As the old saying goes, the Great Britain and the United States are "two countries separated by a common language." It's not enough that we simply don't understand one another's vocabulary sometimes. No, it's much worse; some of our words sound the same and look the same but have very different meanings. Here are a few of the simple words that divide us as surely as the Atlantic Ocean.
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