barleycorn, peppercorn etc.) is a corn. I assume the early English-speaking settlers in North America simply applied the word to the common native grain, maize.

An English (or German? etc?) person might say, "look at that cornfield", or field of corn, or whatever, even if they did not know whether the crop was barley, wheat or oats.

Yep - as in this one by Van Gogh - it's a wheat field.

http://www.artsforge.com/agallery/cornfield.html

(although as mentioned 'corn' could also be barley, etc - but not oats. Would have to be something with a small hard kernal).

ABY -- you really should visit Europe. The sky with clouds looks exactly as in that photo by Van Gogh (The Cornfield.)

That would be a helluva trip.

Rape (or oilseed rape as it's also called) is also a very old name for a plant.
It seems to be mainly called Canola over here.
My wife still finds it weird when we're driving through the british countryside and I'm going on about the beautiful yellow fields of rape!

sorry to be an awful bore but how about

UK: Solicitor = US: Attorney


Americans always look at me in a quizzical fashion when I say "I'm a Solicitor".

We should add them directly into the wiki.

oh and there are the house thingy names:

UK: car port US: port coucher (sp?)
UK: WC US: half bath (really? a HALF BATHROOM!! made me laugh out loud)
UK: detached house US:single family
UK: garden US:yard
UK:gardening US:yard work
UK:curtains US: drapes

A what? Are you talking about the little roof on legs under which one parks his car? That's a car port, and they can be bought and delivered for around $600.