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A House Called Awful End: Philip Ardagh: Novel Barmy in Wonderland* Angel Cake: P. G. Wodehouse: Novel The Whale* Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Herman Melville: Novel Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody* Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody: Michael Gerber: The book is a parody of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling ...
Lists of English words; List of works with different titles in the United Kingdom and United States; Pseudo-anglicism; Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
The British band Queen released an album called At the Beeb in the UK and it had to be called "At the BBC" for US release. Belisha beacon orange ball, containing a flashing light or now sometimes surrounded by a flashing disc of LEDs , mounted on a post at each end of a zebra crossing (q.v.); named after the UK Minister of Transport Leslie Hore ...
baby transport vehicle also called (UK) pushchair (US: stroller) any of various light cart or cars ("a golf buggy") (slang) an automobile (orig. US) see baby transport for details see also dune buggy: 4-wheeled horse-drawn lightweight carriage baby transport vehicle also called (US) baby carriage (UK: pram)
stabiliser (UK), stabilizer (US & UK) (pl.) additional wheels to help learner cyclists (US: training wheels) something that stabilises, as stabilizer (aircraft) or stabilizer (chemistry) stall (pl.) front seats in a theatre (US: orchestra) compartment for an animal in a barn a booth or counter (as in a marketplace) seat in a church's choir
UK, police traffic car, from the now largely obsolete historical colour-scheme – an overall white vehicle, with a longitudinal red, or red and yellow, stripe on each side. Still used for the metropolitan police in London. Silver cars with a red stripe down the side. Jern Norwegian shortening of håndjern meaning handcuffs. Jjapsae
This is to be contrasted with the red book (1984) and blue book (1988) versions of ITU-T Recommendations. Yellow Book Transport Service (YBTS), the transport-layer protocol of the UK Coloured Book protocols; Yellow Book, a name for the Government Auditing Standards, standards relating to audits of governments in the United States, issued by the ...
Five-and-dime, dime store, a store selling cheap merchandise; a dime a dozen, so abundant as to be worth little (UK: ten a penny); on a dime, in a small space ("turn on a dime", UK: turn on a sixpence) or immediately ("stop on a dime", UK: stop on a sixpence); nickel-and-dime, originally an adjective meaning "involving small amounts of money ...