Today's Americanism: the candy and cookie in the trash can

I find lots of Americanisms when Americans comment on forums.

American English - British English

baggage - luggage
hood (of car) - bonnet
trunk - car boot
candy - sweet / dessert
cookie - biscuit
convenience store - corner shop
cop - police / bobby / Mr Plod
correction officer - prison officer / prison guard
drug store - chemist / pharmacy
elementary school - junior school
eraser - rubber
first floor - ground floor
second floor - first floor (and so on)
garbage - rubbish
IRA - tax office / inland revenue/ income tax office
Kleenex - paper hankie(s) / tissues
Mom - Mum /mother
on consignment - second hand shop / sale or return shop
pavement - tarmac / road / roadway / motorway
sidewalk - pavement
Pop - Dad/father
private school - public school (one of the grander and more expensive private schools, originally
rubber - Durex, condom
sticking plaster - Elastoplast (brand name)
sticky tape - Sellotape (brand name)
church schools which were later opened to the fee paying public)
public school - state school, council school
rookie - fresher (college/uni) / novice
senator - member of Parliament / MP
store - shop
take out - take away
thrift store - charity shop
trash can - dustbin / litter bin / rubbish bin / waste paper basket / wheelie bin
truck - lorry
I guess - I suppose / I think
I figure - I guess / I presume
go figure - how absurd / whatever / who'd have known/ who'd have guessed/ who knows why / well I never / well, what do you know / live and learn
vacation - holiday
WTF - what the hell

So an American might say:
There's candy and cookies in the trash can.
A British person would say:
There's sweets and biscuits in the litter bin.

Please send me more suggestions. Polite ones!
Angela Lansbury, author, travel writer and photographer, language teacher, speaker

Americanisms

Two countries divided by a common language. Here are some of today's discoveries:
Foods from an article on food on a stick: ice lollies (known as popsicles in the US) and lollipops (also known as suckers and hard candy). Watch out for mistake in stationery and drug stores.

USA -UK
bobby pin - kirby grip
candy - sugar
cookie - biscuit (the US version is often large size and thick)
diaper - nappy
drug store / pharmacy - chemist
eraser - rubber
hard candy - lollipops
jelly - jam
Jello (brand name) - jelly
Kleenex - paper tissues / paper hankies
mom - mum
muffin - cup cake
pants - trousers
panty hose - tights
pavement - roadway / road surface / Tarmac
popsicles - ice lollies
roller coaster - big dipper
rubber - condom
sidewalk - pavement
soother/teether - dummy
suckers - lollipops
temple (Jewish) - synagogue
underpants - pants

Angela Lansbury, author and speaker (public speaking and radio), has lived in Rockville, Maryland and Connecticut, USA; London, England; and Singapore.