Charity shops online and language

If you want to buy bargain or contribute to charity here are some sites and words to look for:

UK
Words to look for: charity shop; end of line; sales; sale or return; second hand.

Barnados
Cancer Research
Macmillan (nurses)
Oxfam
RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)
St Lukes (hospices)

USA
Words to look for: consignment store; on consignment; Goodwill; thrift.

Goodwill - a company which provides employment for those with handicaps and produces goods to sell in shops and on line.
goodwill.org

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author, speaker.

American and British English - auto to yard

American - British

auto /automobile - car
bus (as in Greyhound bus, single decker long distance) - coach
candy - sweets / confectionary
closet - cupboard
consignment - second hand sale or return store, where donor and shop share profits
comforter - duvet (bedding)
diaper - nappy
drug store - chemist
eraser - rubber
fall - autumn
hack - tip
hood - bonnet (car)
hooker - prostitute / street walker
hose - stockings / tights
Jello (brand name) -  jelly
jelly - jam
line - queue
pavement - tarmac / roadway
pickup / pickup truck - HGV, trailer ?
program - programme (theatre)
program - program (computer)
purse - bag (lady's handbag)
rubber - condom / Durex
Run - ladder (in stockings / tights)
Kleenex/tissues - paper hankies (Kleenex is a brand name so I have given it a capital letter)
sidewalk - pavement
subway - underground / London tube
store - shop
story - storey (level of building)
story - story (tale in book)
thrift store (cheap shop) - charity shop
truck - lorry
trunk - boot (car)
tuxedo - man's formal jacket with no tails, named after place where tails were cut off - dinner jacket
wallet / coin purse - purse
yard - garden

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker and author.