IV
American and English Today
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The Two Vocabularies—By way of preliminary to an examination of the American of today I offer a brief list of terms in common use that differ in American and English. Here are 200 of them, all chosen from the simplest colloquial vocabularies and without any attempt at plan or completeness:
| American | English |
| ash-can | dust-bin |
| baby-carriage | pram |
| backyard | garden |
| baggage-car | luggage-van |
| ballast (railroad) | metals |
| bath-tub | bath |
| beet | beet-root |
| bid (noun) | tender |
| bill-board | hoarding |
| boarder | paying-guest |
| boardwalk (seaside) | promenade |
| bond (finance) | debenture |
| boot | Blucher, or Wellington |
| brakeman | brakesman |
| bucket | pail |
| bumper (car) | buffer |
| bureau | chest of drawers |
| calendar (court) | cause-list |
| campaign (political) | canvass |
| can (noun) | tin |
| candy | sweets |
| cane | stick |
| canned-goods | tinned-goods |
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