The list of words with different meanings in American and British English goes on …
British American
timetable schedule
tin can
trousers pants
underground (train) subway
zip zipper
I don’t use the word ‘zipper’, but I often use both ‘timetable’ and ‘schedule’, and ‘tin’ and ‘can’. ‘Pants’ for me means ‘underwear’, so I would never use it to mean ‘trousers’! And in British English a ‘subway’ is a tunnel that people can walk through to go under a street!
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